Marta Matray Gloviczki on thu 2 may 02
gee,
thanks johanna!
i could imagine before how they throw boxes,
but to stand on them? are bubblewraps or peanuts
strong enough for a big guy standing on a them?
not even double boxing would help...
i have some left over "fragile" stickers
i am not going to use: anybody wants them?
:-)
marta
JoHanna Haines wrote:
>Many many moons ago I used to work for the "brown guys" shipping company.
>Let me tell you something.......Fragile means "Throw Harder"....., Can't
>reach that shelf?.....here's a box to stand on.
>
Lee Love on fri 3 may 02
I worked for U.P.S. for about 10 years (most of those years, I
was
going to school too.) Without exception, I always handled the packages
with
the highest respect and care. So did my fellow co-workers. I stopped
working there almost 20 years ago, but I can't believe that workers'
attitudes
have changed that much.
One thing I did notice, because I was there durning the time that the
package delivery service industry was deregulating, was that fewer people
were
made to do much more work and volume became more important than service.
If
service has suffered in recent years, it isn't the fault of the workers but
rather, the choices that the company has made related to service and the
bottom
line. The young people I worked with did their best to do a good job.
--
Lee in Mashiko
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Janet Kaiser on fri 3 may 02
I am not making this up... Jacqui was over to meet Sayuri today and
told me her personal tale of woe...
Picture the scene: a production pottery has just wrapped and carefully
packed boxes of mugs, jugs, etc. and the carries are called in to
collect. Young man jumps out of the cab, collects the cartons with
FRAGILE plastered on all four sides, trundles them to the back of his
truck and...
Great overhead he-man lobs from the door to the very back of the
lorry... Crash! Bang! Wallop! All in full view of some completely
gob-smacked potters, who were too dazed to react. So if that is done
on the customer's own doorstep, goodness only knows what happens out
of sight elsewhere. Those tyre marks over a box as someone reported
this week, would be par for the course! A wonder someone has not had
groves from railroad tracks down the middle of a package!? Bet someone
has, but they are just not subscribed to Clayart!!
Janet Kaiser -- It has been a super day here today... Jacqui as
supposed to collect Sayuri, our Japanese visitor from the train
station, but we are still trying to work out how someone could arrive
two hours before she was due!!? Her tiles for The Path show Atom Boy
and Mt. Fuji, so we reckon he must have whisked her here, because no
one has ever arrived EARLY by train before... We only had contingency
plans for LATE. Anyway, Sayuri brought 15 wonderful tiles and a full
report should appear in our local newspaper next week. We were unable
to entertain Jacqui and Sayuri well, because it was so hectic with an
art class, then a chap who wants us in an upmarket "Guide to Rural
Wales" published by Country Living, one of our glossy magazines
arrived. Also customers(!) and Celia Brown one of our stable of local
potters who walked away from a crushed car last week without a hair
out of place, but "slight whiplash". As a teacher of Tai Chi, we
reckoned it was definitely a case of her highly developed chi saving
her. The customers from Cornwall who said our exhibition was much
better than anything down their way and to top the day, the finial
Marek made for the roof arrived... I must say intact, DESPITE the BIG
"fragile" sticker. Last, but not least, Helen Bates included a link to
our "ceramic gallery page". What a day! What more could a girl ask?
The Chapel of Art / Capel Celfyddyd
Home of The International Potters' Path
8 Marine Crescent : Criccieth : GB-Wales
URL: http://www.the-coa.org.uk
postbox@the-coa.org.uk
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