Another UPS delivery disaster.

[Guylee]

1st world problems.

Hell...I feel bad for the guy...

[Zundfolge]

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]

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.

[Monky]

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..

[ben4372]

(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.

[Dave_L]

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.

[ben4372]

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.

[TFOGGER]

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]

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]

did your wife buy you a new chainsaw?

Unfortunatly not. But I know what my present is now....