[geeks] [rescue] Bad UPS II: The Sad Mac

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think this is the point at which I recommend that we all stop using
>>UPS to ship breakable computer equipment.  Try FedEx Ground or DHL
>>instead -- they seem to take better care of the hardware.
> 
> 
> I've had stellar luck with FedEx Ground.  They're fast, cheap, and get
> things to their destination in neither greater nor fewer pieces than
> which they left their destinations.
> 
> I stopped using UPS when they drive a 1"-diameter hole through a Mac
> IIfx I shipped a few years back (before the end of the last century) and
> then failed to honor the insurance on it.  They claimed the machine
> couldn't be worth more than $7.

Yeah.  This instance is a Power Mac 8100 with a Sonnet G4 card in it.

I think the interior is probably OK.  The cover is in sorry shape.


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