[Boatanchors] Shipping damage

Sun Nov 25 18:36:42 EST 2018

Ray, 
Probably a typo on your part; effective Jan 27 the first class postage for a 1 ounce letter goes from the current 50 cents to 55 cents, with each additional ounce dropping from 21 to 15 cents. Another present from the USPS to us!

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On Sun, 11/25/18, RAY FRIESS <rayfrijr at msn.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Shipping damage
 To: "w5jo at brightok.net" <w5jo at brightok.net>
 Cc: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
 Date: Sunday, November 25, 2018, 5:43 PM

 Yea .. I guess it is asking too
 much now days for a company to provide the service and care
 you pay for and expect.   Many companies just don't
 have common decency anymore.  Theyre only interested in how
 much money they can line their pockets with instead of
 actually providing a good service that the customer wants
 and is entitled to expect.

 It's not surprise to me that the Post
 Office continues to go deeper and deeper down the toilet,
 especially when it comes to letters.  Any day of the week,
 I would opt to send an email instead of counting on the post
 office actually deliver a piece of mail.  That's why
 they keep jacking up rates.   And at the same time, every
 time they jack up rates, fewer and fewer people are opting
 for other methods instead of sending a piece of paper
 through the mail.  Come January, they are jacking up the
 price of a letter to 50 cents.  And ... you can expect that
 fewer and fewer things will be mailed.   Even catalogs .. 
 a company can deliver a whole catalog by PDF in an email and
 doesnt have to pay the post office to carry it to your
 house, taking a week or more to get it to you.    When
 Amazon starts its own delivery fleet, youre going to see
 screams of agony from the post office, UPS and FedEx because
 they are really going to take it in the shorts.  Hopefully,
 Amazon will treat package
  s and customers
 with more respect than the other three.   Too bad though
 that Amazon wont be carrying anything other than their own
 merchandise.

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 From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
 <boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
 on behalf of w5jo at brightok.net
 <w5jo at brightok.net>
 Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2018 2:09 PM
 Cc: Boat Anchors List
 Subject:
 Re: [Boatanchors] Shipping damage

 You are asking for a lot Ray.  Back in the
 early 80's I was a manager for a
 Land
 Mobile shop and one of my customers was a UPS transfer
 center.  When
 trucks came in they would
 park them, remove the seal then take long steel
 rods with a handle on one end and a hook on the
 other.  Using the hook they
 would unlatch
 the door then use it swing the two doors open. 
 Reason...so
 packages would not drop out of
 the trailer onto the person opening the door.
 Some of the top ones might contain your heavy
 radio.

 They stack packages
 in their trailers according to the way necessary to get
 the most number in them, not how much they
 weigh.   At times I saw packages
 that were
 supported when they were loaded, fall onto the asphalt then
 picked
 up and put on the cart to take to the
 conveyer in the build for sorting.
 There
 they could easily fall about a foot or so to another belt to
 take them
 to the next trailer.   Everyone
 agrees that they should pay for damages if
 they occur, particularly if you have purchased
 sufficient coverage for the
 contents.

 But don't expect the
 package to look like it did when it leaves the shipping
 point.  It may,or most likely, it will not. 
 It depends on what was stacked
 on top.  And
 under pressure, the help does not pay attention to the
 Fragile
 stickers.  I have had better luck
 with FedEx and will not use UPS unless it
 is
 the only option.  If you are shipping anything electronic
 over a
 valuation of $999 UPS will not
 provide coverage for it.  Your only option is
 FedEx.  Another option is a Freight Company
 such as Old Dominion or the bus
 lines. 
 Some have had good luck with both.  Your success will
 depend on
 packing the container, the
 destination and who handles it.

 Jim
 W5JO

 -----Original Message-----

 I'm
 having a string of bad luck lately apparently.   For the
 second time, a
 package arrived at the buyers
 trashed.  The first was two weeks ago, sent by
 UPS.  Despite being plainly labeled in LARGE
 print all over that said
 FRAGILE, the
 Lafayette receiver was trashed on arrival.  I'm now in
 a battle
 with UPS to get insurance payment,
 even threatening legal action.

 Now, just  yesterday I was informed by and
 shown pictures of a package I
 sent postal
 service, thinking maybe they would be more responsible.  A
 Swan
 500 and power supply.   Sent in two
 separate boxes encased in peanuts
 obtained
 from UHaul, which has a very good reputation for not
 treating their
 shipments like footballs
 during the playoffs.  ALso had them wrapped in
 bubble wrap and the boxes marked FRAGILE and
 the post office indicating so
 on the
 tracking documents.   Arrived like the UPS boxes ... 
 looking like
 other 50 to 100 lb boxes had
 been dropped on top of mine.  Buyer still in
 the process of determining damage to the rig
 and if it is fatal damage or
 minor.

 My point is .. and my belief
 is .. I don't give a DAMN for ANY of the
 shippers excuses.  I pay them for one
 thing..  to SHIP a box from point A to
 point B, and for that box to arrive in one
 piece just like when I dropped it
 off for
 shipping.  Especially when it is indicated that it is
 fragile.    I
 hope to hell no one EVER
 tries shipping glass glasses because I firmly
 believe they would arrive as a pile of glass
 shards in the box.  And, I do
 not
 appreciate being told by a shipper that "it was not
 damaged during
 shipping."   THAT crap
 is an insult to someone's intelligence....

 I don't know the solution,
 except maybe to take the equipment to a place
 that will absolutely fill the box with foam
 insulation and it becomes a
 block that has
 to be cut away when it arrives.   Even then, I'm sure
 the
 shipper would find some way to make it
 arrive looking like it had been
 dropped from
 a B52 at 20,000 feet.   Remember when they used to tout
 the
 durability of Collins gear, saying they
 could be dropped from a plane and
 still be
 operational after landing.   I dont think even a Collins
 KWM2 can
 survive the incompetence of the
 three major shippers.  The employees have no
 respect or care for anything they handle.  It
 seems to be toss it on the
 truck from 20
 feet away, stack it 10 high with 50 lbs on top of each
 and
 then toss it into the driveway.  
 Sometimes, I'm surprised they even get out
 of the truck when they deliver a package
 instead of just tossing it out the
 door and
 driving away.   They must get out of the truck if they have
 to get
 a signature.
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