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And they actually thought slapping a "fragile" and a "this side up" stickers on the crate would help. It shows a naivete. It's sort of like the "do not copy"
by starkd 6y ago
And they actually thought slapping a "fragile" and a "this side up" stickers on the crate would help. It shows a naivete. It's sort of like the "do not copy" prohibitions embedded on a set of keys.
- luxuryballs 6y agoYeah I wonder if there is a better build so that it could only sit properly with one side down.
- yreg 6y agoOr at least prevent siting upside down. Add a triangular roof to the top side?
- luxuryballs 6y agoYeah or round it off, or... get a plane ticket, guess if you don’t want a vaccine maybe shipping ourselves will become viable.
- mysterydip 6y agoMaybe having a few smaller suitcases instead of one larger would allow for a sokoban-style rearrangement while inside?
- dhosek 6y agoLuggage has changed a lot since this happened. I can still remember when the now-ubiquitous overhead bin–sized luggage with retractable handles and wheels came out and that was a couple decades after this event. I don't think that would have necessarily been an option. My recollection of my family's luggage when I was a kid was that there were pretty much full-sized suitcases and toiletry cases and nothing really in-between, plus everything was a rigid hards shell.
- hattmall 6y agoBags existed.
- walrus01 6y agothey sell disposable pyramids intended for palletized cargo, the purpose is to prevent people from stacking stuff on top. In a modern cargo movement system if you have something on a standard pallet I think there's a low chance of anyone turning it on its side or upside-down, since that's just making more work for them vs. handling it with forks as intended. https://www.leamancontainer.com/product/no-stack-pallet-cones-8-x-8-x-10-yellow-black-tri-lingual-english-spanish-french-50-case/ https://www.leamancontainer.com/product/no-stack-pallet-cone... https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ccfje7/this_antistacking_pyramid_atop_a_pallet_of_freight/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ccfje7/t...
- kipchak 6y agoWe get pallets that use these that unfortunately come in crushed occasionally, though they do make inspection at the dock a lot easier. Another one that might worth similarly here is a tip-m-tell, which is basically some beads that will stick to adhesive if the package is tipped. https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-866/Damage-Indicators/Tip-N-Tell-Indicators https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-866/Damage-Indicators...
- jniedrauer 6y agoTypically the way to handle this is to use metal bands to affix it to a pallet. It will be very top heavy if stored upside down, and it's easier to just move it with a forklift anyway.
- mc32 6y agoWhen shipping sensitive equipment, you can use these tilt and tip indicators: https://spotsee.io/tilt https://spotsee.io/tilt
- pbourke 6y agoAs an aside, I was interested to see these devices tucked into the waybill pocket on a shipment of vaccines (see photo): https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-expects-to-receive-33-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-this-week/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-expect... I presume that they are continuously logging temperature?
- DonHopkins 6y agoHow about a little computer with an accelerometer and a speech synthesizer, that yells and complains bitterly whenever the box is mishandled or turned upside down, simulating somebody inside?
- mikecoles 6y agoThat might lead to an undesired response. When car alarms were novel, I wanted to make mine speak different phrases. Well, that can cause attention to be brought to the car as people will want to see what else it would say. The same could be said for the box if indicated its displeasure with being handled roughly.
- starkd 6y agoThat might be even worse. Those car alarms were always very irritating as it was. Eventually, you learned to dismiss it. If there's too much variation, it could continue to cause a big distraction with false alarms, and you couldn't learn to tune it out
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoBack in the day when labor was cheap and they didn't have to be stingy it was not uncommon to honor these sorts of things. Nowadays the employee would be yelled at for wasting time.
- TheRealSteel 6y agoIsn't labour cheaper now, since wages haven't kept up with inflation?
- vkou 6y agoLabour is cheaper, but margins are smaller.
- cromka 6y agoI went to ~6 different hardware stores in NYC before I found one in LES that did not bat an eye on the "do not copy". So, I guess, YMMV.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoYeah, back in the day you'd have to go to a crappier store and (over)pay for the new key with cash. Putting a piece of strong tape over the words and having a decent story didn't hurt either. Nowadays you can just use the kiosks in grocery stores though.
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- fencepost 6y agoI think the somewhat better ones use blanks that are in theory only sold to locksmiths (not to your typical hardware store/kiosk), but that's unlikely to matter all that much. These days you can get keys made from a photo or two, or you can just spend some time watching Deviant Ollam's videos and likely have several other options for opening doors. Popping the pins is probably not a great approach for daily use though.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThere are some ones that use mechanical features, rollers usually, that require access to either a good machine shop or OEM blanks.
- eurasiantiger 6y agoOr a bent screwdriver and a spring steel hook