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Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Friday, December 17, 2010 - 1:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
My father is 78 and still a very good driver

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Friday, December 17, 2010 - 2:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
I figure if I am stuck behind somebody doing 10 in a 25 mph zone it is an old person.

There is a local man who does that. He has a bumper sticker that reads "tailgating is illegal."

It is VERY annoying to get behind him.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, December 17, 2010 - 3:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Minus the bumper sticker, THAT WAS THE GUY I WAS FOLLOWING THE OTHER DAY!!! Oh yeah, and he refused to signal when he was turning. TWICE!!!!!!!!

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, December 17, 2010 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Our rural area has no public transportation and no taxis. Having alternates isn't always an option; logically I get it. When I get behind the 95 year old going 20 MPH, though, I have to remind myself about 20 times! :-)

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 6:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I'm here to GRIPE!! I called PNC Bank 10 days ago b/c our card had been hacked. Fortunately, they'd used it at CreditReport.com - and the guy I talked to there about the 15 charges we'd gotten, told me people will put in card numbers just to see if they work. Creditreport immediately credited our money back and I called PNC to cancel the card. They said it would take 4-6 days to receive new card AND they said there would be a $7.50 fee! I could call and complain to see if they'd waive it only after it appeared on the account.

Soo - card doesn't come this week at all. DH called AGAIN today while I was out and about w/DS. When I arrive home and ask him about it, he says that they told him the card was still ACTIVE and he should "check with me." Instead of pitching a hissy fit and insisting it be canceled ASAP, he hangs up!!

I start calling at 7:00 PM. An hour later, I've gone through BOTH phone batteries, and then spend another 40 minutes on hold with my cell phone. FINALLY get a real person and he confirms card is still active. I pitch a fit, say I better not be charged after all this hassle, how dare they not cancel the card when I called, and if they don't cancel this instant I will switch banks first thing Monday morning. I told CSR I knew he wasn't personally responsible, but that this kind of baloney should NEVER happen!

He assures me card is now canceled, it will take up to SEVEN business days to receive and his supervisor said I had to call back tomorrow during business hours b/c they were the "credit" dep't - the only dep't who works after hours, but they don't have the ability to waive the fee. However, they dep't that CAN waive it is open tomorrow 8-5.

We have a local credit union where I've had a savings account for years. If that call tomorrow doesn't go well, I'm done. We've stayed with the same bank 21 years through FOUR different take-overs and always been perfectly happy - but I will not tolerate that kind of incompetence with MY hard-earned money!

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 8:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
My sympathies Teach! That is a frustrating terribly situation!

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 7:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
My gripe is with UPS. Last Thursday, my son was expecting a package that didn't arrive. He called that evening and was told it was delivered to our door at 2:27 p.m. Uh, no, it wasn't. At 2:25, my three sons and two dogs were in the living room (which the front door opens into and which has a big bay window right by the door). It would be impossible to miss someone coming to the door, because the dogs bark their little hearts out when someone comes anywhere near our house. Also, at 2:25 p.m., I looked at the clock and said to my youngest son that we needed to be leaving to take my dog to the vet. So we put my dog's harness on and were out the door at 2:27 or 2:28. There was no package there. My other two sons were in the living room the whole time we were gone, and the package was not delivered.

Today, I was expecting a package that didn't arrive. I checked the tracking information, and it said that delivery was attempted and a signature was required. It said to follow the directions left by the carrier. Yeah, but there was no note on the door, in the mailbox, lying on the porch, under the mat - nowhere in sight. Again, one of my sons was sitting in the living room at the time and didn't hear or see anything.

What makes it even more frustrating is that earlier in the day, UPS (from the same distribution center) delivered a package to my son (not the one that they claim to have delivered last week), and he said that when he saw the UPS truck, he went out and met the driver coming up our driveway, and he was only carrying one package. This would have been sometime between when I left at 2 p.m. and when my package was supposed to have arrived at 5:37. Why didn't they just put my package on the same truck as his? It's not like one came in the morning and the other in the afternoon!

Oh, and my son's missing package never did show up (we believe the driver stole it, since he claimed to have delivered it). Fortunately, Amazon has excellent customer service!

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
So sorry........I have a good history with UPS!

Merrysea
Moderator

08-13-2004

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
I have always had good luck with them up until last week! I think we just got a bad driver for our neighborhood recently.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I feel your pain, Merrysea!

I've had two bad experiences with them over the 17 years I have lived in this house, and even though that's only 2 out of probably a couple hundred deliveries, I am still so leery of them.

The worst was when I ordered my mom a jewelry armoire for her birthday. It literally showed up at her house like kindling. It was so badly wrecked that UPS themselves repacked the wreckage before it got to her. She wondered why she got a 2 foot tall package for a 4 foot tall jewelry armoire, then she realized why when she opened it. It was smashed to bits. She made a claim and they paid, thank goodness.

Second worse was when I ordered my first camcorder. This was before online tracking and I wasn't home when it was delivered. So they stuck it behind my garbage dumpster by my garage and it spent 2 days in the rain before I found it.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
Naja, those are both awful! Was the camcorder ruined?

