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From: msmiller@gonzoville.East.Sun.COM (Mark Miller - Sun BOS Contractor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Shipping stuff ? UPS - Just say NO
Keywords: LOUSY service
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Date: 2 Jan 90 17:05:44 GMT
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I've never had big problems personally with UPS, but a friend of mine
did. He shipped a pair of speakers to himself from Mass. to Calif.
during a temporary transfer and they were slightly damaged in transit.
In the course of (a) getting UPS to inspect the speakers (b) getting
them to admit they had damaged them and (c) getting them to pay a
refund it took about 4 months of phone calls up and down the line. The
worst part - the most brain-dead - though is the fact that they
shipped those poor speakers cross-country about 4 more times because
they kept getting the source and destination addresses messed up. Then
they shipped the check to the wrong place once. 

As long as nothing goes wrong, UPS is fine. Heaven help you if
anything goes wrong - you are just somebody else's meal then.

    -MSM

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