In a message dated 2/4/2006 7:22:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
offer to pay extra for professional packaging if necessary. I think this is very good advice. Of course, a professional packaging service can't be expected to disassemble the machine, but a reliable seller of machines like this one should know that the heavy stuff, (metal), needed to be separated from the lighter stuff, like wood, and glass. I agree also that the seller's work should be examined before we pile on UPS. They have no way of knowing what is in a box. Something drastic happened to the package, obviously, but the results would not have been so catastrophic for many of the items UPS handles. Aren't there companies that specialize in shipping valuable antiques? I have no experience with them, or any knowledge of what this machine was worth, before its final voyage, but having valuable, irreplaceable artifacts like this machine shipped that way might be an option to ponder, when one considers the results of this misadventure. Randy
