Re: Plant disaster/ups versus usps

Auralie, I wonder why UPS  delivers there on Sat. but not here? or for that
matter anyplace I have tried to send a plant?

David Franzman
A Touch of the Tropics
www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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