Bill, 'scuse me for fraying the thread... On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:59:19 -0700, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: > I always felt a bit guilty when > they ended up paying many times the cost of the chip to ship me a > massive databook with it. (Not that companies seem to be very > efficient about shipping chips weighing less than an ounce by > first class mail, anyway. Sigh.) I ordered a load of stuff from Mouser while I was staying in New York. It all arrived, but a pack of 10 diodes only had three in it, so I contacted them. Unfortunately I was about to fly home, and told them this - they said they'd send the missing parts to the UK. When they arrived, by Global Priority, they were in a 6" cubic cardboard box, with conductive bubble-wrap filling it, then a conductive plastic bag containing the mylar packet with the 7 tiny diodes in it, and six copies of the shipping document! They could have just popped them in an ordinary envelope, or perhaps a bubble-padded envelope, and saved themselves and the planet a ludicrous amount of cost/waste. Surely someone must have thought as they were packing it that it was ridiculous? Don't firms have a way for employees to report stupid situations so they can be improved? Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist