I ship *everything* by the US Postal Service, and if the day ever comes that I need to send my K3s or KPA-1500 back for service you can bet it'll be using the post office, with original Elecraft shipping boxes and a premium shipping method with full insurance. I ship merchandise commercially and I've found their insurance far easier to claim on the 2 instances in 27 years that I needed to do so than the first (and only) time I ever tried to do this with UPS on a used/dead laptop. And they refused to pay. FedEx I wouldn't trust to pick up a piece of litter on the ground, let alone a $6,000 amp.
---------------------------------------------------- Regards, Peter Dougherty, W2IRT DXCC Card Checker/CQ-WAZ Checkpoint www.facebook.com/W2IRT -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Grant Youngman Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 3:53 PM To: Elecraft Reflector Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Shipping high value items by UPS I don’t know what the other guys do. But this has apparently been a UPS policy since February for packages delivered to the Service Center. Didn’t know about it of course, and don’t think there was any kind of warning on the website. Maybe just missed the announcement. I seem to recall the last time I shipped something insured for near maximum value, that the UPS Store could take it and sign for it, but that doesn’t seem to be the case any longer. I’m not deriding UPS, just be aware if you ship an item (like a K3) with high-value insurance by UPS, and have to take it to a Service Center, expect them to ask you (you have to do yourself) to open or unpack the item so they can inspect it and make sure it isn’t ticking :-) Grant NQ5T K3 #2091 KX3 #8342 > On Sep 25, 2018, at 3:31 PM, Carl Jón Denbow <n...@qth.com> wrote: > > Never had a problem like that at UPS, and I’ve shipped many high value items > with them. I did have a problem like that, but not as severe, at FedEx once. > They opened the box because I said the value was about $4000.00. They had to > insure the packing was sufficient. I’ve avoided them for high-value items > ever since. 73 de Carl > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to li...@w2irt.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
