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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: A *real* problem
Message-ID: <573@rduxb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 14:54:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: rduxb.573
Posted: Thu Jul 18 14:54:25 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 07:27:49 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA
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> Here's an issue that affects every single person
> 
> Stores and any other retail businesses that have hours like 9-5 on
> weekdays and either limited or no Saturday or Sunday hours.
> 
> The vast majority of people who work have jobs that fall in the area of
> 9 AM - 5 PM weekdays; even if they have flexitime or different hours, the
> time to travel between the workplace and the store/business location would
> make it next to impossible to patronize businesses that have these
> limited hours of operation.

This article appeared in net.women and a few others but I changed the newsgroup
line to net.flame because after all, it is a flame.

A recent experience with UPS caused me to respond to this article because they
really pissed me off.  Like the article stated, most people work 9AM-5PM or so
and UPS makes their deliveries during the day.  What pissed me off is they try
to make the delivery and of course I'm not home so they leave a note saying
they will try tomorrow.  The note also states that if they try 3 times without
success they will return my package to the sender.  No big deal?  That's what
I thought.  Since I also would not be home tomorrow when they attempt for the
second time I figured I'd call them and tell them to keep the package there and
I will pick it up.  I look in the phone book and lo and behold there is no
listing for the UPS here in Reading, PA.  So I call the only UPS listed and
thats in Harrisburg.  They tell me they can't give me the Reading UPS number
for some asinine reason and say if I want the package to be left at my door 
step to put a note there and sign it.  Now no way do I want to leave a package
worth a couple hundred bucks just lying on my doorstep for all to see (my
neighbors also work so that was out of the question to leave it with them) so
I had to drive 10 miles to UPS the next day to ask them if they have my 
package.  I was told it was on the truck trying to be delivered and I'd have
to come back tomorrow to pick it up.  So now I have to drive another 10 miles 
back to work without my package and make another trip tomorrow to claim it.
What a fuckin' drag!  I have to wait two days after my package arrives to get
it just because they won't announce their damn phone number.  What kind of
crap is this?  The only way to talk to someone there is to drive out to them.
So now if I have a package coming UPS I have it delivered to me at work, but
what about people that can't have that done what do they do?  To me UPS means
UP Shitcreek.  Has anyone else had any such problems or is this just the UPS
assholes here in Reading?

						Joseph M. Dakes
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
						Reading, PA
						rduxb!jmd

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