Shipping stuff? This is key...

[Avatard]

I used to do it for a living....ship stuff to customers. Expensive stuff.

The cocksmokers at FedEx, and UPS did everything possible to put me out of fucking business. They'd smash my shit, and then deny my claims.

Even though my company was shipping product packed in OEM boxes, with special foam inserts and bulkheads, and even though everything was packed in a double-corrugated box as per their spec., they'd always find some lame excuse, and fuck me in the end, sometimes (usually) for hundreds or thousands of dollars in losses.

I positively hate these fucking people for the grief, time, hassle, and financial harm that they exacted on me and my business for years.

Now, I don't do that for a living anymore...but for anyone here that does, or has friends or family who do, I'd like to share a little secret that may help folks escape the constant maltreatment I received as a customer to these goatfuckers:

ShockWatch G-force sensors (just saw these on Mythbusters!):

http://www.mrboxonline.com/shockwatc...0g-p-4205.html

and the companion label:

http://www.mrboxonline.com/shockwatc...ls-p-4207.html

Paired, these two items will set you back about $5 per box shipped.

They provide irrefutable, irreversible proof of gross mishandling (which is seemingly almost the fucking norm with these flaming assholes), and may help you to make sure that you get your claims settled properly, and responsibly.

I wish they had and/or I knew about these when I was in the biz.

I'd be thousands of dollars ahead, and probably have considerably less gray hairs...

[101lifts2]

Personally, if I was making 8 bucks an hour loading shit on a truck and I found a "Fragile" or "Warning: Shock Sensor Equipped" label, I'd be inclined to drop the box. LOL

Where were u shipping? You should have put the thing in mutliple layers.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by 101lifts2

Personally, if I was making 8 bucks an hour loading shit on a truck and I found a "Fragile" or "Warning: Shock Sensor Equipped" label, I'd be inclined to drop the box. LOL
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They make way more than $8/hr.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

They make way more than $8/hr.

What, $10? Last I knew and granted, this was several years ago... the package handlers at UPS started at $9/hr.

[Homeslice]

UPS are union jobs.

[Dnyce]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

What, $10? Last I knew and granted, this was several years ago... the package handlers at UPS started at $9/hr.

start at somewhere around there for part timers but with set raise schedules (union), o.t., seniority(hit full time), making $50k-$100k is easily possible.

[Avatard]

Nope, it wouldn't have helped...for reasons too complex, that I don't care to go into here, but which were finally disclosed to me, regarding the internal workings of their operations, by a friend of mine's GF, who happened to work at FedEx, in the Memphis sorting facility.

They know they're responsible, but they conveniently play dumb.

This holds their hands to the fire, and makes them accountable.

[askmrjesus]

Those were SOP for cases containing consoles, guitars, etc., when we airlifted tours overseas. Only thing is, the carrier has to agree to the procedures for check-in and verification to be held responsible.

JC

[Krypt Keeper]

Had a few dealings with their fine working network. Over the yrs.

Use to work for a company that received 1,000's of packages a day was funny see what was sent there wrong. Seen everything from bubble gum to handguns and rolexes. This was a daily thing.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Nope, it wouldn't have helped...for reasons too complex, that I don't care to go into here, but which were finally disclosed to me, regarding the internal workings of their operations, by a friend of mine's GF, who happened to work at FedEx, in the Memphis sorting facility.

They know they're responsible, but they conveniently play dumb.

This holds their hands to the fire, and makes them accountable.

Sometimes the courier hubs are set up to fail. When you put a loading conveyor 15 feet up in the air, with no side rails on it, shit is going to fall off. As the service managed for a computer manufacturer I was constantly screwed over by couriers who would destroy my clients' equipment, then play dumb. It didn't help that the clients wouldn't put any insurance on the stuff that they were shipping back for repair either, which meant the default (usually about $50.00) was all that they'd get for a $2K computer.

The vast majority of out-of-box failures we had for monitors, was a broken neck on the CRT. Do you know how far something has to fall in order to break that?