I've had even more fun with UPS - there was a big hole punched in the side of a tape library that was shipped to me, completely destroying the library. The hole matched the fork on a forklift truck. UPS insisted that the hole existed before they shipped it - until it was pointed out that the hole was right through their shipping documents. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Sotomayor" <g...@shiresoft.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 10:43:40 AM Subject: Re: USPS: Shipping > On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ken Seefried <seefr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Henk Gooijen <henk.gooi...@hotmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Spend the extra few dollars (or what your currency is) and pack it in a >>> very strong box. I've actually had EPROMs show up cracked in half >> >> Seconded. The machines the USPS uses for automated sorting of mail are not >> gentle on parcels. >> > > I'd rather strongly suggest you not us the USPS period. In the last 6 > months or so they've flat out lost 4 items either destined to or > shipped by me, and one item apparently (according to the tracking web > site) sat in a sorting facility in Utah for nearly a month before > magically showing up. Glad it wasn't perishable. > I’ve had failures with *all* of the major shippers. UPS tracking is a *joke*. It tells you not where the package is but where it’s supposed to be. I was tracking an IBM 3278 terminal and it wasn’t until the tracking said it was “on the truck for delivery” that they realized there was a problem. There was not one “physical” scan of the package and they had no idea where it was. TTFN - Guy