Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2018-05-08 22:12
This thread has been amusing to me. I guess we're used to some pretty bad shipping experiences up here, and have just come to accept them.
For us, FedEx has always been best, then it is a toss-up between USPS and UPS.
Once, UPS had my over-night delivery item "out for delivery" in my hometown in Wyoming, but it didn't arrive that day. The next day, it showed up as "delivered." The catch is that it was delivered in Hawaii. Same thing happened another time, but the second time it ended up in Kentucky. On average we have at least one package either lost or destroyed every two months with UPS. This past December, they delivered our annual extravagant food item to a vacant building several doors down from ours. Eventually the wild cats and smell of rotting food substance led us to it. Since then, a one gallon metal can of epoxy (and the box it was shipped in) was crushed and leaking.
USPS - just last month lost a very-eagerly-awaited five-CD order of trad jazz from New Orleans. Our problems with USPS usually just pertain to lack of tracking and extreme delays though. Some times we receive our neighbors packages, and sometimes they receive ours.
FedEx - due to shipping contracts in our area...they are now too expensive. FedEx had been our go-to for nearly a decade, but now we can't afford them. I think we only had one bad experience with them over the decade we used them.
One interesting side note is that our UPS shipments almost always arrive through the Centennial, CO UPS facility near Denver.
Fuzzy
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