Re: [Amc-list] semi OT: new toy from Hades

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You have my sympathy. I have had problems with UPS shipments in the past. One time it was a large AMC part specially packed in a wooden box by a respected vendor in Kenosha.  NOS parts.  Neither he nor I were aware of the UPS policy towards wooden boxes....don't use them.  Their conveyor system has large drop points in it that will destroy a wooden box.  I got one fragment of what he sent wrapped in plastic.  

Week before last I shipped a set of AMC disk brakes to a buyer in WV via Greyhound.  It was 98 pounds, almost exceeding the Greyhound weight limit of 100 pounds.  The package did not get there until today.  To quote Greyhound:  They needed a special type of bus on the route.  Anyway it made it.  To their credit Greyhound has never lost a package forever, although a couple of shipments have disappeared until a tracer was put on them.  One AMX door I shipped to Mississippi was found in Dallas, TX.

Joe Fulton



--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx <Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx <Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Amc-list] semi OT: new toy from Hades
> To: "Strokers" <strokers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "AMC-DelMarVA: yahoogroups.com" <AMC-DelMarVA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "AMC List" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 3:46 PM
> Or, how the UPS facility ate my neat toys...
> Semi off topic cause it is for my Stroker and other
> assortec AMC Jeeps stuff.
> I emailed OOPS about the lack of any new info on my Piston
> pin jig and misc tools.
> No reply, I called, Got some neat info. They don't know
> where it is. As reciever I can file a traking trace, however
> if it is not found the trace will be "closed" and
> the process will stop.
>    If the shipper asks for the trace and the package is not
> found the process will automatically proceed to a refund.
> I emailed the sender yesterday and got no reply at all. I
> emailed again today and asked for a reply. His reply is that
> he is out of town and he will ask for the trace
> "later". Now just for fun I'll mention that
> earlier he gave me an eddress that goes directly to his cell
> phone so he would get it "right away". So, he
> chooses to ignore the whole issue unless I beg for a reply.
> I forget his seller I.D. but will say if anyone is looking
> at any renault/amc tools and he is in Wisconisn area maybe
> we should post his I.d.
>     This guy was way nice to deal with, very quick to
> refund when he thought I had paid too  much for the shipper,
> way faster to ask me to pay when UPS billed and fined him
> for packing 169 lbs in a box with 118 lb label on it! Now he
> seems to be in no particular hurry to help me get the
> package and avoid negative feedback!  I really do not like
> the whole idea of leaving him negative feedback but it may
> be only the second time since 1999 when I feel it is needed.
>    All I want him to do is spend about 5 minutes on the
> phone asking for a package trace. 
> I did get to talk to the people at the South Charleston, WV
> ups facility that has lost the package, very nice woman who
> even put me on hold to take a look around for it!
> Unfortuneatly she did not see it! How the package could be
> scanned in and then found and need forwarded to the Fairmont
> facility only to disapear is anyones guess.
>    I'm for sure back on my not shipping with UPS again
> kick! I did one a few years back but had gradualy relaxed it
> over time. Silly me! I guess it is hard to avoid as some
> people don't have access to other shippers or have yet
> to get burnt by the oopsies.
> 
>   I guess I can only hope it is found and I get it, or the
> guy refunds my money without a struggle if it is not!
> 
> --
> Mark Price
> Morgantown, WV
> 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
> " I realize that death is inevitable.
> I just don't want to be around when it happens! "
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