Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Don’t use UPS – and don’t ship Starbucks except on your own



Why? br /br /A friend sent me a package — Starbucks. The driver Tuesday, new to the route, never showed at my apartment. My friend e-mails, and when I say, “no show,” she calls the UPS 1-800 tracking number, gives them my cell, and is told they will call me.br /br /Nope; never happens. br /br /Today? Dallas office calls after I call 1-800 number. A person there said if I left a note with my signature, the packagetracking number, and the note saying “leave package at door, I accept liability,” the driver would leave it. Well, the driver DIDN’T leave it. Just left standard UPS note.br /br /I call 1-800, raise hell. UPS delivery manager said to sign the back of UPS note to same end as my original note, and the driver will leave the package. We’ll see.br /br /But, wait, that’s not all!br /br /My friend said Starbucks never sent her the promised tracking number at time of shipping. An agent said she’s resend, but never did, so she had to look up the order herself.br /br /Moral? Ship stuff yourself, rather than via third-party company shipping.br /br /And, be a good laborite, as well. Use the U.S. Postal Service instead of FedEx.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-1929242136978533113?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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