Projects Why not use the US Post Office ?

I've shipped literally thousands of packages and I only use USPS and Fedex. I've had nothing but good things to say. As long as things are packaged properly they will show up without damage. I ship trim in carpet tubes, my brother has a retail carpet store so it's easy for me to get tubes to ship long trim.

I think that trim is fixable,*****s that it got damaged but I certainly wouldn't throw it out. I've worked out some bent stainless in the past and with practice it comes out quite nicely.

 

Props to my mail guy he goes outa his way to make sure my stuf gets to the house (if it won't fit in the box) cause mailbox is at the end of our road,looking at the packing I would be all over your shipper for sending parts like it was a newspaper..........

 

i run an ebay business and ONLY ship through ups so take that cheaterjack....

but only because i like flirting with the 2****y little girls behind the counter. post office is a*****load cheaper but the fat****** that works there makes my peep sad. LOL

the way that trim was boxed it doesnt matter if the************* drove it to you himself it proly would of got bent.

and as i stated before. fix the*****ers its just steel trim.

 

x10 they all*****, it's up to the shipper to properly package the parts...

 

If those are S.S. and not Kinked to bad I can probably fix em for ya.
The Wizzard

 

I'm a 38-year letter carrier and I agree that the damage is the fault of the person who put it in our system packaged like that. Common sense should have prevailed. The pvc pipe is the perfect idea for packaging those pieces.

We process millions of parcels each day, (many more that Fed Ex and UPS combined) and if you package things right, we'll get it there as quick or quicker, and much less expensively. In fact, both Fed Ex and UPS use the U.S. Postal Service to deliver their packages to places they can't go.

I'd call the person who sent it to you and chew them out for being so stupid! We're actually very good at what we do.

 

X2 for this one....The tubes are free and pretty strong...I just sent some trim across the continent via post and it got there safe and sound!

 

If you don't want to spend on good packaging, then probably a good idea to get the insurance and gamble they will pay if something goes wrong. But, then I had FedEx deny a claim recently on a fairly expensive part I received because they came and looked at it and said it was packaged poorly and that is main reason why it was damaged. Sadly, I had to agree, it obviously was packed badly - couldn't really deny it. So, then I was still left with broken and rare parts and no insurance payout. You think you shouldn't have to tell people how to package***** right, but turns out you apparently do or you'll be left dealing with the problem.

 

A note on insurance. If UPS delivers a damaged item to your porch and you are not there to inspect it, they will not pay for the damages. Guess how I know? I've had bad luck with them all. Pack everything like it's going to be thrown out of an airplane. Try to be there to inspect it when it's delivered. Ugh,..

Lucky667

 

I'll tell you-I don't envy those folks who are out there rain or shine beating the streets to fill my mailbox full of stuff I don't need. You guys have a tough job as it is. But I'll give credit where credit is due-if you don't pack it right then you don't have anyone to blame but yourself.
That being said, when my old man went to pick our short block up from yellow freight, he actually watched one of the numbskulls poke his hand right through the crate and plastic, past the VCS rust inhibitor paper, just to satisfy his curiosity, I guess. It would be easy to place the blame on the company, but wtf was that dipshit doing? I just lose faith in humanity bit by bit, day by day. Thanks to the little jerk for making my new cylinder block rust. No wonder lions eat their young.


Jay

 

those sons of******es do that to my magazines and Rodders Journals ALL the time. i've even had photos and vintage mags i've bought online that come in the cardboard envelopes and say DO NOT BEND. sure enough, they will be crammed in my mail box bent in half!! if i did my job that poorly on a consistent basis they would fire me!

 

never had a problem with usps and i always make sure to package accordingly when shipping something fragile

 

That would make me sick...... sorry man........that is what they do every month to my magazines.

 

Back when I had an account with UPS the pickup guy used to laugh at the lengths I went to pack/protect items I was shipping.

My gripe with the post office is when they used to list "undeliverable items" on ebay. My***** would get lost and yet some one at the P.O. was taking the time to photograph & write descriptions for the ebay listings.

 

Absolutely correct! I shipped an aluminum Dodge grille off a '70-'71 truck to a guy in Wyoming once. I had a long cardboard box that I had stapled 1x4 planks inside of it, then built a crate that wrapped the grille like a mini-pallet. I wrapped the grille in bubble wrap and inserted it into the box. The only way this thing would get damaged at all is if someone were to drive over it! I told the guy what it would cost to ship it FedEx because of the way I packed it, as it ended up being fairly heavy. He agreed, and he paid to have it insured. Grille arrives at his home. He calls me three days after it arrived and claimed it was dented and "really looked like*****". I told him that I did not believe his story, and if he had a problem, to take it to the FedEx guys and file a claim on it - oh, and they will keep the packaging AND the grille, too. Suddenly, he was not as adamant about having me refund the grille price, or filing a claim. The grille was on egay (with seven other grilles he had!) a couple of weeks later, in perfect condition, of course, as it was shipped to him! He apparently did not think I would see that, and I asked him about that "damaged" grille...needless to say, he knew I caught his**** in a lie!

