01-17-2019, 01:31 PM
Yes I agree about double boxing or at least use small print on the box. Ordered a crossbow in Dec. UPS was to deliver it and I watched the tracking and it said that it would deliver on Friday. I arranged my week so I could be home all day on Friday. Came home Thursday and sitting on my porch was my bow in a box that had it's name printed in 10" letters that a blind man could read from a long way off. Just luck someone did not 'borrow" it. It has been about 35 years ago when this happened. I had bought an AMT Hard baller 1911 style 45 ACP pistol and had problems with the extractor not being right. I sent it back to AMT through UPS. I kept waiting what I thought was a reasonable time for them to get it and replace the extractor and send it back to me 10 times. Wait was 3 weeks. I call AMT and they say they shipped it back 2 weeks ago I should contact UPS and see what was going on. I get in touch with UPS and they say it was delivered, I get this sick feeling. I run down the local UPS delivery guy the next day and ask him if he remembers making a delivery to my address. He says yes, he left it by the down stairs door on the side of my house. I told him that there was supposed to be a signature for delivery. He said that if no one is at home they usually just leave it anyway. I go home and take another look. I had two down stairs basement doors and one MAIN door to the house up stairs. I found my pistol sitting up on the 8 foot high retaining wall that leads down to the basement on the side of the house that we never used that door. It had been there for 2 weeks and it had rained 2 or 3 times on it. Just lucky it was a stainless pistol. I contacted UPS and they just kind of blew me off making it sound like it was my fault for not finding it sooner. I also had to make a delivery for FedX once. I was at my Dad's house to check on him as I did every day and I saw a FedX truck at the church next to my Dad's house. When I was leaving Dad's house I noticed two pretty large boxes laying in the middle of the church parking lot. I go over and see that the address in a clothing store in town. I load them up and take them to the address and the FedX truck is there. Told the driver I found them laying in the middle of the church parking lot woman driver says, "There they are", when I walk in with a box, "I forgot and left my door open and they must have fell out". Well duh! She never said thank you, kiss my foot or anything.