Hi Todd, Yesterday I had the dubious pleasure(?) of visiting the "...big smoke" here that calls itself Toronto --- right in the bowels of the city, downtown...
I don't know if it was accrued carelessness on the part of the big city delivery guy that my wife & I just happened to see, or something atypical of ALL courier / delivery folks...but we're waiting to drive around this big cube truck that's double-parked, back door hauled in full up position, with the guy standing inside, some 4-feet(?) above the street... He swings around with a large cadboard carton, waist height, then simply drops it to the asphalt at that height. Bombs away! I remarked to my wife that I hoped the containers never had anything like delicate bone china, etc. inside... Now, I realize that commercial carriers stipulate that anything & everything you ship with them is supposed to withstand a drop from a height of, what was it now, six feet...? But how realistic is that, and why don't these people go the extra distance and simply "...handle with care"...? Heaven knows they charge enough. When I worked for one of the Big 3 national automobile manufacturers, our contracts with the different carriers were VERY explicit & detailed as to just how much abuse our cars were allowed to be subjected to in transit. Why can't we, as individual consumers, expect the same...? It'd serve them all right to get the exclusive contract to deliver nitro glycerin for some chemiical outfit, wouldn't it...?! It'd be like the Darwin effect, a culling of the ranks --- only the kind & gentle would survive! :>) ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ *************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:42 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Yes, well > It seemed like a good idea at the time, but my remarks made in haste > in response to other comments really don't belong in this conversation > or venue. Seeing Brian's post made me realize I wasn't any smarter for > responding in the manner I did. > > My apologies to the list. Getting a nice piece of iron or anything > else smashed, and seeing that it really was packed properly is enough > to ruin any AMer's day. The packaging looks bad because it had the > hell beat out of it. Double-walled cardboard compressed almost as thin > as paper. The box wasn't badly packed, it was poorly handled. Guess I > wasn't clear about that. > > ~ Todd, KA1KAQ > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
