[UPS] Thanks, jerks. Ouch: [IMG]http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/MyClone/03293da4.jpg[/IMG] Boxes inside were somewhat squashed, but toys were amazingly unbroken. I guess this is what "rescheduled delivery" means in the tracking system? http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218748#msg-218748 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:53:23 -0400 Phorum 5.2.18 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240898#msg-240898 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240898#msg-240898 -Mason]]> mcfitch The OT Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:59:28 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240869#msg-240869 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240869#msg-240869 -------------------------------------------------------
> UPS sent you a pocketbook?
> -Mason


Yes, in grey to match my Sharktopus T-shirt: [www.heruniverseshop.com]

You like?]]> Ken-A The OT Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:53 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240862#msg-240862 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240862#msg-240862 -Mason]]> mcfitch The OT Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:58:55 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240855#msg-240855 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240855#msg-240855 thomas The OT Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:43:58 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240839#msg-240839 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,240839#msg-240839



Best, Ken-A
]]> Ken-A The OT Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:57:59 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222321#msg-222321 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222321#msg-222321 -------------------------------------------------------
> Nice inside heads up Jake. How far back was that?

Ack, sorry I missed the inquiry. I worked at the Amherst, MA. main Post Office in the summer of 2000. Before that I worked in shipping & receiving at the MFA in Boston for 2 years.

Thank you]]> Jake The OT Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:20:51 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222270#msg-222270 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222270#msg-222270 Sanjeev The OT Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:42:40 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222264#msg-222264 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222264#msg-222264 -------------------------------------------------------
> And yes, I'm totally setting myself up by
> admitting to having ordered 17 pounds' worth of
> Loincloth Lenny figures. Have at it, you freaking
> vultures.

Don't sweat it. I've got them color-coordinated on my shelf. Aside from a few dull-looking numbers it's spectacular!]]> Gcrush The OT Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:07:36 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222263#msg-222263 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222263#msg-222263


Granted, it was just a bunch of worthless Loincloth Lenny & His Totally Fabulous Buddies figures, but still, the toys' packaging was unmarred. Amazing! Loincloth Lenny is happy to have survived the trip and looks forward to frolicking with his Fabulous Buds:



And yes, I'm totally setting myself up by admitting to having ordered 17 pounds' worth of Loincloth Lenny figures. Have at it, you freaking vultures.
]]> gingaio The OT Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:56:38 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222145#msg-222145 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222145#msg-222145
Not that I look, or anything.]]> hillsy The OT Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:02:35 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222123#msg-222123 Porno on the belts, porno in the boxes. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,222123#msg-222123 The Gods Must Be Crazy were filmed in LA. Crazy.

But that's not what I came here to talk about. No. Today I got a box in the mail (thanks, USPS!) and when I opened it the packing material seemed... Fleshy. Then I caught a half-hidden "SEX" emblazoned on one piece with the word "-owjob" underneath it. So I took out the crinkled-up paper and straightened it out. The dood had packed my stuff in an old Maxim magazine.

At first I thought it was cool someone would do that.

But then I thought it was lame that they wouldn't go all the way and ship it in real porn.

Finally I felt a little sad because people probably can't pack stuff in real porno magazines anymore because nobody reads that stuff since the advent of mass high-speed internet access. Hell, can you even buy porno mags anymore? Who even sells them?]]> Gcrush The OT Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:17:54 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219162#msg-219162 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219162#msg-219162
I have several friends (young, and old-timers)who work for various post offices, and distribution center, and since "real" snail mail has tapered way the heck off, with Gore's invention of this here interweb, the sheer volume going through many facilities is much lower. So, boxes are picking up the slack, and getting relatively good, fast attention.

Of course, this doesn't suit bean counting, so branches are closing, and layoffs, to keep the stress-per-person ratio amped back up recently.]]> repairtechjon The OT Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:36:08 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219121#msg-219121 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219121#msg-219121
What I saw was that USPS Priority mail was treated very well, (at least in our facility) both in terms of handling and quickness of movement.

Given the choice I always ship this way. It's a good, cost efficient, mostly simple, relatively fast option that is likely to get your package to its destination in one piece.

Thank you]]> Jake The OT Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:04:04 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219050#msg-219050 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219050#msg-219050 -------------------------------------------------------
> Servbot30, Gcrush, and Sanjeev, need to go into
> buisness together. I see sunshine and ponies in
> your futures.

That would rock. You don't even know.]]> servbot30 The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:54:39 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219027#msg-219027 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219027#msg-219027 Anonymous User The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:05:33 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219018#msg-219018 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219018#msg-219018 -------------------------------------------------------
> They suck.

