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[Jerry Jones]

No need to apologize. I certainly
do understand how you feel. Legitimate
point if you ask me.

JJ

[Jerry Jones]

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[Patrick]

Hey Laurie, I don't think what you brought up was really off-topic. No doubt there will be a lot of fellow Canadians who would like to order MSP 6, and now between the two of us, we may have saved our countrymen plenty of unnecessary expense.

So are the tulips blooming in Victoria yet?

[paulw]

One begs to ask the question as to why Ulead has to send via expensive courier when standard US Post air or surface mail would do??

[kidspot]

It's not just Canadians who would like Ulead to use USPS instead, those of us in Alaska & Hawaii agree - I tend to give my support to folks who send via USPS to Hawaii (as ground shipping does not work too well out here . . .) Seems doubtful they (or others) will change however. - the worst is companies who charge for FedEx and then ship USPS! (Perhaps this should be in the Soap Box after all)

P.S. I still ordered it, but only because there was no other choice available.

[This message has been edited by kidspot (edited 27 February 2000).]

[Elie]

Thanks Patrick for the link.

To tell you the truth, I don't trust EBay, I don't trust giving my credit card number over the net and now I certainly won't trust UPS or otherwise

Thanks again,
Elie

[jeff b]

I had a different experience the first time I ordered from Ulead (upgrade to MSP 5.0), when I had them send it the fastest way via FedEx. After nearly a week, I called Ulead and asked about why I hadn't gotten my shipment, and was given a tracking number. I tried to get FedEx to find it, but this took a one day wait and a second call, only to find out that, for some strange reason, the package had been returned to Ulead. I then called Ulead again, and told them what had happened. After another day and calling them back, they told me that FedEx sent the package back because they claimed my address didn't exist!

I had them re-send via UPS ground, and got it two days later.

I did follow up with FedEx, making a number of calls to complain about the lack of service, and ultimately found that they confirmed this idea that my address didn't exist. I mean, the guy on the phone actually told me this, "I'm sorry, sir, but our system doesn't recognize that address as a valid one." Imagine that? I told him that UPS had no trouble finding my house, and the US post office has been delivering my mail without a problem for the past ten years.

Later that year, I happened to be on vacation and discovered a little store on Cape Cod that sold different baseball style hats with funny logos on them. The one I bought had the FedEx logo, only it said "FedUp". I still have it sitting in the rear window of my car.

[Brian Ellis]

Hi Jeff,

Really adventurous vacationing, Worcester to Cape Cod! At least, you don't contribute too much to global warming

Strangely, my experience is that the main courier services in Europe are
UPS (best)
DHL (very good)
FedEx (nearly hopeless)
TNT (explosively hopeless)

However, I have no first-hand experience here, in Cyprus, but a neighbour had an envelope (documents) sent from the UK by DHL (fastest service). He received a phone call from DHL three days later saying that the envelope was in their offices in Nicosia, would he go and collect it? He said no, they had to deliver it. Sorry, sir, your village is out of the delivery area (20 mins by car) you must collect it, or we shall send it by taxi. He agreed to the latter, but the taxi driver claimed CYP 20 ($40) for the service. Both he and the sender have tried to claim it back as DHL claim to have a door-to-door overnight service for documents. Fat chance !

However, what keeps these guys on their toes and the prices not too exorbitant is EMS. This is an international service run by all the European Post Offices, sometimes with local names like Datapost, and it works in many other countries as well, incl Canada and N. America. I've had virtually overnight deliveries of documents and small merchandise to and from Switzerland and the USA and elsewhere. Excellent service, much faster than anything else and cheaper, to boot (about 1/2 the UPS/DHL prices). I guess it must work between Canada and the USA. All you do is take your parcel or whatever to any USPS and ask for it to be sent by EMS. They will give you a complex multipart form to fill in which acts as both AWB and Customs declaration, you pay your 20 bucks or whatever, and it's there the next day or, at the worst, the following day.

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Brian (the terrible)

[Laurie]

No, Patrick, the tulips aren't blooming yet, at least not in my garden. We had the ridiculous annual Victoria flower count a few days ago. 3 million or billion flowers or something like that ?counted? by people with nothing better to do. Really it was just another dull wet day here on the big Island.
Twice I've ordered ram from Mushkin in Denver, Colorado and paid about $20(US) for shipping and handling from FEDEX. I guess there must have been something about paying more than that for delivery that got me rattled this time. I used Mushkin's secure site to provide my VISA number for payment. I'm convinced that it is more dangerous to give your charge card to a waiter in a restuarant than send the number encrypted over the web.

Laurie