UPS stole my supercharger !
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http://www.allgov.com/departments/in...?agencyid=7284
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consum.../uspsabout.htm
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/usps
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent branch of the federal government responsible for providing Postal Service in the United States.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consum.../uspsabout.htm
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/usps
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I will say USPS forgets to deliver a package and they'll reschedule it gladly. Had a package show up two days later after it had arrived at the major departing facility headed out for delivery
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USPS doesn't nickel and dime anyone or care what happens or who gets compensation, etc. because it's not a company and they could care less. They lose hundreds of millions of dollars every single year, sometimes billions. They're getting better, but the USPS shouldn't even exist and serves absolutely no purpose IMO. Every tax payer pays for them to exist every year, on top of paying to ship packages.
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From: Carson city Nevada
That sucks! Hope you get it worked out without too much hassle.
I bought a supercharger years ago. I did get it but UPS delivered it to the wrong address. They delivered it to a place I had lived at years earlier. A place where there was a drunk living on the property who was always tinkering with vehicles. When I found out where it had been delivered I rushed over there expecting the drunk guy to have tried to install the thing on one of his lawn tractors or something.
It was in the box, on the steps of my old place.
I bought a supercharger years ago. I did get it but UPS delivered it to the wrong address. They delivered it to a place I had lived at years earlier. A place where there was a drunk living on the property who was always tinkering with vehicles. When I found out where it had been delivered I rushed over there expecting the drunk guy to have tried to install the thing on one of his lawn tractors or something.
It was in the box, on the steps of my old place.
Man you got lucky as heck on that deal!
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Well, my friendly courier delivery guy is great. Goes the extra mile and absolutely loves his job. I really need to give him a huge tip next time. Never had a problem with him or the company but even he has complained about UPS who, after charging me extra for being outside their area, subcontract smaller deliveries through them because I'm out of the UPS area. He didn't blame me a bit when I wanted to open and check the parcel I got via UPS through him.
I usually shop elsewhere when the seller only ships UPS because they have screwed me one way or another almost every time. Unfortunately sometimes it's the only choice unless you count not getting the item I need.
My worst story was a large parcel via UPS that "disappeared" enroute. I had to call several times, talk to at least 3 different people, finally got the thing straightened out when on my 4th (or 5th? ) call over a few weeks (as in a few weeks late) I again got the first person I talked to. She (there are some good people at UPS) recognized my case right away and was very apologetic. She had gone on vacation after my first call and left clear notes on it for the person covering it for her. They slipped up colossally, never followed up or got back to me as she had instructed. She called me back less than an hour later, having tracked it down, and gave me the full details, which her relief should have done weeks earlier. Seems the package was delivered, via the bus company (out of area for direct delivery), but they (the bus company) didn't have a phone number (I know the shipper had it and used it on the UPS original manifest) to let me know it was there (d'uh, my name was on it, small town, I'm listed, one of two possible numbers, no wonder they couldn't figure that one out... ? ).
So it sat at the bus station for all those weeks it was "missing". If UPS had just told me the first time (the followup call back that failed) that they had sub-contracted it to the bus company I'd have had it on time and no stress despite the failure of the locals at the bus station to use a little initiative. At one point UPS had even declared it lost and were pursuing refunding the shipper. For all I know they did, the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing there. So yeah, not a lot of confidence in their setup.
For what it's worth, I have never had a problem with USPS and prefer it for importing stuff from the US. No surprise "brokerage" fees and stupid "remote area" delivery gouging. And it's usually about the same price and time for delivery. It's a shame I can't get everything I want shipped USPS but some suppliers won't use them (have deals with couriers, usually UPS unfortunately) and some packages are too big for them. I understand the issues with the waste of a government (mis)run outfit though, it's the same here with out postal (dis)service.
And yeah, I second that earlier disgust at being blackmailed into "buying" insurance to cover my package that I've contracted and paid to have safely delivered in a timely manner. The "insurance" fees are just a racket and I'd love to sue over it sometime, but there's now way to win a case like that against the government. I've never had an "insured" package go missing or damaged. Several that weren't "insured" though somehow got lost or mangled... "Gee, it's too bad you didn't have it "insured" we would have paid out on it." Yeah, right.
I usually shop elsewhere when the seller only ships UPS because they have screwed me one way or another almost every time. Unfortunately sometimes it's the only choice unless you count not getting the item I need.
