Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I will answer your questions about what we are referring to the VALENTINE'S DAY DISASTER '07 after this brief story about how UPS is easily the
worst parcel service in existence:
When I decided to move to Los Angeles, I decided that I was going to ship my computer, my monitor and my rather expensive Sony stereo (that had the main unit, two speakers and a subwoofer). All in all, it was five boxes total. I took them to a third-party shipping store, the kind that can send packages a variety of ways, and had them packed there tight in firm boxes I got before hand. I had everything insured and paid very much extra for more insurance options.
On the other side of the coast, I had items I had purchased, such as my DSL equipment, lighting fixtures and more that I purchased ahead of time to be shipped to my new apartment before I arrived.
I arrive in Los Angeles and none of my purchases have arrived, despite UPS saying they would, two days in a row. My poor roommate actually stayed home, instead of going out and enjoying the sunny weather in order to sign for them - but they never even came.
My PC, monitor and stereo set was supposed to arrive the day after I moved in, but
nothing had come. The UPS tracker kept showing delivery was due that day, but - nope! - nothing. So I sat without lights or Internet or much of anything. The next day, again, nothing is delivered. This time the UPS customer service contacts the local distribution center who tells me the driver has my stuff and is out and it will be delivered.
But it wasn't.
Fourth day I'm in Los Angeles and now I am delaying my timetable for returning to work to wait for these boxes (they can't leave them at the door). The local center tells me they have them out for delivery, and they'll come, but only the purchased items arrive. At least I have light that night.
Fifth day (it was supposed to arrive
four days ago), UPS finally delivers the PC, monitor and stereo equipment after much haggling. Except the fucking carriers are assholes and start throwing all the shit up the stairs and on to the hard cement. I told them to be careful and stop throwing them, that they were marked FRAGILE, but they ignored me. My roommate was witness to this.
The boxes were in HORRIBLE condition. They were cut and dented and had holes in them and looked like they had taken turns kicking them. By some miracle of miracles, the PC and monitor were unharmed, but they had fucked up my subwoofer and completely cracked open the hard plastic casing of the main Sony unit. Cassette deck was not even workable, the CD changer sounded like it was broken and it didn't even boot up right.
I put it immediately back into the boxes, called UPS completely angry, they recognized I put special instructions and paid extra for special insurance policy for those boxes and picked them up promptly.
They then decide that they were not at fault, even after taking my roommate's statement and did not honor my insurance, or give me any money. I filed an appeal and all that did was make them return the equipment to the third-party parcel store which threw it away.
What the fuck. I hate UPS.
Did you send her something of equal value to avoid any form of horrible, horrible Asian curse she will surely place on you?
In fact, I bet she's spending your apartment money on all manner of black magic Lo Pan mysticism bullshit so she can shoot fucking blue lazers out of her mouth and into your neck!
Mister
David Lo Pan? Oh no!
I am having her overnighted (it better be there tomorrow!) something pretty nice and I know she'll like it. I would've even had them re-send the cheesecake, but they can't even guarantee it coming next week! I'll just take her out to The Cheesecake Factory when I'm settled there.
And Ecro - good luck. All I got was just IN TRANSIT and a lot of bullshit.
