K3 Shipped But Requires Signature!!!

[Don Wilhelm-4]

  It all depends on the driver.
Fortunately, I have a good one for UPS, and he knows me well.  He has to
drive over 0.7 miles of unpaved road and then up my 1/4 mile driveway to
get to the house, and he has never failed me.  He knows how to put any
parcels in a safe place if I am not here.  Yes, I have signed a waiver
of signature.
The USPS delivery person is very good too.
The FedEx drivers here are unpredictable, and always seem to arrive when
I am away, so I get notes on the door from them.
DHL (when they were delivering here) was just awful - leaving parcels at
the wrong address, or just putting them somewhere on the driveway.
So if you ship anything to me, use UPS or USPS for best results.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/13/2010 2:54 PM, ab2tc wrote:
> People's experience with UPS is obviously all over the place. My own
> experience with UPS is excellent. When a signature is required, they will
> make three attempts (three days in a row) to deliver it. After that I would
> have to go to their depot which is fortunately not that far away. That may
> have happened once when we forgot or weren't able to arrange for somebody to
> be home. I will choose UPS ground again.
>
> AB2TC - Knut
>
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[Jim Brown-10]

  On 10/13/2010 5:07 AM, George & Jan wrote:
> I can't believe that Elecraft is sending my K3 requiring a signature!

In my experience (at least 30 years), UPS has always had great drivers
who get to know their customers. In two businesses where I worked, the
drivers walked in the delivery door (usually unattended by those
businesses), dropped off packages and picked up what we had. In the
rental that I had for 20 years in a Chicago residential neighborhood, in
the Chicago home I owned for 20 years, and now here in CA in the woods,
I've gotten to know my drivers within a few months. We've developed a
relationship, they know what to do with anything they have for me, and I
know how to hail them to give them a package for shipment. My wife and I
get an average of two UPS deliveries a week, without any problems.

Bottom line --get to know your UPS person and everything will go smoothly.

BTW -- if you want lousy service and careless deliveries without a
signative, try DHL. In my busy Chicago neighborhood, they repeatedly  
threw valuable packages across my fence, only a few feet from the
sidewalk, where anyone could have picked them up. I never used them, but
some el cheapo computer vendors who I bought stuff from did.

73, Jim K9YC
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[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ]

Folks, I ended this thread earlier today. Please - no more posts on this topic.
Eric
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