Depends on how tight your PF is with the cab and it's different on every machine. Examine the black painted sides and see if you see any marks or scratches. Sometimes you'll have a single part (like a PF support post) that sticks out a bit and hits in one spot. You can loosen the part underneath the PF and try to tug it back a bit to avoid this.

Still it might be a nice idea to have some large poster board kept handy to slide in each side so when you lift you won't catch the edge of the decal when let it back down.

I've seen quite a few machines where the interior decals (hate the term "blade" for a sticker) have that semi-torn "lip" on the top edge where the PF caught it going down.

Damn that is bad... my condolences. For my TWD I took a page out of Ice's "lazy man's playbook" and put down a rectangle of clear cling vinyl. It gently sticks and is thick and later if you want to add a Cliffy or something you can just pop it out. It's the "temporary" protection that you'll probably never bother to replace

Did you send the pic to every Stern email you could find?

You may or may not get the fix you want but you have to make the effort if you want *anything*. Posting here won't get a lot done.

Though it does nicely warn potential customers. So we all do appreciate the pic. Even a month afterwards.

Well use a flashlight and check the three edges you can easily see on your ST PF to see if it says "Churchill". Apparently the GB's have no company logo's stamped on the sides of their PF.
That would seem to indicate they no longer come from Churchill. And you would think any other subcontractor would have their name stamped on the edge as that has always been the case in the past.

We'll guess our way through this mystery!

Let's hope that's not some informal grading system Stern has going on...

What did somebody claim they were ALL bad? Obviously that's not true... just an alarming amount of them

After all these pics of ghosting and chipping PF's it's nice to see pics of a "normal" one...