I'm gonna kill the UPS driver

**SteveB** · 12th February 09, 09:44 PM

I should mention that although I live in the city, both the UPS and USPS delivery persons have both my house and my place of employment on their routes. If a parcel comes for me and I am at work, the delivery person brings it there, rather than leave it out in the elements at my house. By the same token, during some bad weather the delivery people were running behind schedule, and we had closed the store for the day.... The delivery people brought all the store's parcels to my home. The day we have ten cases of steel angle iron. In my station wagon overnight and to work they went the next morning on one of the rare days I did not walk to work.
Not everyone is this lucky.
Slainte

**Andy HPADC** · 13th February 09, 06:39 AM

I am ordering Dunbar P2b s from MacLellan. He is going to re-do the pipes in Firefighter themed engraved nickel. His artwork is beautiful, and it was suprisingly affordable.

I previously used African blackwood.. but my friend and bandmate got Dunbar P3s... very reliable, low maintenance and very loud due to the near-mirror finish of the bores.

**Squeaky McMurdo** · 13th February 09, 09:53 AM

The snow wasn't what bothered me so much as where it was left. And the fact that I was there in the living room all day and no one knocked on the door to even let me know it was there. By the time I decided to go outside to see what the heck my dogs were barking at (They kept waking up my little one) there was enough snow on the box that it was kind of hidden. I didn't see it until I went around our trailer and was 10 feet away from it. My husband wouldn't have seen it and run it over.

The bottom of the box was soaked through but the bagpipes were in a hard leather case, and the case was in a plastic bag, so no damage.

Usually our UPS driver is good. This one was apparently a new one that moved here from out of town.

And no I didn't kill the UPS driver. I just called their main office and complained.

**Frank McGrath** · 14th February 09, 09:42 PM

UPS has yet to deliver the big box of money I ordered. I ask very driver I see. no one has the box. I'm upset. and drunk, so disregard this post.

FRank

**thescot** · 14th February 09, 09:51 PM

I say we do the same thing I suggested for the Great Scot Shop for taking money and delivering no kilt:

Send in the Xmarks mafia for a little chat about proper respect for pipes and such. That usually does the job!

**westie97** · 18th February 09, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by Squeaky McMurdo

I've been having so much trouble with delivery services lately (See my "arg" thread in the Scotsweb section of the forum)

But this time....Oh this time I'm really #*%! off. We ordered a set of bagpipes and the UPS driver left the box in the snow in front of our driveway. If it hadn't been for my dogs barking....

Luckily it's polypenco Dunbars so hopefully there's no damage. I have to open it to see, before I open it, I'm going to call UPS and verbally abuse them though.

--Chelsea--

I would be uspet with UPS but I would also be upset with the vendor who shipped them. The vendor should have required a signature. That way the package CANNOT be left on the doorstep. He would have to personally hand it over and get a signature.

**Kilted_John** · 19th February 09, 05:43 PM

After shipping some items to a friend of a friend in Arizona and had them returned to me with the box in the shape of a ball, I've sworn off UPS. I've also had the misfortune of being behind a UPS delivery truck. While it was driving around, I heard a loud, expensive-sounding thud that had a little bit of a breaking glass sound mixed in with it. I've also had photographic equipment delivered to me that has had all the packing material on top of the item shipped to me, instead of surrounding said item.

Ever since then, my nickname for them has been "uuuUPSsss". If I need to ship something, I go to the local PO and ship it there. Prices are usually cheaper, items are usually undamaged, and it's delivered on-time.

-J

**wvpiper** · 31st March 09, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by Squeaky McMurdo

Luckily it's polypenco Dunbars so hopefully there's no damage.
--Chelsea--

I understand your frustration. Luckily they were polypenco, otherwise there may have been some damage. Weather isn't going to affect polypenco, that's the major advantage of it over wood.

How do they sound?

**JolyStNicholas** · 31st March 09, 08:09 AM

Requiring a signature doesn't always work either, I've had everything from my new heart monitor to my wife's new Blue Ray Recorder, to my last Scottish Heritage kit from Rocky left at the front gate by UPS. All were in a large plastic bag to protect the box from the eliments but none were signed for.

Glad I live in a Safe Rural Neighborhood!