[Elecraft] Elecraft UPS deliveries

[Jim Lowman]

Well, with UPS, delivery time is a crapshoot.
I've had normal UPS shipments arrive at the house anywhere from 10 AM up 
to 8:30 PM.
In the latter case, I'm not even talking about the holiday season (it 
was Halloween).
I had given up on that delivery, even though the status showed that it 
was out for delivery, so we went out for dinner.
When we got home, I checked the delivery time on the UPS tracking site, 
and it was approximately 8:30.
Today, I'm waiting for a delivery that was shipped via UPS Second-Day 
Air.  Here it is 1430L, and no package yet.
To be fair, though, the delivery commitment is stated as "By End of Day."

Joining UPS My Choice is a good idea.  I can give them authorization, on 
a one-time or a blanket basis, to leave any package that doesn't require 
a signature.
While UPS deems the QTH to be in a safe delivery area, I have to admit 
being a bit nervous about a nearly-$800 CrankIR antenna being delivered 
when we were out for a while yesterday.
As luck would have it, though, we were both here when the truck pulled 
up at about 3 PM.

I expressed surprise to someone at Elecraft that they ship high-value 
packages without requiring a signature, but that was explained to my 
satisfaction.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 4/23/2014 8:36 AM, Larry Phipps wrote:
> I don't use UPS for outgoing shipments, but I use them for incoming 
> because they get here earlier in the day.
>
> 73,
> Larry N8LP