[Elecraft] K3 Shipped But Requires Signature!!!

[John Ragle]

  On 10/12/2010 8:59 PM, pastormg2 at verizon.net wrote:
> I can't believe that Elecraft is sending my K3 requiring a signature!  How do they expect a working person to be at home when UPS delivers to get a signature???  When I ordered the rig over the phone nobody told me that this is the way they ship.  And to boot, I would have to drive over one hour to a UPS delivery center to pick up the radio. I certainly hope they will call me tomorrow and straighten this whole mess out.
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Mark...

     I agree with your frustration. There seem to be two solutions 
(aside from the long long drive to a UPS center): (a) insist that that 
shipping company not require a signature (seldom works, probably because 
shippers themselves are too careless to follow through), and (b) leave a 
signed, dated note in a prominent place for the UPS driver to either 
leave the package without a signature or leave it off at a neighbor's 
house (this seems to work in my rural area but may not in the inner city).

     If a package of mine disappeared into the maw of a distribution 
center (in my case, about a 60 mile round trip away), I believe I would 
stop payment on the credit card purchase for non-delivery. This is a bit 
like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, but it might just 
generate enough attention so that the occasion would not recur. One or 
two of the other local carriers are using my local Post Office as a 
drop-off center. In my case, this is only a 15 mile drive away.

     One of my other pet annoyances about UPS is that the driver will 
occasionally leave a (smallish) note on my garage door. Since I raise 
the door with a remote from the outer end of the driveway, the chances 
are almost nil that I will see this note...it simply disappears into the 
garage's overhead space, and when I put the door down, it is on the 
outside when I am on the inside, a typical catch-22.

John Ragle -- W1ZI