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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shipping Macs
Summary: You're lucky
Keywords: Shipping
Message-ID: <395@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Jul 89 21:08:28 GMT
References: <9121@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <387@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <11416@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
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In article <11416@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> mym@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Mike Meckler) writes:
>In article <387@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
>mjkobb@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>>For heaven's sake, don't use UPS!!!  I've shipped computers with them before,
>
>For the record, I've had very good experiences shipping my Mac II through
>UPS.  I've done it twice, cross-country, and both times I've retrieved
>my computer in perfect working order. I took two precautions:
>
>1) I've kept all the original packaging, and shipped the computer in it.
>
>2) I insured it for its full value. This ended up costing about $25 more,
>but the UPS person told me whenever an item is insured for more than a 
>certain amount ($1000 or so) it receives special treatment. Exactly what

I'd say that you've been pretty lucky, or I've been really unlucky.  A Mac II
is more fragile than a Plus, what with the NuBus cards and all.

Anyway, to address your points:
Re: 1	I did that too.  I used the original packaging until they destroyed it
for me.

Re: 2	I've always insured it for full value, and the value has always been
over 1000 for the computers.  Unfortunately, the ImageWriter II isn't worth
$1000.  (In my opinion, it isn't worth _$10_, but I paid $500).

--Mike