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Re: [Alpines] AVOID UPS

To: "jarrid_gross@earthlink.net" <jarrid_gross@earthlink.net>, jim
Subject: Re: [Alpines] AVOID UPS
From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:03:51 -0400
At 12:44 PM 10/16/2009, jarrid_gross@earthlink.net wrote:
 >For me, USPS "the post office" has destroyed
more items than the rest combined.
 >
 >With UPS, the default insurance is $100.
 >With USPS- zero, nada, zilch.
 >
 >Ive had packages sent via USPS poorly packaged by the seller,
 >absolutely decimated
 >by USPS and there is ZERO recourse from either if they didnt insure it.
 >
 >Food for thought.

Try this one on for size.  Contemplate the
shipping of an item bearing a serial number which
is no longer in production outside the US.  UPS,
FedEx, &c, will take your insurance money but, if
the item is damaged or lost, they'll suddenly
exclaim, "oh, this is a Unique Item, and we don't
insure these!" and will cheerfully refund your
insurance payment but no more.  It is a rotten
scam.  The USPS will insure shipments to almost
all nations save, for some odd reason, to
Singapore, and the rates and coverage are
determined by international postal treaties.

I do a fair amount of shipping older camera
lenses.  The USPS has never damaged a single
shipment.  UPS once left an $8,000 lens in a bush
outside my office on a rainy day, and so much for
"signature required".  Luckily, the lens wasn't
harmed, but that ended my dealings with UPS.

Marc


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