UPS (the courier) to Test Apple Quality

Got the new MacBook Pro 17". I bought it for my girlfriend, but it's so **** pretty I'll keep it for myself. Forget Her... I think this MBP will be a great chick magnet. HaHa. Seriously, are the Apple designers targeting females? The packaging and the little white things look like makeup containers. (I just came from the macho/masochistic Windows/PC world.)
About UPS and other couriers testing Apple Quality (About my experiences receiving products shipped via Couriers):
When the UPS guy handed the MBP shipment to me, it had a fist-sized hole on the side of the brown box. I swore at the guy, then accepted it. Thankfully, when I opened the brown box, I found the real Apple box suspended within the brown box. Fantastic Idea! Apparently the hole in the box was punched with some quick force because there was a dent on the inner Apple box. I shudder to think how much acceleration the MBP was exposed to. The MBP is working fine so far, but thinking about what it went through during shipping really leaves a bad taste.
I had also received shipment of a Mac Pro a few weeks ago via UPS, and it hadn't fared any better, from the looks of the box.
The Airport Extreme Base Station, received separately, was no good out of the box. It was shipped in a 18"x18" box with no packing material! Have to blame Apple for that one.
My point is, Couriers: Is it a case of "we can't live with them and can't live without them"? I don't suppose there's anything Apple can do to improve the behavior of couriers? ****!

Just had this discussion yesterday with my wife. I've ordered two laptops (a Vaio and the new 17" MBP) in recent months and was not home for either arrival. Both shipped with FedEx. In both cases, my wife stayed home to sign for and safely store what was to have arrived by 10:30. In both cases, FedEx failed to show and miraculously had "truck problems" twice in a row delivering to our house! How perfectly odd, no? In both cases, they asked my wife to take the remainder of her day off from work while they sorted it out - just couldn't be bothered to come up with a delivery time and stick to it. Well, she have them **** this time around and they finally got it to her - but she didn't arrive to work until well after lunch. If she were properly compensated for her time, my MBP would have gotten a lot more affordable (not that it's Apple's fault or place to do the compensating but the problem here is that none of us are ultimately the couriers' clients so what can we get out of them other than dumb looks?).
But then I could go on about a domestic UPS shipment that once wound up in Germany and got stuck in Customs there (and coming back) because it never belonged out of the US and thus didn't have any int'l paperwork to go along with it. And my ability to earn a living was directly coupled to receipt of that package, thus I lost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Yes, oh yes, they all suck dearly. Actually, DHL was fantastic but sadly they didn't survive the crunch here in the US...

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Check the health of the disk. Boot in Recovery Mode (Boot, Command-R). Run Disk Utility. Click on the upper left disk icon. Does the S.M.A.R.T. status say “Verified”? If not the disk/SSD is unhealthy and needs to be replaced. Even if it does not show “Verified” you can still attempt a backup.
Click on the icon indented below, usually called “Macintosh HD” and Verify Disk. If it finishes with a green “OK” message then all is well with the disk. If it shows errors in red then you have found a problem to address once the system is backed up. Do not attempt software repairs until you have secured the data.
If the disk will not show up at all in Disk Utility as your ran the tests above then it may be dead or it may have a bad internal SATA cable. A trip to an Apple store for confirmation would be in order.
If you have an external disk drive you can use as a backup drive then do so. If not Google “Hitachi USB 3.0 external hard drive 1TB” to purchase one or go to a brick-and-mortar store (including an Apple store) to pickup one. Any 1 TB external drive will do.
Assuming it is still breathing you can try to recover the data without booting from the sick disk.
Reformat the external disk. (This will erase all data on the external disk.)
Boot in Recovery Mode. Start Disk Utility. Plug in the new disk. Select it’s disk Icon (the second one down, left justified). Select the Partition tab.
Partition Layout > Single Partition
Name: Emergency Recovery 1 (or whatever name you wish to use)
Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled)
Options… > GUID Partition Table > OK
Apply
Select the Restore tab.
Drag the old system volume (Macintosh HD) to Source.
Drag the new disk volume (Emergency Recovery 1) to Destination.
Click on Restore.
It may take a long time for the backup.
If that will not complete post back for other emergency data recovery methods, including those from a brody.
If the backup succeeds, use the First Aid tab in Disk Utility to select the old volume (Macintosh HD) and Repair Disk. If it does not finish with a green OK message try to repair it once or twice more. If it repairs with a green OK message, will it boot normally? If not, boot from the Recovery Partition and reinstall OS X.
If it is still not healthy, post back for further instructions.

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