UPS Pain? You want UPS pain? http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/03/15/No-UPS
I gather they're OK if you stay strictly inside the contintental USA. -Tim On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 06:30:11PM -0600, William Robb wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: pdml >> annuals have arrived in chicago >> >> >> >>>> 3 cheers for Mark, Christine and the USPS! >>> FedEx, actually. (If it had been USPS they'd be in Alaska by now. >>> Scratch that -- they'd be on their way to Alaska now.) >> >> If it had been UPS, they would be in Alaska by now. > > No - if it had been UPS they'd be at the trans-shipment point > waiting to be put on the truck going to Alaska. UPS would be > able to tell you this, but there'd be no way for them to change > the desination point from Alaska to Chicago; that would only be > possible once the box arrived at the Alaska distribution point. > > Then they'd ship it on to Chicago so that it arrived at the UPS > depot on a Friday night. But you wouldn't be able to pick it up > from there until delivery had been tried (and failed) on Monday. > So if you needed it on Saturday you would be out of luck. > > (Me, bitter? What gives you that idea?) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