I have not been privy to any information which suggests USPS or FedEx operate in a significantly different capacity than UPS. And my own anecdotal experiences with damaged goods show that they're all equally piss-poor, though only a fraction of the time. The logistics of the scale at which all these companies exist practically demands an environment that produces these effects.

As the saying goes, you can have any two out of these three:

1) Good
2) Fast
3) Cheap

When people complain about the service they get 99% of the time it's at the bottom tier. But the fact is you can get all your stuff delivered timely and in perfect condition. You just have to pay for the premium delivery services. Which a lot of corporations do because they know the score and they have the financial leverage to ensure they get what they want. The bulk of what UPS and FedEx do is corporate accounts. Do you know how much leverage you get as an individual customer? None. You best bet for quality is to hang the cost and piggy back on the levels of service that corporate accounts utilize. But, like I said, most people can't or don't want to do that.]]> Gcrush The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:38:43 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219017#msg-219017 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219017#msg-219017 -------------------------------------------------------
> Sometimes the package eats it at the 'factory', so
> to speak. I currently work for Amazon.com at a
> shipping factory. I work on a conveyor line where
> I pack items and send them out to shipped. This is
> a 10 hour shift in 115 degree heat with little
> time to rest.

I feel you. This brings up a really good point - the warehouses where all your stuff is packed and shipped are about as comfortable as Mordor. Warehouses are hot in the summer, freezing in the winter, choked to the brim with industrial refuse (dust, exhaust, petroleum, etc.), noisy as a jackhammer, and full of stuff that can permanently maim or kill you in a heartbeat. The difference between that kind of labor in the US versus a "third world country" is the base wage and little else. All the governmental oversight that's supposed to ensure our safety and quality of life counts for shit in the day-to-day operation of a warehouse. Regardless of where that kind of system exists the end result is that it always treats people like human machines. And when a machine becomes inefficient or too expensive to maintain you just replace it with another one. Easy.

Physical labor itself does not inevitably produce alienation. But being treated like a machine sure as fuck does. I had no sympathy for how boxes were treated at UPS. I was a machine. Machines don't give a fuck.


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> Servbot30, Gcrush, and Sanjeev, need to go into
> buisness together. I see sunshine and ponies in
> your futures.

That's just a hallucination created by misfiring neurons in your brain as your retinas burn out from the bomb flash.


Sanjeev Wrote:
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> How are they supposed to be "exclusive" if any
> jamoke can preorder them online?

You don't really want to have to go to SDCC to buy them, do you?]]> Gcrush The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:23:39 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219015#msg-219015 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219015#msg-219015 -------------------------------------------------------
> Okay, the driver who dropped Ray's server is a
> fucking jagoff...but I'd imagine that was a
> statistical aberration.

Tell that to Ken Kelly. He absolutely refuses to use UPS for either original art or prints. Same thing with at least one other pro artist I know, because both have said you absolutely can't rely on them to deliver something in a timely fashion and their experience with damaged items is so extensive they expect something to most-likely be ruined upon arrival.

And I can't even count the other numerous times I've had UPS show up, lightly tap on the door while everyone is home and then disappear with only a re-delivery slip behind. One of them even nearly backed up their van on my wife, and another tore a gouge out of my front lawn with the tail end of their van doing a three-point turn in the road for no obvious reason (we live in a very short loop). Those don't include squashed boxes, boxes with holes punched in them. Or the gift bassinet we found on our back porch after two days in the rain and snow since the driver never left a note that he had abandoned it in a rarely-used entryway.

And I'll note that the first UPS shipment I ever got - back in 1984 from Books Nippan (my first mail-order Japanese book) was actually bent in half until the spine split, left in an obviously damaged padded, boarded envelope on my parent's doorstep.

They suck. If you absolutely, positively need to tell the client you sent it but you don't care if it shows up in useable condition or shows up at all as long as it's cheap to ship, then they're your people!]]> Anonymous User The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:12:27 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219014#msg-219014 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219014#msg-219014 -------------------------------------------------------
> Servbot30, Gcrush, and Sanjeev, need to go into
> buisness together. I see sunshine and ponies in
> your futures.

I shudder to think the damage we'd cause to the social fabric of this nation...

> ...tons of eagerbeaver fanboys clicking
> furiously to order "exclusives" that day...

Not to derail this thread (because it's obviously so rigorous!), but what the FUCK does "exclusive" mean anymore??? I just got some newsletter from bbts or some other website offering preorders on dozens of upcoming Comic-Con exclusives.

How are they supposed to be "exclusive" if any jamoke can preorder them online?]]> Sanjeev The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:06:43 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219010#msg-219010 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219010#msg-219010
Quote

I've turned into a horrible mean hearted dick.

