Wow! We sorely hated DHL out west in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, and
New Mexico. FedEx Ground has always been the one for us. UPS has now
gotten better so they only crush 1/2 the boxes they deliver, but the price
is right
RB
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Incidentals (1907)
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Bruce Markowitz <[email protected]>wrote:
> The biggest problem is that DHL/Airborne is gone, and the other carriers do
> not provide the level of next day service that previously existed.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Smith III" <[email protected]>
>
> To: "Thinkpad list" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 8:03 AM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] EZ Serv
>
>
>
> My wife's T500 (about 14 months old) has been exhibiting some strange
>> problems:
>>
>> 1) Every so often the screen will go dim as if the machine had been
>> unplugged. After a couple of seconds, it goes back to full brightness. This
>> occurs without any user interaction, and is not related to a screen saver,
>> as the machine may have been active just seconds before; nor is it related
>> to actual power issues, as it occurs with different power bricks, and other
>> machines plugged into the same circuit do not exhibit the behavior.
>>
>> 2) Possibly related: when the machine is unplugged, it will often report
>> that the battery is almost dead, but after a few seconds, goes back to 100%
>> battery. I've swapped the battery with a known-good battery from another
>> machine, and the problem continues.
>>
>> She was living with those, as she's loathe to give up the machine. but
>> recently the fan started going.
>>
>> So yesterday I called EZ Serv, got the usual coherent help. The only sour
>> note is that both the rep and the email I got from them this morning (!) say
>> repairs can take 6 business days.
>>
>> Does anyone else have recent enough experience to say whether that's just
>> hedging bets, or if the old 3-day turnaround is gone?
>>
>> ...phsiii
>>
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