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In reply to the discussion: So the Post Office Whipped UPS and FedEx in terms of delivering packages for Christmas 2013 [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...and we were aghast at the horrible service and their business practices.
Yes, we know that we were late sending packages out. We didn't expect them to arrive in time for Christmas. We showed up at a UPS place last Friday night. We were told that UPS picked up the last packages at 6:00 p.m. on Friday and that they would not be picking up on Saturday. Hello? No Saturday pick up, the Saturday before Christmas???
That didn't even make sense to me. So the packages wouldn't go out until Monday. We paid quite a bit (more than the post office charges) to send them. We should have just taken the packages to the Post Office on Saturday, but we didn't.
I'll never, ever use UPS again during the holidays. Why on earth they weren't picking up the Saturday before Christmas--is a bizarre mystery.