[SunRescue] Re: ALMS

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  I worked for Rat Shack (Radio Shack) at one time and we 
had to send an expensive stereo to the repair center via 
UPS.  When it arrived...well....imagine a stereo, one end 
tightly gripped in a vise and the other end rotated 90 
degrees.  It turned out that in one of their centers, 
packages ride a conveyer belt two stories in height to 
where they are sorted.  The stereo fell off the end, two 
stories, on to a concrete floor.  When the store filed a 
claim, we were told it was "insufficiently packed" and 
the store had to eat the cost.  Bad enough they stoled 2 
MHz of one ham band only not to use it.  (That's another 
story.)  Likely, all the small stuff I have ordered never 
got trashed (yet) except they like leaving expensive 
stuff in the open so the neighbors can take it.  With all 
the antennas on the roof, the local thieves think I'm 
with some clandestine government agency and don't mess 
with my stuff.  I have friends that worked for them and 
what I've read here is nothing compared to what really 
goes on.