What happens to the stuff UPS looses?

I had one of a kind items that were sent via UPS show up on ebay a few weeks after being "lost". They both went through memphis and I hear they had a real problem with theft there. Hope they fixed it.

 

Sometimes, UPS's blunders work out in your favor. A couple years ago I ordered a rebuilt gearset and carrier for an 8" Ford axle. Well, the box shows up, and the damn thing is hanging out of the box! The only pieces of the box left were where it has the adress label! I was pretty pissed at the time. A week or so goes by, and I come home from work to find another box with another center section? WTF? This box was in great condition. Apparently UPS had called the company and told them that they broke the first one, and to send out a new one.

I never got a call from the company I bought it from, or from UPS. What I did get, was 2 brand new centersections!

Nick

 

Sir, who at the UPS front counter was not doing their job then to "allow" a package to get into the system without a to or from address?? Pls, who do you think your kidding?

I am a customer and I walk in, fill out the slip and walk up to the counter. If I have mistakenly forgot to put an address lable on the package SHOULDN'T the counter person noticed and bring this to my attention. Come on, isn't this part of their job?

 

The United States Postal Service has a Y-block ram horn somewhere.

 

A lot of times shipping tags go missing. The people picking up the packages won't take them if they're not tagged. Having worked in a shipping department at a skate shop that did a pretty sizeable mail order business I saw a lot of that. Even tags getting scuffed to an unreadable point can land your package in that "ring" of misfit toys.

 

what REALLY burns my biscuits is that SOMEWHERE UPS has gotten the idea that they can just walk up to your house,.. throw your package down on your front porch and call that "delivered"...
No signature, no nothing.

I know I often go out of twon, and I live in a area where stuff often gets stolen. The UPS guys just drops a package on my front porch in plain sight of everyone to see,.. if it's not brought in by nightfall,.. it's gone. WHo's fault is that. UPS "claims" it's not theirs,.. but in reality IT IS. If they wouldn't leave it out so everyone could see it (and take it with them) no one could steal it

WITHOUT a signatire UPS has no proof they ever delivered it.
The driver could just keep a package for himself and "call" it delivered.
I have no clue where UPS decided it was OK to just take it upon themselves to take a package some company paid good money to assure safe delivery to a customer,... and just throw it down and walk off.
I hope the UPS supervisor reads this. I'd like to hear his reply. I'm sure it has something to do with, company profits, repeated trips, etc... but still thats what they get paid to do is "deliver" a package. Not just throw it down and hope the person finds it.
AT this time I am waiting for a $1,000 shipment, and it is due here any day. I am going out of town for 5 days starting today. If they deliver it and it gets stolen... hope they plan on paying to replace it.
I know I won't be paying the shipper until I get it.
And calling UPS to notify them don't do any good. I'd got a "standing order" with them NOT to deliver anything unless they see me personally, and get a signature, and to ALSO come to the back door.
It just gets ignored. They do as they please.

Another thing I have saw happen is that UPS just throw stuff down and walks off at the WRONG address, I was at a friends house the other day, and we went to walk in and he had a UPS shipment laying on his front step. he picked it up and said "I don't know any 'Mary Smith'" Heck the address wasn't even CLOSE. He just pitched it over on the counter and said I'll take care of this when I get time or when I see the UPS guy.

WHAT if the UPS guy was delivering some persons medicine that she needed. There is more and more of that with mail order drugs these days. What if it sat outside in extreme weather conditions. What if it was something else important.
And FedEx isn't any better. They just did the same thing to me one day last week.

 

I got burned this way last year...shipped a nice set of 186 "worked" SBC heads to a guy. Only one showed up...but the shipment was marked as delivered. The guy was nice enough to split the loss with me, and now I have a nice single race head that no one wants.

 

I'd love to hear from someone who works with FedEx....

A crank I bought last year was lost...FedEx reps (two) told me that "lost" parcels go to Salt Lake; when a package is reported lost, Salt Lake checks inventory....if a "lost" parcel at Salt Lake isn't "found" and sent to it's true destination within 30 days, it's disposed of. Wouldn't say how. Very nice.

Denise, one thing I see constantly is that people write the addresses directly on the box, or on a plain label...which then gets scuffed off in transit.

UPS used to tell us to write it on the box, cover it with the special UPS address label...so if the label got torn off, there was a backup. I always cover our labels with clear tape, completely. Seems to solve a lot of problems.

 

USPS has me pissed off right now. I sent hidden hinges to another HAMB'r and the box shows up resealed and all the important parts gone. Now to try and find a few needles in the hay stack. With service like this is it any wonder why they have to raise the rates all the time. Incompetence is expensive.

 

THAT reminds me of this. "What costs $12 million and is invisible?"

answer: "The NAPA Toyota at NASCAR Cup Races".


The UPS Toyota will also become invisible when Jarrett runs outa' his 6 provisional starting spots for ex-champions.

BUT ......... He'll be able to get a part-time job driving the "Big Brown Truck" and losing everybody's stuff along the way.

