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What will UPS ground do to the 70lbs laser printer i just bought?

Schadenfroh

Schadenfroh

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Could not turn down free shipping on it, even if it was UPS ground.

Any idea what it might look like when it arrives?
 
If the UPS guy asks you to play quarterback in order for you to get your package, that's usually not a good sign.

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In my experience, large packages tend to fair pretty well. It's only the smaller boxes that they punt around like a kitty that gets on your nerves.
 
When you get it, it'll be the top 35 lb half of a laser printer, and the bottom 35 lb half of a laser printer. UPS sucks.
 
UPS shipped my computer overseas a few years back. During transit, there had been rough enough handling that capacitors had sheared off the motherboard.

Hope that you insured.
 
70 lbs? it'll be fine. anything 70 or over doesn't go on the belt system, and i guarantee you people aren't going to be tossing that thing around.
 
Only one hole where a Javelin went thru on the box and a smashed corner. The packaging material absorbed all of it. No damage to the printer itself.
 
As long as shippers pack stuff correctly, it'll be fine. Places rarely do... you're supposed to have 2" of semi-soft/firm packaging material around everything in the box. People seem to forget that a package going 3000 miles is probably going to end up being dropped a few feet atleast once.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Could not turn down free shipping on it, even if it was UPS ground.

Any idea what it might look like when it arrives?
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What will they do to it? My guess is that they will deliver it.


Why do I see so many people trashing UPS around here? I never have any problems EVER with their service and the only problems I have had with packages arriving in bad condition were because they were not packaged correctly by the shipper.

Like a car tail light that had one small layer of bubble wrap just sitting between it and the bottom of the box...so yeah of course it arrived cracked.
 
Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
70 lbs? it'll be fine. anything 70 or over doesn't go on the belt system, and i guarantee you people aren't going to be tossing that thing around.
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Not true, 'over-70's' are not supposed to go on the belt system but they sometimes do. Usually it's not the belts that hurt packages (though that does occur, so sad to see a small box smeared into nothing...) it's the loading and unloading by the hourlies. Sometimes they need to be reminded of the 'hand-to-surface' rule instead of the throwing they do.

Truth is, most of the damage is due to badly packed items. I have had some boxes come beat up but never had anything broke in them because they are all packed well. I have watched the re-wrap area where they repackage things that died in transit and it is usually some item in a much larger box with a handful of peanuts around it, not even close to adequate padding.

I bet your printer will be fine. I have had two brothers and a samsung (none where 70 lbs) delivered without any damage. Big, heavy boxes don't get crushed by others, are too heavy to throw/kick, and tend to be dropped less as they are picked up less.

-spike
 
I've worked for UPS. It'll get tosseled at least. Hope they pack it very well. We used to be amazed how poorly people package their goods.
 
Large sized factory packaging is extremely resistant to shipping damage. Totally different experience from the ebayer who tried to pack something with newspaper.

 
I used to work for UPS. You're better off with large heavy items than small items when it comes to demage.
 
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