Re: Lesson Learned: Ordering Anything involving UPS

[Paolo Valladolid <paolovalladolid@yahoo.com>]

Holy crap, guys!!!

Now I feel a little better.  I "only" stand to lose a
$450 investment.  Looks a lot smaller compared to
$3000.  Glad to here you guys didn't lose your gear!

Paolo

--- Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net> wrote:

> I find that FedEx does the same thing.  I ship stuff
> FedEx ground to 
> people for Ebay auctions and I've never gotten a
> complaint, but I 
> wonder about such things.  I live in a quiet
> neighborhood on a tiny 
> dead end, and I've got a closed in porch, but my
> wife bought a Yamaha 
> S80 and they left it (actually, I'm not sure who the
> shipper was) in 
> our driveway!  I've been home when stuff was just
> dropped off without 
> even a doorbell.  What's going on?  I don't think
> this every used to 
> happen.  On some level, it's easier getting stuff
> not having to wait 
> for it, but I wonder how they can get away with
> this.  Do they have to 
> come up with an insurance payment if it's taken off
> your porch?
> 
> Anyway, this story's going to make me act to make my
> work address the 
> same as my credit card so I can use it as a shipping
> address.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Jul 29, 2004, at 1:35 AM, |SquidLoop| wrote:
> 
> > Yeah I remember coming home one night and seeing
> about
> > 5 packages laying at my front door - about 5
> modules
> > for my rack - over $3000 of stuff - I lived in an
> > apartment building with many many units. At the
> time I
> > wasn't getting him until dark so you can see how
> > pissed off I was when I saw all that stuff just
> laying
> > there. Luckily it was still there when I got home
> ...
> > ARGGH !
> >
> >
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