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The american postal service seems to suck for car stuff. A friend just got these delivered: Ouch.
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Feb 19, 2014 02:14
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I love USPS. I've never had an issue, and anything shipped with them means I don't have to loving deal with UPS brokerage fees (up to 35%!) when I get it. I just get charged tax by canada post.
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Feb 19, 2014 02:45
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H1KE posted:
Look at that loving gold Buddha statue in the back window.
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Feb 19, 2014 02:49
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My radiator shipped through USPS, it came with a huge gouge on it that just so happened to match the box-corner-shaped hole on the outside. When I got two through FedEx, I had pristine boxes.
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Feb 19, 2014 03:41
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Jesse James put a pipe organ in a car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Lj0htcHo4
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Feb 19, 2014 03:43
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cormorant posted:Jesse James put a pipe organ in a car. Ha I remember watching that episode... those were happier times for all of us
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Feb 19, 2014 04:31
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e: I was wrong
randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Feb 19, 2014 |
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Feb 19, 2014 05:30
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Crustashio posted:I love USPS. I've never had an issue, and anything shipped with them means I don't have to loving deal with UPS brokerage fees (up to 35%!) when I get it. I just get charged tax by canada post.
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Feb 19, 2014 05:38
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some texas redneck posted:That's not a Buddha. That's a very classic reclining Buddha. You can tell because of the curly hair, long earlobes, and long fingers. There are a few good examples of the reclining Buddha in temples in Thailand. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho
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Feb 19, 2014 05:52
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Fedex Ground drivers are independent contractors.Safety Dance posted:That's a very classic reclining Buddha. You can tell because of the curly hair, long earlobes, and long fingers. There are a few good examples of the reclining Buddha in temples in Thailand. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho Damnit. Guess I forgot a bit too much of my last humanities class. 
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Feb 19, 2014 05:55
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:It was sent "package services" which, he says comes with $500 of insurance as standard (Google determined this was a lie.) USPS rep just told me that a 30-day wait is standard before they will even think about declaring it lost. I think you only have 45 days from the date of the transaction to file a claim, maybe less. Check with Paypal to be sure. And you're right, only the sender can file acclaim with the shipper. I had to argue about that with an idiot who packed a '70 Cutlass dash pad in two taped-together soda cup boxes with a handful of packing peanuts and a chunk of foam, and expected it to make it to me in one piece (it didn't). Never mind that the shipping company would have rejected the claim due to laughable packing, he's the one who has to make the claim. That was the last eBay purchase I made not using PayPal.
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Feb 19, 2014 07:45
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Zlatan Imhobitch posted:The american postal service seems to suck for car stuff. A friend just got these delivered: As someone who owned a set of ssr professors i'm not suprised, the barrels appear to be made out of cheese.
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Feb 19, 2014 11:00
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I ship everything FedEx with tracking/signature confirmation/insurance. With how shady some of the buyers on ebay are now, I take no chances. If they try to gently caress me, I'm going to get my money back from the insurance on fedex. Also, if you insure something for over 500 with FedEx they will not ship it without checking that it is packed properly, so there's that also as extra CYA.
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Feb 19, 2014 17:16
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Crustashio posted:I love USPS. I've never had an issue, and anything shipped with them means I don't have to loving deal with UPS brokerage fees (up to 35%!) when I get it. I just get charged tax by canada post. Purolator is really where its at for shipping from the US to Canada. They offer customs brokerage with their shipping so you actually end up paying less than you would if you pay to Canada Post.
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Feb 19, 2014 18:16
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As someone who works for a company that ships hundreds of small parcels per day using FedEx, UPS, and USPS, the basic story is that they are all loving horrible, none of them give a poo poo about your packages, and whether or not they end up 1) at the target destination, and 2) in a not-ruined condition is an utter crapshoot. The only thing I can recommend is to make sure you're getting as much insurance/tracking/signature confirmation as possible to cover yourself. This goes double for the buyer - I'd insist the seller do all that, as basically once they release it to the shipper, it's no longer their liability (in most cases). Basically they all suck and you're lucky if you get your poo poo in a timely, unmolested fashion.
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Feb 19, 2014 18:39
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Wasabi the J posted:My radiator shipped through USPS, it came with a huge gouge on it that just so happened to match the box-corner-shaped hole on the outside. My former dealership NEON SIGN came via USPS. Well, at least the frame did.  The Midniter posted:Basically they all suck and you're lucky if you get your poo poo in a timely, unmolested fashion. Don't forget: "If you don't piss off the delivery guy, they won't use it as a projectile."
