With the man coming to look at the possessions that were damaged as a result of Burke Bros negligent packing I figured this would be a good time to start looking at some of the things that were damaged. It’s going to be a quick look today as I’m working on something else and have to go out tonight as well, so time is short!
What you can see in the picture is the bottom part of a 5 drawer high storage unit. These things aren’t particularly expensive, but the still cost about $45-$60 to replace, and lets face it this would have still been intact if it had been packed properly. And besides, why should we pay when we already paid Burke Bros to do a professional packing job!
The whole unit (containing all my wife’s card making stuff, and quite heavy) was picked up and dumped into a cardboard box. Burke Bros never gave any consideration to the fact that the wheels on these things are not the strongest and would probably break when dropped in the cardboard box. And even if they didn’t break straight away it was inevitable that they were going to break by the time that box was moved around a few times.
This was typical of the ‘couldn’t care less’ attitude that was shown to our possessions by Burke Bros.
More tomorrow…