PHOENIX — Romande Hallman is one proud mom.
Her 27-year-old son, Chris, is serving in the military.
“He’s in Afghanistan right now,” Hallman said. “He’s married and has a 3-year-old daughter, and they’re stationed in Germany.”
Hallman knew she wouldn’t see her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter for Christmas, so she packed some boxes with gifts and shipped them overseas.
Hallman took the packages to a Valley UPS store in November and paid the company $186 for shipping.
Christmas came and went, and her family never received the packages.
Hallman said she received a stunning response when she asked the world’s largest shipping company what happened.
UPS charged $186 to take boxes to post office
The people that are REALLY being duped by UPS and FEDEX is Postal Management. They have sold us down the river and don’t even realize that we (USPS) are doing most of the service and they (UPS and FEDEX) are making most of the money. What makes you think they have the brains to successfully negotiate a profitable contract with a third party? The terms of the contract a confidential (otherwise Donahoe would be in Leavenworth)
I do not understand why did she use UPS? I never use them, I always use the good o fashioned U.S. Postal Service …and I never went wrong with them…
UPS & FedEx use USPS for their “last mile” delivery while USPS uses UPS & FedEx for their air transport. Strange bedfellows, but money saving measures by all 3 companies nonetheless. Its just that the public is unaware of this unholy alliance. This is just another example of how USPS cannot compete with the private sector so they employ the next best strategy (Tactic) which is…go to bed with them! Nothing is sacred anymore. APWU (Diamondstein) was unsuccessful in the 90s in getting mail transport work to stay with postal employees and fought USPS efforts to sub-contract the work. When that didn’t work, Diamondstein led the charge to unionize the sub-contractor drivers under the APWU umbrella in essence putting the union in a conflict of interest position when they represented drivers that were essentially taking work away from other APWU represented craft like the motor vehicle craft. Go figure!
everyday customers being duped by UPS and Fed Ex. Unbelieveable!!
What can Brown do you, well let say a big screw job.