Mail Hah! Snail is more like it.
I sent a PRIORITY MAIL package, a wood stool, nicely boxed, bulky but not
heavy, from SLC to the Wilshire Post Office in Los Angeles, 700 miles by
car. Two weeks later I received a panic call from my daughter saying they
had apparently tried to deliver the box that day, there was no one at home
so they took it back to the Wilshire Post Office ( they could have left it
inside the building front door by the four mail boxes). She went to the
Post Office to be told that it was still on the truck and she should come
back the next day. She went back the next day and they couldn't find it. I
called customer service in SLC after visiting the post office where I mailed
the box. The supervisor there called LA, waited until they physically had
the box, called me and I called my daughter. She went down to the Post
Office and they couldn't find the box ... she told them to call the
supervisor in SLC, gave her name, they walked into the back and immediately
returned with the damaged box.
We found at Nordstrom that the best way to ship was either UPS or Fed Ex
depending on where the box was going and whether you wanted to be assured of
delivery on the other end, Fed Ex requires a signature, UPS will just leave
the box.
Wes
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> From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> To: DOUG ODOM <popms@thegrid.net>, TURK KEITH <KTURK@ala.net>
> CC: LAND-SPEED <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: mail
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 06:13:23 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Let me tell you, in the last year I have shipped
>and received a lot of parts by both UPS and US
>Post Office. I WILL NEVER AGAIN USE the MAIL for
>shipping anything I expect to be received in any
>reasonable period of time. UPS may cost a couple
>bucks more, but they are pretty good. I waited
>fifty (50!) days for the post office to deliver a
>coil! UPS never took over five days for anything
>- coast to coast.
>
>Dick J
>
>
>--- DOUG ODOM <popms@thegrid.net> wrote:
>> Keith, Your head did not get here today. But I
>> did get the cam from
>> T.Willy today. He mailed it march 23rd and I
>> got it today april 17th.
>> Three weeks and three days to go 400 miles. I
>> guess the post office is
>> still all screwed up royal. What a joke! I can
>> walk faster than that.
>> Doug where it has stopped raining for a day or
>> so.
>>
>
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>..........Dick J.............
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