Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling - Resolved!

Hee. Not a Martha issue, as it's a box that sits between my desk and the wall, out of sight to all for the most part... Dan who does not detail his computers Sent from my iPad > On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:40 AM, Max Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > Who are you and what

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Who are you and what have you done with Dan? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On January 2, 2016 6:54:08 PM EST, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Cosmetics don’t matter to me, so >unless I’m worried about resale, I’m good. > >Dan

Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling - Resolved!

Got the check today from FedEx. Not only did they pay the claim amount, they refunded the packing costs, too! I certainly didn’t expect that. I PayPal’ed the guy who sent the computer to me $100. He had close to that between shipping and packing in it, so I figured that was the right thing

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t; <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 6:51 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling Back to the original topic Back on the 17th, I checked in to see what the status of my damage claim was. Denied.

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Dan wins, Fedex looses --R On 12/31/15 6:51 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Back to the original topic Back on the 17th, I checked in to see what the status of my damage claim was. Denied. What? I got an explanation and a follow-up letter. It was basically a dodge, telling me that

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kiebenz.com> Cc: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling Pretty much. I always thought "busted" was sort of coarse. I hate it when I hear a talking head on the news use the word D

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@okiebenz.com> > Cc: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 9:42 AM > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling > > > Pretty much. I always thought "busted" was sort of coarse. I hate it when >> I hear a ta

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ssion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 6:51 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling > > >> Back to the original topic >> >> Back on the 17t

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Back to the original topic Back on the 17th, I checked in to see what the status of my damage claim was. Denied. What? I got an explanation and a follow-up letter. It was basically a dodge, telling me that the claim was denied because I wasn't the shipper. BS. I had an email from FedEx

Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling

New computer is up and going after an extremely long download to get Snow Leopard up to date -- I only have a slow DSL line, took a couple hours to download 1.27 GB. This evening's project is to pull the drives from the old computer and copy all the family photos and projects plus migrate

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gt; From: Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net>; Mercedes Discussion List > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 11:09 AM >

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> > To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 11:50 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling > > I really liked exede sat internet, the speed was great but the big major

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iebenz.com> Cc: Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling So how slow is your connection? Mine is 2.5mb which is very slow by today's standards. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 30, 2015, at 9

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tlud...@yahoo.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling > >I expect they have to pay for the data on the satellite, until that gets less >expensive... >-Curt > > > > From: Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> > To: Curt Raymond <curt

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hoo.com>, Mercedes Discussion List ><mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling > >I forget whether Office for Mac and Mozilla Firefox were already installed >on my IMac, or whether I did i

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> -Original Message- > >From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > >Sent: Dec 30, 2015 12:19 PM > >To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>, Mercedes Discussion List < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> > >Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo..

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n 10.11 yet, we've supported it for most of December... > -Curt > > > > From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 30,

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n List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling New computer is up and going after an extremely long download to get Snow Leopard up to date -- I only have a s

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So how slow is your connection? Mine is 2.5mb which is very slow by today's standards. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 30, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > wrote: > > New computer is up and going after an extremely long download to get Snow > Leopard up

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30, 2015 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling I really liked exede sat internet, the speed was great but the big major problem is the data caps. You can't do any sort of streaming at all. If these sat companies would do away with the data caps a lot more people would sign u

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New does not always = good. That's the price early adopters pay. They don't call it the "bleeding edge" for nothing! -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go

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...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling Nope, that's the problem.  Not there. On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Should have all

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.com> >Sent: Dec 30, 2015 3:33 PM >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Cc: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling > >If it was installed by an Administrator an application will show

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I'm slowly grinding through migration of my old data onto the new machine, could only find a USB external drive housing, not my Firewire, and hence it is SLOW. Took three tries, seems my regular boot drive is damaged according to 10.6, and can't be fixed, locked up the computer a few times

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s another. Peter -Original Message- >From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Sent: Dec 30, 2015 6:52 AM >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handl

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In fairness to him he didn't appear to be looking for blame, just frustrated because he apparently has minimal tech knowledge and couldn't understand why it was happening. But yes, his inability to consult the Google immediately upon experiencing the issue marks him as stupid in my book.

