My latest delivery via UPS gave not only an expected delivery date
(which was met), but I could see the tracking progress through every
transit point. The discrepency with what you and others have
expreienced is quite puzzling.
Earl
Winsor Crosby wrote:
>I would say that a quarter of all UPS deliveries I get have a hole
>big enough to reach inside and feel around. It looks like it is the
>result of a giant package compactor on every truck. Valuable things
>are left on the front porch and things of little worth require a
>signature. They ring once and sprint away. Their tracking does not
>work between the sign in scan until the scan for the delivery so you
>really cannot follow the progress. Recently they seemed even to have
>dropped the anticipated delivery date. So you have to check each
>morning to know whether you need to be home that day. A couple of
>years ago a telescope and support(two boxes) was scanned in for
>delivery, but only one box could be found on the truck. The expensive
>part with the glass was sitting in their facility in Oklahoma, which
>they discovered after two weeks. They returned it to the telescope
>dealer instead of delivering it who then called me to tell me they
>had reshipped. After messing up the first delivery UPS did not
>upgrade the delivery which you would think they would do. The second
>shipment took another week.
>
>Thankfully B&H will allow you to choose FedEx.
>
>
>
>Winsor
>Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
>On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>
>
>
>>Typically, UPS is a problem for me. They also seem to go out of
>>their way
>>to damage things.
>>
>>
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