USPS...

[amertrac]

looks like he made a couple bucks with a few songs about united,   bob w.

[jimwrench]

 That video was right on.
 Got this piece of mail in box this AM. Guess this is the new normal. Just an advertisment but it could have been important mail.
Good news is granddaughter went to work for them last week;she should have them straightened out by next Thursday.

[G_P]

looks like that metal box ended up on the floor and got creamed by a forklift.

I had the USPS guy stand at the base of my porch (which comes off the 2nd story) and throw a case of rifle ammo 10+ feet up and over the railing. I was home and felt and heard it land on the porch. He never even knocked on the front door he walked past.  Thankfully it was soviet surplus ammo packed tightly in a steel can but how could he miss all the ORM-D warnings printed all over the cardboard box it was in?

[eddie hudson]

USPS is raising rates in January.

[Stoney]

I was signed up to take an ISA tree climbing certification test about 10 years ago.  Four days before Katbird (my wife) and me were to leave to go from North Alabama to Greensville, South Carolina by Amtrac, I realized that I didn't have the right carabiners.  I put in a rush order to Sharrill Tree and ordered them to be shipped overnight.  I explained to the salesman that I had over $700.00 tied up in this trip and if I didn't have those carabiners, it would be wasted trip because I probability would not be allowed to take the test, as my tree climbing equipment may not pass.  He said no problem I'll ship it overnight by FedEx Ground.  I waited and waited and waited NO package!!!!!  When I arrived home after my trip, where I WAS Not allowed to take the test, and after tracking the package we found it delivered to a house about EIGHTEEN miles away on the other side of town BUT IT WAS DELIVERED OVERNIGHT SO FedEx would not refund.

[Branson]

>BUT IT WAS DELIVERED OVERNIGHT SO FedEx would not refund.

This is just about the lamest excuse I've ever heard.  It's amazing that a brain could invent such a fantasy reason for such irresponsibility.

I'd be willing to bet that a coffee table book of excuses and demolished packages (lots of pictures like the tool box that started this thread)
would  sell very well. 

Speaking of books, yesterday's rescues included Kennedy's An Anthology of Old English Poetry and a nifty near new volume titled, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores.

[Stoney]

Wow I've only found the hardware book at the library.  I think that there are only two of us alternating checking it out.  I've got to get this recycling thing started.

[scottg]

Tragedies happen when shipping sometimes.
 But mostly, and about 90% of the time, its the sellers fault all the way.
 
  Anything I ship, anything, I pretend I am standing at the top of the top step at a football stadium, and I am going to drop kick that package down the 1000 steps. Punt for the sky and watch it tumble all the way down.
  Unless a package can take that, its my own fault if something happens.
 I have shipped 100+ year old glass bottles around the world, for the last 20 years. I have lost a few, but very very few.
 
    If we really expected packages to be handled with kid gloves, we'd have to pay 500% more for shipping, so they could offer decent wages to their employees.
 My friend Stan has worked 20+ years for UPS.   He won't complain, because he is not like that.
  But 24 years, loyal and true, his lifestyle on this earth should be better.
    yours Scott   

[Stoney]

Well said.

[rusty]

>drop kick that package down the 1000 steps. Punt for the sky and watch it tumble all the way down.

Shhh! You are giving away the secret method of unloading the airplane without a forklift...