1 Feb
2016
1 Feb
'16
11:20 a.m.
On Feb 1, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Norman Jaffe <turing
at shaw.ca> wrote:
I've had even more fun with UPS - there was a big hole punched in the side of a tape
library that was shipped to me, completely destroying the library.
The hole matched the fork on a forklift truck.
UPS insisted that the hole existed before they shipped it - until it was pointed out that
the hole was right through their shipping documents.
Yea, they?re response when I was talking to them, was ?Well just have the shipper
send another one?. Yea, right. It?s hard to get them to appreciate that some of this
stuff *is no longer manufactured*. I guess the only other way is to put such a high
value on it (with insurance) that they sit up and take notice if it goes missing.
TTFN - Guy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Sotomayor" <ggs at shiresoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 10:43:40 AM
Subject: Re: USPS: Shipping
On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ken Seefried
<seefriek at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote:
I'd rather strongly suggest you not us the USPS period. In the last 6
months or so they've flat out lost 4 items either destined to or
shipped by me, and one item apparently (according to the tracking web
site) sat in a sorting facility in Utah for nearly a month before
magically showing up. Glad it wasn't perishable.
I?ve had failures with *all* of the major shippers.
UPS tracking is a *joke*. It tells you not where the package is but where
it?s supposed to be. I was tracking an IBM 3278 terminal and it wasn?t
until the tracking said it was ?on the truck for delivery? that they realized
there was a problem. There was not one ?physical? scan of the package
and they had no idea where it was.
TTFN - Guy
On Sun,
Jan 31, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Henk Gooijen <henk.gooijen at hotmail.com> wrote:
Spend the extra few dollars (or what your currency is) and pack it in a
very strong box. I've actually had EPROMs show up cracked in half
Seconded. The machines the USPS uses for automated sorting of mail are not
gentle on parcels.