The shipping wars or my personal battle with UPS

Wow, gotta vent.

Started last year with a phone call from a neighbor.  Bob, I have a UPS package for you left on my doorstep.  Ok,  I'll be right over and pick it up.  

A couple of months later and another UPS delivery checking the tracking number which shows delivered front porch.  Nope no package.  Got on the ATV going up and down my street until I noticed a large package on a neighbors porch.  Yup, my pressure washer which I humped onto the ATV and dragged home.  

Couple of months later, mid winter UPS tracking number shows delivered front porch.  Nope no package.  ATV won't start.  Walked the length on my street (unpaved) in the mud and snow can't see a package anywhere.  Just a note - there is a sign post in my front yard with my house number on it and another sign on my driveway with my name on it.

After an internet fight to find a UPS phone number I called and explained.  About two hours later my package showed up on my front doorstep.  

Enough of this, so I made this sign.



Expecting a signature required UPS delivery today I put it out by the road where the driver wouldn't miss it.  Left the garage door open and all the four car garage doors open as well as the door to the breezeway.  I'm 15 feet away in a chair with both me and the TV visible from the breezeway when I noticed a "Sorry we missed you" sign sticking to the doors window.  



Not a check or a written note on it.

Called UPS again and explained the situation.  A very angry dispatcher said that I should not expect the driver to wait until I answered the door and that I should wait by the door when a signature delivery was expected.  He said that in the time it took the driver to fill out the notice that I could have answered the door. "But there is nothing written on the notice" I responded and why should I wait by the door all day when he could have just gone around front and ring the door bell?  I never heard the guy knock and he could very plainly see me and that the TV was on.  

Me in the chair through the pass-through on the left, the TV on the right and the notice stuck in the middle of the window.  




Discussion got very heated after that, so I won't elaborate other than to say UPS will never darken my door again after this exercise is complete.  .  

But, I can't wait to see this fellow or fellowette tomorrow.