*@!***#@# Ups!!!
Pro
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 725
Likes: 3
From: Tolland MA
Originally Posted by willowdog
I have an aquaintance that has shipped a $100k+ watch with no problem with both ups and fedex.
Apparently we do not travel in the same circles.
Joking aside, my UPS guy is the best. Of course ten people could have handled it before he gets it but I have not had a problem. One Winter's evening I found my UPS order at the beginning of my 600 foot long driveway in a snow bank. It was exhaust manifolds and risers for my boat. They were very heavy and my driveway had not been plowed for that day's storm. I didn't blame him a bit. They were packaged well and not damaged (too much).
I like my UPS guy. Those guys hustle like no USPS guy will ever do. After a recent delivery he came into the barn and checked out my '60 and my Dad's '56. He was genuinley enthusiastic about the resto. He came to understand why the zillion Corvette Central boxes were being delivered.
I agree with the above posts citing the shipper not the handler culpable for damage. Do any of us think the warehouse morons do not make a sport out of package basketball?
My view from Tolland, MA population 400 and lowest tax rate in the state*.
Ralph
Racer
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 473
Likes: 4
From: Orange County Ca
Shipper responsible...we pack stuff in tanks and they still manage to break it. We put fragile stickers on it and they break it. We have the packages reviewed and approved by these shippers and they break it. We give it to their packaging engineers to design a box and they break it. And all of this packaging gets put into the piece price and passed on to the customer.