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Guy I sold my Mac Pro was calling my land line and emailing me last night. Ugh. "I can't install software! If I try to, the computer keeps rebooting!" Me via my burner email account: What kind of software? What version? How are you installing? Late last night: "Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

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Pretty bad that Adobe isn't on 10.11 yet, we've supported it for most of December... -Curt From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 7:52 AM

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The 1,1 will take up to 32Gb ram, so he should max it out. With 32GB in the 1,1 the fans ramped up to maximum immediately. With half of it removed, they stayed quiet. He opted for quiet. The 2TB time machine backup drive upgrade worked flawlessly. -- Jim

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Now that's interesting, as I just bought a used Mac Pro1,1 because my MDD is getting hard to use on the internet. I've got 16 MB of ram coming, bigger hard drives, and a pair of x5355 processors to swap in, eventually I may want to upgrade beyond OS 10.6.8. Hard to believe I once thought

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Here is a copy of the email I just sent the guy who bought my MP 1,1 last night. Be sure you update the firmware to 2,1 first: Here are the links to the boot loader information: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2006-2007-mac-pro-1-1-2-1-and-os-x-el-capitan.1890435/ This is sort of a generic

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You’ll see a GeekBench score of close to 10,000 with the quad core processors, I believe. Dan > On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:13 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > wrote: > > Dan: > > This one has the original video card, but since the most intensive thing I > usually do is

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Dan: This one has the original video card, but since the most intensive thing I usually do is photo editing in Photoshop, I probably will be fine until I get a good deal on a better one, not going to drop a lot of money on one until I need it to move up to the newest OS. I'll probably

Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling

Now that's interesting, as I just bought a used Mac Pro1,1 because my MDD is getting hard to use on the internet. I've got 16 MB of ram coming, bigger hard drives, and a pair of x5355 processors to swap in, eventually I may want to upgrade beyond OS 10.6.8. Hard to believe I once thought a

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Peter, You might consider buying a solid state drive (SSD) for the Mac Pro, as it will make it even snappier compared to rotating drives. I just sold my old Mac Pro 1,1 for $300. It had a single 300GB hard drive, 6GB of RAM, Airport and Bluetooth cards and a pretty decent 512MB video card. I

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Rich, better call that fish out by name in your will! In my family, one of our traditions (among the men-folk) is recycling Christmas cards. When I was in grade school, somehow we got a package of Christmas card samples in the mail. These samples were very nice, but had someone else's name

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On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 16:15:31 + (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > BTW: I ordered a board game from Amazon for a Yankee Swap Yankee Swap? Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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I'm guessing "Yankee Swap" is another name for "Secret Santa gift exchange" or similar... - Max Charleston SC On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 16:15:31 + (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes >

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could get it into the trap thrower. I thought it would have made a really great YouTube video. -Curt From: Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 5:37 PM

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On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 22:47:09 + (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > White Elephant but with stuff people might actually want.Everybody > brings a wrapped gift and picks a number. The person who picks number 1 > opens a present, then #2 opens a present and can keep

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I was aware of the heat sink deal. I found some cheap oriental clip on sinks that have been working well on the 1 gig sticks. They do well except in the heat of summer. Keeping the dust bunny population low helps to keep air flowing where needed. clay On Dec 6, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Dan Penoff

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On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 16:15:31 + (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: BTW: I ordered a board game from Amazon for a Yankee Swap Yankee Swap? Craig That's where snowed in cold yankees get together and play board games to determine who buys the schnapps and who

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Just fired it up. Other that a strange low frequency resonance of some kind that’s coming from the machine, it works. Passed diagnostics and seems to be happy. I can’t open the case because the side is bent to the point where the door won’t clear it, so I’m going to leave that alone. I

Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling

There are empty cheesegrater cases on eBay, if it comes to that. Just get a reasonable settlement out of them, and use a hammer to 'fix' it. If it bugs you enough, put it in a different case. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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Yes, the video card can be a limiter, but if he has an NVidia card, he’s far more likely to be OK, as NVidia supported their cards far later than the ATIs and others. This is the ultimate thread on running later OSs’ on Mac Pro 1,1 and 1,2s:

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> On December 6, 2015 at 8:14 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > I can’t open the case because the side is bent to the point where the door > won’t clear it, so I’m going to leave that alone. What's a used case/dead parts machine cost?

