Shipping a Hood ?

[scirocco at powerlink.net (John C. Worden)]

At 08:29 PM 9/4/03 -0700, Kevin Collins wrote:

>Memories... my 1st full-time job, back in 1976 at age 18, was unloading 
>truckloads of GM parts that had come in from the plant in Fremont. Those 
>fuckers would ship everything from hoods & fenders to rear axles &
>other inane parts out of that depot.  I was apalled at how they tendered 
>it to us (air freight forwarder) for shipping via commercial airlines - 
>fenders with just a brown wrapper on them, axles 100% bare with a tag tied 
>to one end with a ship-to address, etc.  The claim rate on this stuff HAD 
>to be astronomical.
>
>When FedEx or UPS get their mitts on this kind of stuff, that's even worse 
>- all bets are off!
>
>--
>Kevin Collins
>Huntington Beach, CA
>'86.5 16v 2.0
>'02 GTI 337
>
>
I've gotten two MkI fenders shipped to me like this; well with a little 
cardboard around the edges so nobody gets cut or anything and they have 
arrived perfect on UPS.  The second one I asked for it to be shipped that 
way after the first one came that way.  I guess it can go two different 
way, but the way I figured it was that they could see what it was so they 
were a little more careful(maybe they were car guys), and if it were in a 
box, a big box no less, it would be at the bottom of the pile.

John