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Feb 19, 2014 19:20
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West SAAB Story posted:You are aware that tracking has been hosed for like a week, and will be through perpetuity, right? What's the backstory on this?
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Feb 19, 2014 19:59
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Basically I'm a massive retard. The wing was delivered yesterday to a neighbor (didn't think the PO would do this its not like this is a small town) and the neighbor dropped it off late in the evening. PayPal claim cancelled, apologies and humbleness posted everywhere I talked crap about this... I don't just feel like an rear end, I am an rear end.
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Feb 19, 2014 20:09
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A Melted Tarp posted:What's the backstory on this? If you haven't noticed there's been a lot of snow falling lately
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Feb 19, 2014 20:11
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A Melted Tarp posted:What's the backstory on this? rscott posted:If you haven't noticed there's been a lot of snow falling lately Pretty much this. The East coast is perpetually hosed because there is frozen water all over the roads.
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Feb 19, 2014 20:14
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Lamar Smith R-TX posted:Basically I'm a massive retard. Well it was still way past the time it should have been delivered, so you weren't unjustified in being a upset and worried. Also I've never heard of something being delivered to a neighbor, is that a normal thing? Our UPS guy leaves everything at our door unless it's signature required, but then again our nearest neighbor is about a quarter mile up the road. We get a lot of boxes - basically if it isn't groceries we buy it online (and I'd buy those online too if I could).
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Feb 19, 2014 20:27
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subx posted:Also I've never heard of something being delivered to a neighbor, is that a normal thing? I live a scant 20 miles from 'suburbia', and it is drat common out here. If it is a neighbor I get along with - they'll usually leave them a note and I'll leave it in the house, beside the door. This need not apply for areas where you don't know your neighbors' first names. E: My present to myself for selling more Kindles just arrived. TX is getting a new chin spoiler. 
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Feb 19, 2014 20:41
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subx posted:Also I've never heard of something being delivered to a neighbor, is that a normal thing? Our UPS guy leaves everything at our door unless it's signature required, but then again our nearest neighbor is about a quarter mile up the road. We get a lot of boxes - basically if it isn't groceries we buy it online (and I'd buy those online too if I could). USPS usually can't be hosed to deliver to the right address. Especially in an urban or suburban route.
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Feb 19, 2014 21:38
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Buddy on a contract job in TX just sent me this:
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Feb 19, 2014 22:12
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Death Race: Texas.
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Feb 19, 2014 22:15
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Motronic posted:Buddy on a contract job in TX just sent me this: That's technically illegal (I think it falls under the same statute that tire poke does, or it will be on the objects protruding past the fenders statute), but good luck, cops don't really enforce those little safety laws. I'd be unable to drive if they enforced tire poke restrictions 
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Feb 19, 2014 22:22
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West SAAB Story posted:Pretty much this. The East coast is perpetually hosed because there is frozen water all over the roads. Frozen water on the roads would not explain why computerized tracking isn't working.
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Feb 19, 2014 23:31
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Yeah the package is literally here and the tracking still shows it as being in Florida, scheduled for delivery last week 
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Feb 19, 2014 23:34
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Snowdens Secret posted:Frozen water on the roads would not explain why computerized tracking isn't working. "You expect me to scan this and report it when I pick it up? gently caress you, I can't drive faster than 15mph in the areas that WERE plowed." No report - no poo poo about speed. Except for USPS. They just don't give a gently caress. Period.
