Bloozcat said:
Well, based on my experience with UPS, that's actually quite apropos! Packages shipped with UPS are usually the most beat up when comparing all shippers I've used (UPS, FedEx, postal service).deeaa said:Thanks...it comes to pretty much the same there too. I'll see which I get it from.
BTW your sig reminds me...because I just got my new HD shipped via UPS...
In Finland the name UPS is not a very good one, because that's how we spell and say 'Oops' or 'whoops'; well anyway what many say when they drop something by accident. Very few people want to send packages via a company named 'Whoops freight services'
That's really funny. UPS means oops in Finland. It is so appropiate. UPS is at least synonymous with oops here. I have had a few boxes delivered that looked like they narrowly survived a war. The local delivery guys I have dealt with through the years have been great. Real easy to work with and helpful. I don't know what goes on in some of the warehouses though. I've had boxes that had puncture wounds from a forklift. When my V series amp and Dean Hardtail came the boxes looked pristine. Not a mark on either. But I've had a few that looked like they were run over by a truck! About 10 years ago I had a WW II German Mauser rifle delivered that was in about 95% condition. Well it WAS in 95% condition before the box was smashed and the muzzle of the rifle was sticking out of the box. It looked like the muzzle was dragged across cement. Boy was I pissed about that one! An non replacable artifact from the 1930s totally ruined. Another one that came all messed up was my red Dean guitar I have posted in my photos in my profile here. I had that one sent to the place I was working at the time. My coworkers called me to the dock when they saw a package addressed to me. I went to get it. It was on the pallet with a bunch of items destined for the service dept. which I worked., I was shocked when I saw it. The whole bottom of the box was ripped off and the guitar was hanging out the bottom. The bubble wrap was shredded from the body of the guitar. I pulled the guitar out and looked ot over. It didn't have a scratch anywhere on it. I couldn't believe it! The box looked like it was in nuclear war. The guitar somehow survived. I think that since that guitar survived through that it was meant to make it to me in one piece. I will never part with it. I like it anyway.deeaa said:Heheh, according to this T-shirt I just took a pic of in a store, UPS is not the fastest either. It means to say Oops, sleeping time but that's how we just spell it here
