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ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson) writes:

>This is a plea to Next about their packaging, OR how to ship a monitor
>so it will definately get broken!!!.

>All the lies between the monitor, in its pillo case and the outside of the
>box is about 4 cm of air. No foam nothing, hence if there was something
>my monitor would have stood a good chance of not getting damaged. Unfortunately
>the damage was not just cosmetic, when the montior switched on, I had a dead
>pixel (right near the bottom where a penetration of the packaging occured and)
>it was unfocused and blurry in patches directly underneath the damage which
>had occured to the box.

>PS. You might say, well you are in Australia, what do you expect.  I say this
>In this day and age if people cannot get a piece of electronic equipment from
>continent to the other in one piece I think we haven't really accomplished much.

Terribly sorry to hear about your misfortune Robert...I agree wholeheartedly
with your last sentiment...no amount of precaution when shipping things is
too much.  I've had many things come to me from individuals that didn't
put any packing material at all in the box.  I guess they just have never
seen the way a shipping company operates, and assume that their package
is treated as nicely as they would treat it.  

As for the NeXT boxes, they aren't much different than any other
manufacturer's, and shippers are usually happier when you send something
in it's original packaging.  I assume that companies probably must meet
some sort of guidelines as to their packaging if they want carriers to
assume any damage risk.  When I sent my NeXT monitor, I padded out the
inside of the box with tons of newspaper.

In any case, the point of my post was to also point out that it's
quite impossible for a pixel to be dead on a monitor.  That's only
possible on LCDs.  You've got a piece of phosphor missing.  If a pixel
were actually dead, you'd have a problem with your video hardware,
not the monitor.

Sorry to pick nits when it's of no use to you :-).

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