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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Shipping stuff ? UPS - Just say NO
Keywords: LOUSY service
Message-ID: <2511@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 23 Dec 89 20:03:51 GMT
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In article <2283@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> sharp@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp) writes:
]
]     I just thought that I would relate this experience to you.  I recently
]ordered some memory and some disks from the States.  I used a major machintosh
]mail order house.  When they asked how I wanted it shipped I picked UPS
](United Parcel Service) since I thought they were big, reputable, and safe.
]considerably longer than normal surface mail.  The other person used them
]three times.  Once he was overcharged by $15, twice he received slow service.
]
]     It is now over a month later.  I have discovered that the order was
]shipped on the 29th of November, and was REFUSED by my university on the
]14th of December.  I inquired as to why it was refused.  Apparently, UPS has
]such *BAD* *UNRELIABLE* service and *DAMAGES* so many packages, that our
]university refuses to deal with them and automatically refuses parcels from
]them.
]

	UPS is a large reliable shipper.  I know of none more reliable
for the price.  I receive hundreds of packages UPS every year.  I have never
had one lost.  Your university is the problem, not UPS.  If they had
accepted the package, you would have recieved it on time.  (And then
there is Canadian customs. I have had trouble with Federal Express getting
through Canadian customs.)