Terrible Product and Customer Service with No Follow-through
Just over 3 months ago we took our son's framed college football jersey to the UPS store. It was both packed and shipped to him by the UPS Store. It arrived severely damaged. The shipping box was smashed, the frame broken and the glass shattered. Needless to say, we were all both surprised and upset by this occurrence. In the past we have been very happy with the service provided by the UPS stores. This time however, from the beginning of the process until now, has been anything but positive.
As soon as we learned of the damage, we immediately notified UPS and the UPS Store and filed all of the paperwork they required. In addition, we sent photos, estimates for repair, and receipts for the packing and shipping, as directed. My wife spoke to a representative at the UPS store several times about this and after not getting her calls returned on several occasions, finally learned that the person who had been handling this was no longer at the store (apparently he had left weeks before she found out he was gone and while she was still told she was leaving messages for him that would be returned). She then was able to get in touch with the owner of the store and explain the situation to him. Again, nothing was done. After some back and forth with the owner, she was told that there was some problem with determining who was responsible for making things right; the individual store or UPS corporate. So while we again waited for this confusion to be resolved (something that we strongly believe we did not belong in the middle of) nothing has been done. Recent contact with the store has resulted in nothing but more excuses.
Starting to get increasingly more frustrated, and wanting to avoid escalating this into becoming a legal issue, we reached out to UPS Corporate on social media. And they actually responded...at first. And then, as before we have been met with nothing but silence even after more emails to the person who contacted us.
To say that this is terrible customer service, both by the individual UPS store and by UPS corporate would be a gross understatement and we wanted to make sure that others are aware of the lack of care and respect with which UPS treats its customers! Needless to say, we will not be using UPS again and will make sure that all of our friends, family, and contacts are made aware of this so that they can make their own informed decisions about whether or not they want to support a company that appears to care so little about their customers and about doing what they say (and are paid) to do.
UPDATE 5/2/2021 This message was also posted on the UPS Facebook page and they took it down. I guess yet another example of how they view and treat their customers read more