Complete Shipping Failure

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

Yes, shipping problems happen (ask team #4!) and need to be dealt with, but with over 1,000 teams and 30 events, perhaps we should recognize them for the rare occurance that they are.

And I suppose we should give credit to Firestone tires for blowing out and killing only a couple dozen people out of millions that drove on them? Saying that screwups are okay as long as they are doing things right more than they are doing things wrong is not a logic I like to live by.

[John Gutmann]

I think the bigger problem is not us saying 1 team's crate got damaged. but it is to make FedEx or and the dryage companies More aware, because 1 robot out of every team in FIRST is a big deal. but with all the shipping FedEx does for FIRST they see it on a small scale. If there are at least 1000 teams attending regionals that means shipping 2000 things right there. (to regional and back to the school) So if one robot gets damaged out of the 2000+ to FedEx they are doing good with only damaging .05% of the good they shipped for FIRST. What FIRST should do is try to make FedEx more aware of the robots and crates or have somebody that does this professionally provide plans for a solid crate with padding and the whole works. This way your robot may be protected by more then 3/8" or 1/2" of chip board or plywood. Because that will be no contest for a forklift. I think we all know that when it is crate vs. forklift the forklift always wins. period.

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

And I suppose we should give credit to Firestone tires for blowing out and killing only a couple dozen people out of millions that drove on them? Saying that screwups are okay as long as they are doing things right more than they are doing things wrong is not a logic I like to live by.

I believe that he is saying that since shipping occurrences like with team #4 happen so rarely that we need to make sure that problems that happen like that are known with FIRST. He isn't saying lets have a party on Friday night too in Atlanta because we only had one shipping problem.

[Ricky Q.]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

I believe that he is saying that since shipping occurrences like with team #4 happen so rarely that we need to make sure that problems that happen like that are known with FIRST. He isn't saying lets have a party on Friday night too in Atlanta because we only had one shipping problem.

Yes, and #4's problem was more of a customs problem than a shipping problem.