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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #60 on: March 06, 2018, 06:46:35 AM »
I also just found this on their website at the bottom of the page about their shipping policy.

"PLEASE NOTE:
DUE TO OUR HIGH VOLUME OF ORDERS, OUR SHIPPING TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 7 TO 10 BUSINESS DAYS ON SOME BUT NOT ALL ORDERS ( EXCEPT DURING HOLIDAYS, WHEN SHIPPING TIMES CAN BE CONSIDERABLY LONGER). WE DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO GET ORDERS OUT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT US REGARDING STATUS UNTIL A FULL 10 BUSINESS DAYS HAVE PASSED - THIS WILL ONLY DELAY US IN GETTING ORDERS OUT SOONER. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE."

http://www.e-sarcoinc.com/shipping-policy.aspx
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #61 on: March 06, 2018, 03:21:02 PM »
Getting back to UPS vs USPS

I just ordered 10k Federal Primers (Gator supply in Naples) and they came FedEx.

Signature required.


So I go on-line to the FedEx website because they've emailed about the pending delivery and extolled me on all the delivery options available.    Scheduled for a Wednesday.  I won't be home. 

No problem:
  • Have them delivered them to work.   OPTION NOT AVAILABLE
  • Only deliver on Friday.   OPTION NOT AVAILABLE
  • Hold at FedEx center for pickup.  OPTION NOT AVAILABLE

Okay what are my options?
  • Front Door
  • Back Door
  • Side Door
  • Garage

No problem for me.  I'm not in a hurry.  The driver, and FedEx, wastes 2 trips to my house because they
won't let me change anything about the delivery on a hazmat.

Next time I will go ahead and have them delivered to work from the get-go.





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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #62 on: March 06, 2018, 11:29:29 PM »
That's one of the things I really like abut UPS Alf. If they can't deliver something without a signature, I just go to UPS and pick it up. That's if I don't want them to try again the next day.
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #63 on: March 07, 2018, 04:57:47 AM »
FedEx too will hold them at their nearby facility for pickup.  It's just that they waste 3 trips to my house before they do hold them.   
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #64 on: March 07, 2018, 05:18:20 AM »
It seems that the "Signature Required" is the main stumbling block here. I don't know if that's a Fed Ex requirement, or a requirement from the place you ordered from? Primers are a Haz Mat item, so it sounds like the decision is Fed Ex's.
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #65 on: March 07, 2018, 09:26:09 AM »
Quote from: alfsauve on March 07, 2018, 04:57:47 AM
FedEx too will hold them at their nearby facility for pickup.  It's just that they waste 3 trips to my house before they do hold them.

It has been a long while but I thought they used to have a website screen that allowed you to go in and tell them to hold it for you when you wanted?????
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #66 on: March 07, 2018, 11:41:27 AM »
Quote from: alfsauve on March 07, 2018, 04:57:47 AM
FedEx too will hold them at their nearby facility for pickup.  It's just that they waste 3 trips to my house before they do hold them.

Can't you just call them up like I do with UPS?
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #67 on: March 07, 2018, 04:03:33 PM »

This is the whole point.  Neither the web site nor the 1-800 would allow me to make any changes in the delivery.   Quite probably the options were removed by the HazMat designation, but they shouldn't have been.   I wasn't asking for no-signature option or anything dangerous or in violation of their charter.  Just trying to save them wasted trips.

They wouldn't let me change delivery address, or request it be held nor could I say wait until Friday.

I'm not upset, I wasn't in a hurry. They just they screwed themselves and wasted 2 trips.  Had I not been home, 3 trips.  In which case they would have held it at the local warehouse for a week for me to pick up, which is what I wanted to request anyway.


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UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #68 on: March 31, 2018, 02:49:58 PM »
Even UPS has a bad day!!
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Re: UPS vs. USPS
« Reply #69 on: March 31, 2018, 04:43:25 PM »
What is / was it?
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