Democrat urges refund for late deliveries

[Big Money]

A U.S. senator is calling on UPS to refund customers whose Christmas packages got caught up in widespread delays.



"In a very real sense, Christmas is on the line," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in a written statement Thursday.


"I call on UPS to do the right thing and provide refunds to people whose Christmases were a little less cheery as a result of their late deliveries."




http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/26/senator-urges-ups-to-refund-customers-whose-christmas-packages-were-late/

[Althea]

Private sector advocates silent. No surprise.


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/25/santa-sleigh-delayed-after-problems-at-ups-fedex/


UPS did not make pickups or deliveries Wednesday. Extra workers were brought in Wednesday night to the company's hub in Louisville,





Meanwhile, USPS was making deliveries on Xmas day to fulfill orders.

[Celticguy]

Did UPS guarantee delivery ? Pretty sure thats a no. Among all that paperwork is a contract and all they are rwsponsible for is whatever is in there. Pretty classless atempting to politisize this.

[Althea]

Did UPS guarantee delivery ? Pretty sure thats a no. Among all that paperwork is a contract and all they are rwsponsible for is whatever is in there. Pretty classless atempting to politisize this.

As Congress continues to strangle the USPS, we still see the private sector cheerleaders hailing same as superior to anything that the govt. does.

On the biggest night of their careers, the actors here never made the opening of the show.

Why? Because it 'isn't worth it' to the investors, to pay all that overtime in order to get the job done.


Those who paid extra for expedited shipping, will most def. get a refund.

[Truth Detector]

A U.S. senator is calling on UPS to refund customers whose Christmas packages got caught up in widespread delays.



"In a very real sense, Christmas is on the line," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in a written statement Thursday.


"I call on UPS to do the right thing and provide refunds to people whose Christmases were a little less cheery as a result of their late deliveries."




http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/26/senator-urges-ups-to-refund-customers-whose-christmas-packages-were-late/

Democrats really are dimwitted dunces. Of course we should ignore the weather realities of delivering packages at the busiest time of the year and the FACT that if you REALLY need it to get there on time, you should ship two weeks prior.

But alas, we are becoming a society of dunces unconcerned with reality or the concept of personal responsibility.

[Truth Detector]

Did UPS guarantee delivery ? Pretty sure thats a no. Among all that paperwork is a contract and all they are rwsponsible for is whatever is in there. Pretty classless atempting to politisize this.

There you go again; confusing the dunces with the facts.

[Big Money]

I'm sure more coercive laws and lots of unionized federal bureaucrats are the answer to this rare failure of a private package carrier - who, by the way has already announced refunds voluntarily in conjunction with Amazon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...b8d_story.html

Look how well the USPS is doing. We need more big government solutions like that.

[Truth Detector]

As Congress continues to strangle the USPS, we still see the private sector cheerleaders hailing same as superior to anything that the govt. does.

On the biggest night of their careers, the actors here never made the opening of the show.

Why? Because it 'isn't worth it' to the investors, to pay all that overtime in order to get the job done.


Those who paid extra for expedited shipping, will most def. get a refund.

Does it even occur to you that the USPS failed in their efforts as well? Does reality ever occur to dunces like you?

When has the Congress strangled the postal service? They raise their rates almost every year to cover their losses. The issue with the USPS is not the competition, but the fact that their services are so lacking people pay MORE to have other carriers deliver packages.

As a shipping customer, I stopped shipping anything of value with the USPS because FedEx Ground can do it better, faster and for less money. Their claim process is fairly painless and they honor all claims where they are negligent. The same cannot be said about the USPS and that is from PERSONAL experience on numerous occasions. Dealing with the USPS is similar to any Government agency, painful, slow and frustrating.

It wasn't about overtime dunce, it was about the physical realities of weather. You know, all that global warming stuff.

[Big Money]

A combination of bad weather, shoppers waiting until the last minute and the overwhelming surge in online buying resulted in some packages not getting under the Christmas tree in time.


The wave of shipments was so large that a UPS spokeswoman said “the volume of air packages in our system exceeded the capacity in our network.” Customers who ordered shipments via air or internationally are entitled to refunds.


The short holiday season may also have played a part in the delivery crunch. There were six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year than last year. More than 30 million Americans did not start shopping until after Dec. 9, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation. Nearly half of those surveyed said they planned to shop online. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, about 60 million Americans went to the Web for goods.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/amazon-ups-offer-refunds-for-christmas-delivery-problems/2013/12/26/c9570254-6e44-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html

[Althea]

Does it even occur to you that the USPS failed in their efforts as well? Does reality ever occur to dunces like you?