So have I. I'm ordering stuff I don't even need from Amazon at this very moment just for you champ ;-)
-Mason]]> mcfitch The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:27:46 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219001#msg-219001 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,219001#msg-219001
Joshb, glad to hear you grabbed steady work, but hate hearing it'll give you "bitter old man" syndrome. It sounds like in your case those systems engineers under the direction of MrCrush, keep the pressure on steady all day. I remember being a shipping/receiving clerk at a plant, and it was always the classic,"Oh,give 'im a deluge at the end of the day, right before the pickup comes. He'll pack it up, no worries." RAArrrgghh! SMASH!

I can only assume a place like BBTS tries to spread the order packing all day, but logic just says the tons of eagerbeaver fanboys clicking furiously to order "exclusives" that day, dictate an end of the day panic rush for the shipping department. Even then, it can still go out perfect, and get killed by the carrier, like Ken's case.]]> repairtechjon The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:03:57 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218998#msg-218998 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218998#msg-218998
So with all this in mind, you might understand how packages can get Sanjeev'd before they even hit the truck. The time it takes to deal with a damaged good is more than enough for rate to drop and be penalized. So more often than not, it gets shipped out anyways. Not to mention the bazillion other people who handle the package before it gets to the truck.

I have to be honest. The job makes me hate people who order from Amazon. It's not their fault but the job sucks so much that I project on those who's stuff I'm packing. I have packed damaged goods. I have packed goods I've damaged. But I don't care because I have to make rate or I'll be fired and financially fucked. Nothing else pays as well that I'm qualified for.

I've turned into a horrible mean hearted dick. So I'm sorry if you order from Amazon and your stuff is a tad mushy when you get it out of the box.]]> servbot30 The OT Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:09:32 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218983#msg-218983 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218983#msg-218983 asterphage The OT Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:51:22 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218970#msg-218970 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218970#msg-218970 Ginrai The OT Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:24:48 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218953#msg-218953 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218953#msg-218953 don't require a signature, you can just ask them to leave the package. At one point, I was getting way too many of those stupid things, so I just asked the lady at the PO and she said, "sure, no problem". After that, no problem.

Of course, it could, again, be a regional thing. I can imagine other PO workers not being cool with that...]]> Sanjeev The OT Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:38:51 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218952#msg-218952 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218952#msg-218952 -------------------------------------------------------
>

You should have upgraded to "Collector's Grade".


mcfitch Wrote:
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> Nobody else finds it ironic that a guy with the
> word "crush" in his name is explaining how this
> comes about?

Now that you mention it, it is suspicious...


hillsy Wrote:
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> I bet the $20 I leave at Christmas doesn't hurt.

Tipping always makes a difference.


Sanjeev and Ginrai Wrote:
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> Dirty pink slippers!

Service does tend to vary from place to place. The closer you live to a hub the more likely you are to get your parcels faster and in better condition. The point of origin can make a difference, but it isn't necessarily about distance. The number of connections and time in transit both dictate how much abuse your parcel is likely to endure before arriving. If I mailed a package from a Florida to ZIP to another Florida ZIP it might go through more hoops than if it were going to a Georgia ZIP. It sounds wacky, but sometimes deliveries within a state end up taking side-trips to other states along the way. Thank those systems engineers...

Regarding who leaves a box where, when I was at UPS it was often driver discretion. If a neighborhood looked sketchy or there was no covered front porch a driver would probably tag the house instead of leaving the parcel. As for the USPS, I once lived in an area where they would not, under any circumstance, leave a parcel. If I wasn't home I got a pink slip regardless of whether it needed a signature or not. And just last week a substitute mail carrier dropped a parcel behind the garage door for some reason. I nearly backed over the damn thing with the car.

Still, I lived in countries where mail service was as much an outright gamble as it was an unimaginable luxury. All and all we've got it pretty good in the 'States.
]]> Gcrush The OT Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:00:53 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218946#msg-218946 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218946#msg-218946 require a signature? Not much you can do about that...]]> Sanjeev The OT Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:43:29 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218945#msg-218945 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218945#msg-218945 hillsy The OT Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:30:40 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218940#msg-218940 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218940#msg-218940
UPS always seems to deliver my packages without problems so I almost always select UPS over USPS if I have the option because I won't have to drive miles out of my way on a Saturday (the only day the PO is open at a time I am not in work) just to pick up my probably destroyed package.

I wonder if UPS is better in some places and USPS is better in others?]]> Ginrai The OT Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:08:15 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218928#msg-218928 Re: [UPS] Thanks, jerks. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,218748,218928#msg-218928 -Mason]]> mcfitch The OT Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:24:47 -0400