RE: More UPS Crap

2001-10-19 Thread Rodger Whitlock
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 at 15:46:05 -0400, Mick Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Harris wrote: Don't over generalize I don't think that Rodger Whitlock's comment was so much over generalization as misogyny! I for one found the Harriet comment very offensive 8-| You mean you don't

RE: More UPS Crap

2001-10-19 Thread Peifer, William [OCDUS]
Kent Gittings wrote: You must work and live around a bunch of crooks or something. And your full of s**t on most of the rest by the way. [Snip...] Gee, Kent -- and I thought Mick's shorts were on a little tight! Actually, John Mustarde's experiences are similar to some of the rest of us who

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
[OCDUS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 11:37 AM Subject: RE: More UPS Crap Kent Gittings wrote: You must work and live around a bunch of crooks or something. And your full of s**t on most of the rest by the way. [Snip...] Gee, Kent -- and I thought

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-19 Thread John Mustarde
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:22:53 -0400, you wrote: You must work and live around a bunch of crooks or something. And your full of s**t on most of the rest by the way. I'm simply describing facts as I know them, shitty as they are. Those facts may or may not generalize to the entire population of

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Norman Baugher
They made that decision because it was cheaper to pay the insurance on lost or stolen stuff than to have the driver try and return to do their job, which is supposed to be delivering packages to the intended recipient... Norm William Robb wrote: I got a reply from UPS regarding that shipment

Re: More UPS Crap I Hate UPS

2001-10-18 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] One solution might be to have UPS packages delivered to a business address. It need not be your own business, but one with which you make arrangements to accept deliveries for you. You'll need to use their address rather than your own for

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Gerald F. Cermak
And after a UPS inside job relieved my repaired LX from a box sent by Pentax CO, UPS has now marked my house a security risk, and won't leave anything anywhere unless they actually have someone from inside the house sign for it in person. That is really annoying, as I'm never home when they

RE: More UPS Crap I Hate UPS

2001-10-18 Thread John Francis
Here is my bitch list: (list of problems deleted) The main reason I don't use UPS stems from one (long) incident. My wife was returning to the East Coast to attend the wedding of one of the girls from her Girl Scout troop. She had been asked to make the wedding cake. This involved some

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Rodger Whitlock
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 at 11:03:57 +0200, Norman Baugher [EMAIL PROTECTED] ranted: William Robb wrote: I got a reply from UPS regarding that shipment that they left with my neighbor. The gist of it is that they leave the decision about whether to deliver to the addressee or just abandon

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Harris
Rodger Whitlock wrote: Actually, all the delivery services have one problem in common: they deliver to residential addresses during the day when no one's at home. Doing so was fine back in the fifties when Ozzie went to work and Harriet screwed the delivery man, but Harriet went to work

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread William Robb
Rodger Whitlock wrote: Actually, all the delivery services have one problem in common: they deliver to residential addresses during the day when no one's at home. Doing so was fine back in the fifties when Ozzie went to work and Harriet screwed the delivery man, but Harriet went to

RE: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Mick Maguire
Robert Harris wrote: Don't over generalize I don't think that Rodger Whitlock's comment was so much over generalization as misogyny! I for one found the Harriet comment very offensive 8-| Regards, /\/\ick... ++ || __/) Mick

RE: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Frits J. Wüthrich
Last week my 400mm f5.6 SMC-A arrived from the USA with USPS EMS, insured up to $500 for $38.75 from the USA to the UK. We were not at home, so they left a card in the mail box, with a phone number. I called them I wanted to pick the item up, but they couldn't stop it for another delivery

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread John Mustarde
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:14:46 EDT, you wrote: One solution might be to have UPS packages delivered to a business address. Sssshit, that's the worst method of all. The UPS driver most assuredly know the names of several people at your business address who can sign for packages, and has probably

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread UDPug
In a message dated 10/18/01 5:18:15 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One solution might be to have UPS packages delivered to a business address. Sssshit, that's the worst method of all. LOL! Maybe we're just lucky here. City of 100,000 in an economically depressed

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Treena Harp
to a police station. - Original Message - From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:38 PM Subject: Re: More UPS Crap Rodger Whitlock wrote: Actually, all the delivery services have one problem in common: they deliver

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Harris
Mick Maguire wrote: I don't think that Rodger Whitlock's comment was so much over generalization as misogyny! I for one found the Harriet comment very offensive 8-| Huh? The Harriet reference is, perhaps, not PC. And maybe it can be construed as insulting, condescending or many other

RE: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Mick Maguire
] | (_/) ICQ: 48609010 | \/ | \ /---+ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Harris Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More UPS Crap Mick

RE: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Mick Maguire
| \/ | \ /---+ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Harris Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More UPS Crap Mick Maguire wrote

Re: More UPS Crap

2001-10-18 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
Well, I have always insisted the the proper pronounciation of UPS (to mix in another thread) is Oops! But at least Oops can deliver to my house which Airborne Express insists doesn't exist and returns all packages to the sender. --graywolf - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List.