View Full Version : Another UPS delivery disaster.
SideShow Bob
12-11-2014, 21:45
Well, been going back & forth for a couple of days with UPS and the shipper of an item the wife ordered for a Xmas present for me that was supposed tobe delivered Tuesday.
Come to find out that UPS dropped it on a front porch in Bethlaham, PA.
The shipper confirmed that the proper shipping address (mine) was entered on the shipping label.
I for the life of me I cannot understand how UPS ended up delivering it to PA !
From those with the greatest ability to those with the greatest need.
OtterbatHellcat
12-11-2014, 21:48
That's a really weird deal for your stuff to be delivered 1500 miles the wrong way from you....wow.
Don't worry, these guys are perfesinals.
SideShow Bob
12-11-2014, 21:57
That's a really weird deal for your stuff to be delivered 1500 miles the wrong way from you....wow.
I could understand the wrong street seeings how there are three streets in a row with the same name, the only difference is Ave., Place and Way. But to deliver it to the wrong side of the country, the wrong state, the wrong city and the wrong street ?
Guess no one reads the printed address, they just go by what the barcode says.
hurley842002
12-11-2014, 22:06
Crappy! Seems they are all going in the crapper. I was expecting a small parcel package today, likely only a bubble mailer, when I picked up the mail the mail man was finishing up, and my package was not in my box. I asked him what gives, and he gave me the run around about it being in the apartment office, even tho I know it would fit in my box. USPS says it's been delivered, I'll be checking with the office tomorrow, but I'm not real confident at this point.
theGinsue
12-11-2014, 22:25
Ordered a PSA upper on Thanksgiving day. Was scheduled as a "signature required" delivery. Got great notifications from UPS, but when it was delivered the driver did his usual drop on the porch, ring the bell & walk away. Good thing I was home! (Too bad I have to send it back due to poor milling for the dust cover catch).
Aloha_Shooter
12-11-2014, 22:47
When I was living in Maryland, USPS delivered an insured load of comics and collectibles (about $400 worth) to Florida. It was insured so my supplier reordered it for me and sent it again. The second shipment ended up somewhere in Pennsylvania. I never did get some of the items as they were sold out after the second shipment failed to get to me.
Well, been going back & forth for a couple of days with UPS and the shipper of an item the wife ordered for a Xmas present for me that was supposed tobe delivered Tuesday.
Come to find out that UPS dropped it on a front porch in Bethlaham, PA.
The shipper confirmed that the proper shipping address (mine) was entered on the shipping label.
I for the life of me I cannot understand how UPS ended up delivering it to PA !
Something doesn't seem right there. Im willing to bed the sended might have made a mistake. Its pretty hard to mess up a big CO or PA when delivering a package
1st world problems.
Hell...I feel bad for the guy...
Zundfolge
12-12-2014, 09:43
Ordered a PSA upper on Thanksgiving day. Was scheduled as a "signature required" delivery. Got great notifications from UPS, but when it was delivered the driver did his usual drop on the porch, ring the bell & walk away. Good thing I was home! (Too bad I have to send it back due to poor milling for the dust cover catch).
UPS is horrible about that and I finally called UPS and told them that their driver committed a felony a few years back when I had a C&R and had ordered a VZ24 ... UPS guy delivered it to my neighbor two doors down who has the same first name as me (and who is a way lefty so he was visibly shaken when he brought me the opened box, so that part was actually kinda fun). I explained to the folk at UPS delivering a FIREARM to someone without a Federal Firearms License was a felony AND that my other neighbor was a schitzophrenic who could very well have murdered people with the high powered rifle if you people gave it to him (yeah, I know he'd have never been able to get his hands on any 8mm but it frightened the drone at UPS pretty good).
Not sure what happened to the driver but I never saw him on our route again.
KestrelBike
12-12-2014, 09:58
1st world problems.
haha totally. I worked in a place with a good amount of mail volume. USPS would probably deliver at least once a week, mail addressed to another state, from another state. So of the two states involved (sender and recipient) it wound up in a totally unrelated state (ours). I'd give it back to the post office and tell them "try again" and then two days later it'd be delivered back to us haha.
I can tell you exactly how.. multiple shipping labels on the same box. It happens. Companies reuse boxes. Saw it all the time in my 12 years there..
(gun store here).
I had a guy send in 5 AR-15's for transfer in the middle of panic. They were shipped in one massive box.
One of them was snapped IN HALF on the lower receiver. (Aluminum). No idea what the hell happened to it while at UPS sufficient enough to snap one in half. There was not major box damage either.
Clearly some poor packaging.
Ive had some packaged delayed already this month. Only a day though and it didnt say if it was Amazon's or UPS's fault. No major mishaps like the OP's though.
Ordered a PSA upper on Thanksgiving day. Was scheduled as a "signature required" delivery. Got great notifications from UPS, but when it was delivered the driver did his usual drop on the porch, ring the bell & walk away. Good thing I was home! (Too bad I have to send it back due to poor milling for the dust cover catch).
I ordered an upper too. When I got to shipping email it said signature required. UPS said signature required. Same email said I could set up an account and sign for it on-line. How's that? I know it was mostly a way to release them for liability so I passed. UPS said delivery would happen by end of day tuesday, worse than the cable company. I was surprised when they showed up monday night around 7. How on earth can you pan to be available to sign when the delivery window is an entire day, then they show up early. At least I got a good deal on the upper.
Little known fact: Anything insured for $5000 or more is HAND CARRIED through the UPS sorting facilities, and placed on a truck. It will completely bypass the normal belts and the goons loading the vans. I learned this from my old delivery driver(retired 2 years ago at age 52, after 35 years at UPS), after we shipped some glass sculptures to a customer down in Phoenix, in museum quality packing, and they managed to break them. Insurance is cheap, like $25ish for $5k.
SideShow Bob
12-12-2014, 18:20
Something doesn't seem right there. Im willing to bed the sended might have made a mistake. Its pretty hard to mess up a big CO or PA when delivering a package
Well UPS says it was the shippers mistake and the shipper says it is UPS's fault, finally today the Shipper agreed to resend the order, and I made sure that they read the shipping address back to me to make sure it was correct.
SideShow Bob
12-12-2014, 18:22
did your wife buy you a new chainsaw?
Unfortunatly not. But I know what my present is now....[Tooth]
Tfogg is right high dollar stuff gets hand delivered and carried and the package handlers sign off for it at very step when I threw packages for them seeing the candy cane stripes meant business. Had one package the was about 6 inches square insured for more than 5k+ and weighed 26 lbs. was shipped from a coin company to somewhere in CO
Tfogg is right high dollar stuff gets hand delivered and carried and the package handlers sign off for it at very step when I threw packages for them seeing the candy cane stripes meant business. Had one package the was about 6 inches square insured for more than 5k+ and weighed 26 lbs. was shipped from a coin company to somewhere in CO
Ever have to search for one that wasn't declared when you find a 2ct diamond laying on a slide...
Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.
Tfogg is right high dollar stuff gets hand delivered and carried and the package handlers sign off for it at very step when I threw packages for them seeing the candy cane stripes meant business. Had one package the was about 6 inches square insured for more than 5k+ and weighed 26 lbs. was shipped from a coin company to somewhere in CO
Probably ChunkyMonkey's house. [Coffee]
Double00
12-13-2014, 00:48
The driver must sign for "High value" packages. After he signs he is the only one who touches it until it is del. If a pkg. is not a adult sig. (over 21) it can be left at a alt. location (office, neighbor etc.) Most drivers don't know if they are del. a firearm medical device. I get people complaining all the time that I didn't leave wine at a neighbors house.
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