I have often wondered why UPS doesn't have a special antique delivery
service. Say a 25.00 charge to handle the box carefully. For you money
they promise not to kick it, throw it on conveyor belts (or at least not
to miss it), stack heavy boxes on it and have the driver not toss it to
the ground! I would pay it. Why can't UPS be more like Fed-Ex, a
slightly better shipper. I really don't think it is possible any more to
package to UPS's "we should not have broken it standard". I do not know
what has happened to that company but they don't seem to care anymore. I
tease my UPS driver that if I need 3/4 minus all I have to do is ship
some big rocks! Can you imagine the revenues from such a charge? Maybe
they make to much money now and just don't care. It's a hell of a note
when the post office is faster and gentler, and maybe cheaper.
Mike oldcranky
BTW Fragile is not a term UPS seems to allow. It is not necessary to
mark the box with "FRAGILE"......You must package it so they can't break
it. Yep that's right, they do not recognize the term.
