{"id":1634,"date":"2010-04-11T10:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T00:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2010-04-11T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T01:01:29","slug":"saturday-morning-equipment-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Saturday morning equipment abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1636\" vspace=\"6\" hspace=\"6\" title=\"badpack1\" src=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/badpack1.jpg\" alt=\"A wobbly palette of hifi gear\" width=\"400\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/badpack1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/badpack1-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>TNT carriers seem to be a bit short staffed at the moment. Half an order for some review products failed to arrive with the other half, and another full order simply hadn&#8217;t arrived as this last week drew to a close.<\/p>\n<p>But I was woken on Saturday morning by a TNT courier who was making a rare weekend delivery with, it turned out, all the stuff that had been missing.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment distributors go to a lot of trouble to take care of their products. I do likewise (once I had to defend myself against the accusation that I must not have reviewed a particular TV because the next reviewer thought it was factory packed. I pointed out that if so, why was it tuned in to Canberra TV stations?)<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t always the way with couriers though.<\/p>\n<p>What you see to the right is what was delivered: $22,000 worth of high quality equipment precariously balanced on each other, bits poking out, cartons crushed from directions for which weren&#8217;t designed to withstand stresses.<\/p>\n<p>So far everything seems to work. Thankfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TNT carriers seem to be a bit short staffed at the moment. Half an order for some review products failed to arrive with the other half, and another full order simply hadn&#8217;t arrived as this last week drew to a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,15,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}