Quote Originally Posted by Rodsmachineshop View Post
you think as hard it is to find work or a job these days they would care lol , oh a little hint if buy a everlast on amazon or anything if received broken or not working they pay return shipping and on replacement item 2 day shipping . plus they dont wait for broken item to be shipped first to get your replacement . love buying from amazon . http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081BF4JC/...hvptwo=&hvqmt=
Thanks for the tip, Rod. I think I'm gonna have to get one of those 140's pretty soon. They are just so small and portable. Then I will have to locate a suitably tiny argon cylinder to go with it.

I find that with shipping your driver has a lot to do with how things arrive. But there are also size and weight issues. If a box is light enough it seems like nothing happens to it unless they run it over (I've had that happen). And if it's heavy enough that they can't really move it, you only have to worry about getting forks stuck through it. However, the ones in between are the sizes that get messed up the most. Anything I send, I pack so that it can survive falling off a loading dock (about four feet) as that is a likely fall. Also the conveyors used are close to that height. I love those cardboard pyramid caps to put on top of pallets so they can't stack things on top. Works much better than any kind of labeling. The only shipper that I have never had an issue with is DHL, but I have only used them a dozen or so times, so I might just be lucky.