Joe wrote:
> Since everyone is venting their feelings about UPS, I'll throw in my two
> cents worth.
>
> I called UPS today and enquiried about sending a 1/2" thick 8 1/2 x 11"
> manual via UPS and was told it had to packed in a double walled container
> with 2 to 4 inches of padding between the two containers. That's
> ludicrous! UPS is putting the burden to protect the packages on the
> shippers instead of their sloppy workers. The last time I was in the UPS
> shipping center I saw a worker at the customer service counter turn on the
> convyor belt and dump all the packages in the floor because the people in
> the back weren't taking them off fast enough. What's more, no one there
> seemed surprised or made any attempt to turn the conyor off until ALL of
> the packages had fallen off the end and dropped to the floor.
Like i said, UPS has broken more than they've delivered for me. I just sent a
Rainbow 100+ and a Vector 3 to the Anahiem area and USPS did everything right.
It helps on my part having packing experience from 20 yrs worth of moves while
in the AF.
> I have other gripes with UPS besides their poor handling. I live in a
> major city and there is only one UPS shipping center here and between the
> long lines there and the travel time it takes me several hours to ship a
> package with them. It's not worth the hassles or the time to ship a $10
> item that I MIGHT make a $2 profit on. Now I will only ship with UPS as a
> last resort. I have refused to sell several items because the buyer
> insisted on shipping with UPS, since it would have cost me more in time and
> aggrevation than what I would have made on the deal.
In the rural area I live in it's 50 miles to either shipping center. I have to
deal with a router-mailer service that adds a fee. There's 6 post offices
within any direction of my house within 5 miles of it.I do have to say one good
thing for UPS. The driver that does my route helps keep UPS in business.
Besides the fact that I know him from school days, he knows people by name,
knows how they like deliveries made, always goes a little further to get the
item to you and stops me in town if he sees me and knows I have a package. He's
retiring in 5 yrs and I'm probably going to lose interest altogether after
that.
Now that we've all slammed UPS, let's get off on a good note and say that in
the area where I live UPS at least gets the package to you. RPS, FedEx and
others have a habit of calling me and telling me that I have to meet them as
they don't deliver to rural route box addresses. Then I have to tell them to
deliver it or send it back and piss off the shipper who's dumping a ton of
money daily into their company. RPS is that way when I get items from MEI Micro
in Ohio. USPS gets it to me in 4 days, UPS in 2-3 days, FedEx in 5-7 days and
RPS in 2-3 WEEKS, if at all.
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