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Originally Posted by Gemini-Phoenix
I would say that shipping and packaging is the worst area at the moment, where expensive LE's and CE's are still being shipped in flimsy cardboard boxes. In my own experience, the bigger they are, the more likely they are to be dropped by the couriers. Of course, the couriers are also to blame here, but if these things were packed a little better in the first place then they would be able to withstand more of a beating. If it's a case of having to wait two or three days after release day to have it arrive perfect, then I would obviously choose that option (provided I was told about a delay beforehand)
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Here's a timely example that illustrates some of your points . . .
. . .my AC Revelations Animus Edition turned up on Friday via UPS all the way from Germany and, when I saw the packaging, my heart sank. The box was almost completely wrecked at one end - so much so that it must have been mistreated in some way en-route.
However, a closer look revealed that the (I have to say) rather flimsy looking cardboard had a little pocket inside that housed the Animus and, thanks to the packers at the far end, it had been secured crossways with plastic strips and some selloptape which had stopped it falling apart completely.
So, thanks to German efficiency, it hadn't wound up in some depot seperated from the packaging - which, I suspect, would have been the case had it been posted from within the UK.
There we have it . . .the good and the bad seen in one packaged item. The CE was fine but no thanks to UPS
