Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-24 Thread Gonz
Hahahahahaha, that is so nuts!!! On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:41 AM, William Robb wrote: > I ordered some stuff from Lee Valley Tools to support my other hobby. > Working on the theory that I am never home when UPS wants to deliver, and I > don’t really want a bunch

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-19 Thread P. J. Alling
I think they delivere it if, they have a truck going close to the location so that it could work that delivery into their route. They do whatever will cost less, and they have completely computerized their delivery routes to maximize efficiency.  I think the USPS charges other package delivery

Re: UPS Stupidy - USPS just as Bad

2017-10-19 Thread J.C. O'Connell
Last week I sent an insured priorty mail parcel from ft. lauderdale to miami, FL. This was on a friday with expected delivery date of saturday. As of today, six days later, its still not delivered, and expected delivery date is "delayed"? ive never had such bad service from USPS before and

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-19 Thread Bob W-PDML
I've been enjoying the full customer failed-delivery journey experience with a couple of carriers over the last two weeks. With one of them today I logged a query on their system. In response I received three emails over the space of an hour to tell me they'd logged my case. Each of the

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-19 Thread John
Well, FWIW, my experience is USPS is they still do allow their carriers the leeway to use some common sense ... at least here in Raleigh. And I've noticed lately that for some smaller packages (books, T-shirts & small repair parts) UPS & FedEx are both handing off to USPS for the last mile;

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Actually, that's not quite correct. Both UPS and FedEx have introduced the lower-cost option when the "last-mile" delivery (more exactly, within your city/region) is done by the USPS. It is called "UPS Mail Innovations" and "FedEx SmartPost", respectively. http://www.upsmailinnovations.com/

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread P. J. Alling
Actually UPS uses the USPS for final delivery for small items so even if UPS is your carrier, you don't know who's ultimately responsible for final delivery... This is especially problematic if you expect UPS since if you have a P. O. Box and no mail receptacle at your physical address USPS

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread P. J. Alling
The USPS used to allow, informally, a lot of leeway to their employees, at least in smaller towns.  Now all rules must be followed good bad or indifferent.  This leads to scenarios where the locals who know their customers have to do things that are antithetical to good customer relations, and

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread Stanley Halpin
> On Oct 18, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > William Robb wrote: > >> I ordered some stuff from Lee Valley Tools to support my other hobby. >> Working on the theory that I am never home when UPS wants to deliver, and I >> don’t really want a bunch of

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Amazon uses only UPS and USPS, and it seems unpredictable which one they'd use in each case. So, you don't order from Amazon? Igor Mark Roberts Wed, 18 Oct 2017 05:50:46 -0700 wrote: I'll always pay a little extra to get my stuff delivered by any service other than UPS. They're the worst

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread Mark Roberts
William Robb wrote: >I ordered some stuff from Lee Valley Tools to support my other hobby. >Working on the theory that I am never home when UPS wants to deliver, and I >don’t really want a bunch of expensive tools sitting in a box on my back >landing, I changed the delivery to pick up at one of

UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread Igor PDML-StR
UPS, FedEx, USPS, and I assume, Canada Post, - all they are large machines that are designed to work well on average for the planned scenarios. And humans (employees) are not given much freedom to think and make decisions. Any disturbances that break those scenarios can lead to unpredictable

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread Alan C
Sounds more like Africa. Alan C -Original Message- From: William Robb Sent: 18 October, 2017 7:41 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: UPS Stupidy I ordered some stuff from Lee Valley Tools to support my other hobby. Working on the theory that I am never home when UPS wants

Re: UPS Stupidy

2017-10-18 Thread mike wilson
> On 18 October 2017 at 06:41 William Robb wrote: > > > I ordered some stuff from Lee Valley Tools to support my other hobby. > Working on the theory that I am never home when UPS wants to deliver, and I > don’t really want a bunch of expensive tools sitting in a

UPS Stupidy

2017-10-17 Thread William Robb
I ordered some stuff from Lee Valley Tools to support my other hobby. Working on the theory that I am never home when UPS wants to deliver, and I don’t really want a bunch of expensive tools sitting in a box on my back landing, I changed the delivery to pick up at one of their outlets that is