<div dir="ltr">People don't choose "courier" or "forklift driver" as their vocation out of a burning desire to serve their fellow humans, so there's always an element of risk in shipping.<div><br></div><div>Having said that, consider medical couriers as an option. These are people who are usually hand-picked from courier companies for premium work and have a greater sense of consequence with their work. There is usually some company servicing a regional hospital on scheduled runs in every major town.</div><div><br></div><div>The guys who warehouse/deliver parts for Telstra and Nokia in Australia are also the same guys who haul blood and kidneys for hospitals.</div><div><br></div><div>My personal story of tracking a missing router to the n-th degree found it with dual-wheel tyre tracks across the box - it's difficult for them to claim the waiver of liability when it's clearly one of their own vehicles that damaged it. I have heard of an expensive router chassis arriving with a forklift-tyne-sized hole through the box to the other side.</div><div><br></div><div>Tips for airline transport:</div><div>- Check the weight handling limit and try and stay under it - usually something like 30kg per item</div><div>- Don't ship fully assembled routers, put the labelled line cards and PSU's back in original boxes, and wrap those boxes with excessive amounts of bubble wrap</div><div>- If you have support contracts, validate that the vendor actually has the spares stocked near the destination for quick turnaround if something happens</div><div>- Camera shops near you stock the "pelican" cases which are an ideal armour for 1-3 RU size payloads and make you look badass at the luggage carousel (allow time in your plan for pressure to equalise, these can be hard to open after being subjected to altitude)</div><div>- Cisco 7200's were shipped so often back in the day that Cisco had a replacement box as an orderable part number</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 22:31, Rhys Hanrahan <<a href="mailto:rhys@nexusone.com.au">rhys@nexusone.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg6856790793354241779">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just wondering how people handle the situation of transit insurance for domestic shipping of high value equipment? I am looking at options for TNT’s transit warranty and 1) It’s pricey and will cost thousands to get a warranty 2) They max
out coverage at $40K it seems. I suppose we might be able to work around that with multiple separate shipments.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve got new Cisco gear worth 70-90K that we are shipping to one of our offices for configuration, then from NSW to a customer’s site in far north QLD. I’m not really keen on just trusting the gear won’t be damaged, so I’m looking for
safe options to courier the equipment – I’m wondering if anyone is aware of good options for this sort of situation?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are also attending site so it’s possible that we could just check the boxes in as luggage, but I’m not sure if I trust baggable handlers any better. Typically we’d just ship directly to site, but we don’t really want to configure and
test it entirely onsite as that has it’s own challenges in this case.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p>
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