UPS Rant......

[Remo]

Originally Posted by icehog3

Some people have work accounts with UPS, some have more convienent pick up, and some just prefer UPS. Me, I use USPS exclusively.

I think this is the case.....I am just impatient I guess.

[Conch Republican]

Originally Posted by Remo

I think this is the case.....I am just impatient I guess.

Ya think?

[Remo]

Originally Posted by Conch Republican

Ya think?

I need compassion, not mockery......ass!!

[EricF]

Originally Posted by Remo

I need compassion, not mockery......ass!!

I prefer the mockery!!!

[Remo]

Originally Posted by EricF

I prefer the mockery!!!

Maybe i'll send something to you via UPS

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by Remo

I think this is the case.....I am just impatient I guess.

Well I am old enough to remember times before UPS and Express Mail, when Parcel Post (which adjusted cost in real terms was more expensive) would take weeks. I don't baitch about three-day delivery.

True story. I once worked at a place that shipped out stuff UPS, and my job was taking internet and phone orders, processing, and dealing with customer service. One morning a customer placed a web order, and that afternoon called up screaming that she had not yet received delivery . . . of her yoga meditation pillow.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by The Poet

Well I am old enough to remember times before UPS

You were born in the 1800's?

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by T.G

You were born in the 1800's?

The West Coast precursors to UPS did not deliver their first package in Oakland until 1919, and after mergers with others the East Coast company that finally called itself UPS didn't start in major cities until the '30s. Between 1940 and 1959 they acquired "common carrier" rights to deliver packages between addresses both public and private. Not until 1975 did they begin servicing all 48 contiguous states.

FYI, I was born in 1951. President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act in 1956, which led to the building of our interstate system. Ya think maybe that had a little something to do with the growth of UPS?