Re: Capacity Upgrade on Demand

[Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx>]

IBM stock has reached a 52 week high.
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On 3/12/2012 1:10 PM, Lindstrom, Scott R. wrote:
> Are there no people involved in this process?
>
> Scott Lindstrom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ingvaldson, Scott
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:41 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Capacity Upgrade on Demand
>
> My understanding is that items shipped by IBM go through a rule based
> assembly line process in which the box size and packing materials are
> (in theory) based on the item being shipped.  In your case Rob, it
> probably classified your COD as some type of card.
>
> Once I was shipped a large box, approximately 2 ft x 2 ft x 4 feet long.
> Inside was another box with packing materials, plastic bags, the
> disposable wrist strap and environmental warnings and so on.  It took me
> several days and a call to IBM to actually figure what was in it.
> Turned out it was the "upgrade" to a 3509 tape drive that our CE had
> performed a couple of weeks earlier.  They had shipped us a small
> sticker to place on the tape drive and the shipping rules had classified
> it as a tape drive.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Ingvaldson
> Senior IBM Support Specialist
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Nelson [mailto:nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 10:22 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Capacity Upgrade on Demand
>
> Good grief.
>
> Paul Nelson
> Office 512-392-2577
> Cell 708-670-6978
> nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 9:44 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Capacity Upgrade on Demand
>
> Got my Capacity Upgrade on Demand code today.
>
> Actual code was printed on one 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper with "PRINTED
> IN CHINA" on it.  To send this to me, however, took three large ziplock
> bags, nine other 8.5x11 inch sheets of paper, one disposable antistatic
> disposable wrist strap and a cardboard box measuring 5"x8.5"x10.5" with