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n List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Mitch Haley <mi...@mitchellhaley.com> Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2015 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling > On December 6, 2015 at 8:14 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I can’t op

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If you need specifics, let me know. I’ve been using the MB 1,1 since Mavericks using the boot loader and it’s been fantastic. Video card? The chances are good that the unit he's got his eye on has the old 7300 video card. He's very cost-limited on this, but his old XP-running Celeron is

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Why not introduce him to the wonders of Linux? Time Machine. Turbotax. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

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Good question. I don’t know. I’m not even sure there are variations in the case so that I would have to have a specific one. I don’t think there are. Quite honestly, I don’t care about the cosmetics, as it’s buried out of sight next to my desk. As long as it works and I can access the

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Yeah, I would just get a crescent wrench to use as a pry bar and straighten things out as best I could. Functionality over cosmetics. Dan > On Dec 6, 2015, at 9:10 AM, Jim Cathey wrote: > > There are empty cheesegrater cases on eBay, if it comes to that. > Just get

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The hum appears to be the four 15k RPM drives. I’m not used to having high speed enterprise grade drives in my machines. Check that one off as normal. Dan > On Dec 6, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > Just fired it up. Other that a strange low

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Dan writes: >‎Thank goodness UPS didn’t >destroy the 17” MacBook Pro I >got earlier this >week. They are a >real nightmare to get to settle >insurance claims. If you have a package that you really, really don't want lost or possibly damaged, it needs to be insured as "High Value".   

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The 1,1 will take up to 32Gb ram, so he should max it out. Look on fleabay for some at dirt prices. I scored 16gb for $21. Has to be FB ECC. HP servers ran it, and I am thinking those servers are being retired about now. clay On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: >

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rcedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: clay <redgh...@comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2015 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling The 1,1 will take up to 32Gb ram, so he should max it out.  Look on fleabay for some at dirt prices.  I scored

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Just be aware that the non-Apple RAM for these machines runs hotter as it does not have the huge heatsinks the Apple RAM does. That also makes the Apple RAM more expensive, but the off-brand stuff works just as well from what I have heard. You also want to try and keep the RAM matched on each

[MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling

Just got a Mac Pro from a buddy in Sacramento. FedEx packed and shipped the computer. Opened it up and saw this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pf4ztui9k938nhr/FedEx15.jpg?dl=0 Idiots. Now I have to make a claim and wait a couple of

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Holy snot! Those handles are very strong... -Curt From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2015 5:50 PM Subject: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling

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Held for pickup at their place, as I wasn’t going to be home to sign for it. I think something got dropped on it, as the box itself didn’t give any indication of damage. I’m going to fire it up shortly. Can’t remove the side cover to inspect the innards because the case is bent so badly. Dan

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$300. 2009 Mac Pro 3,1 dual quad core Intel with 8 GB RAM, four enterprise grade (Apple) 300GB 15,000 RPM drives with an Apple RAID card, 8000GT video card (meh). I just wanted to move up to a machine that has native 64 bit EFI. Heck, I had my Mac Pro 1,1 sold for $300 on Craigslist

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Try getting an insurance claim settled with UPS. It’s a constant exercise in obsfucation, dodge and parry, etc. I honestly they just try and make things so difficult and drag it out for so long that you just toss in the towel and walk away. At least that’s been my experience. Dan > On Dec

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that is harsh. Did they drop it on the curb? clay On Dec 5, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > Just got a Mac Pro from a buddy in Sacramento. FedEx packed and shipped the > computer. > > Opened it up and saw this: > >

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cedes List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 5:50 PM Subject: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling Just got a Mac Pro from a buddy in Sacramento. FedEx packed and shipped the computer. Opened it up and saw

