Shipping Suggestion

because both ups and fedex suck, in my area ups is the worst and fedex is not that much better. but I'm sure you have the choice, not that it will make any difference

There are many things you can do that is not in the config, since putting all choices in the config page will load it up with a million things.

just call DS and ask them to ship yours to you via ups

lol call them and tell them to take it back to DS and then ship it via ups

Edited by DST4ME - 19 Mar 2009 at 2:33pm

It's easier for us logistically to pick a carrier. We use FedEx as default for computer systems, and UPS for replacement parts and pickups, etc..

Remember we forum junkies need pictures when it arrives!!!

@Xflyboy, no worries buddy. I wasn't thinking you were causing a problem. I just want to make sure you knew the situation.

It's too bad UPS and FedEx don't have a feedback system where you can rate their drivers and their service. Those guys are paid fairly well, especially for the primate-level skills required to do the job, and yet they still don't give a crap about how well they do their jobs because it is hard to fire them (unions!). They remind me of the way American autoworkers were during their worst quality years.

with FedEx and ups there are no outside contractors.

I have said it before, we all need to get together and each call or write the corporate office and then we will get results, calling their customer service will get nothing

I work with all the couriers in the area, you forget my business is in shipping, all their trucks and drivers are all from the company, only when they get in a bind and have to, do they call companies like myself to help.

now that is in dc and surrounding areas, if they do it differently in other states then I would not know anything about that.

I was actually talking about the fact that historically the American automakers sold the absolute worst (or second worst) quality products for virtually the same prices as the highest quality products being shipped in from overseas. Based on the assembly quality, reliability, and durability of the American cars which I (and my friends) have bought during my 35 years of driving, the American autoworkers don't care about doing their job right, much less doing it well.

Plus, the autoworkers I knew complained constantly about how "little" they were paid. In the blue-collar area where I grew up, they were among the least-educated and highest-paid guys I ever met in my life. Long ago, they were making $20-30 an hour for jobs that even mindless robots were later able to do far better. People I knew with Masters degrees were paid significantly less than they were. Maybe I'm biased toward educated folks, but I think somebody who spends 6-8 years in college should be making more money than high-school graduates and even high school dropouts, like the few guys I knew who worked at the Ford and GM plants. They got their jobs simply because they knew guys in the union.

I'll admit, coming from a blue-collar area and a blue-collar family, I stubbornly bought American for a very long time (nearly 30 years), but eventually I got tired of my brand new cars literally starting to fall apart within a year. Finally, I broke down and bought two new Acuras which have had a grand total of ZERO problems in several years of ownership now. Cars are a huge purchase. The people building them should actually care how well they do it. In the Orient, they do care. From my extended experience and limited contact with a few of the American autoworkers, they don't care at all. They punch the clock, get through the day with as little effort as possible, and go home.

It's a shame UPS and FedEx are equally terrible, otherwise one of them would be the clear choice and the other would go out of business to make room for a better company to step in and compete. The entire reason FedEx grew so quickly was they were significantly better in the early days. Now they are just as bad.