posted on October 14, 2001 01:12:27 AM
Thanks everyone for a good laugh. This was worth reading and the tears from laughing so hard are rolling down my face. For all it's worth. I still call it a clip board. It's hard to change when you have had clip boards for so long.....
posted on October 14, 2001 06:23:37 PM
My final words for this thread and this AuctionWatch Forum. My late father was a mail carrier all his working life - my son is a UPS driver.
I resent comments such as 'incompetent oaf', 'donkey', 'jackass', 'dumbass', 'moron',and 'idiot' used to describe people who have these jobs as well as reading the depraved comment about piss in their boots. Those comments sting.
posted on October 14, 2001 06:49:14 PM
Kyriaki, no one has called your father or your son any of those names, and I think one would have to admit that the UPS/USPS people making the mistakes in this thread have some learning to do, to put it mildly.
I beleive, as someone stated earlier, that the bell curve of inteligence also applies to UPS/USPS workers. There are excellent, there are average and there are pi$$ poor in that field, as well as most any demographic slice of humanity. Discussing the major screw-ups of SOME UPS workers is just something to give us a laugh.
posted on October 14, 2001 09:56:57 PM
Is it possible that somewhere on that box is an address label or a printed address and that is where they keep sending it?
About 4 months ago I sent a check via UPS. They lost it. I sent a replacement check. They lost that, too. My supplier sent a fed-ex envelope for the third check .... that arrived just fine
posted on October 14, 2001 10:52:37 PM
Now I am sure this thread wasn't a personal vendata against anyone in particular. I worked in the Medical profession for many years and guess what, they have those kind of people in that field also. But today we are talking about incidents related to UPS & USPS because that is one of the main professions that we deal with here on ebay. I am sure there are sellers and buyers that fit into that catagory also. So don't take it to heart we are discussing generalities not people.
posted on October 15, 2001 10:37:41 AM
A couple of weeks ago, a friend left her laptop at our house and we had to ship it to her. I chose UPS because I almost always get one-day delivery to my friend's location. My husband found a great, sturdy box that would hold the laptop & case and plenty of packing peanuts. I hand-delivered it to the UPS customer window, insured it, and got the tracking thingie stuck on the front.
Two days later, my husband gets a call from a stereo component company in Los Angeles, politely inquiring as to why he sent them a laptop computer (plus a pair of ladies' slacks and a bra and panties--the rest of the contents of the computer tote bag).
The only reason we even got this call was because my friend had my husband's business card in the case and it was the only place where a phone number was printed and accessible to the recipient.
The address label was intact, and I had blacked out every barcode and all the writing on the box.
This company was kind enough to resend the package and it arrived safe and sound the next day. My friend examined the box carefully and could find nothing legible on it except my clearly-printed address label.
The only thing we could figure out was that the box had some sort of chip embedded in it, that was somehow scanned when they scanned the address label. The box had come from the communal dumpster at my husband's office, in the same complex as a high-end audio component store is located.
posted on October 15, 2001 07:17:07 PM new
MY PET PEEVE too.
Crated a 20 HP outboard to ship to Texas.
Did a nice crating job and since it was going COD I did no bother weighing as the sales documents stated '120 lbs'
I made out the waybill for 145 to compensate crating.
Left the crate at a friends place of busness for pickup.
Driver took one look at it and said "too heavy" and left.
So I went back and weighed it, sure enough it was even under eg 137#, So I called UPS back.
The driver returned and this time said "Bad packaging, will never make it" and refused to pick up.
I got real PO'd and drove it all the way down to the UPS terminal where the gave it a close examination and passed my crating eith flying colors.
As an apology the offered me a free upgrade, which I accepted. (to a 2 day air service)
Naturally the shipment stayed in the W/S for some 3 days.
Now when it arrived In Texas they hit the buyer with a whopping charge (2 day air rather than surface , remember this was to be a free upgrade!) as well as other fees.
All in all I lost about 8 hours of my time and over 50 miles of driving around plus lots of frustration.
The driver was just plain too lazy to pick it up and then looked for excuses to cover up.
To add insult to injury this transaction earned me my only 'negative fb' to date.
Only satisfaction was that I filed a formal complaint against the driver.
posted on October 17, 2001 06:28:06 PM new
kidsfeet-
Does your package qualify for frequent flier miles? If so, its got at least an upgrade to first class, if not a free ticket. At this rate, you can use the free ticket and hand deliver the box.
rca001
posted on October 22, 2001 07:41:31 PM new
Well, the package made it back to CO on Sat. the 20th.
The search for the package was frantic today, in the UPS distribution center.
It was successful.
It was DELIVERED to my customer this afternoon, the 22nd. Just in time for her daughter's birthday party tomorrow night, and exactly 42 days after it was initially shipped.
She even left me pos feedback!! And, I have not yet gotten an explanation from UPS as to WHY this occurred.
[ edited by kidsfeet on Oct 22, 2001 07:43 PM ]
posted on October 23, 2001 10:08:56 AM new
We just had a package going from Wisconsin to New York - it got as far as New Jersey, before somehow being resorted, sent to Washington state, then to Portland, then back to New Jersey (we can helplessly watch all the hideous details by checking the tracking number all the time!) now it's listed as a "rescheduled" estimated time of delivery today - we're keeping our fingers crossed, it doesn't seem like it could happen over and over, but it's so hard to get any help or file the insurance claims, so it might! We're waiting for a call from UPS now on a claim they told us was started last week - they went and picked up the package, but never did anything else, so now they have a (broken) nice old collectible, and we have a customer who's wondering what's going on!
posted on October 24, 2001 02:15:04 AM new
Effective this month the USPS went through a major employment reassignment.
Anyone who has worked less than 10 yrs got reassigned to any post office with 100 miles of their residence. Notice a change in the staff at the counters yet? Many clerks were demoted to part-time and other longer employed personnel have received the clerk job - even though they do not have any knowledge on how to do it. That means some mail sorter or truck loader is now a counter person.
Today the Postal employee in Training tried to charge me $9.60 for sending 2 bubblemailers parcel post. The normal postage with insurance on one of my small packets is between $2.40-$2.90. I watched with an open mouth as he failed to stamp my package insured and taped my green insurance ticket to the package, and totaled me out @ $ 9.60 and the clerk supervising him didn't catch on until I spoke up. He never asked me if I wanted Priority Mail.
All this to avoid raising the rates another penny. (At least that was what I was told)
