Hi all,
I have had very good luck with UPS. They have always been as fast or
faster than the UPS and they haven't lost or broken anything in the four
years I've been having car parts delivered by them. I also like their
tracking service, you can see where the stuff goes and when its delivered.
Jim in Palmdale, who's UPS driver honks if he sees me on the road.
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Kerr <dkveuro@pop.flash.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Cc: <IfixMGs@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: CONSPIRACY OR LOST IN SPACE ? Use the Post Office.
> So.....the obvious question is...Why doesn't UPS use the US Postal
> service, and just keep the difference??
> I took them to court once (My lawyer did, UPS that is.) about the
> altered
> money orders they sent back to me for a shipment of $1200.00 to Philly'
> which I'd marked in the label...CASH ONLY. box.
> I said "Hey, wos this, they've bin' altered.?" They said
> "So....How do you know there not any good unless you try to cash them.?"
> "Because it says on the back, 'NOT VALID IF ALTERED' dummy.....!"
> "Well try them through your bank before you tell us they are no
> good"
> So, like a fool I sent them to my bank.....you know the rest.
> In court they said they are not responsible for the packages
> they carry or the type of payment that is used to collect payment!!!!!
> So you ask yourself WHAT THE BLAZES IS THE POINT OF 'UPS' HAVING
> A LOST/STOLEN INVESTIGATION DIVISION..???
> The case was given to them 'cose the judge thought I shoulda
> checked the receiver out better.......Duh.
>
> DK. (really ticked with UPS.)
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> IfixMGs@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Joe,
> > I feel for you. I restore and sell recond parts for Little
British
> > Cars for a living, and rely on UPS/USPS for my parts lifeline. A
disgruntled
> > doc once told me that if he has a package that "Absolutely, positively"
has
> > to be there, such as a heart and lung to go into his own body, he would
> > rather rely on his spiteful and drunken ex-mother in law than the UPS
fort he
> > organ donor delivery . I actually have better luck with the post office
than
> > with UPS because the PO delivers on Saturday and Sunday; UPS doesn't
arrive
> > until 4:30pm which can kill an otherwise perfectly good Monday....
> > My worst experience? I sent a very expensive, freshly smoked
vacuum
> > packed turkey to my parents via the old 2 day UPS for Thanksgiving.
Eighty
> > miles. This was "Pre-tracking/pre overnight" era. It was a no-show.
They
> > agreed to pay me for the insured value. Around Christmas, the package
turned
> > up on my parent's doorstep. The box was crushed and there was a hole in
the
> > vacuum wrapper. How anyone could have stood the smell is beyond me....
> > However, another obviously content employee I know says UPS is
> > on-time 99.99% of the time. They must be somewhere in-between. A
little
> > math lesson, perfesser....
> > UPS ships 300,000,000 packages between Thanksgiving and
Christmas
> > (peak season for getting the hot rod back together....) If 299,997,000
> > packages were delivered on time, then 3000 fell thru the cracks and
didn't
> > make it ON-TIME. That's because they were shipped to desolate places
like
> > Dallas and Chicago and New York City. So, if 99.99% of the remaining
3000
> > eventually make it to their actual destinations, the remaining 3
completely
> > undeliverable, yet plainly addressed and wholly unreplaceable at any
cost,
> > yet somehow uninsured packages get shipped to the UPS's Black Hole
Division
> > which is located in beautiful downtown Bountiful, Utah, just a short
drive
> > from nowhere where they sit until the middle of August.... and are
finally
> > tracked down via www.oops.com...
> > ....on the phone, a dutiful employee:
> > "Hello, UPS Black Hole. Oh, I'm sorry, sir, we only have three
packages
> > here. Oh golly, they ARE yours! Well, gosh, figure the odds.... Oh, I'm
so
> > sorry again, sir, but gosh darn it, we close down this afternoon for
> > Speedweek. We all go down to Salt Lake City and sell Mormon Meteor Tee
Shirts
> > to the tourists. We'd be more than happy to send them right off. The
> > packages, sir, not the Tee Shirts. The shirts are fourteen ninety five,
plus
> > tax and UPS shipping and are high quality one hundred percent cotton.
Oh, I'm
> > sorry. You mean your packages.... Sure. They're headed your way as we
speak.
> > Oh, by the way, since we're out here in no-man's land, shipping time can
be
> > as long as 3 weeks. WE get everything in and out by way of the Post
Office.
> > Takes a day or two less. You should be getting it a couple days after
this
> > Speedweek nonsense is over.... Have a pleasant day, sir...."
> > Mark Childers Union Jack Spares & Repairs Virginia Beach
Virginia
>
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