Do you know the difference?
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Melting Slicks
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Do you know the difference?
Do you know the difference between UPS, USPS & FedEx?
Why, when I order parts (either E-Bay or from forum vendors), is there a 50-50 chance that the seller will ship UPS to my PO Box (which is my CC billing address) or send USPS to the UPS Customer Service Center (where I request my packages be held for pick-up)? UPS does not deliver to P.O. Box addresses and they will not accept a package at their local distribution hub from the mailman.
I just don't understand how someone in a shipping department (or Joe-Blow E-Bay seller) cannot look at an address and say "Wait a minute...I can't send something via US Mail to UPS".
OK...that's my pet-peeve for today.
Why, when I order parts (either E-Bay or from forum vendors), is there a 50-50 chance that the seller will ship UPS to my PO Box (which is my CC billing address) or send USPS to the UPS Customer Service Center (where I request my packages be held for pick-up)? UPS does not deliver to P.O. Box addresses and they will not accept a package at their local distribution hub from the mailman.
I just don't understand how someone in a shipping department (or Joe-Blow E-Bay seller) cannot look at an address and say "Wait a minute...I can't send something via US Mail to UPS".
OK...that's my pet-peeve for today.
Safety Car
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From: Carbondale Pa.
Originally Posted by TonySinclair
Do you know the difference between UPS, USPS & FedEx?
I just don't understand how someone in a shipping department (or Joe-Blow E-Bay seller) cannot look at an address and say "Wait a minute...I can't send something via US Mail to UPS".
OK...that's my pet-peeve for today.
I just don't understand how someone in a shipping department (or Joe-Blow E-Bay seller) cannot look at an address and say "Wait a minute...I can't send something via US Mail to UPS".
OK...that's my pet-peeve for today.
That would require some thought on their part,,,,,,,,,,wadddda ya want, everything? Peace,,,Moosie 
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Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by Badazjeep
If there is a UPS store near you it can be shipped there.
Melting Slicks
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From: Deep in the Heart of Dixie Alabama
You need to go into your ebay account and change your primary billing address. Looks like they picked up a address off a credit card.
My wife used a credit card last year to make a purchase, and for the past year everything I bought on ebay with paypal was addressed to her. I finally got that corrected.
My wife used a credit card last year to make a purchase, and for the past year everything I bought on ebay with paypal was addressed to her. I finally got that corrected.
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Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by bamavettes
You need to go into your ebay account and change your primary billing address. Looks like they picked up a address off a credit card.
Here's a perfect example...seller's auction indicates "I ship everything UPS upon receipt of funds". OK. I change my primary address to the UPS Service Center. Seller ships item DHL...to the UPS Service Center. WTF? Of course, UPS rejects the shipment and it's returned to sender. Then seller re-ships DHL to the DHL service center. I have to drive 40 mins. to the airport to pick it up. A freaking $5 car part...
I e-mail another seller asking how they will ship. No response. I send another e-mail giving them my "US Mail address (P.O. Box)" and my "UPS address". Dip-wad sends via US Mail to the UPS Service Center.
I just can't win...are people that ignorant or is it just me?
Drifting
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From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the World
I try to get EVERYTHING shipped USPS air as UPS charge an absolute fortune to ship to Australia. Also there is a tax free limit on items (it's now up to $1000 
) but UPS will ALWAYS charge the tax and you have to fight them to take it off.
I only have one shipping address and that would fix a lot of the problems you are having Tony
) but UPS will ALWAYS charge the tax and you have to fight them to take it off.I only have one shipping address and that would fix a lot of the problems you are having Tony
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Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by RHD '68 L89
I only have one shipping address and that would fix a lot of the problems you are having Tony
My warehouse is un-manned. I only get there occasionally and it's usually in the evenings or weekends. Again, UPS/FedEx has problems with taking the time to leave a notice. I don't always know when they've attempted and I can't sit at the warehouse waiting. The package waits for me when sent to the PO Box or the UPS Service Center.
I provide two addresses to shippers...PO Box for US Mail and UPS Service Center for UPS. Shippers continue to send UPS to the PO Box and US Mail to the UPS Service Center. 50% of the time they screw it up.
My original question stands. Does everyone here know the difference between UPS and USPS? And if not, what f-ing rock have you lived under for the past half century?
Safety Car
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From: Carbondale Pa.
