On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:18:00 -0500, "chef@dennys"
wrote:

Fed-Ex Ground has always welcomed packages from private individuals, while
UPS would rather do business with business. UPS finally saw the light over
the last year or two due to Ebay, but they've did too little too late.

I've used Fed-Ex Ground for at least 5 years since UPS started opening and
inspecting packages accepted via their counters.

A few years back, on salon.com, there was a story of a woman
who went to France and had a major museum ship a rolled-up picture of
a famous painting of a nude, to her son, a fine arts major, at home in
the US.

UPS in the US opened it, determined it to be obscene by their
standards and sent it back to the museum store.

The woman checked shipping policy with all the majors -- DHL,
Airborne, UPS and FedEx. All except FedEx said they'd have done the
same. FedEx alone said that, absent a court order, they wouldn't open
a shipment which was properly packaged.


The UPS counter folks
around here are extremely rude... in fact one of them is so bad just
mentioning her name to about anyone across the region who has been to their
counter and they know who you're referring to. Go to a Fed-Ex counter and
you're greeted with a smile. Also love their Ship Manager web processing.
Even when there's a line of people at the Fed-Ex counter, just throw your
packages on the desk... say "they're done"... and walk out. UPS lost my
business long ago.

"hinkeydo" wrote in message
. ..

I would have to agree that my luck with UPS has been less than
satisfactory. but with fedex my stuff gets there a lot quicker and costs
less money.