[Heathkit] UPS Shipping

[Garey Barrell]

Glen -

At least your package was delivered to YOU!

I had one last week that was delivered to someone at the other end of my 
street, number not even close, just the first house from the 
intersection!   The guy who got it said he tried to call to tell them 
they screwed up, but after 20 minutes on hold he gave up and 
(thankfully) looked me up in the phone book and called me.........

Stick with FedEx Ground whenever possible.

73, Garey - K4OAH
Atlanta

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Glen Zook wrote:

>If anyone wants to see why I stopped using UPS for
>shipping things out almost 3 years ago, I can furnish
>photos of a package of parts from Mouser that arrived
>less than 30 minutes ago.  Mouser is about 50 miles
>away and they ship only by UPS.  The condition of the
>package is how well over 50% of the packages that I
>receive by UPS come in.
>
>Fortunately, it is very difficult to destroy the types
>of parts that I buy from Mouser (get 2 or 3 shipments
>a month) and Mouser usually packs pretty well. 
>However, UPS does their best to destroy the packages
>even though they are just traveling across the Dallas
>/ Fort Worth Metroplex.
>
>The Mesquite, Texas, UPS "hub" (the one for Dallas)
>also vibrates boxes so bad that hardware comes loose,
>parts (like resistors and capacitors) are moved from
>their original locations, tubes are shaken from their
>sockets, and so forth.
>
>I will E-Mail a composite photo on request.
>
>Glen, K9STH
>
>Glen, K9STH
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>Web sites
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>http://home.comcast.net/~zcomco
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