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Originally Posted by abefromen
why would entrust someone at a pack and ship to box up the console? Because you are paying them and assumed they would do it right? I wouldn't trust anyone at those places to box something fragile unless I stood there and watched them. After all, it's you that somehow would be hassled with the headache if it was damaged.
Luckily your buyer wasn't too concerned.
This does need to be kept in perspective. I worked 20 years for UPS. 10 as a loader/sorter/supervisor and 10 as a truck mechanic. While it is very true that certain individuals had very poor package handling skills and generally don't give a crap there were those who did the job as they were trained. The daily volume UPS handles is HUGE! Packages do fall off conveyors, get dropped,tossed, break open, crushed in belt jams etc. But to say packages marked "fragile" get singled out for "special" abusive handling is a crock.
I don't care who you use for shipping. Package sorting procedures are all the same be it UPS, Fedex, USPS etc. Lots of conveyor belts,slides,rollers and human handling. Take the time and pack it well and the odds are it will arrive just fine.
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first, i used to package things myself and put alot effort in making sure things were packed just right but after 2 boxes looked like they tied them to a truck and dragged them were they were going and i was told they werent gonna pay the insurance because lack of packing i started paying the ups stores and pack and ships. ive had pretty good luck too and the ones that got damaged they didnt have that" self packed" or lack of packing excuse to fall back on and i was paid.
2nd- most generally if i pay someone to do something i expect it done right so the answer to your queston is yes, since i paid them it shoulda been packaged right or at least how i told them too. most generally thats how things work. you pay someone for a service and they deliver on there end. if you go to your job and do half ass work how long would it take to get fired? knowing the answer to that, dont you think the money you give to someone for a job to be done should be done going by the same standard?
iam sure if my buyer would have filed he woulda gotten paid he just didnt wanna go thrue the headache of filing a claim which to me is sensless but owell.
so i guess if you go by a p-dude crate motor from him and tell him what you want your gonna stand there and watch him do it up to your standards or even tell him you wanna do the work on a few areas that you dont think he is capable of even though he is the one thats the professional? and i guess if you do get a bad motor and you wasnt standing there watching you will just take as it is and go on? go ahead be my guest!
p-dude was just an example i by no means am questining his work, he just the first credible engine builder came to my mind when i typed this