[Elecraft] Shipping high value items by UPS

Wed Sep 26 17:49:29 EDT 2018

Folks, this OT thread was closed yesterday.
Eric
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On 9/26/2018 12:26 PM, Gwen Patton wrote:
> 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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