My worst story was a large parcel via UPS that "disappeared" enroute. I had to call several times, talk to at least 3 different people, finally got the thing straightened out when on my 4th (or 5th? ) call over a few weeks (as in a few weeks late) I again got the first person I talked to. She (there are some good people at UPS) recognized my case right away and was very apologetic. She had gone on vacation after my first call and left clear notes on it for the person covering it for her. They slipped up colossally, never followed up or got back to me as she had instructed. She called me back less than an hour later, having tracked it down, and gave me the full details, which her relief should have done weeks earlier. Seems the package was delivered, via the bus company (out of area for direct delivery), but they (the bus company) didn't have a phone number (I know the shipper had it and used it on the UPS original manifest) to let me know it was there (d'uh, my name was on it, small town, I'm listed, one of two possible numbers, no wonder they couldn't figure that one out... ? ).
So it sat at the bus station for all those weeks it was "missing". If UPS had just told me the first time (the followup call back that failed) that they had sub-contracted it to the bus company I'd have had it on time and no stress despite the failure of the locals at the bus station to use a little initiative. At one point UPS had even declared it lost and were pursuing refunding the shipper. For all I know they did, the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing there. So yeah, not a lot of confidence in their setup.
For what it's worth, I have never had a problem with USPS and prefer it for importing stuff from the US. No surprise "brokerage" fees and stupid "remote area" delivery gouging. And it's usually about the same price and time for delivery. It's a shame I can't get everything I want shipped USPS but some suppliers won't use them (have deals with couriers, usually UPS unfortunately) and some packages are too big for them. I understand the issues with the waste of a government (mis)run outfit though, it's the same here with out postal (dis)service.
And yeah, I second that earlier disgust at being blackmailed into "buying" insurance to cover my package that I've contracted and paid to have safely delivered in a timely manner. The "insurance" fees are just a racket and I'd love to sue over it sometime, but there's now way to win a case like that against the government. I've never had an "insured" package go missing or damaged. Several that weren't "insured" though somehow got lost or mangled... "Gee, it's too bad you didn't have it "insured" we would have paid out on it." Yeah, right.
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From: Carson city Nevada
To the op.
I would be irate. No excuses for that to happen. They must have a bunch of pot heads or high school drop outs working there.
I've never personally had any major problems with ups. I have however had stuff flat out stolen out of boxes I sent USPS.
You occasional here about postal workers stealing stuff. It does happen!! Sorry for the bs and I hope you get you blower soon. There's a reason we have postal inspectors.
What brand blower if don't mind me asking?
I would be irate. No excuses for that to happen. They must have a bunch of pot heads or high school drop outs working there.
I've never personally had any major problems with ups. I have however had stuff flat out stolen out of boxes I sent USPS.
You occasional here about postal workers stealing stuff. It does happen!! Sorry for the bs and I hope you get you blower soon. There's a reason we have postal inspectors.
What brand blower if don't mind me asking?
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i ship about $1500 per week with ups. they are not my favorite but i do not insure. i basically self insure. (If i add up what insurance would have cost me on all my shipping, it is enough to cover lost or broken items.)
anything over $500, you should insure. but good luck collecting, it will be a slow boat to China.
on the flip side, can you image how many people get stuff, then break it and then claim ups did it. you can pay $15.00 and then expect ups to shoulder $1500 worth of risk? think about it, would you be responsible for $1500, simply to make $15.00?
you might also consider having expensive item delivered to a ups store or a business you know with a shipping department. the guys that deliver to business get to know the people and typically drop stuff of earlier in the day and they know what is yours.
anything over $500, you should insure. but good luck collecting, it will be a slow boat to China.
on the flip side, can you image how many people get stuff, then break it and then claim ups did it. you can pay $15.00 and then expect ups to shoulder $1500 worth of risk? think about it, would you be responsible for $1500, simply to make $15.00?
you might also consider having expensive item delivered to a ups store or a business you know with a shipping department. the guys that deliver to business get to know the people and typically drop stuff of earlier in the day and they know what is yours.
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If you're a regular scheduled customer of UPS, you'll have less trouble with them. (OTHER than insurance claims!) The problem that I had was always with the UPS store or the main UPS shipping center in town. They'd nit-pick over EVERYTHING! But if I took the same package to my buddies store, that had regular UPS pickup, and shipped it from there, there was never any problem. ALSO if you're regular UPS customer they don't nickel and dime you with misc charges. But from what I could see, UPS tries to screw everyone when it comes to poor handling and damaged packages and trying to NOT pay any insurance claim.