My KXPA100 order hit on a day when it was raining fairly heavily. The UPS driver clearly thought we wouldn't be home for some reason -- perhaps too cynical? I don't know -- so he didn't bother to carry it the 14 lb box to the house. Maybe he didn't want to have to carry it back to the van in the rain? An interesting speculation, except for one small detail.
I was home. So was my partner. We were sitting 6 feet from the door, and if the driver had even set foot on the porch, we would have noticed him because we were sitting by a window onto the porch. Instead, he brought a small Amazon package to the porch, to which he affixed the "sorry, we missed you" tag, and tossed them onto the porch and ran back to his van. In earlier times, they simply would have brought the package back the next day, but not these days. He took the package to a pickup spot, a UPS store about 5 miles from my house, and I had to pick it up the next day, in person, with my ID so I could sign for it. The sheer laziness of this event stunned me. He just didn't seem to want to carry the box to the door in the rain, and was willing to inconvenience the recipient of an expensive package just to avoid a couple minutes' work. I don't have this trouble with FedEx, though I sometimes have problems with Amazon drivers who claim not only that they delivered my package, but put it directly into my hands, when I didn't even receive it until 2 days later. They simply lie to avoid doing their jobs. It's the only thing I can think of to explain it. It doesn't do any good to complain. I raised the roof at UPS, and it had zero effect. The woman on the phone told me she'd have the package brought back to my door. Instead, it went to the pickup spot and I had to get my disabled butt to their store to pick it up. Very frustrating! On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:14 PM Bob <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I'll confess to being in the USPS supporter camp. I've had great > service > from them. My KPA1500 even came Priority Mail. > > I use the addressing scheme below too. > > I have a POB and another great free PO service is Informed delivery. > Every > morning I get an email with pictures of mail for the day. From it I can > make a > decision if I want to or need to go to the PO that day. Here: > > https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action > > Not a well known PO service. > > 73, > Bob > K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) & K2TKR > > > On 9/25/2018 8:48 PM, JOE wrote: > > On 9/25/2018 8:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Message: 6 > >> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:36:59 -0400 > >> From: Grant Youngman<[email protected]> > >> To: Elecraft Reflector Reflector<[email protected]> > >> Subject: [Elecraft] Shipping high value items by UPS > >> > >> The thread started by the gentleman who thought his KX2 might be dead > and > >> needed to go to Elecraft motivated me to make this comment about > shipping. > > > > I shipped my K3 back to Elecraft earlier this year via UPS and $2,500 > > insurance. I use a local hardware store in my town that has UPS service > at the > > normal rates. They said they use a company that contracts with UPS for > > shipping. The company that provides the UPS service to the hardware > store > > requires inspection of high value packages, reportedly due to some fraud > cases > > in the past. Because they know me well they took my word that I double > boxed it > > and packed it well, I didn't have to unpack it. I had shipped many > things with > > them in the past with no problems. > > > > For the return address, I use my local post office where I have a PO > box. It's > > a little known fact that the USPS will accept packages for PO box > holders from > > any private carrier, UPS, FedEx, etc. They will also sign for some > packages > > requiring signature if you have a signature on file. This solves my > problem of > > packages left on my doorstep for people to potentially steal. This also > solves > > the problem of people/businesses that will not ship to a PO box. > > > > This is how I address packages to be mailed to me. > > > > My Name > > 34 Main Street #(my PO box number) > > East Haddam, CT 06423 > > > > A really nice feature of the post office. Look at: > > > > <https://www.usps.com/manage/po-boxes.htm> > > > > 73, Joe, K1ike > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] -- -+-+-+-+- Jenny Everywhere's Infinite: Quark Time http://quarktime.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
