UPS shipping problems was:Re: Reading old tapes - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 May 2006

At 05:37 PM 5/25/06 +1200, ethan wrote:
...
 On 5/25/06, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
wrote:
  Kevin Handy wrote:

  3. Expect the package to be dropped from the roof
of a building,
   and pack it accordingly. The more expensive the item. the
   taller the building. 
 I think packages are expected to have a 3 foot drop limit as normal.
 PS Watch out for fork-lifts placing nice holes in your package too. 
I've said this here before, but it's in context - I was told by a
friend who worked at UPS that there's a conveyor belt at the central
UPS depot in Columbus that is 3'-4' off the ground and moves at 30 mph
- stuff falls off every day.  
  I've seen the exact same thing happen here at UPS in Orlando. They left
the conveyor running until the packages piled up and JAMMED the conveyor.
In the few minuates that I watched at least a dozen packages were shredded
and/or crushed. The people in the shipping office were less than five feet
...
 from it but no one made an effort to turn it off. In
fact, they had turned it on because the people in the warehouse were on break and
weren't taking
the packages off the conveyor and the packages were piling up in the
shipping office. The problem with UPS is that they expect the shippers to
pack their packages to survive UPS's gross incompetence and mishandling!  I
called their national customer service office that same day and reported
what I'd seen but they couldn't care less.  I finally wised up and started
shipping with FedEX and I NEVER use UPS any more.

      Joe

 He said to pack your stuff as if it were
...
 going to  be flung from a moving car - because it
might.

-ethan