Use FedEx. My company often finds they are cheaper than UPS.
Lyle
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 16:29, Jay West wrote:
I'm boycotting UPS. I walked out of there about
foaming at the mouth.
I went there to ship a vintage cpu, and the gentleman behind the counter
took one look at my box and said "that box is in bad condition", followed
by "At UPS, we don't want to deliver any packages that don't look
good",
and finally "we can't have the box falling apart and it's contents coming
out".
I asked him to please take a closer look at the box I was shipping. True,
the outside had many shipping labels that had been pulled off. But I
explained to him it was a custom made US military shipping carton. The
walls are almost 1/2 thick cardboard with 6 inches of foam form fitting
around the cpu. There were no creases in the cardboard anywhere, and no
sunken surfaces. This box was far sturdier than any box in the place. He
told me my only choice was to take the package to The UPS Store and have
them rebox it.
I think they are just trying to push business to their UPS Store fronts.
This box was extremely sturdy.
So... I'm boycotting UPS and just needed to vent :)
Jay
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"