8 Apr
1998
8 Apr
'98
10:55 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
To others that are reading this I want to say that
USPS has never broken
or lost an item I've sent but twice now UPS in various metro areas has
dropped them and irregardless of the packing involved has managed to
ruin them and took FOREVER to settle. You might even read the
contract/shipping reciept as many UPS items go through a handling
service that routes items to UPS and charges a hefty fee on top of that.
If you read their fine print you'll see that certain ones do not insure
items such as monitors, computers, etc even though they show a certain
amount of insurance whether the automatic $100 or you pay for
additional.
I don't know this to be correct. If you pay for shipping insurance with
UPS and as long as you declared what was truly in the package, UPS will
pay for the damage. My company has made at least 3 claims on computers
that were virtually destroyed in transit even though they were packaged
well. UPS did eventually pay all three claims. Yes it did take a while,
but they did honor the insurance. If they didn't, it would be called
fraud.
transaction are surely the few that make the others
look bad. I
personally stay away from Ebay and other auctions due to the fact that
many items are so wanted by people that they get stupid sometimes and
offer way over what an item should cost in any condition because they
think they're going to get a "last of a dying machine" for their
collection.
This is exactly why I don't buy through Ebay anymore. And more
importantly, anything I used to buy on Ebay, with the high bid price
pushed up by fools, not to mention the shipping costs, I'd find locally a
week later for a tenth of the cost of what I paid on Ebay.
Well that was my opinion...they say that
"opinions are like assholes,
everyone has one and they usually stink" (excuse the profanity but it
makes the whole thing work better - in my opinion)
Words are pure. The only thing "profane" about words is how they are
interpreted by the hearer. ;)
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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