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04-20-2011, 12:29pm | #1 | |||||||
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Do companies know how to ship anymore
Every year for the 4th of July we do a large fireworks display at our lakehouse. 3" mortar tubes, 500 gram cakes, that kinda stuff. This year instead of burning my thumbs off and scrambling to safety like a little girl I decided to order a 20 cue wireless detonating device. Basically I can wire up 20 fireworks and once and sit on my deck and lighting off fireworks (this way I don't have to worry about spilling my beer )
So the device is $400 and the firing fuses about $60 for 100. Cool considering we light off about 100 or so different fireworks. I get the package from this company (mortar tubes online) today - shipped via USPS (first worry) - open the package and pull out the boxes. Pulling the boxes inside out the box is packed with brawny towels and crumpled up newspapers. Boxes look like they'd been humped by a great dane, then sat on by a 400 lbs postal worker then dragged behing the mail truck for 2 miles. Apparently its a heavy flow day for me. But its about the 5th time in the past 4 months I've received a package that was totally fubared. Here's my email back to the company: Quote:
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You could have at least included some pics of the device or boxes so save this thread. Click and reading time back please!
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pics of the fireworks ????
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The least they could've done was use Brawny, bastages!
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I think the heavier and the smaller the package the more it gets fecked up.
I ordered 14 speaker drivers from a company called Parts Express in Ohio a few years ago. 7 of them were damaged and the boxes looked like they were put in a compactor. Each box averaged out to $120 and was maybe an 1/8" single ply cardboard with 3/16" of foam in it. Not enough for something that weighs 20-30lbs. When I called them about the damaged drivers they were nice enough to send me 7 more, custom pack them and send them white glove service. They also told me to throw out the damaged ones cause it would cost more to ship them back. When I ship things it's overpacked. An extra couple dollars in materials saves a lot of headache. |
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