-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 May 2004 10:20, Daniel James wrote: > > heading out on a plane flight back to the UK, and need a means of > > transporting a computer monitor, preferably without paying for > > shipping as we have plenty of baggage weight available. we're > > planning to pack it inside its cardboard box with loads of bubble > > wrapping and lots of 'Fragile: handle as eggs' stickers on the > > side. > > When shipping a motherboard recently, I was advised by the Post Office > counter staff not to put 'fragile' on the box. This is because > disenchanted postmen and women are more likely to kick or drop a box > if it has 'fragile' written on it, apparently! I don't know if > airport baggage handlers are the same. > > > does anyone have any experience of doing this, and have any > > sugestions on the best way to go about it? > > If it's a CRT monitor, mark the box so you know which side the screen > is on. Then when you pick up the box, have the screen side closest to > your chest, because the centre of gravity won't be near the centre of > the box. It's then much less likely to drop out of your hands when > you stumble, exhausted, out of the baggage reclaim area... > > Also, don't forget to check the voltage requirements of the monitor > before you plug it in. BTW: When shipping hardware, always expect customs officers to plug in and power on stuff WITHOUT paying attention to voltage settings. Regards, - - Burkhard > Laptops usually have autosensing power > supplies, but in my experience CRT monitors do not. A 240v UK power > supply will probably destroy a 110v US monitor. > > Cheers > > Daniel - -- Libre Audio, Libre Video, Libre Software: www.AGNULA.org Public key available here: <http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFD82303B> key FP 0A65 5E83 F44F 47A5 3DFC 19C5 7779 E411 FD82 303B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAn2KBd3nkEf2CMDsRAjjhAJsGJN6Hu0Es/lDd1y6h7pQAOuxKjwCgrMyn IPa4760z0qcN3fzqBkijvs4= =8zAG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----