http://wwwapps.ups.com/tracking/tracking.cgi?tracknum=1Z7123280394828039
With the advent of eBay, and online
computer parts trading, I thought it appropriate to take this week to
talk about shipping. After all, we can’t e-mail each other sound
cards, or laptop CMOS batteries.
We all know that The United States
Postal Service is more known to make shipping accidents than UPS, or
the United States Parcel Service. For once in my life, I believed
this to be true. After 3 years of doing a heavy amount of
shipping, about 4 packages a week, I have found that opposite to be
true. USPS 2-3 Day Priority Mail with $50 of insurance ($4.05)
is much faster, and reliable than UPS Ground track (6 Day ground, $6)
Case in point: The link I gave you
above. I ordered a CMOS for an old laptop I had recently acquired
to tinker with. Within 3 days, it comes to the correct city,
LaCrosse WI. Then, it decided to take a six day trek back and
forth between Cach and Peoria IL, before I had to call UPS to get them
strait. Of course, upon checking the progress of my package, I
got the following message almost every time:
“THE PKG WAS MISSORTED AT
THE HUB. IT WILL BE REROUTED TO THE CORRECT DEST SITE”
After seeing it happen 3 times, it
kind of lost it’s effect. I called UPS and, to my disbelief
(after getting that message 3 times, I was expecting some real idiotic
jerks) I got a kind and citreous lady on the phone that sent a message
to Peoria to get their stuff strait. The next day, the package arrived
at my door, with 1 sticker to a Zip Code in Chicago IL, which was
covered up by about 10 to 54650, my home address. The moral of
this story, use USPS, a company that has been handling packages and
letters for over a hundred years.
Consumer Protection
Lately, I haven’t found many people, in person, that I can some
how pummel, verbally or physically, because of their need to screw
John Q. Consumer. If you know of anyone that is ripping off the
general public, please e-mail me, so I can do the noble thing, then
run like a dog back here and share my story.
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