[Elecraft] Shipping high value items by UPS
Gwen Patton
ardrhi at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 15:26:14 EDT 2018
My KXPA100 order hit on a day when it was raining fairly heavily. The UPS
driver clearly thought we wouldn't be home for some reason -- perhaps too
cynical? I don't know -- so he didn't bother to carry it the 14 lb box to
the house. Maybe he didn't want to have to carry it back to the van in the
rain? An interesting speculation, except for one small detail.
I was home. So was my partner. We were sitting 6 feet from the door, and if
the driver had even set foot on the porch, we would have noticed him
because we were sitting by a window onto the porch. Instead, he brought a
small Amazon package to the porch, to which he affixed the "sorry, we
missed you" tag, and tossed them onto the porch and ran back to his van. In
earlier times, they simply would have brought the package back the next
day, but not these days. He took the package to a pickup spot, a UPS store
about 5 miles from my house, and I had to pick it up the next day, in
person, with my ID so I could sign for it.
The sheer laziness of this event stunned me. He just didn't seem to want to
carry the box to the door in the rain, and was willing to inconvenience the
recipient of an expensive package just to avoid a couple minutes' work. I
don't have this trouble with FedEx, though I sometimes have problems with
Amazon drivers who claim not only that they delivered my package, but put
it directly into my hands, when I didn't even receive it until 2 days
later. They simply lie to avoid doing their jobs. It's the only thing I can
think of to explain it.
It doesn't do any good to complain. I raised the roof at UPS, and it had
zero effect. The woman on the phone told me she'd have the package brought
back to my door. Instead, it went to the pickup spot and I had to get my
disabled butt to their store to pick it up. Very frustrating!
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:14 PM Bob <K2TK at att.net> wrote:
> Well I'll confess to being in the USPS supporter camp. I've had great
> service
> from them. My KPA1500 even came Priority Mail.
>
> I use the addressing scheme below too.
>
> I have a POB and another great free PO service is Informed delivery.
> Every
> morning I get an email with pictures of mail for the day. From it I can
> make a
> decision if I want to or need to go to the PO that day. Here:
>
> https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action
>
> Not a well known PO service.
>
> 73,
> Bob
> K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) & K2TKR
>
>
> On 9/25/2018 8:48 PM, JOE wrote:
> > On 9/25/2018 8:15 PM, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> >> Message: 6
> >> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:36:59 -0400
> >> From: Grant Youngman<ghyoungman at gmail.com>
> >> To: Elecraft Reflector Reflector<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> >> Subject: [Elecraft] Shipping high value items by UPS
> >>
> >> The thread started by the gentleman who thought his KX2 might be dead
> and
> >> needed to go to Elecraft motivated me to make this comment about
> shipping.
> >
> > I shipped my K3 back to Elecraft earlier this year via UPS and $2,500
> > insurance. I use a local hardware store in my town that has UPS service
> at the
> > normal rates. They said they use a company that contracts with UPS for
> > shipping. The company that provides the UPS service to the hardware
> store
> > requires inspection of high value packages, reportedly due to some fraud
> cases
> > in the past. Because they know me well they took my word that I double
> boxed it
> > and packed it well, I didn't have to unpack it. I had shipped many
> things with
> > them in the past with no problems.
> >
> > For the return address, I use my local post office where I have a PO
> box. It's
> > a little known fact that the USPS will accept packages for PO box
> holders from
> > any private carrier, UPS, FedEx, etc. They will also sign for some
> packages
> > requiring signature if you have a signature on file. This solves my
> problem of
> > packages left on my doorstep for people to potentially steal. This also
> solves
> > the problem of people/businesses that will not ship to a PO box.
> >
> > This is how I address packages to be mailed to me.
> >
> > My Name
> > 34 Main Street #(my PO box number)
> > East Haddam, CT 06423
> >
> > A really nice feature of the post office. Look at:
> >
> > <https://www.usps.com/manage/po-boxes.htm>
> >
> > 73, Joe, K1ike
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