Projects Getting parts in the mail .

I ordered a new improved radiator from US radiator for my 1957 Ford Fairlane . Thankfully they packed the radiator in a thick cardbox box with lots of packing . The box looks like it got bumped a few times with the forklift tire . I wonder what the people at UPS are thinking when they load stuff . Last year I ordered a motorcycle tank from a Co in Cali . It arrived at my house with a hole in the side of the box . The right side of the tank had a dent in it that looked like a forklift fork . UPS again .

 

I'm afraid that's the new normal. HRP

 

I tell you for a while it looked like they didn't stop the truck; just thre boxes out the door as they drove by...

 

They probably aren't thinking anything, a lot of that is done by conveyer. When parcels are handled by humans they don't have time to look at anything other than where it's going. When packing something up, if you'd feel comfortable throwing it down a flight of stairs or off the roof of your house it's probably cushioned about right. Double boxing costs more in materials and shipping but it will arrive in one piece.

 

The average UPS delivery guy is always in a hurry...so alot of the packages have dings and are ripped open. The downtown LA hub is a few minutes from my job and every morning these guys take off from there like its a race...in the small box trucks up to the full 18 wheelers...pretty scary to see these guys veering into on coming traffic (when you are the on coming traffic)..time is money!

 

I try to use US post office only in my area. I had a custom made knife Randall delivered by UPS. It is a $500.00 plus knife and it takes several years to recieve after the original order. The day it was delivered, I was out of town for the day and returned late. The Ups driver put the boxed knife in a clear plastic bag and tied it to the out side of my drive way gate. On other shippments they have thrown boxes over my fence, behind the gate. The gate is right on US highway 11. A very busy highway. When I contacted the driver, he said he had orders to make the delivery one way or another.
Now I ask the sender to use FedX or US Post office if possible.

 

I'm retired from UPS and can tell you without blushing that any driver who mishandles a package and gets caught is risking his job. The culture there is not one of carelessness or intentional rough handling of any package. Any driver who tells you that he has been told to make a delivery by throwing the package over someone's fence is simply lying to cover his own butt. Do packages get damaged? Yes they do, some times thru negligence, some times by a conveyer, and some times by being poorly packed, but the great majority of deliveries are successful. As a former manager of two very large operations I can tell you that I was held closely accountable for damages and package handling. And I took my job very seriously. UPS has been around for over 100 years and it's no accident - if you're an employee who wants to act stupid you won't be around long. Don't hesitate to use UPS, it's a company made up of primarily good people who do good work.

 

Hey...... it's 2017, not 1959 and this isn't "Leave it to Beaver". The days of the average person caring about stuff like that are gone. If I'm expecting ANYTHING to be delivered, I'm just glad it shows up. A scuff or hole in the box, wouldn't even get my attention.

Millions of packages a day. MILLIONS! Somethings bound to happen sometimes. It's just the odds.

 

Post office isn't any better. HRP

My Macs catalog,well it was suppose to be a catalog.





And my Rodder's Journal.

 

That's the way it USED to be.
Now days I've seen pkgs kicked, thrown, and dropped...and not just by employees.I've seen management training new hires doing the same things.
One of the problems is we are not equipped to handle a lot of the items that we take in.
Things on pallets,furniture (recliners,etc.) that won't fit in the system , things that back when I was delivering, you couldn't even fit into a pkg car (delivery truck).
Other problem is when we went public, the bottom line became king...all about the #'s.
I've worked there for 44 yrs now, and it's not the same as it was then.
(Probably get fired for this post, but I'm really sick of it)

 

BTW, they only use fork lifts in the shop or out in the yard, not around the pkg's

 

The tanks for the motorcycle was returned to the builder in a wooden box I made . I built it on top of a pallet so no one would have to pick it up . The builder replaced the damaged tank as it was half of a matched set he had hand made . Returned the tanks to me in the wooden box . Every corner of the box was hammered . It looked like it had rolled out of a truck and down the highway when I got it . The tanks were ok .

 

I have had things delivered with tire tread marks on them!! Also, by luck noticed a FEDEX delivery in a mound of snow about 20 feet from the end of my driveway (330 feet long), and about 10 feet into the wooded area! Definitely thrown out on the way past.....

 

It looks like in the final analysis that it's the shippers responsibility to make the packing as bulletproof possible, given the way packages are treated these days. Trying to place responsibility doesn't seem to do any good. I have a very valuable magneto I have to ship out to be refurbished. I have been looking for about a week for something suitable to send it in and have just about come to the conclusion that I am going to have to build a custom wooden crate for it. Between that, some thick Styrofoam, and bubble wrap, I should be able to get the job done. I think it is worthwhile to do this, so the unit can be safely returned as well. I am also going to insure it to the hilt, because the unit is darn near irreplaceable. Sure, it'll take some extra time and effort, but I should be confidant that I can get it back in good shape.

