Shipping and Insurance

[carrigansghost]

I sent a package with a D381 card in it to a fellow board member on May 9th insured for $150. He emailed me the other day with no reciept yet. I ask the PO for any info and they could only tell me that it was scanned in the person's home state. They asked if I could return next Monday to see if they could get any more info. The other two packages mailed that morning were received in two days.

Should I start to worry?

Rawn

[HexsHeroes]

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Within the past year, for any package sent to me that requires a signature, I have had to request that it be sent to me via FedEx, instead of U.S.P.S.

My workday begins before the local branch opens, and ends after they close. My branch no longer has weekend hours, and it is (now) against policy to have a package forwarded from one branch to another. Since I commute an hour to work, lunch hour visits to the post office are out of the question. My neighbors all work, so no on is around to sign as my agent. And living very near the local high school (and having occassionally been victimized by some rowdy/questionable behavior and pranks), I am hesitant to sign and have the package left on my doorstep. FedEx has four local service branches, with open hours until 11-PM. Perfect remedy for my situation.

[jezzeaepi]

If you are going to buy insurance, then do it through the post office. UPS and Fedex both suck when it comes to paying out claims in my experience.

Ups-I used to work at a UPS store(independent reseller of UPS services) and had to work as the liaison between the customer(who's package got broken) and UPS(who broke the package). No matter how cut and dry the case was, they never paid without a ton of effort. We had a customers package that were literally run over by a truck(the package was flattened) and they still gave us a hard time about if it was "packaged" well enough. We package them well enough to be thrown off a truck, but not to be run over by one...

Fedex- Have been fighting them, and the independent reseller who sold me the insurance for 4 months over a $3200 claim where they delivered my package to the wrong building.

Moral of the story, Fedex and ups insurance aren't worth the hassle if you can avoid it.