If you gets a seller what uses UPS, don't register, call the seller for package updates - mebbe that will pressure the company (Ha!) to change it's privacy-invading, captive advertisement-audience ways, the fux.
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Apparently, in order to track a package, you now must register with UPS.
If you gets a seller what uses UPS, don't register, call the seller for package updates - mebbe that will pressure the company (Ha!) to change it's privacy-invading, captive advertisement-audience ways, the fux.
If you gets a seller what uses UPS, don't register, call the seller for package updates - mebbe that will pressure the company (Ha!) to change it's privacy-invading, captive advertisement-audience ways, the fux.
Hmm, that's kinda lame. But I haven't run into it either.
Trackingex.com works with all carriers I know of. No registration necessary.
UPS really pissed me off a few years ago when their tracking claimed a new to me compressor had been delivered on a Friday when it hadn't. It took something like 5 phone calls over the course of a rainy weekend to get it straightened out - during the course which they gave suggestions such as, 'can't you just call the (nonexistent) business where the driver said he left it?' and, ' why don't you just have the seller send you another one?' The next Tuesday a guilty sodden lump of cardboard showed up on my doorstep around 6 p.m. - no knock, no nothing. Luckily the seller had used lots of tape and bubblewrap.
Trackingex.com works with all carriers I know of. No registration necessary.
UPS really pissed me off a few years ago when their tracking claimed a new to me compressor had been delivered on a Friday when it hadn't. It took something like 5 phone calls over the course of a rainy weekend to get it straightened out - during the course which they gave suggestions such as, 'can't you just call the (nonexistent) business where the driver said he left it?' and, ' why don't you just have the seller send you another one?' The next Tuesday a guilty sodden lump of cardboard showed up on my doorstep around 6 p.m. - no knock, no nothing. Luckily the seller had used lots of tape and bubblewrap.
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I have to admit that UPS have been a total nightmare every time they have been used - recent examples include an Otari DAT machine that was in perfect order when it left the seller, but by the time it had arrived with me someone had bounced it - the box was crushed - and the machine was damaged & unusable. It cost me ?140 to return it to the seller, and UPS refused to refund me a single penny.
Other problems have included non-arrival of an Eclipse system that took 2 months to get to me in London from Holland - and because I was not the sender I could not get any information at all. When Eclipse systems chased it they were told I had refused delivery (seriously. I paid $6,000 for the package & refused it? Yeah, right) and they are a shambolic disaster area.
The other constant issue is that if I am buying from, say the USA they take money to deliver the package but dump it at the post office on the grounds that "import fees must be paid before it can be delivered", yes FedEx will handle this & simply bill me. The UK PO (in conjunction with UPS) put a stupid card in the post (second class) telling me to go to the sorting office & collect.......yet they have been paid to deliver it, not dump it in an office 4 miles away.
Avoid if at all possible.
Other problems have included non-arrival of an Eclipse system that took 2 months to get to me in London from Holland - and because I was not the sender I could not get any information at all. When Eclipse systems chased it they were told I had refused delivery (seriously. I paid $6,000 for the package & refused it? Yeah, right) and they are a shambolic disaster area.
The other constant issue is that if I am buying from, say the USA they take money to deliver the package but dump it at the post office on the grounds that "import fees must be paid before it can be delivered", yes FedEx will handle this & simply bill me. The UK PO (in conjunction with UPS) put a stupid card in the post (second class) telling me to go to the sorting office & collect.......yet they have been paid to deliver it, not dump it in an office 4 miles away.
Avoid if at all possible.
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Usually only as bad as your packing job, except in the case of USPS the tracking is either not present or not accurate. I'd still pick UPS over USPS any day of the week for those days when I just want to ship for cheaper than FedEx. They took decent enough care of my Polymoog when I shipped that across the country to its new owner...
And just got another tracking number, no longer required to track.. *shrug*
Not saying I love UPS, but nothing I have shipped and packed myself has been destroyed by them or any other carrier..
And just got another tracking number, no longer required to track.. *shrug*
Not saying I love UPS, but nothing I have shipped and packed myself has been destroyed by them or any other carrier..
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