I never said it "was" porcelain figurines...it was meant as a joke.

But, I must stick up for these workers as well. I personally know what it is like to work for a courier service like fedex, ups, purolator and so on and so forth. I currently do.

You'd have to be silly not to think that a number of packages don't arrive onto those trucks already damaged or broken. Christ, I've had to deliver packages that were obviously broken and had a brokerage fee on them. You try explaining that to some cranky old broad or bugger.

Either way, what this guy has done isn't right, but in the end, if you worked for a company like he does, you too would be doing this.

i just got a package

i hope it's not ruined (it's a portable turntable yo!)

Was it the best form? No. Was he throwing a porcelain figurine? No! He was yet another cog in the machine that gets you a cheap blouse from QVC with no shipping charge.

I have the most trust in the USPS to take care of my deliveries and get them to their destination but I have found UPS and FedEx to both be faster.

I got my fiance a pretty expensive blackberry for Christmas last year, and their website kept telling me it was delivered to an "office" to the wrong address (one that was close, but didn't exist and wasn't on the label) and that it was signed for by a woman there. When we called them and told them that address didn't exist, they said it was at our local UPS center and we could pick it up there. We went, it was nowhere, and they had to admit that they had lost it and pay the insurance (through the seller's claim, not ours--glad he was an honest guy). About 7 months later, I saw a package in bad shape sitting on top of the mailboxes in our shared mailbox area. Yep! Guess they had found it somewhere and dropped it off like no big deal. Happy ending, because the seller and I both got refunds, and eventually the gift showed up. They never asked for the money back.

Over a week before Christmas, I ordered an item. It was shipped on time. I knew it could arrive after Christmas, but I still don't have it. Why? Because UPS decided that shipping an item from Kansas City to California could best be done by shipping it into Portland, Oregon, during one of the worst snowstorms in history. It arrived in Portland on the 23rd. It was not unloaded from the plane until the 29th. At this point, not even God knows where my package is.

i think taking this at face value is indicative of how the internet has turned us into a bunch of 'if it's on the internet, it must be true'

Oh, wow, I bought this exact fountain 3 months ago at Walmart... This fountain was produced in china, likely loaded via forklift into a warehouse, later moved again onto a train, then onto a ship, floated across the ocean, unloaded, transferred onto another train, then later a truck and then the Walmart warehouse before being handled again and placed on the shelf, without the slightest bit of damage. Mail it through US post from one side of Texas to the other in that exact same packaging however, and they tell you the 4 inches of Styrofoam isn't enough protection....

Meanwhile, the local branch of UPS have always been friendly and done a great job. Weird!

--TwoDragons