Hey, Not to be a smart **** , but the usps is where ya go to buy stamps and send crap out and gamble that it'll get there (eventually), ups is where ya go to send packages out for them to play punt pass and kick with 'em and then eventually get them delivered. around here (extremely rural) they usually just leave your crap out by the mail box (usps) & ups leaves it on the front porch by the door, I'am thinking that you need to make sure whomever you are buying from knows unequivocally where to send it, and if they cant then its time to find someone else and get your address situation cleared up,,gated communities should have some kind of system for deliveries, just a bad scene all around for ya,,, aint it? frustrating,,,,,,,,,,,Peace,,,Moosie
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Melting Slicks
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I have it covered in either situation. The postman doesn't have to come to my house (package sits at the Post Office with a note waiting for me in my PO Box). And, the guy in the brown monkey suit doesn't ever touch my package, as its' waiting for me at the distribution hub.
My problem is educating the various shippers (typical E-Bay schmoes and some forum vendors) as to the difference between UPS and USPS...
My problem is educating the various shippers (typical E-Bay schmoes and some forum vendors) as to the difference between UPS and USPS...
Le Mans Master
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From: Orlando Florida
St. Jude Donor '05
Originally Posted by TonySinclair
My problem is educating the various shippers (typical E-Bay schmoes and some forum vendors) as to the difference between UPS and USPS...
good luckJust give them my address - I'll gladly accept the boxes...especially the Corvette parts
Race Director
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St. Jude Donor '09
I'm in the same boat. Only we don't have mail delivery here, only POBox's. (billing)
And the nearest UPS hub is 70 miles away...
I just make sure everything has a note attached about where to send it with the service they are using...
Most of the time it works ok.
And the nearest UPS hub is 70 miles away...
I just make sure everything has a note attached about where to send it with the service they are using...
Most of the time it works ok.
Race Director
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From: State of Confusion
I once dated the girl who ran the Customer Counter at the 2nd-largest UPS-hub East of the Mississippi River, and had everything sent to the hub for pick-up there
(so I could BS with her ),
and one Corvette vendor, who advertises heavily here, shipped the same item THREE TIMES via U.S. Postal Service after "assuring" me it'd go UPS:
when it arrived there, it went into that hub's mail-delivery system (to be delivered to the various offices at that hub ), and since I didn't WORK there, it got sent back each time.....
Finally, when she figured-out what was going-on, my friend had the hub's in-house mail-clerk "pull" the package with MY name on it, and deliver it to her front-desk/counter area.....
It wasn't UPS' fault, nor USPS' fault, yet it took 5 weeks to receive a small package of interior trim screws that costed less-than $3.....
I try to NOT use that vendor anymore
(so I could BS with her
), and one Corvette vendor, who advertises heavily here, shipped the same item THREE TIMES via U.S. Postal Service after "assuring" me it'd go UPS:
when it arrived there, it went into that hub's mail-delivery system (to be delivered to the various offices at that hub ), and since I didn't WORK there, it got sent back each time.....
Finally, when she figured-out what was going-on, my friend had the hub's in-house mail-clerk "pull" the package with MY name on it, and deliver it to her front-desk/counter area.....
It wasn't UPS' fault, nor USPS' fault, yet it took 5 weeks to receive a small package of interior trim screws that costed less-than $3.....
I try to NOT use that vendor anymore
Instructor
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From: Phoenixville Pa
Usps
Check the prices out,USPS is prefered shipper from EBAY. If you bring a small package to UPS,DHL, they dont want to deliver it, so they charge you a rate, reship it USPS and it gets delivered to your house. UPS and other carriers would like just to do business deliveries, house deliveries cost to much. Fed Ex and USPS teamed up 3-4 years ago and USPS is doing alot of their small packages. BEST thing to do when ordering is TELL the person how you want it shipped and if he doesnt want to do it, find someone who will. JMHO
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Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by Supersportt396
so they charge you a rate, reship it USPS and it gets delivered to your house.
A public service announcement:
USPS = PO Box
UPS = Hold For Customer Pickup at the UPS Service Center
These are not interchangeable.
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Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by PRNDL
I occasionally confuse UPS and USPS. There is no excuse for the similarity. It is obviously intended to confuse. I am not sure who is trying to mimic whom, but it is stupid!
Well...no-one says "I'm going to the USPS to mail a package".
My problem is, when someone receives payment from me and sees a P.O. Box address, why would they, knowning that UPS is a private entity not related to the United States Post Office, write that as a shipping address on a UPS label?
Le Mans Master
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Originally Posted by TonySinclair
Well...no-one says "I'm going to the USPS to mail a package".
My problem is, when someone receives payment from me and sees a P.O. Box address, why would they, knowning that UPS is a private entity not related to the United States Post Office, write that as a shipping address on a UPS label?
My problem is, when someone receives payment from me and sees a P.O. Box address, why would they, knowning that UPS is a private entity not related to the United States Post Office, write that as a shipping address on a UPS label?
