On Mar 3, 3:29�pm, "
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Malcolm Hoar wrote:
In article , Ernie Willson wrote:

Thanks for your reply, but I need what I asked for..pickup, packing, and
shipping. The shipper must do all three things, not just shipping. There
is no one who will pack this for me. When I looked at UPS the total bill
for these three services was about $300.00.

Looks like you have your answer.

If saving $$$ becomes more compelling, you can do some of the
work yourself for less money (like the packing).

Frankly, $300 does not seem completely unreasonable. You don't
create the impression of being someone that will be easy to
work with either ;-)

Four of the past five Christmases, UPS broke something that I either
sent or received. �I would not choose UPS to send something breakable,
no matter how carefully packed. �When UPS broke something that I had
insured, I had to jump through hoops to get back the purchase price.
Since I had purchased the item online, my cost included shipping to me,
but UPS does not reimburse that. �I had the item packed at the UPS
store, more than due diligence, with "breakable" and "this side up" all
over it....the only way they could have broken it was to stand it on
it's side and drop something heavy on top of it.

Even if the sender can't pack it, they might be able to build a frame
for it so there is no way of compressing it - wood around four sides and
a length of wood across front and back. �If there is no time pressure, a
mover would be my choice.- Hide quoted text -

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UPS brown packed some valuable equiptement, shipped it UPS and it got
broken

UPS claimed it was UPS browns fault, UPS brown claimed it was UPS
fault i ended up taking the loss and will never use ups brown again!

they are two seperate useless companies, running under the same
banner.

recently UPS SMASHED a box on the glass warning sticker, destroying
the 300 value glass lamps inside, the box actually was bowed, the
manucacturers hard foam packing broken.

called UPS for OVER A MONTH! they never responded to send a agent to
inspect. the supplier said not our problem.

so one day I went to the UPS terminal, on a busy pre thanksgiving day
and showed off their handiwork to the long line of waiting customers

Then ranted at the counter, soon therafter they paid the shipper and
my merchandise was replaced.

UPS has gotten pretty good at sucky customer service