On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Guy Sotomayor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Feb 1, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Norman Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've had even more fun with UPS - there was a big hole punched in the > side of a tape library that was shipped to me, completely destroying the > library. > > The hole matched the fork on a forklift truck. > > UPS insisted that the hole existed before they shipped it - until it was > pointed out that the hole was right through their shipping documents. > > Yea, they’re response when I was talking to them, was “Well just have the > shipper > send another one”. Yea, right. It’s hard to get them to appreciate that > some of this > stuff *is no longer manufactured*. I guess the only other way is to put > such a high > value on it (with insurance) that they sit up and take notice if it goes > missing. > > TTFN - Guy > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Guy Sotomayor" <[email protected]> > > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" < > [email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 10:43:40 AM > > Subject: Re: USPS: Shipping > > > > > >> On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ken Seefried <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote: > >>>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Henk Gooijen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Spend the extra few dollars (or what your currency is) and pack it in > a > >>>> very strong box. I've actually had EPROMs show up cracked in half > >>> > >>> Seconded. The machines the USPS uses for automated sorting of mail are > not > >>> gentle on parcels. > >>> > >> > >> I'd rather strongly suggest you not us the USPS period. In the last 6 > >> months or so they've flat out lost 4 items either destined to or > >> shipped by me, and one item apparently (according to the tracking web > >> site) sat in a sorting facility in Utah for nearly a month before > >> magically showing up. Glad it wasn't perishable. > >> > > > > I’ve had failures with *all* of the major shippers. > > > > UPS tracking is a *joke*. It tells you not where the package is but where > > it’s supposed to be. I was tracking an IBM 3278 terminal and it wasn’t > > until the tracking said it was “on the truck for delivery” that they > realized > > there was a problem. There was not one “physical” scan of the package > > and they had no idea where it was. > > > > TTFN - Guy > > > > > > Useless Parcel Service - there's a reason the trucks are brown. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
