Re: You Can't Spell "Stupid..."

Michael Greb <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:09:57 -0600, Bruce Tomlin wrote
> (in article <bruce#fanboy.net-052AFF.23095728122005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

>> In article <slrndr5hsu.3b7.hellsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <snip>
>> The worst part was that after all this, he broke from policy by trying a
>> fourth day of attempted delivery instead of leaving it at the station
>> where the stupid little post-it notes said it would be. And when a
>> package is out for delivery, it is NOT returning to the station until at
>> least 4PM, and probably more like 5PM or 6PM.

> Most be nice, UPS and FedEx in my city both return to the depot > 1 hour
> after the depot is closed for customer pickup. Our only hope of getting a
> package the next day is to call and request that they hold it at the depot
> rather then sending it out for delivery again (and then hope that they
> actually hold it). As for my wife and I both working from home and both
> being at home all day when a package is out for delivery, and then finding a
> note on the door when we finally venture outside, that's another matter.

When Melody and I got our amateur radio licenses, we ordered a pair of
hand-held 2-meter transceivers. We watched through the UPS tracking
facility as they were sent out on the wrong truck three days in a row.
Finally we called the shipper, had the shipper tell UPS to hold them at
the truck terminal for us to pick up, and drove out to get them. This took
a week, because "It's not something we ordinarily do". It is, however, a
perfectly ordinary thing for UPS to send a package out on a truck that does
not have the package's address as part of its delivery area, three days in
a row.

UPS would have returned the package to the shipper as undeliverable if we
hadn't driven up and got it ourselves. Furrfu!

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