A trick (Was: Re: Please help me clean out!)

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Dec 21 12:35:18 1999

At 10:58 AM 12/21/99 -0600, Arfon Gryffydd wrote:
>When something comes available and I need it but the person says "pick-up
>only... No shipping", I offer to send them the boxes, packing material,
>pre-written address lables, a roll of tape and money to cover the cost of
>shipping. Then I offer to have UPS come to them to pick up the items.
>This has always worked for me.
>You might want to note that I found that it costs less to have UPS come and
>pick up the packages from your house/office than to take them to a
>MailBoxes Etc. or other mailing operation.

The magic words are "call tag". This is UPS's term for that sort
of pick-up at someone's house. I believe they intended it for use
in the return of previously-shipped items. They've grumbled about
it once or twice for me when I had to track a package that had
been shipped that way. You don't get the ordinary GroundTrac or
other shipping number for the package, so they're a little harder
to track.

I wish I had a dime for every time someone's posted a message to this
list regarding a rescue or a pile of items in their garage, and they've
neglected to include the location. Then I'd give all the dimes to
the people who claim to have a pile of stuff in their garage
along with a strong desire to see it reach a good home, but with
no desire to find boxes to send the items to people who like to
arrange call tags.

- John
Received on Tue Dec 21 1999 - 12:35:18 GMT