If your friend took the time to package his generator properly im sure it would have ended up looking better on the delivery end of things... You wrap your 80lb hunk of metal in 1/4 inch of corrugated cardboard and some masking tape and you get what you deserve. As a UPS driver you see this sort of thing all the time and the person who cries loudest about how UPS shitkicked their stuff is the same one who who freaks out when you say you won't pick up their 17" monitor thats crammed into a rotten old box with some old T-shirts and jeans wadded up to protect the screen. Next time you ship something, if you wouldn't feel confident raising it 3 feet high and dropping it to the floor you haven't packed it well enough. Its reality- you don't move 12 million packages a day by having each package placed on a velvet pillow.
Firstly, you can still ship them overnight. It makes sense to have as little handling as possible on highly desirable stuff like firearms, video games, jewelry, pokemon stuff, etc. If you ship a handgun from California to New York by ground its probably going to be handled 8-10 times along the way (an educated guess) by sorting personel who by and large are one step up the job ladder from the fry boy at McDonalds. It is fairly easy for him to punch a hole in your box and grab whatever's inside if he suspects its gonna be good. If you ship by air it probably gets handled twice in a period of 10 hours between the time it goes from one brown truck into another. I know that most drivers won't sacrifice their good wages and benefits to "go shopping" in the back of their truck, so the chances of tempting a criminally inclined employee along the way are reduced.
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If your friend took the time to package his generator properly im sure it would have ended up looking better on the delivery end of things... You wrap your 80lb hunk of metal in 1/4 inch of corrugated cardboard and some masking tape and you get what you deserve. As a UPS driver you see this sort of thing all the time and the person who cries loudest about how UPS shitkicked their stuff is the same one who who freaks out when you say you won't pick up their 17" monitor thats crammed into a rotten old box with some old T-shirts and jeans wadded up to protect the screen. Next time you ship something, if you wouldn't feel confident raising it 3 feet high and dropping it to the floor you haven't packed it well enough. Its reality- you don't move 12 million packages a day by having each package placed on a velvet pillow.
Firstly, you can still ship them overnight. It makes sense to have as little handling as possible on highly desirable stuff like firearms, video games, jewelry, pokemon stuff, etc. If you ship a handgun from California to New York by ground its probably going to be handled 8-10 times along the way (an educated guess) by sorting personel who by and large are one step up the job ladder from the fry boy at McDonalds. It is fairly easy for him to punch a hole in your box and grab whatever's inside if he suspects its gonna be good. If you ship by air it probably gets handled twice in a period of 10 hours between the time it goes from one brown truck into another. I know that most drivers won't sacrifice their good wages and benefits to "go shopping" in the back of their truck, so the chances of tempting a criminally inclined employee along the way are reduced.
Next time order from someone who gives a damn about the way they package your stuff after they have your money