I just took mine to the authorized Fed-X shipping store and let them deal with it. No hassles. Less expensive than UPS and faster service.
Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 25, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Grant Youngman <[email protected]> wrote: > > The thread started by the gentleman who thought his KX2 might be dead and > needed to go to Elecraft motivated me to make this comment about shipping. > > For several good reasons, I just sent my K3 to Elecraft for service for the > first time ever. Insured, double boxed, expensive Uline 3” plank foam > cushion support for the inner carton, etc. Because I insured it for a high > value, I was required by UPS to take the carton to the local UPS Customer > Service Center, not the UPS store, etc. to obtain a signature. Don’t know if > I’d scheduled a pickup that it would have been the same fire drill, but that > wasn’t an option for me because of UPS schedules around here. > > Got to the UPS Center at the airport and was told that I had to UNPACK ALL > of the cartons so they could see what was inside and determine that it wasn’t > explosives (apparently there was an incident at FedEx back in February). > UPS did a sloppy job of retaping everything. Nothing worse than having to > cut open carefully packed and sealed containers to prove you’re not just > another uni-bomber. I bit my lips and was (mostly) friendly about it. Worse > than TSA … because they don’t have the chemical detection wipes and X-ray > machines that TSA has. So it’s a bigger than average hassle. > > Word to the wise — leave your cartons untaped, take your tape gun with you, > and close/tape the containers yourself. (Maybe I’m the only person that > didn’t know this was a current UPS policy?) > > Grant NQ5T > K3 #2091 KX3 #8342 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
