UPS and shipping/packing (was Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 132, Issue 38) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Aug 2014

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:31 PM, <cctalk-request at classiccmp.org> wrote:

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  On Aug 17, 2014, at 3:02 AM, Peter Coghlan
<cctech at beyondthepale.ie>  wrote:

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> I don't like the UPS Store they are spotty. 
 I will never use nor accept UPS shipping again.  This customs brokerage
 scam they run is well known, and has been documented.  Even using my own
 brokerage firm has failed.  Despite full info on the brokerage existing in
 the shipping documentation, UPS insists on telephone voice confirmation, or
 they charge for brokerage.  A ridiculous amount.

 Even after that, after voice confirmation, UPS _twice_ attempted to
 collect silly brokerage fees from me.  I refused, the agent left the
 packages here as I was about to call UPS and bitch, and then the assholes
 actually sent the amounts to a collection agency!

 I explained to the CA that I had already paid the brokerage via another
 agent, and that their client was committing criminal fraud; I then welcomed
 a lawsuit.

 I have not heard a word since.

 It may be that UPS is OK for domestic shipping, but their international
 service is a serious scam.

 And if UPS is listening: yes, you are criminals and scam artists.   Come
 and get me if you dare, truth is always a positive defense against libel
 and slander.

 Ah yes, Useless Partial Service.  All the other carriers deliver to my lab at the
university without a problem.  UPS insists on either delivering to
the school's main office - on main campus, 3/4 mile away - or not
delivering at all, sometimes for days.  Yeah, 3/4 mile isn't far - unless
the package is a case of disk drives.

Is it a Coke/Pepsi-style thing, where the carriers some how lock in their
customers?  I've asked vendors from whom I buy routinely to use FedEx or
even USPS instead of UPS, and some say they won't/can't.  I tell them I
won't/can't put up with UPS' sad excuse for service, so expect less
business from me.  (Sometimes you just don't have a choice.)

Why do you think the trucks are BROWN?  <holding nose> -- Ian

-- 
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington

Madness takes its toll - please have exact change.