Re: Plant disaster/ups versus usps

David, I do understand what you're saying, but things are  not that way here. 
 UPS does deliver on Saturdays - I frequently have jobs delivered on Saturday 
by UPS so that I can take advantage of two weekend days on a tight deadline.  
Also the postal service does not deliver packages to us at any time of the 
week.  They leave a notice in our box that we can pick up the package the 
following day.  They even do this with express mail which is supposed to be a 
next-day service.  My son in Washington state agrees with you about FedEX, but it is 
much the most reliable service in this area.  
 I had told these people what I needed the plants for and when, and they 
never indicated that they would send them by parcel post.  On $125.00 worth of 
plants you would think they would have realized that would not work.  I would 
have gladly paid a higher shipping cost in order to receive good plants when I 
wanted them, and they would have saved a bundle, too.
Add to that, it really hurts me to think of the nice plants - and I can tell 
they were nice when they started - that were treated that way.  
Auralie

In a message dated 05/18/2004 12:29:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dfranzma@pacbell.net writes:

> I'm dealing with the same problem more or less with my business.  You see
> UPS doesn't deliver on Saturdays so the packages I send east of the
> Mississippi take seven days to arrive instead of five or six.  They have to
> sit someplace over the weekend.  Sending by air is absolutely out of the
> question.  Recently I sent two packages by ground the total bill for
> shipping was $60.  If I had sent them by air it would have been well over
> $200.  How can I ask a customer to pay $200 for freight?  On the other hand
> USPS does deliver on Saturdays but they are more expensive and then you end
> up with the same problem that you are describing.  USPS simply isn't really
> geared for shipping large boxes.  Fed Ex. ground?  You might as well put it
> in a blender first before sending.  That company is the worst for ground
> service.

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