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Feb 19, 2014 23:34
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Snowdens Secret posted:Frozen water on the roads would not explain why computerized tracking isn't working. It's not just snow, there could be lots of reasons - ice storms taking out overhead lines, people responsible for maintaining said systems being unable to get to work, etc. Or maybe its just easier to take down tracking than it is to field thousands of calls from people about "why their package is taking so long"
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Feb 19, 2014 23:42
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este posted:It's not just snow, there could be lots of reasons - ice storms taking out overhead lines, people responsible for maintaining said systems being unable to get to work, etc. Or maybe its just easier to take down tracking than it is to field thousands of calls from people about "why their package is taking so long" I'm willing to bet money it's just the latter. "Oh poo poo, snow is about to delay hundreds of thousands of packages, and I hate dealing with whiny assholes" *kicks power cord for tracking server* "Woops, problems with the network guys, you'll get your poo poo whenever don't call me"
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Feb 19, 2014 23:47
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Terrible Robot posted:I'm willing to bet money it's just the latter. "Oh poo poo, snow is about to delay hundreds of thousands of packages, and I hate dealing with whiny assholes" *kicks power cord for tracking server* "Woops, problems with the network guys, you'll get your poo poo whenever don't call me" I don't understand why you guys are so ready to kick the underlying LOGISTICS infrastructure to the curb when you know, its the driver who not only has to scan the poo poo, but stick it into the QUALLCOMMMZ port to have things uploaded and updated. I know drivers who intentionally didn't do this until end-of-day to avoid being pestered. I'm also familiar enough with our local USPS folk to know that only one of the drivers bothers to scan things for pickup before returning to the mothership. FedEx, though, seems to do things as they were told. 
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Feb 19, 2014 23:52
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Zlatan Imhobitch posted:The american postal service seems to suck for car stuff. A friend just got these delivered: Same thing just happened to me. I had a set of wheels shipped across the country. One showed up in a pretty beat up box and a nice bend in the rim like that, but somewhat luckily for me, it was the one that had curb rash that needed to be cleaned up, so I had the bend repaired as well. $160 later it's as good as new.
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Feb 20, 2014 00:03
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Motronic posted:Buddy on a contract job in TX just sent me this:
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Feb 20, 2014 00:30
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West SAAB Story posted:I don't understand why you guys are so ready to kick the underlying LOGISTICS infrastructure to the curb when you know, its the driver who not only has to scan the poo poo, but stick it into the QUALLCOMMMZ port to have things uploaded and updated. I know drivers who intentionally didn't do this until end-of-day to avoid being pestered. I guess my area is an anomaly, I cannot remember the last time I got a package that was beat to poo poo or delayed by more than a day, regardless or whether UPS, FedEx, or USPS delivered it. This goes for the packages that are delivered daily at work too, in a different city 40 miles away. I know they update their poo poo regularly because we have had people calling about stuff when it had literally just been dropped off an hour before. That isn't terrible car poo poo though, so have this crappy picture of a candy-green Skull-Blazer I snapped going through the drive-thru at Wendy's last week. 
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Feb 20, 2014 00:51
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West SAAB Story posted:I don't understand why you guys are so ready to kick the underlying LOGISTICS infrastructure to the curb when you know, its the driver who not only has to scan the poo poo, but stick it into the QUALLCOMMMZ port to have things uploaded and updated. I know drivers who intentionally didn't do this until end-of-day to avoid being pestered. The destination driver not swiping the package as delivered isn't going to leave it showing on the wrong side of the country.
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Feb 20, 2014 01:17
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Saw this on my way home today...
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Feb 20, 2014 01:18
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Snowdens Secret posted:The destination driver not swiping the package as delivered isn't going to leave it showing on the wrong side of the country. Well, no, but I was using USPS as a primary point for data. I have seen USPS take two days to show a pickup as occurring, but my gripe is primarily USPS based.
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Feb 20, 2014 01:19
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I just got a box with four shocks and a steering stabilizer today from FedEx that was amazingly beat up, and one of the shocks got out of the individual box it was in and was just chilling out in the larger box. Nothing looks damaged other than cardboard, but come on it's not that hard to move thirty pounds, is it?
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Feb 20, 2014 01:32
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This is in response to the racing circuit noise restriction talk earlier in the thread. My wife and I had a one night layover in Abu Dhabi on the way to Kathmandu and we stayed at the Rotana Yas Island Hotel. Right across the street is Yas Marina Circuit. I think they were testing GT1 cars and it went on all night. My wife was hating the beautiful noise but I was loving it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHIC2Hada4A Now for terrible car stuff I present some of the taxis of Kathmandu. This is the standard taxi.  But some of the drivers got more creative with their rides and tarted them up quite a bit. Extreme!  Adidas    Speed  PORTS  Sports and Racing    Some of the tour buses got in on the action too.  This guy didn't follow the crowd with the white taxi but then again he is HELL RIDER!  This was also a popular motif of a guy chasing a cheetah or vice versa.    Cab relax  GT Sport Great Toning Sport Car  The back of this mini bus in the distance said: NAUGHTY GIRLS ALL COCK EXPRESS 
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