 

Sad when the USPS handles our packages better then UPS. My experience is Fedex doesn't doesn't beat up the boxes as much as UPS.

 

Our UPS guy is a pro. Great service

 

Just got a set of intake manifold gaskets for my 348 from UPS.
Box was folded in half. Luckily gaskets survived,

 

Far as I know Pete&Jakes uses FEDEX as their shipper. Every thing I ever received from them was AOK. I have ordered a lot over the last several years..........

 

After lodging a damaged parcel claim with Australian Post, they told me that parcels would have to withstand a 20kg weight placed on top of it, and a fall from 2 metres height onto a concrete floor. So now they expect you to make a box from 1/4" plate & weld it shut (after filling it with expanding foam). Although From a few thousand parcels I have sent, I have only had a couple go missing or get damaged, and anything over about $50 gets insured.
Hey HRP, I like the way that USPS try to blame the reciever for tearing up your catalogue, by not having it addressed properly, and no mention of "here's a paltry sum as compensation for your loss". At least you can read about Ford T shirts.

 

The shop I work for used to be an associate dealership for International trucks and we would get UPS every day. The driver would back into the shop, open the back doors and start heaving shit out of the back doors. So much for the new fuel injectors we ordered, a heavy box with a spindle landed on top of them. When I looked inside the back of the truck, it looked like the stood the truck on its nose and dumped the packages in.


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Just last night, Saturday at 9:30PM, my sister got a text message from Amazon stating "You have received your package" Well, she didn't get it, so she sends a nasty email gram to Amazon. Then, today, Sunday, the package arrives with a extra non-purchased item in the box, with no text message from Amazon. It turns out someone in Northern California got our package and we in Southern California, got their package. It's kinda funny but the mess still needs to be corrected.

 

Got my mail order bride,nothing like the picture but at least he can plow¡

 

My goodness. Well I know they hire young punks that just want school money or whatever. And the drivers don't even let me talk about them. We're I work at apartments it is a dam race coarse there. And we have speed bumps and speed limit is 5-10mph. Sheesh that's out the window I hear the hole truck jump all over the place wen they speed through. I feel bad for ppls packages in the trucks as well.

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In my area; Fed Ex packages survive best, followed by UPS, then USPS.
Most packages from businesses seem to be packed OK,
packages from people not so much.
Flat rate boxes with heavy parts seem to show the most damage.

 

I get packages every week.. I have a great UPS driver. Most packages are intact...My Fed Ex is confusing as packages come from several distrib centers in this area. A couple have been "lost" because of this..Some require signature others don't. My USPS service used to be the worst. They finally replaced the delivery guy and now I get my packages.. He used to report item as delivered, (to the wrong box) and/or take it back to post office. Where it would set on a shelf "lost". Now they may be beat to shit and repackaged in USPS plastic bags with parts gone but now I at least get them..

 

I get packages delivered by UPS every month, never a problem, usually not one blemish on the box. USPS is always a day or two late and the packages look like they have been through a meat grinder and anything bigger than about 4" square has been folder a couple times. I try to avoid Fed-ex at all cost, because they wont leave a package that hasn't been signed for, this means I have to drive 25 miles to their facility and their counter is only open for business a couple hours a day. Fed-ex delivery people are independent contractors, some are good, some aren't.

 

I could not find a new replacement parking brake cable for one of my cars. I contacted a supplier To copy my cable and make a new one for me. I know I could have made my own but wanted a supplier that could sell the same cable to other people with the same issue. I sent them my old cable (FedEx) with a return label enclosed in the package, They used my cable for reference and made the new cable. They packed them both in the box and sent them back FedEx. I checked the tracking number Friday afternoon at 2:30PM. The FedEx web site said the package was left at my front door at 1PM. I was right here all the time and there was no package delivered to my house. I contacted FedEx and they said they will put a "tracer" on the package and let me know next week what they find out. I asked why they cannot just contact the driver and ask him about my package. Their response is "The tracer is being activated" They refused to attempt to contact the driver. Now I no longer have my original cable nor do I have a replacement cable that I cannot even be sure will fit my car! I'm a bit perturbed with the whole situation.

 

Worked for UPS 1979-1981 and was the first two time winner of the service award in our Dallas hub.....cost me my left nut....just another reason I won't ship UPS.....had not had issues with delivery of shipped or shipped to me from USPS or Fed-X....

 

Now I don't want to see any of you guys bitching about a small part showing up in a massive box with piles of packing materials. They know your gonna send it back and make them do it all over again if it's trashed when the soccer team delivers it.

 

I had a piece of trim show up a couple of months back, box looked like a hockey stick, a nice piece of trim was junk and it was UPS. I doubt the problem is with the truck, must happen during the processing.