Shipping horror story - we routinely order microprobes from the company
warehouse.  These are the really tiny probes used to probe wafers on a
probe station.  They come individually in a small protective plastic
box.  For some unknown reason the warehouse workers were taking them out
of the boxes, shoving them in a plastic bag, and sending them to us.
$600 a pop, utterly destroyed.  (multiple times)

Gary 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of sergio masci
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:52 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE]:: Hard Drive failure rates
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Apptech wrote:
> 
> > > I used to swear by IBM hard discs. They used to come 
> > > shipped in special
> > > containers. Ran for several years without ANY problems. 
> > > Then I started to
> > > receive them packed loose in bigger boxes with other 
> > > items, then jiffy
> > > bags. I make it clear to my suppliers now that I will not 
> > > accept discs
> > > shipped like this.
> > 
> > One of our largest IT wholesalers was surprised when I 
> > returned a hard disk that had been delivered in a box 
> > surrounded by copious foam "peanuts". Or, it had started the 
> > journey "surrounded" but had of course worked its way to the 
> > bottom of the box in short order. They really really didn't 
> > understand my point.
> 
> And don't you just hate it when you NEED to explain to people 
> that items 
> inside a box NEED to be protected from each other as well as 
> the outside 
> world.
> 
> Regards
> Sergio
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