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January 5, 2007
UPS Mail Innovations
Until a few weeks ago, when I got the shipping information for something I bought on ebay, I had never heard of UPS Mail Innovations.
Basically, it's another logistics service from UPS, whereby they perform sorting and partial delivery of packages by handing them off to the local postal authority.
This is, in my opinion, a horrible idea.
Two weeks later, UPS claims that they delivered by package to USPS 6 days ago. Needless to say, it hasn't arrived at the house, and I'm guessing it never will.
For this "service" I paid UPS shipping rates (though how much of that the seller pocketed I have no idea) and got UPSP (un)reliability. Isn't that great. I mean, if I wanted something folded, spindled, mutilated and ultimately lost, I have shipped the damn thing via USPS in the first place.
Now I get two companies who get to play hot-blame-potato with each other when I try to figure out where the hell my package is.
Crap.
Posted by dberger at January 5, 2007 11:52 AM