Has “fragile” now got a sub-text

I reckon about 48%..... Sorry, couldn't resist.

Sorry to hear it's not arrived safely (twice), Laphroaig is one of my favourites and would love a bottle of the triple wood!

Do you think it's a scam ?

The postal worker picks it up from the distillery, takes it home, takes the good stuff out. Replaces it with Bell's, then repacks it.

Then makes sure he kicks it around until it's broken ....

Perhaps you could have used a local wine/whisky specialist shop. They exist in my town anyway!

Bruce

Some years ago,when i was between jobs, the agency asked if i would do a few days loading parcels on to post office vans.It sounded easy and it was,although you had to work fairly fast."Fragile" written on a parcel meant absolutely nothing to us.Sorry about the Laphroaig.

ah a case of postal worker rage?

Like Full Ahead, I've had some jobs doing the rough heavy work it usually wasn't my inability but the supervisor wanting faster work and griping behind me that made things go Kabloom. Dock workers don't care about such things as fragile.

As full ahead says, fragile means nothing to these guys. A while back, my dealer sent me a nac282 which was damaged in transit. When I mentioned this to a work colleague, he told me how he had done some temporary work in a parcel distribution warehouse and he said the things he had seen would make your hair stand on end. It didn't matter what was written on the packaging, 'fragile', 'this way up' etc, some of the guys would just load the vans/lorries by throwing the packages as far and as hard as they could. He said he had see packages rammed by forklifts and generally flattened. It wasn't very reasuring to hear.

Gary

I feel that adding 'fragile' or 'this way up' to any shipment just prompts these guys to give it a 'special' treatment.

and there was me, thinking this was a thread about what happens when I play my favourite Yes LP backwards - maybe I would hear some new lyrics.....
Doh

This tune sprang into my head and I haven't heard it in over 30 years.

Not Frgile

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Originally posted by full ahead:
Some years ago,when i was between jobs, the agency asked if i would do a few days loading parcels on to post office vans.It sounded easy and it was,although you had to work fairly fast."Fragile" written on a parcel meant absolutely nothing to us.Sorry about the Laphroaig.

Cnuts, frankly...

I thought this was a "yes" thread.

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Originally posted by fatcat:
This tune sprang into my head and I haven't heard it in over 30 years.

Not Frgile

I thought they only made "one song! I guess "I Ain't (HEARD) Nothin' Yet"?

I myself like some of the other gents have done work for these kind of company`s over the years, for example the one with the brown vans/lorry`s and speed is of the essence when loading vehicles with a guy at the end with a stopwatch checking on you all the time and the customers products do get thrown from one end of the vehicle to the other. insurance is the only way to get piece of mind and some sleep.

Laphoaig triple wood, please post later with tasting notes and cost, GULP

I can assure you that the nose of this whisky is well worth savouring, albeit a tad influenced by being strained through bubble wrap and cardboard

Tasting notes will appear when I eventually get a bottle to try....

Jolly good.
just on a bottle of The Macallan 10year old fine oak

forgot to say very nice, had a few.goodnight

There is an old postroom joke that goes :-

"Hey, careful with that fragile stamp, it's the only one we've got'!! "

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Originally posted by deadlifter:
I myself like some of the other gents have done work for these kind of company`s over the years, for example the one with the brown vans/lorry`s and speed is of the essence when loading vehicles with a guy at the end with a stopwatch checking on you all the time and the customers products do get thrown from one end of the vehicle to the other. insurance is the only way to get piece of mind and some sleep.

No, insurance doesn't work if a reduction in damage is the best outcome. The customers still pay for the damage, but through premiums, rather than by replacing the goods. There is still no incetive for the parcel companies to be any more careful. No, what would work is that there is some enforceable "duty of care" that applies when you contract another party to be temporary custodian of your stuff. If they break it, they should pay for it.

A similar example that always annoys relates to where I park my bike when at work. The building has a bike locker, which is great, but the terms are that bikes are placed at "owners' sole risk". This makes no sense to me. Apart from locking my bike (which I do) what else can I do to reduce the risk of theft or damage? Pretty much nothing. The building owners however, could do something - they could put in better security, they could re-design the locker to be less damaging to bikes, they could improve lighting etc etc. Becasue THEY control the risk, THEY should bear the risk.

Same with parcel companies. Provided YOU pack the item correctly, the risk should be borne by those who have custody. If they choose to insure it, that's their choice, but if they break it they should pay. That way, they have financial incentive to look after your stuff. Without this there is little reason why they should.