UPS, OMG!!! (Rant.)

I been doing a silent prayer to the UPS gods. I have some help coming on Sunday to put up an HF antenna in my back yard. I needed a longer coax assembly to go from the balun to the building I am going to use as a radio room and ordered the cable yesterday. UPS says 2 days from the origin to my location for standard ground. They also will not guarantee their services, meaning even next day air may be late, claiming the virus. If I am lucky it will show up when promised.

Last night my wife ordered a carpet cleaner. You can't rent them and we want to clean some areas where the cat has puked and left stains. The order said we could have it delivered on Saturday or pick up at a local store on Saturday. I said, go for in store pickup. It is much more likely to make it to the store by Saturday than it would be to make it to the house. Still not holding my breath.
 
UPS leaves my and neighbors packages up and down the street. Rarely at the correct house. My neighbor just retired from UPS and I hand him packages at least once a month. Fedex does much better and if I am in the office I give them cold drinks to take.

USPS is horrible. I sent birthday gift to Kansas four days prior to the date. That July 22nd. It arrived August 15th. I didn’t track where it went and if it arrived then got a thank you on arrival date. Never had one actually arrive that took that long. Pony Express in the 1800s did better than that.
 
Another job well done by UPS. Again, contents were undamaged but DAY-YUM!:

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When I get to choose, I will absolutely not choose UPS.
 
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Coltdefender1911 said:
I herd somewhere UPS is stealing shit left right and center. I’ve had several packages go “missing” in the past 7-10 days.
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Nothing like USPS who once stole 1200 in silver dollars out of an insured package for me, and then refused to pay on 600 dollars of it.
 
Millie said:
That is NOT nice, man! lol.

At least now if one does show up on my poor old car, I know who to send my "friends with certain skill-sets" to visit, right?:)
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Well...I suppose I COULD have a 600 pound pull rare earth magnet shipped to the hood of your car instead...

:D:D:D
 
And yet again.....dang! LOL.
I had a package delivered today. It was left on the wet ramp, halfway up. The box was clearly marked "Facial Tissues" on all sides.

I can tell it was left after the ramp was rained on because there was no dry space under the box, like there was under the car. Wow.
Luckily only 2 of the little boxes inside the big box had a tiny corner that got wet.

I'm going to have to build a little "roof" next to the ramp for them to put my stuff under I guess, since they can't walk the extra few steps up the ramp to get packages onto the covered back porch. I hope my DIY skills can do a little cover for my packages, even though I can't reassemble my gun....:rolleyes:
 
Armed4defense said:
I think they are just messing with you. i complained about mine leaving it by the gate in the rain. Next time she left it in the middle of the yard. Huh?
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So even if I make a little "package house" I guess they won't bother to use it? Lol.
 
Usually, our ups guy, the fed ex guy and our usps girl do a fine job of putting the packages under the awning in front of the garage. Every time.

A few weeks ago ups had a temp for some reason. They left it in the bed of my pick up truck:rolleyes:

Why I have NO idea. They have to go past the garage to get to my truck when it home.... We weren't btw.

I had a bunch of scrap wood in there and they somehow got it to the bottom... Wife called started a complaint and everything because it said delivered and we couldn't find it:oops:

A few days later I finally had the chance to dump the scrap wood..... There it flipping was:rolleyes:.

I ran into my regular ups guy and asked wth? He sighed and apologized and told me they were swamped that week and my part of his route had been subbed that week:confused:.

Although given the fun of having an apparently "hidden" driveway I should be thankful the package ended up on the property at all...
 
Here we go again.
I know they're busy, but how tough is it to put a box clearly marked Paper Towels on the actual porch, and not just on the top step to the porch, which is not under cover, because it's NOT THE PORCH! One step...come on, guys!

They sent me a survey and I did thank them for putting things (finally) in the general vicinity of the porch, but asked why not just reach a few more inches and place it under the roof, on the actual PORCH.....I mentioned that if a package gets wet, I will have to return it, meaning they will have to come back to my house and get it, and who has time for that?
 
Yet again, front step that was WET, with gutter water dripping on it! I had talked to a UPS guy Tuesday on the phone after taking a survey online, told him, and today I get this:
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Water drips as I'm taking the pics!! It's a box of TP! Not water-tight wrappings. Glad I was home to hear the truck drive off.
 

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Millie said:
Yet again, front step that was WET, with gutter water dripping on it! I had talked to a UPS guy Tuesday on the phone after taking a survey online, told him, and today I get this:
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Water drips as I'm taking the pics!! It's a box of TP! Not water-tight wrappings. Glad I was home to hear the truck drive off.
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You have a CASE of TP delivered to the house and you wonder why they didn't come any closer to the front door?
 
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