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
The camcorder survived :-) It had a pretty good layer of plastic wrapping around it, and half the box got a little shielding from the eaves.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
I'm glad to hear it; but it must have given you a bit of a scare when you saw the box!

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Oh, you bet, Merrysea. I'm practically a fanatic now about being home for UPS. They just ring your doorbell, set the package on the stoop, and run. They don't care if someone is or isn't home. Anybody walking or driving by can snatch your packages. I wouldn't be surprised if there are criminals who follow UPS trucks just to take the packages they leave right in front.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
I wish I could be home all day tomorrow when they are supposed to come back. They are supposed to call me in the morning, and I'll be here until at least noon. One of my sons has agreed to be here all afternoon with the curtains wide open!

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
And that's another thing, Merrysea. UPS has no time limit during the holidays. I have gotten packages from them as late as 10 PM during the holiday season.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
I wouldn't mind if it came late, but since the driver already said that he tried to deliver it, it won't be here tonight.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
oh no, I didn't mean the package may still come for you tonight. I meant your new delivery date could come that late.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
That would be okay - I'm usually up late!

Naja
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06-28-2003

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
ok, that's cool :-)

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
If it doesn't come tomorrow, I'm going to ask them to hold it there and I'll drive over on Thursday and pick it up. It's only about 15 miles away.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, now that you mention it, Merry, we had three ups deliveries last week, two of them on the same day from the same place (Barnes and Nobles split my order up for some reason) but by two different people and about an hour apart. Wonder why they can't put them on the same truck?

I have a gripe. Anytime the weather gets nasty (wind, rain, whatever) my phone line goes to crap. It's not a new problem and it can be fixed by replacing the phone line, but since that's gonna cost us $700+ and it's not an all the time thing, we're just not in a hurry to do it. We have cell phones to make calls and for people to call us, we can deal with the inconvienience.

Anyone who has a reason to call us is aware of this. And I know, having called home myself, it's fairly apparent its a phone line problem when it happens and not just us deciding to not answer the phone. It'll ring on their end once or twice and then either cut out completely or go all staticy. If the call comes through on our end, it'll be so staticy we can't talk/hear each other.

Sometimes I don't even realize there is a problem right away. The internet slows down or stops, x-box live won't work, netflix won't load and then I realize it's the phone line.

Despite everyone knowing we have phone line problems in nasty weather, I have been getting irate phone calls on the cell for the last two days from people who start out with, "Since you've been ignoring my phone calls...,
or, "Because you won't pick up the phone...." Argh! I'm not doing it on purpose! And if you really want to talk to us, we do have four cell phones in the house!

Yesterday I was aware we were having problems only because the phone would ring once and then stop. Today it was probably 4 or 5pm before I realized it cuz it wasn't ringing at all, in fact tonight I don't even have a fuzzy, staticy dial tone, it's completely dead.

Maybe it's the rain making me grumpy but geez, I'm getting tired of angry and in one case, hurt, phone calls when I don't even realize someones trying to call me or when it rings once and stops. Especially when everyone knows we have phone line issues and has our cell phone numbers to call.

And on the weird side, despite the phone itself being completely dead, our internet is running (very, very slowly) and x-box live is up and running, though netflix through x-box live won't load at all tonight.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-30-2000

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 9:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
From a shippers viewpoint, we don't use UPS any more, we use FedEx ground for our package delivery. However, both services charge $5 more per package to get a signature, so that's why you rarely have to sign for things any more.

FedEx sometimes misdelivers, but they always reimburse us the full cost of the item if they do.

Colordeagua
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10-24-2003

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Amazon recently split my one order into two shipments. One was delivered by UPS and one by Ensenda. I'd never heard of it before.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
My gripe is with Best Buy. I bought something for store pickup the other morning and they charged my account...but about half an hour later I got an email saying that the item was no longer available (GRRR) and that they would cancel it and refund my money sometime within THE NEXT 8 DAY! ? Anyway, I got on the phone with them and (after about 30 minutes of the loudest, most obnoxious recording ever) talked to a real live human who eventually located another product that I could pick up (why didn't they do that originally before they sent me that emai?). I asked her why they should get to keep my money for 8 days and she gave me some song and dance about it having to go through several credit companies. I told her I thought that was silly because they certainly have NO problem taking my money out within 30 seconds of my ordering it...they could surely put it back just as quickly...but the difference was they didn't WANT to put the money back.

The same thing happened with Target. I returned an item and they said they were crediting it back to my bank card, but that didn't happen for about 4 days...but they managed to take the money out for the items I purchased while in the store at the same time pretty promptly.

Do these credit card companies think we're stupid? I realize that there is no point in fighting it tooth and nail but it is obvious what they are doing...hanging onto the money in order to build interest on it. Maybe next Christmas I will pay only with cash...but of course that's what I thought I was doing using my debit card!

And that's my rant for the day.

p.s. Of course I realize that this policy isn't limited to just these two companies but it is very irksome!