ext_23344 ([identity profile] kerlin.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2010-10-27 09:36 am
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UPS Delivery

Has anyone else had problems with UPS delivery?

We're in Winter Hill, and for the last few weeks UPS has been refusing to deliver *any* package without a signature in person. Given that my boyfriend and I both have full time jobs, and can't sit around all day waiting for packages to arrive, this means that some packages have been returned to the sellers.

We've tried calling UPS and giving explicit instructions to leave packages at the back, private door to our apartment; leaving notes (the most recent UPS slip was left on TOP of our note saying to leave the package at the back door); calling shippers and having them designate the package as no signature necessary.

The driver is leaving slips in which he crosses out the area on the back where we can sign, and where it says "the sender required a signature at the time of delivery" he's crossed out "the sender" and written "UPS." He's also underlined "at the time of delivery," and scribbled over the spot where we can check where to leave the package.

I've just called UPS AGAIN and in theory the Somerville distribution center will be calling me back at some point today. With our schedules it is extremely difficult to drive to the out-of-the-way distribution center and pick the packages up directly, but I'm going to reschedule some things and try to go in person tonight to explain to them in small words that they are in the business of delivering packages.

Does anyone else have any ideas? suggestions? similar problems?

(For the record FedEx delivers quite happily to the back door with a 100% success rate so far.)

[identity profile] dial-zero.livejournal.com 2010-10-27 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That. Is. Genius. I had a similar problem with getting a package delivered to my building in JP; I signed the slip asking the driver to leave it in the foyer area (which only 6 tenants use), but because it is a big building with multiple foyers, I guess s/he didn't feel safe leaving it. After two failed attempts, my package got sent to the facility in NORWOOD where I had to go take a bus from my house at 7AM, walk almost a mile, pick up the stupid package (they didn't even ask for ANY kind of ID) and do the same thing going back home. The whole thing took 2 horus. I asked if they could just leave it at a UPS store near my apartment or work, but nope--only the facility in Norwood, or pay an extra $4 to have it re-routed to another address. Now I know--everything gets delivered to my work.