Well, I realize I could've done more. And, when I wrote this, I was pissed off for having wasted 3/4ths of my day with a bad outcome anyway. Padding in the box... gonna happen. Note on the box- I should have done it. And we get a lot of UPS stuff at our office, almost always inside. I thought that turning all the lights on, opening doors and parking in front would let him know the office was open. All he had to do was pull on the door. Adorama packs well, but in this case, one side of the box had no air pillow. But all the padding in the world doesn't change the rate of deceleration. The lens does make a noise like something is slightly moving when I lightly shake it, but I don't know if that is normal , and the lens seems to take pics okay although I have not pixel peeped yet. Adorama (and all others should put "fragile" on all their strapping tape and boxes, although I doubt if the delivery guy cares, or takes the time to read them and be somewhat gentle with packages so labeled.
I guess I am just sensitized because I have received SO MANY technical items (Yamaha PA mixing boards, etc.) where the package had almost disintegrated by the time it arrived. PA speakers where hunks of plywood were missing out of a $2500 JBL cabinet, legs on a steel piano bench bent, etc., etc., etc... I do a good job at work, even when nobody is looking, or it doesn't matter. If you don't want to do the job enough to do it well, do something else.
And they don't make 400 stops in one day. LOL. That's one every 90 seconds.
