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K1W1
08-20-2009, 01:32 AM
Apparently this is what happens when Fedex are given the job of delivering your Nikon 70-200VR lens.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2583/3706986913_9a39d293ff_b.jpg

No it's not mine.

I came across this in a forum post on Flickr (link here (http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikon70-200mm/discuss/72157621234578548/))
rawpaw18
08-20-2009, 04:09 AM
Mine did not look that bad when it fell,
It does kind of make me a little misty eyed
tim11
08-20-2009, 06:19 AM
oooooooooooooooooo............. well i won't cry but I hope fedex has insurance and that it pays me back quick. otherwise no jury can convict me of murder... :D
eddie_dane
08-20-2009, 06:42 AM
that's no small feat, that lens is built like a tank.
Elisha
08-20-2009, 06:43 AM
how was that possible. The lens should have been inside it's own box and padded should it not?
K1W1
08-20-2009, 06:55 AM
how was that possible. The lens should have been inside it's own box and padded should it not?


If you read the thread it appears to have been correctly packaged. The box was so badly damaged that even the soft bag Nikon supply with the lens had a hole in it.
Elisha
08-20-2009, 08:03 AM
Lol a forklift must have rammed trough it.
XaiLo
08-20-2009, 08:47 AM
What did they drop it from 50,000 feet:confused: So sad but FedEX has insurance. I've seen crap like that from UPS but never FedEX... I'll never look a their vans the same trusting way ever again... so sad an end of an era. (tears)
Tomcat
08-20-2009, 03:12 PM
The important question is. Was it delivered on time.:D:D:D:D
jcon
08-21-2009, 12:19 AM
oooooooooooooooooo............. well i won't cry but I hope fedex has insurance and that it pays me back quick. otherwise no jury can convict me of murder... :D

Usually if you are shipping something worth money, you purchase insurance for things like this through whoever you are mailing it.


Personally, I dont trust any of the parcel companies, a few years ago sitting at a major airport, I was watching FedEx load packages onto the airplane, and lets just say they were treating the packages like footballs. UPS is even worse.
Tomcat
08-22-2009, 07:37 PM
I've seen how they treat firearms. So far I've been lucky.
photowerkz
08-23-2009, 08:32 AM
I've ordered a lot from overseas and my experience with fedex is that the packages looks like they've been sodomized by an elephant when they arrive, and their customer service representatives should be sodomized by an elephant. I've stopped buying from companies that only use fedex.
BikerJohn
08-23-2009, 09:35 AM
I'm in agreement on it being a forklift. Had it just a little too high and speared the pallet. Happens quite often in plants where people don't care.

I don't watch things like fed-ex and UPS employees. I'm sure they are thinking "these things should be packaged well enough, and if it is valuable enough for someone to care, they should have bought insurance". When you only make $10 an hour that's what happens.
Paradox
08-23-2009, 10:35 AM
The Royal Mangle anyone? :rolleyes:

It's always a bit of a lottery getting things shipped.
Dread Pirate Roberts
08-24-2009, 05:43 AM
I've ordered a lot from overseas and my experience with fedex is that the packages looks like they've been sodomized by an elephant when they arrive, and their customer service representatives should be sodomized by an elephant. I've stopped buying from companies that only use fedex.

That is quite the mental picture you paint there.

I bought a box of specialty ports once. Took 3 shipments from the winery before it actually arrived.
K1W1
08-24-2009, 06:34 AM
I sent a 600kg UPS to Geelong a couple of weeks ago and what the specialist transport company did to it makes that lens look undamaged.
It's not only small general freight items that get beaten up sometimes.
Dread Pirate Roberts
08-24-2009, 07:00 AM
And you can actually live on a minimum wage job in Oz, no excuses there.
fionndruinne
08-24-2009, 05:06 PM
*needs to move to Oz, apparently*

*and likes UPS better than FedEx*
Sir Les
08-25-2009, 10:03 AM
This might explain what happened to the lens.....


Houseowner to pilot: "Don't just sit there, is my lens alright?"
Tomcat
08-25-2009, 02:55 PM
Anybody that knows enything about flying knows that plane was to small to carry that house:)
ANP !!!
08-25-2009, 03:30 PM
You guys are funny lol :p

The sec I read the title, I knew it would be coming from K1W1, only he can pull out some such witty titles.
Dread Pirate Roberts
08-27-2009, 05:27 AM
anybody that knows enything about flying knows that plane was to small to carry that house:)

rotflmao........
Tomcat
08-27-2009, 03:33 PM
rotflmao........

Please translate for me:confused: I'm behind on tech. I don't even have a camera phone.
Tomcat
08-27-2009, 03:48 PM
My daughter just got home and translated if for me.
rawpaw18
08-27-2009, 08:19 PM
Now I am rotflmao ^^
We all had to learn it sometime
mugsisme
08-27-2009, 08:37 PM
Anybody that knows enything about flying knows that plane was to small to carry that house:)

Oh for goodness sake! Where was the spew alert?????? :D
Dread Pirate Roberts
08-28-2009, 08:25 PM
LOL doesn't meet the minimum character post length requirements for this website. Beside's I really enjoyed your post and felt it rated better than LOL
Tomcat
08-29-2009, 06:57 PM
I'm glad everybody enjoyed that. If I can someone to laugh at something I post, then that's a good thing.:)