Re: [Leica] The Wonderful PO versus Awful UPS

[John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu>]

Oh, I also meant to say in my last post that I really do like the Postal
Service, especially for sending.  I called their Express Mail 800 number
and they sent me all sorts of free stuff.  The very nice Express Mail
boxes that you cannot find in the local PO.  Two sizes!  A couple rolls
of very nice sealing tape with the express mail logo.  And, a bunch of
pre-printed express mail stick on labels with my return address on
them.  I have found that express mail usually gets to anywhere in the
country in three days, and most of the time two days.  And for dropping
off, plenty of places including the small contract post offices where
you don't have to wait in line.  I sometimes hand packages to the letter
carriers if I happen to see them delivering.  

Marc James Small wrote:
> 
> At 05:11 PM 10/4/2000 -0400, Steve LeHuray wrote:
> >OK. I think I know what happened. Sherry was probably in her shop at the
> >back of the house and did not hear the PO man knock. Usually the PO will not
> >just leave a package (I think that is a PO rule) whereas UPS & FedX will
> >after they get to know you. Sherry has a safe place on her front porch where
> >they leave and pick up packages. Sherry can be a little testy about having
> >to go to the PO to pick up things.
> 
> Well, UPS left an $8,000 lens on my front porch one day when I was at
> lunch, and I live in a high-crime neighborhood.  I will not voluntarily
> employ that bunch of losers again -- and, yes, "signature required" was
> right on the tag.  They just dumped it.  FedEx is even worse -- those bozos
> at Leica USA returned a repaired lens to me one time to a PO Box via FedEx,
> and it took FedEx THREE WEEKS to figure out where I was -- and I'm in the
> phone book, for heaven's sakes!
> 
> Use the Post Office.  Visit the Post Office Box daily.  Avoid UPS and FedEx
> at all costs!  They are horrid!  (They probably are great for Eddie Bauer
> and Victoria's Secret, but I order from neither, alas!, so I cannot tell.)
> 
> Marc
> 
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