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OK, let me explain to you AGAIN

 
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:13 pm
Last thursday, 9/1 I overnighted a package that weighed 50 lbs. and is worth $5,000 from Austin to Houston.

On Tuesday, the dippy receptionist in Houston called and asked me why I had sent her a golf club. Shocked

Turns out, the mailing label came off my shipment, and someone at the shipper (ryhmes with Ted Mex) slapped it on a 3 lb. box containing a golf culb.

The golf club box arrived in houston with 2 labels, the one I printed, and one for it's real destination in Poe Dunk NY.

For some f-ing reason I cannont make Ted Mex understand I am not concerned about the club, but would really like for them to find my package, which, by the way, does not even need to be in Houston anymore, but in El Paso by 7:30 AM Saturday.

Got a call from Ted Mex this morning saying - Good News! we delivered your package!

Oh, sweet! So it was found and delivered to El Paso?

Uh, no, we don't know anything about an El Paso address, we delivered it to a Mr. Farquar Kriptonite in Poe Dunk, NY

No, No, No!

15 minutes later, they assure me someone will pick it back up, and overnight for Saturday delivery, 10:30 to El Paso.

Before I hang up, I ask for the tracking #.......

Right after I hang up, I look at my notes and relize, yes, you guessed it.....


It's the tracking # for the golf club!
Now it's going to El Paso!
Mr. Kriptonite will be SO pissed!
But what do I care!
Where is my $5000, 50 lb. package!

I have been trying for more than 2 hours now to get the right person back on the phone.

Everyone I have talked to at Ted Mex just can't understand this.

One thing that comes up with everyone I've talked to is.......But the golf club got delivered to Houston....
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:15 pm
oh
my
god..!
NOONE knows where this expencive package is?
uhh.. do they know what is in it??
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:16 pm
I extend you my sympathy..
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:17 pm
sorry you have to deal with such incompetence...
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:18 pm
You have your original receipt, don't you? It should have a weight on it, and the package should be a different sized box.. not sure if that's on the receipt.
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:20 pm
Apparantly not shewolf

I'm picturing it in some huge ware house, lost, like all those artifact squirred away in Citizen Kane

Yes, they know what's in it

Thanks Osso....
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:22 pm
did you insure it? is it possible that if they lost it you will get refunded?
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:25 pm
When it absolutely, positively has to be there by tee-time....

I'm guessing you've told 'em how teed-off you are.
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:31 pm
i asked that because there has been a rash of package theft with ted mex..

' just slipping on a diffrent routing sticker' ?
would make me raise an eyebrow...
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:34 pm
ossobuco wrote:
You have your original receipt, don't you? It should have a weight on it, and the package should be a different sized box.. not sure if that's on the receipt.


Oh yeah, I ship online
Yes, I have described to them in minute detail what the container looks like.......

actually since my last post, one person who has been the most helpful call me and said they have found several possibilities.

What! Several Possibilities!

How many Holy Grails wrapped in lead, contained in a hard plastic case that looks like a miniature big bertha can there be?

Do you think I undervalued it at $5,000?
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:40 pm
Wrapped in lead? Does it tick?
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:41 pm
What is "it"?
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:42 pm
I am sorry Chai.... wow, just wow... but I have never heard of Ted Mex.. is that like Fed Ex or UPS??
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:54 pm
oh god.....i am at this minute on the phone with someone who just called to tell me they are trying to pick up the golf clubs, but the man there is refusing to give it to them......I'm on hold while they go tell him I said it's okay to leave them there......

no shit....does it get any better than this?

my holy grail is in a warehouse in Tennessee, El Paso is a lost cause....I'll worry about identifying it next week.

see how easy I let things go......?
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 12:59 pm
Oh God! What hell!
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 01:01 pm
frankly

it sounds like the post office could have done a better job.. Confused
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 02:05 pm
poor mr. kriptonite

clutching his club.

no, no, I've got an 8:30 tee time tomorrow.
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 02:09 pm
Chai Tea
on a bright note my package got out of the NO freight warehouse and delivered in Lafayette
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 02:09 pm
Wow, those must be some golf clubs at $5,000.
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 03:04 pm
Chai Tea wrote:
ossobuco wrote:
You have your original receipt, don't you? It should have a weight on it, and the package should be a different sized box.. not sure if that's on the receipt.


Oh yeah, I ship online
Yes, I have described to them in minute detail what the container looks like.......

actually since my last post, one person who has been the most helpful call me and said they have found several possibilities.

What! Several Possibilities!

How many Holy Grails wrapped in lead, contained in a hard plastic case that looks like a miniature big bertha can there be?

Do you think I undervalued it at $5,000?


If it's radioactive like the real Big Bertha, then no.
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