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- From: miller@positron.com (Griff Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
- Subject: Stupid USPS Stories
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 10:38:27 -0600
- Organization: Positron Corporation - Houston, TX
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- References: <4fd6i6$gb7@artemis.it.luc.edu>
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- In article <4fd6i6$gb7@artemis.it.luc.edu>,
- Maciej P. Stasiowski <mstasio@orion.it.luc.edu> wrote:
- >Here's a little story to warn all of you fellow Amiga users not to ever
- >ship anything through the US Postal Service.
-
- And here's a few snippets of my own.
-
- >behind the counter was rude as hell. I had to give her a 5 minute
- >explanation that I wanted to send a COD package and the amount on it was
- >to be $800 + whatever the shipping will cost me. Some how she couldn't
- >grasp the concept.
-
- I just sent something COD myself. While the clerk I dealt with knew how
- to put the shipping charges onto the receiver (just add the shipping cost
- to the agreed-upon price - duh) I couldn't get her to understand that I
- didn't want the receiver's check - I wanted to force him to pay cash so
- that I would get a money order instead of a personal check. I finally
- gave up. She was very nice, but just didn't understand why I would care
- one way or the other.
-
- >I also requested a next day delivery, to which she
- >replied that since it was Christmass season the package could get there
- >2nd or even 3rd day. I said 'OK' as long as it wasn't more than 3 days.
-
- Who else but a branch of the government would have the gall to offer a
- next-day service, make you pay for it, and then tell you it would take
- longer than next-day?
-
- > My buyer received the package more than a WEEK after I sent it out.
-
- And who else but a branch of the government would be able to stay in
- "business", failing their own promises like this?
-
- > I go back to the Postal Office. Same story over again. Same
- >people, nobody knows anything, nobody even remembers that I was there a
- >few days ago. They search for the package for another hour. Finally,
- >they decide that they must have sent it back. BACK?!! BACK?!! WHERE???
- >I WAS THE ORIGINAL SENDER!!
-
- Another time, I sent $375 worth of stuff COD, and after a couple of weeks,
- I got a knock on the door. It was the postman with a COD package for me.
- You should've seen the look on his face when I told him that I was the
- sender. The buyer did finally get it, like a month after I sent it. :-(
-
- I think this problem arises from the way the COD slip that you fill out
- (which becomes the mailing label) is formatted. The have the To: address
- BELOW the From:, and since people are used to seeing it the other way around,
- they get the two confused.
-
- > They give me some LOST PACKAGE Forms, and say I have to wait
- >untill the end of February and then send them to the Post Master.
-
- You had to wait to send a lost package form? What is the logic behind that,
- I wonder? Yeah, let's let the scent get really old, THEN we'll go look
- for it. Brother!
-
- -- "...and this just in: scientists have
- Griff Miller isolated the gene that determines whether
- Systems Administrator '95 Z-28 or not one thinks Monty Python is funny."
- Positron Corporation '85 VF1100S
- griff.miller@positron.com My opinions are mine, not Positron's.
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