2 Feb
2016
2 Feb
'16
10:13 a.m.
On 2016-02-02 12:40 PM, Norman Jaffe wrote:
I was once given a tour of a USPS facility and told to
not make eye contact with the workers, as this was considered a threatening move by
management.
I don't know if it's gotten any better, but it was definitely a weird experience.
https://twitter.com/NizarKrayem/status/560443201173983234
--Toby
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Skoglund (lokal anv?ndare)" <stefan.skoglund at agj.net>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 3:47:48 AM
Subject: Re: USPS: Shipping
m?n 2016-02-01 klockan 22:22 -0600 skrev Tothwolf:
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
HOW BAD is the relationship between the guys/gals on the floor at USPS
and management/congress ?
If people is sabotaging like this.
On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ken Seefried
<seefriek at gmail.com> wrote:
I recently bought a vacuum tube tester and whatever USPS carrier happened
to be on duty scanned it as delivered but it was nowhere to be found.
After calling the USPS and getting the branch manager involved, it
magically appeared the next day. Someone at the USPS had also marked out
the tracking barcode on the label. On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Tothwolf wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote:
>
>> Spend the extra few dollars (or what your currency is) and pack it in
>> 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.
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.