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blunder
11-15-2007, 06:29 AM
:mad: Here's one for you. Thinking of going full timing? What about mail forwarding?
About 10 years ago, my bride and I decided it was time to hit the road. We needed to have our mail forwarded to us on a monthly basis. We contacted a friend who worked at Mail Boxes etc. He assured us that they would do it for us. They did for a about 9 years with very few problems. The last coupla months some important documents have been lost or stolen. I called the UPS office in Knoxville TN. They couldn'T help. I called the franchise owner, he refused to talk to me. I called UPS, they said they had no control over the owner of the franchise. But promised to check into it and call me back within 10 days. A month later that call has not come in. I contacted the Postal service and they told me, that I signed a document making these people my agents and they could do whatever they want to with my mail, throw it away, sell certain document to ID theives or burn it. There is nothing I could do about it. If you have this forwarding service, change immediately. If you need a forwarding service, choose someone beside UPS.

murffdog
11-16-2007, 05:14 AM
The postal service is wrong, UPS cannot simply do as they please with your mail. They have tracking numbers for everything they ship and they take this very serious. Your shipper has receipts and you/they should have these tracking numbers. Also, UPS has "no" control over someone else's franchise, why would they.

blunder
11-17-2007, 09:17 AM
Maybe I should clear this up for you. I have a mailbox rented at the UPS/mail boxes etc store. The postal service delivers a letter to this store. It is supposed to be placed in my mail box until I call for it. No UPS tracking number is on the mail at that time. I call UPS to send my mail to me, They are supposed to pack it and ship it to me. I pay for this. In the meantime someone (a clerk) spots something he likes so he doesn't ship it. There is no UPS tracking numer on that piece of mail. The rest of my stuff is then packed and shipped in a UPS package with a tracking number on it. That piece of mail that the clerk liked could end up anywhere. I hope you understand this now.

murffdog
11-18-2007, 06:42 AM
I see, it's not the fault of UPS, it is a clerks fault.