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RE: RE: [DL] My turn to complain [SHANE]
FedEx- When has to be there overnight.
UPS- When you don't care when it arrives.
USPS- When you don't care IF it arrives.
g'day
frempath
Andrew Hackard <hackard@io.com> wrote:
>At 11:42 AM 08/06/01 -0700, Wes Anderson wrote:
>>Still, shipped on Tuesday, should have arrived by Sunday.
>
>You'd think, but UPS doesn't operate on the same temporal plane.
>
>>And the
>>confirmation listed they had just gotten the package at the PA
>>shipping hub
>>on Friday which means they just got the package processed. Is UPS really 3
>>days behind on processing packages.
>
>In a word, YES. Having shipped many packages from the SJ Games offices,
>I've watched some of them go directly to their destination with no
>trouble or delays, and many, many more go to an intermediate hub and
>sit there for several days for no apparent reason. If FedEx offered us
>the same bulk discounts as UPS, we'd switch in a heartbeat.
>
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