That's Brown for you.Originally Posted by kc7jty
They actually manage to make the Postal Service look good by comparison. Now THAT is scary.
That's Brown for you.
They actually manage to make the Postal Service look good by comparison. Now THAT is scary.
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
"The 2020 election wasn't stolen, and speaking the truth is only a crime in countries ruled by tyrants" - Liz Cheney
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Actually the post office is pretty efficient considering some of the people who run things. Their on line tracking stinks but the service is generally quite good. Most shipments get here faster than the service I get from UPS, FedEx, etc.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
USPS flat rate shipping kicks butt. And when I sell my books on Amazon at the end of a semester, the media mail is usually about $4 a book.
I tried to ship a $80,000 portable microwave transmitter by FedEx last summer. My boss gets a call from the FBI asking about me and what I might have tried to ship via FedEx in a large black case on wheels, and why it was over next to the entrance at Ford Field. He had no idea what I had shipped, but the FBI said that they were going to take it out to the airport and "open it" (I enjoy the little irony that the emergency plan here is to take suspected explosives TO the airport).
They finally get in touch with someone at work who looks up the shipping record (I'm in class, no way to read me as my phone is off) and sees where it's going. The FBI is reassured it's not going to go *poof*, opens it and then gets all worked up over the helically wound antenna and feed assembly (it looks like it could be a nice sized white pipe bomb). My boss assures them that it's no big deal, they'll send someone over to pick it up.
What happened is that the FedEx driver picked this up in the afternoon, drove around Detroit all day with it and at one of the stops, removed it to restack the truck. And left it or had it stolen. Knowing that no pawn shop in the world was going to buy this stuff, the person who acquired it ditched the whole kit next to Ford Field. FedEx's response was, "oh, sorry" and still tried to bill us for the whole adventure. Two days later, a bunch of Apple gear shows up via FedEx completely trashed. Gotta love 'em too.
FedEx Freight always tried to charge me over $200 if their driver used a lift gate during delivery.
They never collected but kept trying. I always found it a bit odd that I should pay that kind of
money for them using a common piece of machinery that makes delivery easier on their driver,
saving their hourly paid employee time and reducing risk of injury caused by breaking pallets
down and having to reach up and pull heavy items down from over their head to stack on the
ground and take in by hand truck.
I understand if we required them to do something outside the norm but considering that it had
nothing to do with our convenience and everything to do with theirs it seemed a bit out there.
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