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Subject: [OM] Re: Boy, that was quick
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:53:35 -0400
My latest delivery via UPS gave not only an expected delivery date 
(which was met), but I could see the tracking progress through every 
transit point.  The discrepency with what you and others have 
expreienced is quite puzzling.

Earl

Winsor Crosby wrote:

>I would say that a quarter of all UPS deliveries I get have a hole  
>big enough to reach inside and feel around. It looks like it is the  
>result of a giant package compactor on every truck.  Valuable things  
>are left on the front porch and things of little worth require a  
>signature. They ring once and sprint away. Their tracking does not  
>work between the sign in scan until the scan for the delivery so you  
>really cannot follow the progress. Recently they seemed even to have  
>dropped the anticipated delivery date. So you have to check each  
>morning to know whether you need to be home that day.  A couple of  
>years ago a telescope and support(two boxes) was scanned in for  
>delivery, but only one box could be found on the truck. The expensive  
>part with the glass was sitting in their facility in Oklahoma, which  
>they discovered after two weeks. They returned it to the telescope  
>dealer instead of delivering it who then called me to tell me they  
>had reshipped. After messing up the first delivery UPS did not  
>upgrade the delivery which you would think they would do. The second  
>shipment took another week.
>
>Thankfully B&H will allow you to choose FedEx.
>
>
>
>Winsor
>Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
>On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Typically, UPS is a problem for me.  They also seem to go out of  
>>their way
>>to damage things.
>>    
>>



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