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- From: msingh@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Supreme Commander)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: How to get UPS to pay up AND what's a good alternative
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:49:23 GMT
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- I just recently had an interesting experience with UPS myself. I sent
- a box of dinner plates, clearly marked in 10ft letters FRAGILE. (10ft
- is an exagerration, but you get the idea) UPS broke half the set. I
- called them up and they agreed to refund my money. They came a week
- later picked up the *entire* set and returned it to their warehouse.
-
- A week later it arrived back to the original ship point, now with 80%
- of the plates broken. UPS refused to admit they had broken any "more"
- plates, and would only pay for the original broken ones. They then
- asked why we had returned the *enire* shipment and not just the broken
- ones. (Well gee, let's see, you *told* us to do that...)
-
- UPS said "send us copies of the purchase reciept and we will consider
- your case". Now what a minute, you said before you would pay for it!
- Now you broke more plates and say you are only going to consider
- paying for them?
-
- The next day, UPS comes to pick up the plates to return to their
- wharehouse. However, they decide to send it to some other third
- party!! After the third party, *not* UPS, contacts me, I tell UPS to
- pick up the package from them.
-
- Surprise surprise, two days later, UPS delivers the package back to
- me!! Meanwhile, they tell me they have decided to actually pay me for
- the damaged goods. At this point I tell them I still have the package,
- and that if they want it they should come pick it up.
-
- I got my check, and no one came to pick up my damaged goods. If UPS
- runs the tightest ship in the shipping business, I'd hate to meet the
- guy who runs the loosest ship!!
-
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