Re: Tell me about drives

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-j83-this>]

  To: Gregory Weston
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:05:20 -0500, "Gregory Weston" <uce@splook.com>
wrote:

>In article <xJidnXIAv_vy_T7YnZ2dnUVZ_sSmnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Charlie Springer wrote:
>> 
>> > I only have a couple of white drives thanks to UPS breaking a box and
>> > losing a half dozen along with 4 3.5''s. They delivered a big new box with
>> > a Platinum so badly abused that the thick plastic corner in front of the
>> > keyboard was broken free. They refused to check their pile of lost stuff
>> > and paid off on the insurance. I have a bunch of Platinums, including one
>> > I bought in an unopened box. No fading on that one! 
>> 
>> I've had problems with UPS, too.  Considering that I've used USPS about
>> ten times more often than UPS, it's significant that I've had several
>> problems (like yours) with UPS and essentially *no* problems with USPS.
>
>Drifting further afield, I've had such consistent bad luck with UPS, 
>across multiple decades and addresses, that I no longer give them 
>business unless it's virtually life-or-death and there's no alternative. 
>And when a company doesn't get my business because they only ship UPS, 
>they find out why they're losing me to the competition.
>
>I once had a machine bounce back and forth between the sender's and my 
>local UPS depots 3 times before finally being delivered in something 
>like 60 pieces. Bits of shielding inside the case had sheared off.

I had a shipment of about 12 boxes of Apple II stuff sent to me via
UPS from California to Ontario and after a few days of waiting I
checked the tracking number and found that a few of the boxes were
waiting in customs for the rest of the order to show up before it
could be cleared and the rest of the boxes were in a UPS depot
somewhere in the states.  I called UPS but they wouldn't help me and
told me I had to get the shipper to deal with it.  He called them and
a few days later, the entire order was left on his doorstep without
getting a signature.  He of course made UPS ship it again without
charge and it finally made it to me.

At the time, I worked for Fedex and knew what kinds of problems these
companies can have but that was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen.

Jeff Blakeney
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