Fw: No more foward air?

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From: The Retrodaddy <retrodad@bellsouth.net>
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: No more foward air?

>On 30 Jan 1998 23:39:24 GMT, ozdemir@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Steven S.
>Ozdemir) wrote:
>
>>I heard on vectorlist that Forward Air had recently made a company
>>wide policy that no more arcade video games would be shipped!
>>That'd be a real shame if this turns out to be true.
>They will ship if properly packed. Game must be standing up, and
>completely enclosed. I and David Countryman have been shipping out of
>the Atlanta terminal byt completely enclosing the machines with sheets
>of cardboard, stretch warpped, and strapped to the pallet with nylon
>banding. No more ratchet straps.
>>ps - The nasty rumor is there were too many claims for damaged
>>arcade games? I'd sure like the inside scoop about this! But
>>realisticly, we'll never know why the policy really was changed.
>That is the reason. David had a few games on theor loading dock that
>they refused to ship until he went down and repacked them. :<
>
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Received on Fri Jan 30 17:39:45 1998