 

I don't feel so good. Just called to find out my four rebuilt Henderson wheels were shipped UPS on the 16th from California and are due to arrive on the 23rd. Wish me luck, they are one of a kind and irreplaceable.

 

I nearly always get sellers to use USPS to send stuff over from the US to the UK, mainly because it's cheaper than UPS! USPS haven't lost a parcel yet (probably over 100 sent), but I usually ask the sender to stick or tie an extra address label to the parts(s) inside the package in case it falls apart. When they get over here they are delivered by Parcelforce, who used to just leave the stuff round the back of the house if no one was in, but since eBay has taken off and there are so many people claiming items haven't arrived, they have changed so that will not leave a parcel without a signature.

Also, I once arranged a UK carrier to collect two rollbar hoops from a tubebender, to be delivered to me at work. The bars disappeared without trace between being collected, and getting to the local depot! A three foot square parcel abducted by aliens while en route? More likely the driver has a new double hoop roll bar in his pickup!

 

I like the story about the guy that somehow got exclusive rights to bid on, pennies to the dollar, on all the Airline lost stuff..I don't know how he monopolized it, but hes got a store in Kentucky/Tennessee? where it sells it all retail..I wouldn't be surprised if he has expanded to UPS/FedEx stuff....

 

I also lost a 32 "heavy" axle to UPS about a year ago. I sent them pictures and descriptions of what it looked like but never heard what happen to it. After about six months I got a checkin the mail for it but I would have rather had the axle.

 

i lost a `32 heavy axle with UPS in 1984 , it was on the way back from Mor-Drop. it was never found.

 

better buy the insurance, i ship many things with ups, they don't loose that much. but it always seems to happen at the worst time.

 

As much as everyone likes to tell their shipping horror stories, I think we need to remember that it's pretty impressive that they can get something to you overnight almost all of the time without incident.

Sometimes items don't find their way as they should and, while it may be frustrating that they pay the insurance claim so quickly, business needs to keep on truckin'.

 

UPS sells it to scrap dealers. We found some of our lost parts on ebay. Even had our company name and logo on it. Also, some of the stuff is left in the trailers. We find all kinds of small parts in the trailers when they show up.

 

UPS, and most big for-hire carriers, are self-insured. They pay the claims themselves.

 

Self-insured...sorta kinda out-of-pocket?

 

Area 51.

 

My other hobby is toy trains. I bought two G scale trains sets to be delivered by UPS. Delivery date comes and goes no trains. Next day the phone rings its a guy a block and a half down the street. He has two huge boxes on his porch with my name on 'em. He was nice enough to look me up in the book and call me to come get them, he could have easily kept them.

 

Good old UPS. I do not send anything through them any more. About 3 years ago I was sending Harley parts and some other parts using UPS. It seem that all of the other parts would get to there location but all of the Harley parts were not. I was shipping the harley parts using my Co. name which is a custom biker shop. I started shipping the parts without the Co. name on the boxes and guess what they made it to there location. Called UPS about it but nothing was done. (They said they would look into it.) It was amazing that my parts started get to there location after I stop putting the Co. name on the box.

One other thing FEDEX is anyone not getting there stuff. I talk to a friend of mine two days ago. She was living with a guy that was a sub contracter for FEDEX. I ask her why she left him an she told me because of his stealing. She told me that he was stealing electronics that he was delivering and would sell them. She also told me that all of the gift he gave his son for christmas were form his truck that he stoled. He told her that alot of the workers are doing the same thing. She would not report him but I did. Just wating to see what happens.

One thing and can not stand is stealing.

I was going to start a thread about FEDEX but figured I would just add to this one.

 

I've got a '39 Ford trans lost by Fed Ex...sent an empty box...how the fuck do you lose a trans???? We even called Fed Ex to go search the wharehouse floors ourselves...they wouldn't let us in.

UPS sent another empt box that had a Model A rear spring, with a weight stamped on it and "heavy" sticker...empty box!!!

But I have to say,.....the US Post Office is much much worse.....especially since they are not government owned anymore....

I still think UPS is better than the other 2

 

They probably used your axle to break the merc crank I had shipped by the fuckers, then threw it away.

 

My wife still gets a goverment pay check..USPS...WTF?........OLDBEET

 

I had a set of lifter sent to me UPS. The side of the box was cut and all of the lifter were missing. I can not figure that one becuase the lifter were divided by pieces of cardboard. There should have been some left in the box. I also got and empty box that was suppose to have a Harley F150 badge in it.

 

Just label your packages with "Yugo Car Parts" or "40 pounds of Tofu" nobody will steal that.

 

Beware of USPS also ...I shipped a camshaft from NC to Texas by USPS Priority Mail with Insurance & Delivery Confirmation..It's been over 2 weeks now and it hasn't made it. Now the USPS here tells me they have no enroute tracing capability on Priority Mail packages..The only info is when & where I mailed it..If it ever shows up at the adressee ,the delivery then can be confirmed ... Anything in between seems to be a "Black Hole"