!#$!$^% UPS

[rocco16 at sbcglobal.net (Larry Fry)]

 I shipped a well-crated Turbo-Hydro 350 transsmission via UPS once.
They broke the case into five pieces.

I think that the better-packed an item is, the more of a challenge they 
perceive it.

Larry
sandiego16v

> Called and talked to Kristen today about some parts I ordered a few weeks 
> ago and just realized I never got.  Apparently  the tracking notes from 
> UPS reveal that they first lost the package then recovered it, decided 
> that the antifreeze leaking from it was a hazardous material and threw the 
> whole package away.  Lovely.  I can only hope that there was a VW 
> enthusiast working at the UPS place who raided the dumpster and got 
> himself some free parts.  Kristen didn't expect any trouble getting UPS to 
> step up and fork over for a new box O' parts.

> The question of the day is... How exactly do you screw up a well-packed 
> box so badly that a container of anti-freeze gets broken.  There must have 
> been some little brown men covered in pink (i.e. G12) running all over the 
> place.