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Which Shipping Company Is Kindest To Your Packages?
Ant writes "Popular Mechanics mailed a bunch of sensors on an epic journey to find out which American shipping company is the most careful with your packages. From the article: 'One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked "Fragile" or "This Side Up." The carriers flipped the package more, and it registered above-average acceleration spikes during trips for which we requested careful treatment.' Here's what they found."
. . .will be kind to your package, as long as there is not too much junk in it.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Would labeling it "bottle deer urine" work as well, too?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Thanks. My brain hurts.
Wow, your UPS guys must be a lot cooler than the ones around here. I'm consider it lucky if they bring the package to the door. Expensive parts, medical supplies, live plants, whatever, find them everywhere, they just toss them off the truck and move on. Yeah, I've found medical stuff on the side of the road, like being in an FPS. They won't even ring the doorbell when it's obvious people are home to let anyone know there's something sitting outside. Maybe you have better luck, but I hate UPS. For anything important, I ask for FedEx delivery.
"Do Not Impale With Spear". So far none of the packages that I've sent this way have been impaled with spears.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
At first glance, the USPS being the most gentle seems to be surprising.
Not really. Slow speed == low rates of acceleration == less damage.
The geezer who took my package at the USPS window this morning probably hasn't made it to the 'outgoing' bin yet.
Have gnu, will travel.
Next time don't ask for ground shipping from China. Pay the extra and go with air. Or at least by boat.
Put "Fragile, Glass" and "Biohazard" stickers on it.
Have gnu, will travel.
Yeah, I've found medical stuff on the side of the road, like being in an FPS.
but did walking over it automatically fix you up?
Would labeling it "bottle deer urine" work as well, too?
Not according to my experience unpacking various urines at a hunting store.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked "Fragile" or "This Side Up."
I'm sure that the package would be handled much more carefully if you stamped "Fragile" and "This Side Up" on it in Arabic.
Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
My favorite tracking log entry:
Delayed- train derailment.
True, and you know how monkeys like to throw stuff.