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UPS - Your Computer Repair Depot?
dcsmith writes "UPS and Toshiba are entering into an agreement to have UPS provide warranty service on Toshiba laptops. Might not be as weird as it sounds -- they claim that the bulk of the effort in a computer repair is moving the computer and the necessary parts together. The actual repair itself is often trivial. I'm not sure I'm onboard 100%, but if its a faulty display or a bad CD drive, this might actually work ..."
This is basically the same problem organ transplantation has - transporting and speed is essential. Hearts and lungs must be transplanted within approximately 4 hours after being removed from the donor. Livers can be preserved between 12 - 18 hours; pancreas can be preserved 8 - 12 hours; intestines can be preserved approximately 8 hours; kidneys can be preserved 24 - 48 hours. (quoted from ) I wouldn't be too surprised to see the UPS people coming out from the back room in scrubs (and shorts, of course), and then washing up really well before going back.
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Since they're responsible for breaking most of the notebook computers during delivery, they decided to close the loop and profit from it.
Have UPS drivers become computer technicians!
Um, Hello Helpdesk?
This is Shipping/Receiving.
Yeah, the UPS driver is here to replace a systemboard in a laptop or something like that.
Can someone come down and get him?
Great. Thank you.
1. Pick-up computer to deliver.
2. Break it.
3. Deliver computer.
4. Pick-up computer to repair.
5. Profit!
Great...., so not only will they repair your laptop, they'll drop kick it a few times before giving it back.
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/. that UPS was undervalued!
My labmate has a friend who knows this girl who dated my cousin's brother's nephew's mother who read on
As an employee of a small metal works company, I'd love to see you try to drop kick one of our 100lb 1/4" plate steel sheets triple wrapped in cardboard. But somehow, we stll have them go missing and get bent on the way there.
Actually, I don't think I trust the brown men with my laptop.
Racist!!!
My brother used to deal with all of the shipping companies - he would provide on-site computer repairs, and various manufacturers would ship the parts to him. He once called UPS "the ruffians of the shipping industry".
--RJ
I think everything I've ever gotten from them has had either a dirty boot print or a tire track across it. I know somebody who calls the standard service "UPS Ground (to dust)"
...UPS has announced they plan to change their name to "un1tED P4rc3l 53RViC3"
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Oh, that didn't come out right...
/me drinks more coffee
Ok, the men in brown...
The men who wear brown.
The men who wear brown uniforms.
The brown-uniformed men
The brown men... Oh wait...
The men who work for brown...
"Piter, too, is dead."
UPS...
For when it absolutely, positively has to be broken over night.
That's an easy one. Swap everything but the HD. Use those parts to repair the next laptop. :-)
bp
No!
I mean, er, yes?... shit, how do I undo that?