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That'll buff out, Martha. ;) On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > $300. > > 2009 Mac Pro 3,1 dual quad core Intel with 8 GB RAM, four enterprise grade > (Apple) 300GB 15,000 RPM drives with an Apple RAID card, 8000GT video card > (meh). > > I

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ROTFLOL > On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:42 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes > wrote: > > That'll buff out, Martha. ;) > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> $300. >> >> 2009 Mac Pro 3,1 dual quad core Intel with 8

[MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling

Dan,    I have experienced a high level of breakage this season with the USPS.  I think they have all hired a bunch of seasonal employees and NOT properly trained any of them.  We ship antiques and you can't replace some items with any amount of money.  I plan to file a complaint with the

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Has anyone had any luck getting shippers, especially Ebay and Amazon, to ship UPS rather than Fedex. I have a big, wide front porch with a roof, yet some Fedex driver kept setting shipments against the wall, in the grass, sometimes in the rain, next to the side door. Calls to Fedex did no

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That's an antique worth at least $7000. --R On 12/5/15 5:50 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Just got a Mac Pro from a buddy in Sacramento. FedEx packed and shipped the computer. Opened it up and saw this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pf4ztui9k938nhr/FedEx15.jpg?dl=0

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Years ago I ordered a set of roof racks for a jeep Cherokee from somewhere. Showed up in a box all beat up, tore up, retaped, etc. I opened it up and everything was there, including a special bonus gift of a bottle of Fat Burner! Pills, no packaging or anything. I figured some monkey saw my

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> On December 5, 2015 at 8:33 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > > > Angie bought me one of those little giant ladders, Fedex guy came at 7:30 at > night. I'd never seen such a thing before. This was before black Friday/cyber > Monday too. I bought a Werner MT-22

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> On December 5, 2015 at 8:57 PM Mitch Haley via Mercedes > wrote: > > > I bought a Werner MT-22 from Amazon on BF 3 years ago. > I think it came Fedex, in the factory shrink wrap, no box, no damage. > I can't believe Amazon wants $235 for it now, I paid $99.99.

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I'm sure the computer itself was fine, that handle had to absorb a lot of energy to deform like that. One of our cheese graters had a mangled handle that was bent back into place. My brother's sick of Windows and its virusey nature, and is thinking of picking up a Mac Pro 1,1 for cheap.

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t; Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2015 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling I'm sure the computer itself was fine, that handle had to absorb a lot of energy to deform like that.  One of our cheese graters had a mangled handle that was bent back into place. My brother

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On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 20:57:48 -0500 (EST) Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: > > > > On December 5, 2015 at 8:33 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes > > wrote: > > > > > > Angie bought me one of those little giant ladders, Fedex guy came at 7:30 at > >

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All freight companies are like that. They dare you to try to collect. They make sure it costs you more than it costs them, so you don't try it the next time. Try getting an insurance claim settled with UPS. It's a constant exercise in obsfucation, dodge and parry, etc. I honestly they

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.com> Cc: "arche...@embarqmail.com" <arche...@embarqmail.com> Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2015 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling Has anyone had any luck getting shippers, especially Ebay and Amazon, to ship UPS rather than Fedex. I have a big, wide

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My UPS guys have been coming close to 9:00 pm for the last couple of months. Dan > On Dec 5, 2015, at 8:33 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > > Angie bought me one of those little giant ladders, Fedex guy came at 7:30 at > night. I'd never seen such a thing

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I have a Mac Pro 1,1 that’s been running El Capitan flawlessly since it was released. There is a boot loader that can be run which requires changing a couple of boot.fi files and all is well from that point on. If you need specifics, let me know. I’ve been using the MB 1,1 since Mavericks

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Good to know that. I've been lucky about damage and haven't had to file any claims. UPS seems to be far better locally than Fedex. Gerry Dan Penoff wrote: > Try getting an insurance claim settled with UPS. It’s a constant exercise in > obsfucation, dodge and parry, etc. > I honestly they just