I have used this UPS on S. MacDill many times over the last 12 plus years as it is close by and parking is never an issue. If I had to wish one thing it is that they plant oak trees (maybe live oaks as they live forever/hardy) around the edges of the parking lot and in the parking lot to provide more shade and beautify what is basically a strip mall/best time to do that would be during rainy season starting in May.
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1) I am not that old yet (do have white/gray hair) but have had carpel tunnel surgery on both hands and now cubical tunnel syndrome in one hand (PAINFUL). I can still carry my own boxes inside 99% of the time but twice in the last 3 years, my hand really hurt and a young man inside UPS carried my box inside.
2) OK so UPS prices have increased - so has inflation, gasoline, rent, etc. Use the US post office next time and their prices went up also (while giving Amazon.com a steep discount on shipping) and charging Amazon company competitors and all USA taxpayer customers higher shipping prices and a price hike each year. Oh..and FYI, ALL USA taxpayers pay for Chinese products to be shipped to the USA for free because China is considered an evolving country.
3) UPS has never lost a package and I rarely pay for insurance. When I lived in TX, FedEx lost an expensive package in Dallas TX (hub) stolen by gangs operating at that facility according to Fed Ex themselves and the gangs just click computer keys saying the package was forwarded to Abilene (or wherever) when it was never sent - but stolen in their Dallas hub. I never used Fed Ex again and never will. UPS all the way.
4) I have personally never experienced a rude customer service person at the UPS S. MacDill Rd location. The UPS store on MacDill AFB does have the occasional rude clerk which is why I don't use them as much even though they are closer.
5) The UPS on South MacDill Rd usually has 2-3 people working inside when I go in and one of them will immediately go to the counter when I walk in. Unlike the MacDill AFB UPS store which has 2 people working there and several times I had to stand around scratching my butt (sarcasm) and wait for one of them to get around to walking up to the counter to help me.
I would rather drive a bit longer to the S. MacDill UPS and get in and out quickly with no rude clerks than go to the MacDill AFB UPS.
6) Their prices to send a fax are high but with so many free fax facilities on-line why pay UPS or anyone else. I do not.
7) There is rarely a line so I am in and out of the building quickly. Even when Covid first hit and I had to wait outside the S. MacDill Road UPS as only like 2 customers or so could be inside at a time and sometimes a husband/wife would be inside taking up 1 customer slot but I didn't mind...at least I could go inside UPS eventually (ahhh lovely air conditioning) and the people at the register are quick. UPS was nothing like that God awful South Dale Mabre Sherwin Williams paint store during Covid at its worst where the douchebag Sherwin Williams clerks locked the doors and made everyone stay permanently outside IN THE SUN and call on your cell to them inside to place your order, and give your credit card number over the phone outside in the parking lot where other customers could hear you (and hear your credit card number) and then wait around in the boiling hot parking lot for Sherwin WIlliam clerks to "get around" to bringing your paint/brushes or whatever outside to your vehicle. Sherwin WIlliam's store has a glass front so boiling hot customers in the parking lot and connected just as hot sidewalk could see the clerks inside ignoring your calls, goofing off inside and taking their time filling your order and/or bringing your stuff outside to your vehicle.
I have to go to UPS on S. MacDill Rd soon to to drop off 2 boxes. I expect my experience will be like all the other visits ....excellent. read more