List,
Nordstrom switched from UPS to FedEx about four years ago because UPS would
leave packages on the doorstep without getting a signature. The less honest
segment of our society quickly got onto the fact that they could simply pick
up these packages and return the contents for cash ... within minutes ... no
questions asked ... at the nearest Nordstrom store. After the UPS strike
and some other problems FedEx decided that Nordstrom was too much trouble to
service so guess who Nordstrom went back to for their corporate delivery
company? How would you like to work security there, with one hand tied
behind your back and a corporate blindfold over your eyes?
Wes ...happily out of Nordstrom after 18 years
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> From: Don Kerr <dkveuro@pop.flash.net>
> To: "\"LandSpeed\" Louise Ann Noeth"
<lanspeed@west.net>,"land-speed@autox.team.net" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: Airborne Express Delivery Alert
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:35:08 -0500
>
>Ann, Hi, I don't wish to top your post but today when I got back to my
>shop after coffee this morning there was a large express letter (Like
>the US mail uses.) stuffed in the door frame. I opened it to find 2X $50
>notes, and 3 X $100 notes.!!!!!! For those of you without a calculator,
>that's 400 dollars US.
>The package/envolope was marked .."EXTREMELY
>URGENT......PuroletterUltra."
>Dunno who left it there on wot carrier but if this aint stupid I dunno
>wot is !
>The money it contained was from Canada for a BMW transmission I had 4
>sale.
>If I ever find out who the carrier is I'll send 'em a rocket. The thing
>is that now the company/sender can't prove I actually got the
>packet/letter. ..mmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder if I could.......nooooo. that
>wouldn't be honest. See wot I mean ? ......'onest DK...
> Scrap Iron Racin' .
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>"LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth wrote:
>>
>> NOTICE TO SHIPPERS OF VALUABLE DOCUMENTS, PHOTOS AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA.
>>
>> Today I was informed by an Airborne Express District Supervisor in
>> Santa Barbara that any Airborne Express package delivered to a
>> residence will simply be dropped at the doorstep. The driver is
>> instructed NOT to ring the bell, knock on the door, or alert the
>> occupants in any way of the package delivery. This means the package
>> is subject to theft and damage. Photography would be particularly
>> vulnerable is the drop-off is in full sunlight as was the scenario in
>> my case. More than 100 original transparencies were dumped at my
>> front door without so much as a courtesy ring of the bell. Had I not
>> noticed the truck pulling out from my drive, those images would be
>> cooking in the sun even now.
>>
>> The only exception to this policy is if the airbill specifically
>> requires a signature for delivery. However, you may request the
>> package to be shipped with "signature required" but unless the person
>> you are dealing with actually does the shipping, that part of the
>> return process may be altered, just as it was in my case today.
>>
>> This notice is given in the hopes that shippers will think twice about
>> using Airborne Express, or at very least insist that a signature
>> delivery be used when shipping valuable documents, photos or
>> electronic media.
>>
>> Speedy Regards,
>>
>> "LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth
>> LandSpeed Productions
>> Telling stories with words and pictures
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