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I used to load their trucks with outgoing packages. The trailer is backed up into a bay with a conveyor belt/ramp chute/thing going into it. Packages come flying down it and start piling up before you. It's truly a 4-hour game of Tetris, as you have to build the perfect walls with people's precious parcel, and you're constantly rushed. Yeah, I sent a package or two flying into the back of the truck when things got crazy. Kinda felt bad about it, but hey... it's the nature of the job.

🙁

 
UPS is the worst delivery company in my area... my packages always end up looking like someone personally took the time to beat the living sh!t out of them.

They managed to split a DJ speaker IN HALF (the thing weighs 66 lbs and is very sturdy)

Fedex has yet to ever harm any of my packages (and I use them all the time)

Good ol' USPS is another worthless POS... someone sent me a DirecTV TiVo and somehow the idiot driver has no problem delivering a completely drenched box... pissed me off like no other.

So when I know I want something in one piece I always use Fedex... if a vendor doesn't ship Fedex, I find the product somewhere else.
 
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
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You seem to have a lot of hate for customers who ship back mobos that are just in the retail box with a label slapped on.

I at least wrap mine in a brown paper bag first! (and yank out the accessories). Only time I ever ship a mobo, though, is when it's so fvcking unbelievably dead that it's returning to the MFG.
 
I have yet to get anything through UPS without some box damage. FedEx I do get box damage rarely.

UPS has required me to use insurance many times on properly packed items. I do understand their plight should someone ship a motherboard in it's original box and the like, but when you put that box in another one then that into an even larger one, all with foam and peanuts and they still manage to blow through two double corrigated boxes...that's just someone abusing your stuff.

We delivered a CanoScan to a remote location, it was packaged in a wooden box like musical instruments are packed it....about 6" of foam around it. The side that was labeled:
Fragile Device Inside
FRONT





UP
^
|

was kicked through dead center between the FRONT and the UP markings, the kick went through the scanner. This was insured for several thousand dollars and had to be handed to the driver in person and signed for prior to delivery. UPS had tried to claim 'we' must have put it on the truck like that.

6 months we were paid.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing

You seem to have a lot of hate for customers who ship back mobos that are just in the retail box with a label slapped on.

I at least wrap mine in a brown paper bag first! (and yank out the accessories). Only time I ever ship a mobo, though, is when it's so fvcking unbelievably dead that it's returning to the MFG.
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Um.. Yeah. Motherboard boxes don't have the resistance to crushing that a shipping box has, and because there's no room inside the box for additional packing material, you end up with components of the motherboard banging around inside edges of the box and this is how you get bent and chipped corner, caps that fly off the board, etc.

And the "it's so dead so who cares" excuse is so incredibly stupid it's mind blowing. The product gets so damaged IN TRANSIT, how the hell is the recipient supposed to know if it was even dead when it was shipped in the first place when it wouldn't even work even if it was a perfectly good motherboard?

If you buy a car and then want to return it the next day because it misses but on the way back to the dealership you wrap the car around a telephone pole, do you honestly expect them to take the car back anyway because "it was acting funny BEFORE I wrapped it around the telephone poll?"

Yes I have a lot of hate for people that are stupid. Throwing electronics in boxes without static bags and adequate packing material is stupid. It doesn't matter if the item is dead or not. It still needs to be cared for.

 
Karma. All you people who received sh!tty UPS packages must be assholes in RL. I've only received one bad UPS package, and it's nothing more than a small hole on the side of the cardboard box for a computer case.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Karma. All you people who received sh!tty UPS packages must be assholes in RL. I've only received one bad UPS package, and it's nothing more than a small hole on the side of the cardboard box for a computer case.
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Almost 95% of all the shipping i do is via fedex, they have never even scrached any of my packages, let alone dent it, but every UPS package i get looks similar to the photo i linked.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: Baked
Karma. All you people who received sh!tty UPS packages must be assholes in RL. I've only received one bad UPS package, and it's nothing more than a small hole on the side of the cardboard box for a computer case.
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Almost 95% of all the shipping i do is via fedex, they have never even scrached any of my packages, let alone dent it, but every UPS package i get looks similar to the photo i linked.
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i agree here, UPS sucks ass, they go out of their way to destroy things, and even if you had insurance on it they run you through loops for monts before you see a dime,,

FedEx OTOH is great and doesnt destroy packages and when something happens they send you a fing check

 
Is it OK if I tell my UPS story?
OK, thanks.


I ordered an item from some online store. I didnt know the store was crap at the time.

They didnt specify which carrier they used and didnt say anything about not shipping to P.O. Boxes.
So I entered my shipping address as a PO Box. (I was not able to get mail at my residence at this time).

Sure enough it got sent out UPS, despite the fact I had put "PO Box 934" in the delivery line.
What ticks me off is that UPS actually accepted it. After about a week of frantic searching I was told that UPS had delivered it. TO A FVCKING STREET ADDRESS IN THE NEXT TOWN!!

I found it on Mapquest and drove over. I guess the family had been on vacation because the box was still sitting there unopened. I grabbed it and hauled my merchandise home. (Which may have been illegal, ???)

After that I made it a point to see which service an online store uses and I avoid UPS whenever possible.
 
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