Firearms shipment - avoid UPS

George Anderson · 12-05-2013, 07:09 PM

UPS is notorious for bad deliveries. Today I was supposed to receive a Luger shipped by a dealer through UPS. Either my wife or I were at home all day so as not to miss it. At about 1700 the UPS truck drove slowly by the house while my wife stood out side watching it. I called the UPS center here and asked about the package. I was told that it was delivered and signed for. I told the nice lady "The hell it was". They contacted the driver who went back to wherever he delivered it, retrieved it and came to my neighbor's house where he tried to deliver it. I walked over to his truck and told him he had the wrong damn house. He handed me the box and I told him I needed to sign for it. His response was that that had already been taken care of.

UPS is a union staffed company and their delivery competence is pathetic at best. I once had a 1906 Navy full rig tied up in their distribution system for over two weeks because I couldn't pick the package up as their employees were on strike!

You want secure shipping? Use FedEx.

sheepherder · 12-05-2013, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by George Anderson

...He handed me the box and I told him I needed to sign for it. His response was that that had already been taken care of.

George, that's hilarious!!! (Pathetic but funny!)

"Oh, no, sir - You don't have to sign for it. The guy two streets over already took care of that!"

On an unrelated note, I went to four well-known sites today looking for smokeless powder...One of the sites had a note saying that UPS now charges $20 extra for shipping powder...Over & above the shipping charges...

The amounts didn't matter, but it would be $20 extra for each package containing powder...Big package or small...

A hazardous substance fee???

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12-05-2013, 07:09 PM	#1
George Anderson Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VA Posts: 3,592 Thanks: 1,773 Thanked 2,531 Times in 788 Posts	UPS is notorious for bad deliveries. Today I was supposed to receive a Luger shipped by a dealer through UPS. Either my wife or I were at home all day so as not to miss it. At about 1700 the UPS truck drove slowly by the house while my wife stood out side watching it. I called the UPS center here and asked about the package. I was told that it was delivered and signed for. I told the nice lady "The hell it was". They contacted the driver who went back to wherever he delivered it, retrieved it and came to my neighbor's house where he tried to deliver it. I walked over to his truck and told him he had the wrong damn house. He handed me the box and I told him I needed to sign for it. His response was that that had already been taken care of. UPS is a union staffed company and their delivery competence is pathetic at best. I once had a 1906 Navy full rig tied up in their distribution system for over two weeks because I couldn't pick the package up as their employees were on strike! You want secure shipping? Use FedEx.