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UPS Takes 3 Weeks To Deliver 70lb Smoker, Broken

UPS Takes 3 Weeks To Deliver 70lb Smoker, Broken

David ordered a 70 lb smoker from Amazon. For some reason, it shipped back and forth between Washington and Nevada 3 times, over 3 weeks, a total of 4500 miles. When it finally, arrived, it was in pieces.

What Else Could Go Wrong, UPS?

What Else Could Go Wrong, UPS?

Brad sends in this screenshot of how his package is faring in the hands of UPS.

No iPod, Soap!

No iPod, Soap!

We’ve all heard of iPod’s vaunted “clean design,” but this is ridiculous.

Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up

• How does copyright work when the material is in a library? [Link]

Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up

• Tonight I was paying at a gas station and I used the keypad to enter my pin. The numbers 2, 3 and 4 showed tremendous wear compared to all other keys except the enter key. Are these numbers most common in pins? [Link]

Customer Experiences Superior UPS Service, Then Heart Attack

Customer Experiences Superior UPS Service, Then Heart Attack

The last UPS delivery I received was hurled at high speed out of the moving van window and into my gutter like Henry Huggins chucking a daily on a newspaper route. Unfortunately, it was my MacBook Pro.

UPS Takes a Year to Deliver Package

UPS Takes a Year to Deliver Package

Matt got a funny package the other day through UPS. Inside was a hydraulic gear puller set which he had no recollection of ordering. Checking its tracking history, he had in fact hadn’t:

TV Shipping in the Valley of the Amazons

TV Shipping in the Valley of the Amazons

Man buys TV from Amazon. UPS keeps dropping it. Perhaps Amazon should use better packing.

Complaint: Motorola & UPS Refuse To Replace Lost RAZR

What starts with a D or maybe a P and caused Motorola to efuse to give reader Julie W. her Razr back? A mystery signature on a UPS slip! Oh, and did we mention that Julie’s house was trashed in Hurricane Katrina?

UPS Sucks But We Can’t Blame Canada (This Time)

UPS Sucks But We Can’t Blame Canada (This Time)

“It started out so innocently…”

Track Nearly Any Package on Google Maps

Track Nearly Any Package on Google Maps

Track your packages on Google Maps using this phat, free tracking tool, which handles UPS, FedEx, USPS, and Airborne/DHL.

Customer Avoids Murdering Humpy UPS Employee

I already wrote a letter to UPS informing them that while I’ve never had a problem with their company I will happily take my package to the copy shop down the block where I can choose from a host of their competitors.

Big Three Shippers: What Didn’t You Get from UPS, Fedex, and USPS?

Mr. Jarvis has had much in the way of Christmas-time delivery problems, with at least four packages having issues with both Fedex and USPS. Others in his thread have had plenty of problems with the big three shippers, as well.