Update
“Sorry. Your package will arrive tomorrow when you’re not there.”
UPS sucks.
:shrug:
The UPS guy who delivers to my house always leaves the package if I’m not home. He even goes through the trouble of taking it around to my back porch so it doesn’t tempt any passers-by.
Although some are under the impression that Priority Mail cannot be left, the postman also leaves all my Prioity Mail packages as well.
I less often receive anything from FexEx, but as the others do, they just leave whatever it is on my step. (Much to the chagrin of my husband, who opened the envelope that was lying on the mat in front of God and everyone to find his Giants season tickets, worth approximately $3000.)
As a small business I use USPS Priority Mail because supplies are free, speed is good, and the postman picks up my outgoing packages with a smile at no extra charge. Hooray!
voguevixen: Having the guy leave the package is an option, but in my neighbourhood it’s not an option. I mean, would you really like to have a Rolex or a blackpowder revolver or some camera equipment sitting outside in Los Angeles for (usually) several hours? For those things I specify that I want signature verification. It protects the sender and me.
Had I known that this latest package would be shipped UPS, I would not have placed the order.
FWIW, I have had excellent service from USPS, although the post office closes at 17:30. But I can almost always get there in time if I leave work a little early, and I can always pick up on Saturday. Priority Mail is great. I’ve also had excellent service from FedEx. Their office is only a mile away and they stay open until 19:00 and they’re there on Saturdays. UPS, as I have mentioned, is in a crappy neighbourhood in downtown L.A., closes at 18:00, and is not open Saturdays.
Sorry I’m dominating this thread, but I’m frustrated by the shipper for using UPS and with UPS for being so difficult to deal with.
FedEx and UPS are merging, you know.
They’re gonna call the new company…
[sorry]
FedUp.
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I think the FedEx logo is really good. Simple, recognizeable anywhere, and has that cool little arrow created by the whitespace between the E and the X. Also better uniforms.
I really don’t send stuff much, but recently bought a bicycle frame on Ebay, and intended on having it FedExed (notice that FedEx is more easily verbed than UPS) due to bad things I’ve heard about UPS’s handling of bicycles.
And as I recall from college hockey games against a certain Rhode Island school, Brown is the color of dogshit.
(short version of this story)
About a year ago, my school (Middle TN State) expressed an interest in becoming “friends” with FedEx, since we have a large Aerospace program and we are both Tennessee based. We said we would appreciate anything they could do for us.
They gave us a fully-airworthy Boeing 727, and paid to have it delivered to our airport campus.
They have my business, and I make it a point to tell my friends.
Or they could do like they did with my friend’s digital camera and left it outside, in the dirt. (“Hey, dirt is brown, I’ll leave it here!”) Thankfully, the moderately shady kids that live next door didn’t feel particularly active, or at least not criminally so, that day.
Okay, I officially want to be friends with FedEx too! :eek:
Once When I ordered something from atari before it went out of business and just became a brand name
It was a atari lynx and about 8 games It was about 200 bucks of stuff , they left on my door step …
Now they hid under the bushes but if i hadnt been looking for it and seen the ups truck it might have been there for days …
Well, if they had come up to the 10th floor (as stated on the address label) where I was for three minutes after the delivery attempt, instead of giving up when the person on the 9th floor mail room apparently stepped out for a moment… :rolleyes:
I suppose they could have called me to let me know the package was on its way. They have my number and know I’m upset by their monkey-motions.
Of course I’m not in the office today. I told them that. If, for some reason, they’re unable to deliver the package to the mail room today, then that will be the third attempt and I’ll have to start all over again.
They should use this motto: “We’re UPS. We don’t try at all.”
Well, Halelujah and Jubilee. Guess who just showed up?
They should have delivered my package to my office, but they showed up here at home. (I took the day off for some apartment-related stuff.) But their address error turned out okay in this case. Good thing I was on the cell phone and not the landline, and that I wasn’t online! I finally have my Hamilton Ventura watch like Elvis Pressley wore in 1961’s Blue Hawaii and the Men in Black wore in Men in Black. It’s an updated version of the very first electric watch. (The originals were notoriously trouble-prone, but this one has a modern quartz movement and a nifty strap to boot.)
The irony is that the watch was in a Priority Mail envelope that was inside of a Priority Mail box (that had been folded inside-out). If only they had shipped by Priority Mail! It would only have taken one day instead of nine!
Thus ends the latest saga. In the future I’ll take more care to ensure the shippers do not use UPS for my orders.
Oh, and about that 727. I’d like an airplane too, please. 