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Erie Fred
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I sold allot of used large drill bits ($3 a pound) and had no problems shipping the long pointy
stuff.
USPS flat rate box, 70 lb limit.
Bundle them into a "log" and wrap with stretch wrap.
Use plywood scraps on the ends of the bundle, slide into box.
stuff.
USPS flat rate box, 70 lb limit.
Bundle them into a "log" and wrap with stretch wrap.
Use plywood scraps on the ends of the bundle, slide into box.
But that's because you cared that they got to the buyer.
I am bemused often by peoples, not just Amazon, idea of sensible packaging. A lat of things have made it to me by sheer fluke, not proper packaging.
I regularly complain to our despatch dept about how expensive, precision machined, components arrive on site when I'm there.
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I used to work in a distribution warehouse, there were cameras all over and random bag searches. No tolerance for theft, one guy caught with a 6mm drill bit, sacked on the spot, another had a 4 pack of aaa batteries, same result. Another was nicking Bahco wrenches and selling them on FB, he must have forgotten that he included some of the management team as "friends" on his account, sacked.
frank horton
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my stuff get reg mouse holes....
Ordered some st/steel flush mounted switches....10 for the job.....
when they turned up the mouse had been there, unziped the plastic bag inside and ATE 3 of the switches inc the gaskets and the locking rings...
This time cant blame the shippers.....
More expensive items I photo the bag/box before I accept it if the mice have been there.....
Trouble is if u complain shippers wont supply.....
Just for a laugh, my daughter sent a Christmas card from Perth, it took 7 months to get here.....hahaha....
Ordered some st/steel flush mounted switches....10 for the job.....
when they turned up the mouse had been there, unziped the plastic bag inside and ATE 3 of the switches inc the gaskets and the locking rings...
This time cant blame the shippers.....
More expensive items I photo the bag/box before I accept it if the mice have been there.....
Trouble is if u complain shippers wont supply.....
Just for a laugh, my daughter sent a Christmas card from Perth, it took 7 months to get here.....hahaha....
The problem with amazon is I'd say 99% the arsole drivers.. in virtually every case I've had anything amazon, they just randomly abandon it outside without even ringing the doorbell.
I caught one the other day sneaking back to his van, I said 'Oi, you didn't ring the bell' .. 'Yes I did' he says, Well I was standing 4 ft away from the door watching him out of the frickin' window, so no you didn't.
I caught one the other day sneaking back to his van, I said 'Oi, you didn't ring the bell' .. 'Yes I did' he says, Well I was standing 4 ft away from the door watching him out of the frickin' window, so no you didn't.
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I bought a house from a delivery driver. I found out after I'd bought it that a lot of the furnishings & fittings came off his van at the end of his shift 
His view was that anything that had been loaded onto his van but had was no paperwork to deliver it was his
His view was that anything that had been loaded onto his van but had was no paperwork to deliver it was his
I bought two POL fittings for propane bottles, they had been shipped in a flimsy paper envelope with no extra packaging, so when it arrived the envelope had a six inch split in it, so I thought this is going to be empty, but it had a bit of weight to it so I looked in through the split thinking there's only going to be one inside, but miraculously both were still inside. I shook the envelope and they both fell out....
Must have been my lucky day!
Must have been my lucky day!
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Chatty royal mail mice?....I once ordered a small pack of tungstens (hard plastic case about 6x3 inch)....as delivered the envelope had been opened...had a neat knife slit in one end, contents present. It then dawned on me this was the exact size/weight of a phone....poor disappointed mice haha
The problem I have with Amazon is that they dont document what is in the box with a shipping docket inside so everyone is blind to the contents unless you go on the account and dig through, and they randomly bundle things from different orders together for shipping.
So the postie/delivery driver arrives at the door with a holed or retaped box because their packaging is terrible, and I dont know until I spend 20 minutes going through orders that all the stuff that was supposed to be in there is.
I dont want to keep the delivery driver waiting while I do this so I just have to sign for it as uninspected and hope...
I've had it where it didnt match up, and it was much gnashing of teeth at Amazon customer service who kept saying signing uninspected wasnt valid, but eventually they relented and sent another of the missing item.
So the postie/delivery driver arrives at the door with a holed or retaped box because their packaging is terrible, and I dont know until I spend 20 minutes going through orders that all the stuff that was supposed to be in there is.
I dont want to keep the delivery driver waiting while I do this so I just have to sign for it as uninspected and hope...
I've had it where it didnt match up, and it was much gnashing of teeth at Amazon customer service who kept saying signing uninspected wasnt valid, but eventually they relented and sent another of the missing item.
I remember reading about a chap at either JCB or Caterpiller that was steeling parts to order, he even had his own Ebay shop set up for selling and custom orders.
Took them years to find out (believe it all came to light after a random stock take).
I've got an ECU that's found it's way to UK customs and is now "lost", managed to get all the way from America and failed at the last hurdle..
Took them years to find out (believe it all came to light after a random stock take).
I've got an ECU that's found it's way to UK customs and is now "lost", managed to get all the way from America and failed at the last hurdle..
It was Caterpillar, $1 million worth!
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Caterpillar parts thief imprisoned
Caterpillar Inc. exacted some revenge in kind this week from the man who admitted to masterminding the theft of about $1 million in specialty parts from the company. \n John Peters, 50, of East Peoria…
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I was looking for a power steering box for my Landy and got pointed towards a chap, he asked me how many pallets of them I wanted!
One of our ex-brain boxes was "borrowing" gear and slapping it on ebay - was found out when someone spotted a bespoke bit of expensive measuring gear was missing, and an apparently identical bit of kit was on ebay. Could see our numbers engraved on the side of it in the photos. Only good for one thing, on one particular product, so never likely to have a mass market.
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I've worked at Komatsu (when they took over the old JCB factory outside Newcastle), also Emico who later became Tamrock (the people who built armoured people carriers to go down pits, diggers, they also made the giant mole that dug the channel from the UK side).
Anyone who can smuggle a DIY digger kit made up of 1/2" steel plates (yards long and weighing more than a car) is wasting their talents working in a factory
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I know off a parts guy who was sacked for something similar.
He was somehow burying parts in the impress stock held by customers, which wasn't showing up on stock checks.
I don't think the dealer in question ever put a figure on it, or if he was prosecuted, but it was apparently into 6 figures of stock unaccounted for, which allegedly went out the front door of the dealer for cash to his regulars.
