Happy New Year, to all! You guys must be really bored. I only missed a couple days and was ten pages behind again.
Going back to the delivery issues. 30 years at UPS and I can tell you nothing about the severe Jet Lag every thing seems to have. But, I can tell you a lot about damages. Believe it or don't, 90+ percent of damages are improper packing. Before any one gets offended, it doesn't mean it was your package being poorly packed, that caused it to get damaged. It's not uncommon for people to put 90 pounds in a box and record it as 40 pounds. To start with, all packages over 70 pounds get set behind the trailers and are loaded last. They shouldn't be an issue. But, some of the mislabeled 90 pounders get through the system. When its being unloaded it gets slid on to a belt. The first sorter either pushes of pulls it to a slide across from him, or next to him. you can have a package go through the system with out ever being picked up. Say that package gets loaded in the middle of a row. Somewhere under that box is a box with a lamp shade in it. Bouncing down the road that lamp shade box collapses, the over weight one shifts and falls across someone's $2000 rifle. The A Hole that put the over weight in the systems box never gets damaged, it's always the poor guys underneath. Then I have refused to pick up a package because it obviously had NO packing in it. The person just looked at me and laughed and said, " I never put packing in a box, it's insured, and once I give it to you, it's on you to make sure it's packed right". I say you have to be able to sit or stand on the box. Using that as a guide line, I have never had 1 single package I shipped damaged. My packages cost $5-$10 more to ship because of the extra packing, but, I like my stuff to get there.