USPS sucks

So I sold billyWa my evolver desktop, thank god I packaged it well because look at the handling of it

lol. I guess using those stickers was completely moot.

oh damn

it looks like they played soccer with it!

i guess one of the guy in one of the port dont like his job at all.. and... so... on....

Story from a guy I knew who worked at UPS (different company, same concept). The guy was crazy weird, too...

Well there was this package that came through, where someone had written a letter with a Sharpie on the box, thanking UPS for always being so reliable and timely and responsible etc. The manager of the loading crew looked at it and called this guy over. He sentimentally says, "This is why I work at UPS."

Then proceeds to punch the box.

Originally posted by myteeGTi So I sold billyWa my evolver desktop, thank god I packaged it well because look at the handling of it lol. I guess using those stickers was completely moot.

If you look real close, you can see a boot print right on the sticker!

BTW, Positive buyer feedback for myteeGTi! Inside, the Evolver was snugly bugly packed and undamaged.

Unlike my OB-8 last week!

yikes!!

i was hoping you would post a pic of that.

wtf? It was stepped on?

incompetence is excusable, but damage done on purpose? :mad:

yay me

People should always realize that ANY shipper (USPS, UPS, Fedex, etc.) has employees who want to do the minimal work required.

This means:

-- drop instead of gently place on floor or conveyor belt

-- kick instead of pickup

-- shove instead of push

Also, these guys have to move fast (OK, everyone except the USPS).

Therefore you ALWAYS must pack a box with the expectation that it will be kicked, shoved, and dropped.

This is also a good reason to hold on to the manufacturer's packaging, since it is designed for shipping (and therefore the shipper's can't claim "poor packaging").

doing the minimum, cutting corners, moving fast, saving time and being lazy does not include STEPPING on the box.

but yes, you have to expect these retards will not be able to comprehend the complexities in moving a box from point A to poiint B adequately from time to time.

I don't even trust the postal service with anything fragile or of value. I've been burned too many times, and am at this point thoroughly disgusted with them.

They really seem as if they couldn't care less.

It's the classic bureaucratic situation -- where the employees don't see their mistreatment of other people's property as having any bearing whatsoever on their jobs. They know they'll have a job regardless.

Setting aside packages they have broken, there are also the THREE packages they have "lost" of mine in the past 4 months. They even acknowledge that the packages were received in their system, but never arrived at their destination -- my home.

I read somewhere that postal theft within the postal system itself is up three-fold since 2001.

Hint of the Day/Week/Year/Eon - Something to consider here is the attention that you may draw to a package. Sometimes, when you think that you are providing handling information for your package, you may be painting a large bullseye instead. I do not place fragile stickers or other warnings upon packages I ship unless specifically requested by the customer.

I do endeavor to package an instrument or part with its survival in mind. This usually entails a couple layers of bubble wrap, a corrugated paper surface, shipping peanuts, and the outside container. The shipping company you choose will have an extremely hard time denying your claim with this packing structure.

Do not place any information on the outside of a package that would indicate the value of what is inside unless you would like to increase the chance of theft. I usually turn a box inside out to hide from view any exterior pictures, descriptions, etc.... I suggest you do not write "Expensive Musical Electronics" on the outside of the package.

Wes Taggart

Analogics

http://www.analogics.org/

Originally posted by BillyWa Unlike my OB-8 last week!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!

the pain!!! the pain!!!

:mad:

I have nothing to add other than I hate USPS. Well, I do have some rather long, drawn out stories that I could tell but I will save to from them and just leave it at yes, USPS sucks ass.

Wes Taggart of Analogics can build new ends for that. He has a website. Bummer about the shipping damage though.

Yep, started working with Wes already. Just waiting for the seller to get back to me....

Originally posted by myteeGTi So I sold billyWa my evolver desktop, thank god I packaged it well because look at the handling of it lol. I guess using those stickers was completely moot.

Venturaaaaaaa!

I recently had a bad experience with USPS too. A client asked for some Persian music (don't ask) to be played at her affair the following week because "some of her friends are Persians." So, I call a few bandleaders I know,none of whom have any sheet music. One of them did have two demo CDs by some Persian band, and mailed them to me so that I could transcribe some tunes and send them back.

The CD was mailed at the post office, and was delivered to my locked mailbox. However, somewhere along the way, someone tore open the end of the envelope and removed the CDs.

The worst part of the whole thing was that USPS didn't seem to care about the theft. I filed a report, but I have not heard from them and I don't expect to, at this point.

shippers generally have a certain amount of packages that they will allow to be damaged in order to turn over more packages...to them it is all about quantity, not quality.

Exactly. It is all about cutting cost.

I wonder how many people actually know what shippers consider normal handling. They get thrown, actually the sorting is sometimes really called throwing the packages cuz that is how it is done, with even heavier packages thrown right on top. Management only cares about production speed.

I will only buy a keyboard that is in a quality flight case or is factory boxed and then double boxed. I know what can happen and I do not want the grief and hassle.

but doesn't not writing "fragile" guarantee that your package is going to be thrown/dropped? i know when i sent a package with usps the guy asked if it's fragile, i said no, and he threw it a few feet into a cart. i found it kind of amusing.

usps is full of problems, though. in various aspects of their service. it took a few months to train the mail people not to try stuffing my netflix dvds through the (smaller than 5 inch) mail slot. (they put larger packages on the step below the slot. so, there's a place for it . . )

I ship 500 packages a month via the postal "service" and maybe 10% of them arrive damaged in some way.

I hope USPS wont brag about that 10% there

Those automated sorting machines kill packages.

Originally posted by BillyWa Unlike my OB-8 last week!

Holy {censored} I' be pissed!

I thought you'd have to live with it like that.

Good to see you can get a repair!