UPS and FedEx

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by rjfvillarosa ... What I didn't realise was "ground" with UPS means tucking my parcel under one arm and a pack of sandwiches under the other arm of some hapless individual and telling the poor soul to walk from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, it took five days to get to Jacksonville. Silly me, what part of "ground" delivery didn't I understand? Puerto Rico is an island, at some point this package has got to leave terra firma, unless of course you have a very stout pair of water proof walking shoes and a very long straw!! ...

Sorry 'bout the hassle, rjfvillarosa, but I have to admit that made me chuckle! ... maybe because that sounds like the thinking I go thru

[rjfvillarosa]

Rails. I had to vent..
I talked this job over with glc and Panama Red about three weeks ago on mIRC and I wanted the parts so I could get on with it. The parcel arrived about two hours ago and everything is there. Wireless Access Point, 8 port switch, print server and two wireless PCI cards.
The idea of this job is to maintain a LAN between the desktops but give them the choice to connect to either the local phone company DSL or the Hughesnet sat DSL without having to move any cables.

[juppy]

Originally Posted by rjfvillarosa My package has now been sat on the island for two days and is still not out for delivery, it has had an unloading scan and an import scan, but it is still sat in the depot.

UPS's tracking software definitely leaves alot to be desired. FedEx's tracker software will track a package all the way to my door, stop for stop. UPS though? It tracks it until it hits Dallas, Texas.....then it seems to just "sit there" for 2 days, until it shows up on my doorstep. Then you can check the tracker again and it shows all the additional stops it made over the past 2 days. Dallas to Tulsa, Tulsa to, I think, Stillwater, then Stillwater to us. Their tracker is a joke.

[TwoRails]

Ranting is good, rjfvillarosa!! I don't do it enough...

As far as UPS's tracker system goes, for me, the few times I've tracked the tracker, it's been pretty accurate. When UPS says it's on the truck for delivery to my house, I get it that day.

[glc]

TR, who is it that says your address doesn't exist? Wasn't that FedEx?

[TwoRails]

Yes, FedEx. It happened a couple of times, plus other folks I know.