[geeks] SGI packing

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Kurt Huhn <kurt at k-huhn.com> wrote:
> Kevin <kevin at mpcf.com> wrote:
> 
> > materials.  I just received two DIMMS ordered from SGI.  They
> > came in a box roughly twice the width of a shoe box and about
> > the same thickness.... for two "remarketed" DIMMS?  I mean, of
> 
> They're not alone, unfortunately.  I just got in a single DIMM from
> newegg.com packed in the largest Fedex overnight box they could find,
> and nearly 6 feet of bubble wrap.

Heh, I've done that with eBay sales when I use Priority Mail - the
boxes are free from the post office, and the first few pounds cost the
same as a 4 oz. package...

Sometimes I feel bad for the fellow on the other end, since it might
not fit in the poor fellows mailbox...

"Gonna go to Mississipi - gonna see Miss Eliza." <clang> Gawd, I love
this movie! (Take the money and run...)

Right now the chain gang is escaping on bicycles, with their leg irons
attached - oh, they just entered the farm house... ;^)
 

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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