When has the Congress strangled the postal service? They raise their rates almost every year to cover their losses. The issue with the USPS is not the competition, but the fact that their services are so lacking people pay MORE to have other carriers deliver packages.

As a shipping customer, I stopped shipping anything of value with the USPS because FedEx Ground can do it better, faster and for less money. Their claim process is fairly painless and they honor all claims where they are negligent. The same cannot be said about the USPS and that is from PERSONAL experience on numerous occasions. Dealing with the USPS is similar to any Government agency, painful, slow and frustrating.

It wasn't about overtime dunce, it was about the physical realities of weather. You know, all that global warming stuff.

100% bullshit.

You know nothing about the USPS, and if you don't know what I meant by 'strangling', then you've got some homework to do before coming here and making a 'dunce' of yourself.

Answer this...if the fed govt. mandated that UPS/Fed Ex pre fund retiree health benefits for the next 75 years....within the next 5 years....how well do you think they could perform?

USPS operated in the black every year, until Bush's Congress tried to kill them.


Do your research

[Big Money]

You know nothing about the USPS, and if you don't know what I meant by 'strangling', then you've got some homework to do before coming here and making a 'dunce' of yourself. USPS operated in the black every year, until Bush's Congress tried to kill them. Do your research

Irony abounds.

A number of factors are behind the post office’s deficit problems: More of us use e-mail and text messaging to stay in touch, driving down mail volume; private competition from carriers like UPS and FedEx has chipped away at the Post Office’s package delivery service business; and USPS processing and distribution facilities have long been considered bloated and inefficient compared to private shippers. But the biggest obstacle to postal reform, by far, is the problem of funding Congressionally mandated pre-retiree health benefits.

Since 2006, the Post Office has been legally required to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees at a cost of around $5.5 billion a year. For the first time last year, it defaulted on its annual payment.

When Congress imposed those mandates in 2006, the Post Office was doing just fine. Digital communication had yet to take such a huge bite out of the amount of mail the USPS processed and delivered. First-class mail volume was about 97 billion pieces in 2006. So there wasn’t much of a backlash when Congress decided that the Post Office was healthy enough to lock in health benefits for future retirees — for the next 75 years, mind you, something no other public or private agency does.

Two years later, the U.S. was hit by the Great Recession at around the same time that mobile communication and things like online bill payments were growing at explosive rates. The Post Office began reporting massive deficits from which it has yet to recover. Last year it delivered only 68 billion pieces of mail.

http://business.time.com/2013/02/07/how-healthcare-expenses-cost-us-saturday-postal-delivery/

[PostmodernProphet]

"In a very real sense, Christmas is on the line," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in a written statement Thursday.

its the reason for the season!......

[Big Money]

its the reason for the season!......

He said Christmas!

[PostmodernProphet]

he's a liberal....he meant $$$$$mas......

[Althea]

Irony abounds.

A number of factors are behind the post office’s deficit problems: More of us use e-mail and text messaging to stay in touch, driving down mail volume; private competition from carriers like UPS and FedEx has chipped away at the Post Office’s package delivery service business; and USPS processing and distribution facilities have long been considered bloated and inefficient compared to private shippers. But the biggest obstacle to postal reform, by far, is the problem of funding Congressionally mandated pre-retiree health benefits.

Since 2006, the Post Office has been legally required to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees at a cost of around $5.5 billion a year. For the first time last year, it defaulted on its annual payment.

When Congress imposed those mandates in 2006, the Post Office was doing just fine. Digital communication had yet to take such a huge bite out of the amount of mail the USPS processed and delivered. First-class mail volume was about 97 billion pieces in 2006. So there wasn’t much of a backlash when Congress decided that the Post Office was healthy enough to lock in health benefits for future retirees — for the next 75 years, mind you, something no other public or private agency does.

Two years later, the U.S. was hit by the Great Recession at around the same time that mobile communication and things like online bill payments were growing at explosive rates. The Post Office began reporting massive deficits from which it has yet to recover. Last year it delivered only 68 billion pieces of mail.

http://business.time.com/2013/02/07/how-healthcare-expenses-cost-us-saturday-postal-delivery/

Thanks for illustrating my point...for the 'dunces' in the room