I've always wonder why UPS or any shipper doesn't have a specialty handling charge. How many buy a rare item that needs to be shipped and wouldn't be glad to pay extra? I would. Say it is a small package worth $1500. Shipping and worthless insurance $20.00 I'd pay $50 if you got it to me in one piece, maybe more! Hell it's worth that if they would acknowledge what FRAGILE means and treat it so... On the scale that UPS ships could you imagine the extra money............for doing what they ought to do. Mike Oldcranky
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Steven Medved <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Post Office is wonderful until something goes wrong. I purchased a > reproducer from Peru back in 1994, the clerk said to mail the Postal Money > order Certified so I could trace it. It got lost and I went back and ask > them to trace it a month later. I was informed the could only trace inside > the US. It took me over six months to get a refund on the Postal Money > order, I finally found a lady that told me to call her friend who took care > of cases like mine. > > I sent a reproducer to Oz and the post office mistakenly sent it sea mail > when I paid for air mail. In both cases no refund was offered for their > mistake. > > I recently received cylinder records that arrived broken, after waiting > over thirty minutes a 'supervisor' came out and told me they were not packed > properly and no claim could be honored. > > UPS is worse. > > Fed Ex is the only company that is decent when things go wrong. So far all > the phono items I have shipped Fed Ex have arrived safely. > > > That being said, this just goes to show the sate of the US education > > system since we were blessed with the Department of Education almost 50 > > years ago. Little Johnny and Janie are just plain dumb. They know > > nothing about history. Never even heard about some guy named Thomas > Edison > > > > I just love dealing with government workers at any level. > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
