• TWeaK@lemmy.today
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    The joke is that this is the best representation of a Fourier transform you’re ever likely to see.

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      Not only that, it’s its own inverse (besides some constants), so you just need to apply the same transform again to get back the original.

      I don’t remember which one it is though, so it could be either. Odds are 50/50, right? So all you have to do is mail yourself the very expensive item that got superficially damaged in transit, and there’s a 50% chance you’ll get it back good as new!

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    I had a vendor ship me a hard screen protector for a phone in a plastic bag envelope. It arrive shattered because it had zero stiff packing around it.

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      UPS in my area offers the service of adding ventilation holes to any packages that I receive. Once, the product even fell out, and I received an empty mailing tube. Good times.

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        sometimes it’s not even ups’s fault.

        we once received a plain sheet of packing paper, about twice the size of an a4/letter sheet, with a shipping label affixed to it.

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        UPS or the UPS store? Also there are some morons that do not know how to pack a box, like some Amazon employees or other shippers. There are also some that do not care if their product even makes it to the destination. I saw someone horribly seran wrap a tote box, those 12 parcels were held together by dreams.

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          There are also some that do not care if their product even makes it to the destination.

          I started buying 50 lb. bags of bread flour from Amazon during COVID. One of the bags was reported as delivered although it never showed up at my house. I went through the claim process and eventually got a new bag for free. Two fucking years later the original bag showed up at my house, with packing tape crudely placed over a couple of large holes. The flour was filled with mouse turds. I wonder what godforsaken corner of an Amazon warehouse that thing was sitting in for so long.