Date:         Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:48:48 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Come on, UPS shipping nightmares?
Comments: To: Rubatoguy@MINDSPRING.COM
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I watched the UPS driver load a Gateway computer onto his two wheeler.
There were three big cow pattern cartons and he spilled the stack three
times in fifty feet while pushing the 2 wheeler across the lawn (instead
of the driveway).
He left the whole stack on the neighbors porch without a signature.
Darn! I missed out on a free computer system.

Stan

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:04:29 -0800 Todd Last <Rubatoguy@MINDSPRING.COM>
writes:
> Where I live, UPS will not leave *any* package unless it is signed
> for in
> person. No exceptions.
> The UPS rep told me that was due to them having an unacceptably
> high
> loss/damage rate in my area.  Looks like UPS figures that must be
> due to
> the customers - not their workers.
>
> Todd
> '88 Westy
>
> Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>
> > ><< Ben Tan was telling me he had no time for such stories and
> was
> > >going to send me the CLK wheels via these good folk. He was
> > >horrified, on arriving at the local UPS depot, to see a driver
> > >THROWING PARCELS 15
> > >FEET into the truck. So there. Tell Ben it's bullshit.>>
> > >
> > >I actually said I have never had that experience with them until
> > >then. Good thing I wrapped tose suckers well. When I voiced my
> > >concern with the UPS counterperson, she told me that they EXPECT
> the
> > >packages to be able to take a certain amount of "handling". She
> > >further amazed me when she carelessly flopped Andrews alloy onto
> the
> > >pavement on the vulnerable side right in front on my face. Then
> she
> > >felt compelled to say "Oh, don't worry they SHOULD be able to
> handle
> > >THAT."
> > >
> > >They also broke a portable fridge to a listee in Chicago.
> Needless
> > >to say, I have not used them since.
> > >
> > >BenT
> >
> > Oi, you didn't tell me she'd dropped one!
> > Most surprisingly they arrived seemingly undamaged. Haven't
> checked
> > them for straightness though!
>
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