highlandsflyer
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Just received a shipment of ram from Microdirect, and the flexi blister pack was wrapped in one small sheet of bubble wrap in a plastic bag.
How is something so fragile supposed to survive being tossed in and out of trucks and vans for near four hundred miles?
I watched the courier retrieve it from underneath other parcels, and his van is nearly empty so there was a lot more on top of it as it thundered round the glens.
Signed U/C on his widget, but I won't even bother checking them. They are going back. They may work, but if they were flexed they may also feck my new mainboard, or pack in early in their life.
They charged £6 for something weighing 100g, and took four days to deliver where it could have been sent Special Delivery for that price.
Same delivery brought me a valve amp that was lovingly encased in a blanket, polystyrene wrap, bubble wrap, box then more padding and a second box, along with the valves in tissue and cotton wool in a shoe box.
It only came from Shetland, but the packing was exemplary, it would have made it to Tierra del Fuego undamaged no problem.
Why is it such a lottery?
From now on when I deal with companies who want to charge 'extra' for posting to the Highlands I am going to ask exactly how much 'extra' packaging they are going to give my items as they are going so very, very far to such a strange place.
How is something so fragile supposed to survive being tossed in and out of trucks and vans for near four hundred miles?
I watched the courier retrieve it from underneath other parcels, and his van is nearly empty so there was a lot more on top of it as it thundered round the glens.
Signed U/C on his widget, but I won't even bother checking them. They are going back. They may work, but if they were flexed they may also feck my new mainboard, or pack in early in their life.
They charged £6 for something weighing 100g, and took four days to deliver where it could have been sent Special Delivery for that price.
Same delivery brought me a valve amp that was lovingly encased in a blanket, polystyrene wrap, bubble wrap, box then more padding and a second box, along with the valves in tissue and cotton wool in a shoe box.
It only came from Shetland, but the packing was exemplary, it would have made it to Tierra del Fuego undamaged no problem.
Why is it such a lottery?
From now on when I deal with companies who want to charge 'extra' for posting to the Highlands I am going to ask exactly how much 'extra' packaging they are going to give my items as they are going so very, very far to such a strange place.
