Ever since I've moved, USPS has managed to lose a fairly large portion of my packages. The sad thing is all of these stories are true. My ongoing war with USPS goes as follows...: Package #1: Package nowhere in sight. Local post office claimed package was being held at another post office at a zip code that doesn't exist with no address... for 2 months. Local post office refuses to take action since its not at their post office... Package #2: Package delivered to wrong address. Local post office response: "You should have used First Class mail." And that was the end of that... Package #3: Package sent back to China after being in a day in the States. Local post office claims my address doesn't exist. I argue that it does, since I live less than 2 minutes away and I manage to get my bills and all my junk mail. Post office can't figure out why someone shipped my package back the same day instead of waiting the usual 7 days for it to be claimed... Tracking log mysteriously altered from "address doesn't exist" to "recepient sent package back" shortly after visit. Package #4: Package apparently delivered to wrong address. Post office claims I've claimed the package myself already. Post office then claims one of my apartment managers has already claimed my package. Post office then confesses it delivered to wrong address, and will talk to carrier. Post office can't figure out who the carrier was for that day. FEDEX Package #1 Package nowhere to be seen. Fedex claims that someone has signed for the package already, but my apartment managers say that nobody has seen a fedex truck. Fedex sends me an electronic scan of the signiture and it is a squiggly line. Fedex talks to carrier but carrier says "iono" and package is lost forever... MORAL OF THE STORY: Use UPS. Seriously. I've never had a problem with UPS so far... UPS driver actually delivered to my doorstep once by somehow breaking into my apartment complex... Anyone else have any shipping horror stories?
I don't order rackets online unless there's a UPS option ... The packages lost were mostly random baddy stuff like 16 grips, 10 tubes of shuttles, etc. The fedex one was a hard drive for my computer. USPS did also manage to lose my acceptance package from the University... I would have never known unless someone from admissions actually called me just days before first day of class...
Depend on where I ship to. In US and CAN, I usually ship by UPS. Other place, no other choice but USPS.
Disagree but of course, your mileage may vary and has varied. I've been doing internet sales since 1998 and have shipped over 10,000 items via USPS and when properly labelled, have not lost one single item. OTOH, UPS owes me over $7,000 in damaged goods or neglect. FEDEX about $2,000. But this was over 5 years ago. I do admit UPS and FEDEX have been better recently. But compared to the USPS, UPS and FEDEX do not, at least that's my experience.
Actually USPS has been great to Canada for me. UPS and FEDEX forms are a pain in the @$$. USPS forms are easy. Heck for that matter, USPS has also been tops to: UK, Netherlands, Sweden, New Zealand, France, Australia, Spain, and Denmark. I ship a lot. Kwun, I think I need to change my name again.
You need to change your location to Panda Cave too. Also, I admit UPS gave me a couple of head ache before too.
I think it's more or less to do with your local USPS office. At the end, it's the local branch to deliver, and if some of their ppl don't bother to do a good job, tough luck for you. I've experienced extremely helpful delivery guys, and also heard horrible stories like mailman don't want to work, therefore, burnning 250,000 "un-delivered" mails in his basement, before being caught... So, go figure...
when i used to live in a 2nd floor apt... one day i came home and saw a UPS notice. the notice says: balcony. and i found that the UPS guy threw the package up to my balcony instead of leaving it at the door.
Which one is better. Left at door and some kid come by and take it. Tossed over the rail and broken on impact. Of all these delivery problems, I have 1 big issue with all of these companies. If I knwo the tracking number, if I know I will not be home to recieve it, why can't I just call and have the package hold at facility and I can pick it up later after work? Why do they have to attemp at least 1 try and I can only pick it up after 6:00pm? WHY IS DHL office so far away from every address?
To save cost. Rent such a huge facility in highly occupied residential place can be very costly. Whether we can get there easily (car racing to beat their close time) is another story.
From my own experience, USPS is very reliable and Fedex is the worst among the three (UPS, Fedex, USPS). Oh the story regarding Fedex! Once I was waiting for a job offer letter from an employer and the Fedex delivery person managed to deliver it to a massage/beauty parlor. I've to personally tracked the package in order to retrieve it due to the time sensitive nature. Another time there was a package that I have been waiting from a manufacture. The Fedex delivery guy (different person than previous due to different state ) managed to deliver it to the wrong address. After calling the central office to confirm address of re-delivery. It took them more than 2 weeks to deliver! The package was mangled. Luckily it was just samples and the content was not harmed. I don't think I'd ever use Fedex to deliver goods, unless I'd like to see if the service has improved or not. Even then it has to be samples and the recipient agrees to use Fedex. Cheers.
"Balcony"! Bwahahahahhahaa .... It's as good as saying, "here's written proof I threw it up there. DAMN I'm good. Hope this Kwun is not litigious." -dave
i'm sure it was just some shuttlecocks and not his canon mark III camera USPS worked well for me. UPS charges too much - i have to pay to ship it and pay to receive it.
Yeah, I think its my local post office thats a little "off." At my old address, I didn't have any trouble with my mail. In any case though, troubleshooting with USPS is a nightmare since calling doesn't work, and the email system gives you a semi-automatated copy-paste response that doesn't go anywhere. Last time I finally thought it was going somewhere... then they copy-pasted the first response again so it was back to square 1... Fedex just gave me a "well its signed for so what do you want us to do about it" type of response... Fedex also left my packages outside once, and being in downtown, it wasn't exactly the brightest idea... For me at least, for UPS the package gets here. Sometimes its completely squished, mangled, spoiled, mildewed, etc, but it gets to my apartment... lol I've only used DHL twice so I can't really comment on them. When I was runnin a store, we used UPS exclusively for shipping/receiving inventory. Again, the boxes were sometimes mutilated but they always came.
never had problem with USPS. UPS sucks balls they charge too much for brokerage fee and other fees...
