Posted on 12/27/2013 8:03:31 AM PST by Biggirl
Former Attorney General and current U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling on United Parcel Service to issue refunds to customers whose gifts did not arrive in time for Christmas.
“I am disappointed to learn that so many consumers in Connecticut and across the country made purchases this holiday season expecting their gifts to arrive in time for Christmas, but instead were left empty-handed,” the Democratic senator from Connecticut said in a press release.
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I’m thinkin’ algore should be the one footing the tab for his uh, slight miscalculation on agw. He could even trade in some of the gazillions of carbon credits he’s got stored away in his secret underground lair.
Too many packages into a system that couldn’t handle the load. It’s like blaming the water company because your toilet backed up.
Publicity hound.
You’d think he’d be happy that UPS got buried with unanticipated orders. It means more consumption spending and that the economy is picking up (or will appear to be for the next round of statistics).
Send the presents early, you idiots. There is a Christmas crunch in package delivery every year. It’s not as if it’s a surprise.
Fascists!
None of the gov’t’s business.
This is between the business and their customers.
Hey Dick, why not get your supporters to terrify the families of the FedEx and UPS CEO’s by storming their houses?
Can the nation get a refund for the hope and change porkulas that didn’t arrive in time for reality?
You think I am the only one a bit “embaressed” about Sen. Bloomy?
http://blogs.rep-am.com/worth_reading/2013/12/26/dick-does-it-again/
“Dick does it again.”
Or they had to pay for the orders when first placed via credit cards and that bonus would be to pay off the credit card debt.
They ponied up for a service and then did not receive it.
If the company cares to make nicey-nice (and they should) then they can offer them more. But that is PR.
Should the fedgov keep their noses out?
Yep.
That would be the best present of all.
I thought I read that the USPS subcontracts these companies. Wish I knew more. Maybe we’re looking at the wrong party. I have trouble believing no one has complained about the USPS.
Could be.
Another DemoRAT trying to make someone else responsible for the actions of his stupid, non-thinking voters.
Standard operating procedure for RATS.
I did all of my shopping and mailing Thanksgiving weekend. I don't want anyone's sloppy leftovers by shopping too close to Christmas, and I don't want to have packages in that holiday mire.
I think something really unusual happened. Amazon dropped the ball. Even that week after Thanksgiving UPS shipments weren't meeting target dates and if you did the tracking you could see they were sitting in some terminals. As a result, I stuck to USPS (did great). Amazon etc could've if they had someone tracking the mess.
The free market will do more to fix this problem than Bloomer or any other politician could do. That is part of the risk of mail-order.
Thank-you! :)
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