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How Not To Ship Computers
jutus writes: "I recently relocated for work from Canada to Florida, and on a suggestion, shipped my equipment (well-packed), with UPS Ground. I've posted some images of the destruction my shipment was subjected to by UPS. UPS Ground does not insure international shipments, so basically I'm up shit creek, no paddle. They have been giving me the textbook run-around for the past week. UPS Canada blames UPS in the U.S., and you can imagine who UPS down here in the States blames. As of yet, UPS has not even attempted to negotiate any compensation for my loss due to their severe negligence ... For Gods sake, use FedEX." My luck has gone the other direction -- I've mostly had good luck with UPS and some misdeliveries with FedEx. Would be nice to hear from any UPS employees reading this about what could have led to the damage jutus illustrates.
If they dont insure it for any amount, and you did it anyhow, its your fault!
Ups Suck anyhow. Fedex is better.
ah, i wouldn't worry about it too much.. It's just a mac.
The only safe way is to move it yourself from Canada to the US! There is no way to inusre that who ever handles your stuff will even be able to speak English--or will even care if they do. Just rent a UHaul and take it yourself next time.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
...Dodgey Mac's. They're just not built to last.
at the time, canada was controlled by england, and they were pussies.
now, canada is supposedly self-governed, but they're still pussies.
Leave it up to a Mac user to simply throw his machine in a flimsy cardboard box and call it "well packed".
I think God is punishing you, dude.
Despite what EULAs say, most software is sold, not licensed.
hoo boy i bet yore pappy was sore at them fellaz they was just mean i wish i could of seen them all coevered in deer pee like they would of been and all stinky too i bet they all got no loving that night not even from the hawgs
You see, this is exactly why public access computing should not be extended to libraries located near trailer parks. Nice to hear about the guns being destroyed though - but what was collectible, were they used at a mass murder or something? Redneck!
Bow down and worship thy guns. Yea, they are the sole means of deliverance from the mighty demon that is paranoia, and also may they prove some small compensation for thy lord's short-changing of thy kin in the penis department. But verily, they are like unto a doubly-edged sword, for if thou shouldst display thy idol to the appointed officers of law and order, with great swiftness and terrible precision will they smite thee with a 9mm projectile to thy forehead.
and I will laugh my gun-controlling ass off
Fuck you, fuck your father, and fuck anyone else who sees value in a chunk of metal because it happened to kill some people. No need to even mention that one was a civil war and the other was fomented by a newspaper proprietor to sell copy. Not only that, but how stupid are you? Don't you know that a gun-control troll is the oldest and most obvious of them all? I guess rednecks just can't resist.
commie pig
all i have to say is
BLAME CANADA!
Well, chalk one up to UPS. Screw your expensive death machines. Betcha he misses those engravings! One less animal shot to death. Id fall on the floor laughing if a gun misfired in the hands of a hunter after being damaged by UPS, like maybe misfiring backwards right between the eyes.
Vegan till I die