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Tv in original packaging arrived cracked
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<blockquote data-quote="Nimnim" data-source="post: 1144717" data-attributes="member: 28856"><p>I have to take some offense to this, I'm an irreg driver, and I can attest that myself, and the other 9 people who I normally work with, would never lay a tv flat on our irreg train and place another package on top of it. The only exception to this is another tv placed on top as we usually get a few at the same time. We don't lay them flat because usually they're too wide to lay flat or we can place more of them standing up or on end.</p><p></p><p>Now at least in my facility a tv less than 34"(I don't know the size limit that will fit across the belt offhand but I've seen 34" go across the belts) won't be on an irreg train unless someone is shipping an old CRT, but tvs are annoying since they're not equally weighted and as such are very prone to tipping over to their back side. The picture provided doesn't give a good shot of the damaged area so all I can assume is somewhere in transit something was placed upon the "front" of the package that either had enough force when being placed or weighed enough to cause damage. If the tv was small enough to travel across the conveyors then in a given facility you have 4 people who can mishandle it, 3 if it can't. Unloader, sorter, pickoff, loader. Sorter and pickoff are switched with irreg driver if it can't. That's per facility until it gets to the final destination which can come out to quite a few handlings which could lead to damage.</p><p></p><p>There's no way to know for sure who caused the damage, but I'm comfortable saying it wasn't a package car driver. I'm doubtful you'll get the full $800 insured amount because of the current market value for tvs. Hopefully you won't have trouble with the claim and can get the tv replaced easily. I hate to see any package damaged, but some people are idiots with how they attempt to ship things and we just have so many things run through our system in even just a few hours I'm always amazed there isn't more damages occurring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nimnim, post: 1144717, member: 28856"] I have to take some offense to this, I'm an irreg driver, and I can attest that myself, and the other 9 people who I normally work with, would never lay a tv flat on our irreg train and place another package on top of it. The only exception to this is another tv placed on top as we usually get a few at the same time. We don't lay them flat because usually they're too wide to lay flat or we can place more of them standing up or on end. Now at least in my facility a tv less than 34"(I don't know the size limit that will fit across the belt offhand but I've seen 34" go across the belts) won't be on an irreg train unless someone is shipping an old CRT, but tvs are annoying since they're not equally weighted and as such are very prone to tipping over to their back side. The picture provided doesn't give a good shot of the damaged area so all I can assume is somewhere in transit something was placed upon the "front" of the package that either had enough force when being placed or weighed enough to cause damage. If the tv was small enough to travel across the conveyors then in a given facility you have 4 people who can mishandle it, 3 if it can't. Unloader, sorter, pickoff, loader. Sorter and pickoff are switched with irreg driver if it can't. That's per facility until it gets to the final destination which can come out to quite a few handlings which could lead to damage. There's no way to know for sure who caused the damage, but I'm comfortable saying it wasn't a package car driver. I'm doubtful you'll get the full $800 insured amount because of the current market value for tvs. Hopefully you won't have trouble with the claim and can get the tv replaced easily. I hate to see any package damaged, but some people are idiots with how they attempt to ship things and we just have so many things run through our system in even just a few hours I'm always amazed there isn't more damages occurring. [/QUOTE]
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