 

Insider post; I drive a truck for the postal service now. I've only been doing it about a week, but DAMN! The things I've seen in those warehouses! Guys throwing stuff from 10 feet away into a giant aluminum cart, guys kicking stuff along in front of them after they've dropped it, etc. I'm in the distribution warehouses every day and I'll tell you right now that it's not pretty. However, I'd blame the one who packed that trim as much as I'd blame anyone else. FedEx and UPS aren't any better. Always package stuff like it's going to be handled by retarded gorillas. I saw a guy the other day throw a new guitar box (cardboard type) from about six feet away from the cart. Yes, his supervisor jumped his****, but how many times has it happened when the supervisor wasn't there?

 

Summit shipped three Griffin radiators..
1st was simply deystroyed..too much damage to list
2nd had filler nub smashed..
Third was excellent..however this was one of the first with the Griffin grafitti paint..
Which I have ALMOST all removed...

 

Sorry to see that and understand how you feel. It should have been packaged better and shipped in a tube as others have said.

I find USPS is fine and no worse than UPS. You have to make it bulletproof in any case. I shipped a '50 Meteor grille shell and packaged it with bracing, extra wrap, etc. Well it arrived twisted. I forgot that if you stand a long box with "fragile all over it" on its end and put enough weight on it, the bracing will buckle and twist the contents. These guys just don't care.

I saw a UPS driver this week literally throw a large "Dell" box, (i.e. a server) into the back of the truck. I pitty the poor guy who's going to find out his server doesn't work when he gets it. He will likely blame it on Chinese quality control at Dell.

 

If you know that the magazines that you subscribe to are too big to go in your mailbox or the pictures that you have coming wont go in your mailbox I would say that you need a larger mail box. They are even available with parcel bins built on them to accept some of the smaller packages.
Later,
Dick

 

I have a buddy that is a paintless ding guy that goes around to all the car lots and does their cars. He makes his living reshaping metal in odd shapes and tight spots and I've given him trim from my 50 before and he tapped it right back in line....literally tap, tap, tap, tap. Then he ran a roller down it to smooth the slight imperfections, simulating an english wheel. If you really want that trim, find someone who does paintless dent repair, that's the guys who are trained to reform metal in tight spots and odd shapes. Might get you....... straight.

 

All I know is that I can Fed Ex 10 Packages to one as far as pricing goes, maybe their in line for the next bailout.

Jon

 

Uh, does anyone realize who the post office uses for moving these packages?
Uh yeah, Fed Ex and UPS. They don't do parcels themselves.

 

I worked at ups and they were no better at all. It makes no difference to list it as fragile cause when its all said and done they hold very little accountability. The responsibility is up to your shipper to pack correctly and you to insure it, and insist your shipper packs it corrrectly. Kinda*****s in this day and age people cant just do***** the right way. If they would have used a little common sense and packed it correctly the first time it would have saved alot of headache, but instead here we go again... Good luck

 

The USPS does handle packages coming into and going out of every major city. You take something to the post office and it gets trucked to a distribution center. I fill a 53' trailer and drive it from the Austin airport to the Main Post Office freight center and then bring another load back, 10-15 times a night. USPS May use FedEx planes to get it to the next city, but it's handled by USPS employees once it hits the ground.

 

When you apply for the damage,

FEDEX will say, "we're not responsible, it's in the packaging"

USPS will say, "we're not responsible, it's in the packaging"

GREYHOUND BUS will say, "we're not responsible, it's in the packaging"

UPS will say, "we're not responsible, it's in the packaging"


DEADWOOD STAGE will say, "we're not responsible, it's in the packaging"

 

Yup. What he said

 

I work for independent mail contractor, drive a tractor trailer to Pa. A lot of the sorting gets done by machine. It's in a big cage and a machine dumps it on a belt and a machine sorts it and sends down the line.

 

i sent a package to a friend,,it came back no such address /////funny he knew his address

 

4" PVC drain pipe for 10 foot is $7.50 at Home Depot. Mangled ones you can buy for less. Square PVC tube for your corner drain is also cheaper, is about 3"x4" or so and just as long. I won't ship stainless any other way, unless it won't fit a tube, and then it gets a triple layer box.

With FedEx and UPS they charge more by size than weight, so protecting something like a wheel arch molding with plywood only costs you what the plywood costs.

 

It's none of my business but,
You are posting your address on that box.