Re: OT: UPS vs. Priority Mail
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: OT: UPS vs. Priority Mail
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:58:18 -0600 (MDT)
>
> And here's another commercial garden's viewpoint on the subject.
>
> We now ship UPS only at the customer's request -- for essentially the sam=
> e
> reasons Rick went on to discuss for going the other way. Two years ago, =
> we
> enclosed a self-addressed stamped postcard in every order, with the
> shipping date noted and a request to return it letting us know the arriva=
> l
> date -- so were able to run an extensive comparison of the two services.
>
> Neither lost any packages.
>
> Priority Mail took 1 day within the state, two days for most of the
> country, three days for the east coast. One package to the east coast di=
>
> I think the difference is in the office where something is shipped. =
>
> Priority Mail is supposed to be sacked separately and go straight to the
> sectional center for processing.
>
> Sharon McAllister
>
You are so right about where the package is mailed. Oakland, MS
is a tiny hamlet with a p.o. staffed by three employees. The postmaster
is the typical MS gun-toting, pick-up truck driver, beer-bellied, tobacco
spitting redneck bubba who doesn't know that Priority Mail goes in a
separate bag. He is putting the PMS stuff in the Partial (local
pronunciation) Post bag and it is going nowhere fast. Now, dear readers,
you
can understand about the delayed arrivals on PMS from Oakland, MS. This
afternoon, I plan to mail either in Grenada (Jackson,MS hub) or Batesville
(Memphis hub) and see what happens.
UPS does window service in Batesville from 4 - 6 p.m. only!
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
