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UPS - Your Computer Repair Depot?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @10:37AM from the contrary-incentives dept.

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 ..."

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If only UPS... by theJerk242 · 2004-06-30 10:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

paid for damages that were caused to your computer during shipping, even if it is not a Toshiba laptop.

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Slow by siege04 · 2004-06-30 10:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

UPS is the slowest way to ship anything. Everything I've ever ordered online that has been shipped via UPS has taken over a week to get here, not counting weekends since they don't even work on weekends. Fedex and the US Postal Service are much faster.