On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:33:49 GMT, Pat Barber
wrote:

Yeah... I gave up on that.

My personal best was a box of drawer slides from
Hafele in N.C. to my address in N.C.

When the driver stopped at my office, a full
extension drawer slide was sticking out the side of the
box about six inches.

I asked him what he thought about that and his
reply was that he guessed the shipper didn't know how
to pack for UPS.

Hafele is probably the largest UPS customer in the state.



Company I worked for before we were sold was engaged in building marine
(for commercial pleasurecraft) radios a number of years ago. One of their
qualification tests for both packaging assessment and product resiliance
was called the "UPS Test" For this test they would package the test
article as it would be delivered to a customer and send it by UPS to one of
our satellite facilities. Upon receipt, the package was assessed for
ability to contain all small parts without loss through the holes induced
by shipping and the product evaluated for operability after shipment.


Highland Pairos wrote:
In the small package business FRAGILE is an Italian word for 'kick hard
here'.




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