Hey! I take exception to that....
Some McDonalds are corporate owned. ;)
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:26 PM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
  On 3/17/2013 3:02 PM, Richard wrote:
  In article <51463B65.6060008 at gmail.com>,
      mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> writes:
  The UPS stores are the worst. [...]
  
 No.
 Ebay sellers who don't put any padding around an item are the worst.
 UPS may not be the *cheapest* but what good is saving a few bucks on
 shipping when the stuff arrives smashed beyond repair.
 
 I had stuff packed at a UPS store arrive in many pieces too. Again UPS
 stores are individual franchises and the quality of any service you get is
 totally dependent on the store and the employee that packs it. UPS doesn't
 run or operate any of them. It's just like going into a McDonalds.  The
 store owners are just paying for the right to use the UPS logo more than
 anything. It may be great at one and garbage at another.
 Besides I don't even understand your point. You would be the shipper and
 you can pack it as well as you like. Are you saying you wouldn't be able to
 pack it safely and so have to take it to a store ? I am not sure what this
 has to to do with getting something from a ebay sale. I've got stuff packed
 great from ebay sellers and then stuff just thrown in a box with no padding
 at all. I mean nothing. Funny enough some of the non-packed stuff has made
 it fine and some of the over packed stuff got destroyed. Sometimes the
 greatest packing in the world won't save it.
 
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Gary G. Sparkes Jr.
KB3HAG