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CajunTiger
·I avoid UPS at all cost...at least 30% of packages shipped to me via UPS are late or delayed.
Fedex is far more consistent, but none are perfect
Fedex is far more consistent, but none are perfect
UPS, This is ridiculous
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wsfarrell
·Winchester still makes the Mare's Leg rifle (as in "Wanted: Dead or Alive"). I saw one getting delivered to a gun shop once, and there were two UPS guys doing the delivery. I asked the owner about that, and he said "UPS always has two guys deliver to us, because of the high risk of theft."
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CajunTiger
·Winchester still makes the Mare's Leg rifle (as in "Wanted: Dead or Alive"). I saw one getting delivered to a gun shop once, and there were two UPS guys doing the delivery. I asked the owner about that, and he said "UPS always has two guys deliver to us, because of the high risk of theft."
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Rman
·I just asked an Italian Ebay seller not to use UPS and explained that I preferred FEDEX. He said he'd shipped hundreds of times with UPS without incident and not to worry.
After a week the tracking said "problem with shipment" and was returned to shipper.
He contacted me today and said that somehow the paperwork had been lost by the time the watch reached Roma and that the watch was coming back to him Monday.
Paperwork separated from the watch, who has heard of such a thing?🙁
All willing the watch will be in the box when it's returned and he's agreed to use FEDEX on Monday to reship.
After a week the tracking said "problem with shipment" and was returned to shipper.
He contacted me today and said that somehow the paperwork had been lost by the time the watch reached Roma and that the watch was coming back to him Monday.
Paperwork separated from the watch, who has heard of such a thing?🙁
All willing the watch will be in the box when it's returned and he's agreed to use FEDEX on Monday to reship.
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pitpro
·I've had UPS deliver Signature Required packages to my office(which is unmanned on the weekend),
which is in a downtown 40 story office building, on a Saturday and leave it propped
up against the office door in the common hallway.
which is in a downtown 40 story office building, on a Saturday and leave it propped
up against the office door in the common hallway.
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M'Bob
·Tried an entire week, calls each day, to get Fedex to pick up a pianting and ship it to an auction house. And each day, there was some preposterous reason why they didn't get it. Finally, I called them, cancelled the order, and removed my account. I guess they all suck...
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Tony C.
··Ωf Jury memberI have also had much better overall experiences with FedEx than UPS.
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aluxtrader
·All of them lose packages but Fedex is still most reliable out of them
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Tony C.
··Ωf Jury memberAll of them loose packages but Fedex is still most reliable out of them
They may be "loose" with some packages, but the word you want is "lose".
Why this mistake has reached an epidemic level in the U.S. is a mystery to me.
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aluxtrader
·Ha ha "Lose" right Edited
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asrnj77
·Although it’s more money shipping overnight reduces a lot of the issues. They don’t have time to let curious hands “inspect” your goods. They need to keep scanning the package to show their bosses that it made it from A to B in promised time. I think it even clears customs faster when it’s ultra express delivery.
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X350 XJR
··Vintage Omega AficionadoI just asked an Italian Ebay seller not to use UPS and explained that I preferred FEDEX. He said he'd shipped hundreds of times with UPS without incident and not to worry.
After a week the tracking said "problem with shipment" and was returned to shipper.
He contacted me today and said that somehow the paperwork had been lost by the time the watch reached Roma and that the watch was coming back to him Monday.
Paperwork separated from the watch, who has heard of such a thing?🙁
All willing the watch will be in the box when it's returned and he's agreed to use FEDEX on Monday to reship.
Actually did have the shipping papers lost on a FedEx package once, which is one of the reasons Parcel Pro has you double box shipments and apply an inner label with a contact number on it. All's well that ends well and that extra step saved it from a likely total loss.
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any4xx
·So did it ever arrive?
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any4xx
·And just because I’m sitting at home bored with a man-cold, here’s my most horrid UPS story:
When I was living in the Midwest I had an FFL. I was expecting an overnight shipment of handguns which didn’t arrive on time. I gave it another day and still no package. I finally went for a walk and found my box on the ground at the end of my front porch. Not ON the porch, but hidden only from me while on the porch while visible to the rest of the world. Five handguns sat out in front of the house for two days instead of getting my required signature.
When I was living in the Midwest I had an FFL. I was expecting an overnight shipment of handguns which didn’t arrive on time. I gave it another day and still no package. I finally went for a walk and found my box on the ground at the end of my front porch. Not ON the porch, but hidden only from me while on the porch while visible to the rest of the world. Five handguns sat out in front of the house for two days instead of getting my required signature.
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MikeMan2727
·At least its not USPS....
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DLT222
··Double D @ ΩFUsed to ship 300 boxes a week when I was in the states with UPS.... a good 5 went missing or were damaged so I switched to FedEx, not one single issue.
Now I use DHL here in the UK
Now I use DHL here in the UK
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Syrte
·The only time I used UPS for a watch they could not deliver to my work so I had to ask them to hold it at their warehouse. I had to trek to a suburb in the early am but when I arrived they said they had forgotten to take it off the truck, it had already left and I had to come back the next day. Or else they wanted me to run back home or rendez vous with the truck somewhere else in the city. As if I had time to run around the city in pursuit of my package, after paying for a premium service.
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Kmart
·In the future when people ask me why I don't ship internationally, I'm going to point them towards this thread. I use USPS Priority Mail in the CONUS only (fully insured) and it's extremely reliable. Granted, I haven't had to actually make an insurance claim yet so I can't speak to if it actually works or not.
Also, I get that you're frustrated that they missed the delivery window, but the package was all of 5 hours late... maybe cut them some slack.
Also, I get that you're frustrated that they missed the delivery window, but the package was all of 5 hours late... maybe cut them some slack.
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