Do people ever give a chit about they way they do their job??????????? I order a $1000 corvette bumper for a car and its the last one in the country..here is the box. I was like "ARE YOU F'N KIDDING ME????" I get so pissed over this crap................. this was done in transit. The trucking company totally destroyed this box. What if the part was damaged?? would they care? I doubt it.
The heck with the shipping company, what was the seller thinking when the part was packaged...that it would be walked down the block and hand-delivered like a box of donuts? Devon
The packaging also looks lame at best. Plus, forget about the couriers ever giving a rat's ass about your shipment. That will never happen.
Amen brother, I recieved a Corvette differential from Zip Corvette in Mechanicsburg, VA. It looked like the shipper went bowling with it. Its hard to destroy a differential; UPS managed to do it, though.
I agree, it should have been packaged alot better. Is that the bumper we can see through the hole in the box?
got my replacement front electra bumper and had a friend put it on only to find afterward that it was damaged on the bottom and worse than the original 500 dollars later. BUT my favorite is the guys that ship glass items on ebay between 2 pieces of cardboard.:Smarty:
That's disprespectful in IMHO (the damage done to the package). And if it were an accident - stuff does happen - there should at least be a note attached acknowledging the damage and a number to call with questions or whatever. I shipped a center console to a board member in the exact same box and packaging that I had received it in from another board member. UPS did both shipments but totally destroyed the second one.
My thoughts exactly - What a flimsy excuse for a box on a part like that. While shippers do damage stuff, the root cause or should I say, root moron, is the one who packaged it. One thing for sure that I have learned when ordering parts from whomever: The the quality of packaging is directly proportional the senders IQ.
Since it was the last one in the country the box could have looked like that where it was stored. The lazy shipping clerk who did not package it right is more to blame than the shipper. The box looks like it was cheap and flimsy I bought a used 72 grille that was packaged way better than that brand new part. Besides your a body shop you can fix it right? Is it for one of those yellow Vettes?
So often no thought is put into packaging. I recently ordered a trailer hitch from e-tralier and when it arrived the box didn't look much better than the box you have there. The hitch was just loose, flopping around inside the box and had torn through in spots.ou: I've also gotten small orders from Summit and Jegs that were just thrown into boxes 10x larger than needed with no protection at all. It's a wonder anything made it at all.
:gp: Agreed 100%. I think the point Mike G. is making here is how some workers just don't give a crap on how they do their jobs. I'm sick and tired of it also,no respect for other peoples property. Sorry Mike,not to hijack the thread but: The last 3 of 4 packages I received where damaged,from both the PO and UPS. I got a Mopar B-Body console that even the PO admitted was properly packaged and yet they toss it around like a frisbee,drop kick it and why? Six months ago I purchased an original Road Runner Air Grabber hood from a guy in New Mexico. I had him ship it UPS freight to my body guy and it arrived with every corner bent,the box was ripped to shreds like it was dragged across the country.:af: The underneath parts where shiped by the PO and the air box was cracked in 3 places. That looked like a spear went through the box. If your wondering,yes I had before pics. I learned my lesson long ago. It took 3 months for me to get my $1700. for the AG Hood,going back and forth with these people. What gets me and I did mention this to them and may have had something to do with getting my money back was " this part has managed to stay damage free for 40 years and yet it only took you 40 hours to destroy it." Hey,we all have bad days at work,but why take it out on other peoples property? There's plenty of people looking for work out there.
Well, marxjunk, I laughed! I shipped some stuff FEDEX Ground a few years back, and they trashed it. 11 boxes, and they looked like they had been rolled all the way from Florida to California via Route 66. I commented about the breakage, and the delivery boy said, "file a claim". One box was a Sears Craftsman toolbox that I had saved the original container for to ship it, as I knew I'd be heading back. He put in on the porch upside down, even though it had two arrows on each side showing which way was up. I had to do body and fender work on it to even get it open. Good thing I took the tools out. I got the last laugh- Before the rest of the crew shipped back to California, I told them about this. They packed up in "PODS" and rented a tractor trailer for a group rate and everything arrived intact. I figure FEDEX lost $40k on that deal. Too bad for them. Prolly doesn't mean much to them, though.
Here is a box I received 2 days ago delivered by Fedex and also the seller is a tool shed for how he packed it. I guess they never heard of packing material. Stuff was damaged. I think I may stop my charge card payment until this gets figured out not to mention the unbroken stuff was not as described. Brian
I've received two shipments from board members here that parts were nearly coming out of holes in the cartons. Re-used boxes are part of the problem. Rigid corrugated boxes lose strength when bent. After that has happened, all bets are off. You need to start with a strong box, and then pack it full of peanuts or wrinkled paper or similar to the point of no movement of the contents within the carton. This protection is from the people who work for shipping companies who dont give a crap about your precious package. They just need it to get from there to here in 3 days and that means throw it across the room into the truck and get it shipped. Cover your butts people. Pack it right and it will end up right. You all know this will happen so stop acting like these guys know or care what is in the box. :spank:
I drive for a living and although I hardly ever and I mean like never touch the stuff in our containers or even see it sometimes but I do deliver to some drop shippers like Fed-Ex, Estes and the USPS and I have to tell you. I personally witness several postal service workers at our local Bulk Mail Center shooting three pointers with boxes clearly marked FRAGILE several years ago. They were laughing about it aswell. Taking the boxes out of equally marked Fragile shipping bin and chunking them into the conveyor. I said something to the guy that was unloading my truck and he said they were just having fun.
