Re: OT: UPS vs Priority Mail

Walter A. Moores wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Dana Brown wrote:
> >  I finally gave up on the local office and went to
> > someone higher up the food chain.  I raised cain and it seems to have
> > worked as I haved received several packages since then.  I must admit
> > though that I request all shipments be sent out US mail whenever
> > possible.
> > --
> > Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas  Zone 7 Usda, Zone 10 Sunset
> 
>         I think it might have something to do with the district manager.
> The UPS guys here are really 'gung ho' and always put my packages in the
> garage next to the kitchen door so that no sun gets to them.  The two
> ladies who are our rural mail carriers do the same thing and are great
> ladies.  My only complaint with UPS is the two hour window service between
> 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., really inconvenient for me.  Both the UPS people and
> the p. o. people wave at everybody they see....real folksy people.

Same here - the semirural south.  The big variations I have in UPS
service is the individual drivers.  Substitute and new drivers are
always lost and behind schedule and have more than once left me packages
at rural fillin' stations after calling me with a pitiful tale about how
they have been lost all day.  They do try to put plants out of the sun -
once they 'hid' a package across the road in an abandoned dairy barn
(took several weeks till a neighbor happened to spot it) and once a
package sat in the cab of my truck for about a week without my knowing
it.  They have a reputation for hiding things to protect them.  They
have a key to my gate, but each driver seems to have a different
approach - the skinny one that loves horses crawls thru the space
between the gate and the post and walks to my house to leave things on
the porch so he can stop and visit with my creaky old quarter horse. 
Others just lean over the gate and drop things.  The truly well trained
unlock the gate and put packages in the special UPS garbage can and hang
out the red ribbon on the stick.

Linda Mann lmann@icx.net east Tennessee USA
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