I can't express the degree of HATRED I have for UPS. People should boycott them and put them out of business. Customers are held hostage from 9am to 7pm because UPS drivers rarely check the box on their Package Delivery Attempt notices that give you an idea of the 3-4-hr. window when they MIGHT deliver a package. I'm pretty sure they're instructed to do this. You can't find out what part of the day they MIGHT deliver it, because the only phone #s are 800#s for Customer Service, who say they can't do anything about it. They claim there's no phone # for the local facility, drivers don't carry phones, and UPS headquarters in Atlanta has no direct line (except the one that Customer Service uses to contact them). Give me a break! OF COURSE a driver has a phone, and the local facility has a phone, and headquarters has a phone number!
Useless UPS suggestions about receiving a package:
1) Get a neighbor to sign for the package.
Like millions of other Americans, I live in an apartment building. I know only 2 neighbors. I have no idea who's home when. Even the super isn't home all day. I'm not going door to door to find a stranger who can sign for my package. Also, while I'm doing that, the package may arrive, the driver buzzes my apartment, and I'm not in, so the package will go back on the truck and I'm still stuck in the same situation.
2) Go pick up the package at their nearest facility.
That facility is 1/2 hour away. Driving, waiting on line, and driving home means wasting 1 1/2 hours of my day to suit THEIR schedule. AND since you've received an Attempted Delivery notice, the package is already on the truck, so what's the point of going to pick it up, when IT'S NOT THERE??
3) To change a delivery date or address, you can go to their website, JOIN some club, and PAY to do that!
I am NOT paying UPS to do what any decent, normal delivery service does as part of its service. Plus, what good is changing the date, unless it's a day I intend to be indoors from 9 to 7, and not move anywhere in the apartment where I can't hear the door buzzer--for instance, the shower! Also, like a lot of people, I don't work at a place where I can ask someone to sign for a package, AND a lot of business aren't open from 9am to 7pm!
4) You can sign a release on the back of the Attempted Delivery notice to say that the driver can leave the package without getting a signature.
Oh, really? According to UPS, if the sender requested a signature, you can't override that restriction.
5) To lift the signature requirement, call the sender and ask them to do that.
My sender is a store in an airport. The person who shipped the package has a day off today. Unless that person calls into the store on his day off, and the store agrees to contact UPS to change the signature requirement, I have to wait for the package. And since the package is already on the truck, and the driver supposedly has no phone, how does s/he get the message to leave the package without getting a signature?
A PERSON WHO HAS A JOB OR MUST LEAVE HOME AT SOME POINT CAN GET A PACKAGE FROM UPS WITHOUT PAYING TO HAVE IT SENT SOMEWHERE ELSE OR TO SOMEONE ELSE, TRYING TO GET THE SENDER TO CONTACT UPS TO CHANGE THE SIGNATURE REQUIREMENT, OR HAVING SOMEONE ELSE WAIT ALL DAY FOR THE PACKAGE! And of course it takes an hour or more of making calls to get all this info.
What century does UPS think this is?? The 1800s, where a lot of women were home all day because they didn't have jobs or 3pm schoolchild pickups? UPS makes it almost impossible for a lot of us to get our packages, and the last thing I want is for the package to be returned to the sender, who then has to go through the sending process all over again (which a busy store is not going to want to do--plus it costs the business more money to re-send a package). Then I have to go through the same routine all over again: be a hostage for 10 hours (or more, if the driver is running late) or try to find some other person to be a hostage.
I guess I shouldn't expect anything better from a company who fired 250 people for sticking up for another employee who was fired. I will NEVER use UPS for ANYTHING. I always use Federal Express, and I'd rather pay extra for their service, because they know what that word means. read more