There’s no better way to say “we don’t give a damn about your business” than to deliver 25 boxes stacked against your door in a slovenly pile. A reader writes:
I work for a merchandising company and we often have some of the in-store promotional materials shipped directly to our merchandising employees. We just received this photo of how an employee of ours in Florida received a shipment of packages from UPS. All one shipment. Our employee was so dumbfounded by what they found, they took photos and sent them to management. Nonetheless, we’ve contacting UPS about this and also forwarding the photos on to them.
Do they need to be wrapped with a bell and pink bow? No. How about a stack? A stack would be nice.
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I just want to know if they used cereal boxes for packing material…
On the bright size, if you would receive a bomb by UPS, it wouldn’t reach you
From all kicking around the package would explode in-route.
@milty45654: I was just thinking that! Stay off my lawn you lousy kids!
@homerjay: im with u on this one… i def think they were all stacked and then fell over
@nemesiscw: Huh what?! UPS delivered something to the wrong address and then agreed to go and get it for you?! That’s a-freakin’-mazing!!!
Last Spring I ordered Guitar Hero from BestBuy.com for my boyfriend. (First mistake, I know, I know.) The Guitar Hero was all that I ordered. I got the receipt in my email and it had the correct shipping address in it. When I received the shipment notification, however, it had the WRONG address in it.
They were shipping the package to an old address, one from three apartments ago. I immediately called Best Buy and explained the error to them. Best Buy, of course, told me it was not their problem and that I’d have to take it up with UPS, even though I sent Best Buy a copy of the original, correct, receipt.
I called UPS and they confirmed that they had the package and that Best Buy gave them my old address, but that they were going to deliver it to the address it was shipped to unless Best Buy called them and told them otherwise.
Another call to Best Buy and again I was told to deal with it on my own. They actually suggested that I watch for the package on the UPS tracker and then go to the old address and sit there and wait for the package when it was supposed to be delivered!
UPS delivered the package and the property’s caretaker signed for it, knowing damn well I didn’t live there anymore. (Dude probably thought “SCORE!”) I tried to contact him to get the package from him with no luck.
Best Buy and UPS still wouldn’t help me– they both considered their duties fulfilled. Ha! I swiftly filed a charge-back with my credit card company and somehow Best Buy and UPS managed to swiftly find their way over to the building to pick up the stray Guitar Hero.
Funny how that happens…
sam1am at 05:03 AM on 02/26/08: “How did they get outside to take the picture? They couldn’t have possibly gotten past all of that crap. Maybe this is a reenactment?”
They have these wonderful new add-ons to most homes…it’s called a “back door”…as it was felt that only one entryway was counterproductive to one’s safety in these lawsuit-crazy times!
I have no choice but to use UPS when my textbooks are mailed from my school’s website…likewise, T-Mobile sent us 2 new cellphones via the Useless Postal Substitutes; in both cases, despite our demand that the packages not be left on the patio (in our high-theft neighborhood) in our absence, they were left there…in the driving rain, twice!
No bag to keep the water out of my textbook/our phones; when we pulled the phones from their soggy cardboard package, water poured out of the charger socket at the base of the phones when held vertically.
T-Mobile immediately sent two replacements for the replacements, and used DHL this time.
“What can Brown do for you?”
Take lessons in competence from DHL and Fed-Ex, for starters…
Well, it looks like there’s no real place to put the boxes. Also, it is possible that someone was rummaging through them looking for that massive EBAY shipment of electronics. It is remotely possible that they were originally stacked neatly and something happened. Simply put it’d be more work to do that then to simply stack em, unless they’re light enough to throw at the building, but I’m assuming that promotional material includes literature wich is not usually that light.
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Wait, has anybody ever shipped a box that shouts “Ow!” in a child’s voice every time it’s jostled?