the ups store
- Thread starter luckee23q
- Start date
YouKnowWhoIam
Banned
Let me pick you guys up before 6:30 and I'll tell you!
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
UPS Stores are franchises. Employees of the UPS Store are not UPS employees. You received a discount which you were not eligible to receive.
What fun would that be?
Read much?
UPS employees have an entire website full of discounts that we are eligible for, to include 20% off cell phone service through ATT. UPS Store employees are not employees of UPS so they are not eligible for these discounts.
UPS employees do not receive discounts on shipping.
klein
Für Meno :)
I know, and you also get flight discounts, too.
Cementups
Box Monkey
Being a UPS employee, I have gone into X in my Browns and also received your discount. Seems it's good marketing for them to have the brown man using their service.
One time I had an issue that came up at UPS and my management team became aware that I was using X to ship my packages for my side business and they asked me why I used X and I replied, "They give me a discount just for walking in the door and setting up an account but yet I work for Brown for so-and-so years and yet I get nothing. I apologize for not being loyal but when it comes to my business making a profit, every penny counts." Nothing else was ever said about the issue again.
You're not a UPS employee, but franchisees and employees of franchisees are eligible for a number of discounts. Ask your store manager or franchise owner.
(Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless each offer discounts. AT&T Wireless isn't on the list. However that doesn't mean they don't offer discounts. It just means they haven't agreed to offer a specific discount under contract.)
I did not know that. And that's so very odd.
Coldworld
60 months and counting
Why is it any damn business of your management team of what kind of shipping you use for an outside business...maybe if they want us all to use ups for shipping they should try to treat us as part of the company and not some pieces of chit....
bluehdmc
Well-Known Member
Not using UPS for shipping while an employee is kinda like working in a Ford plant and driving a Chevy.
As far as the "no discount" thing the first time I walked into a customer center in my browns, I was told it's the "friends and family" pricing plan. "You pay what we pay."
If you ship through paypal shipping the prices are better though, I guess it's corporate pricing. You have to have a balance in your paypal acct to do this though, it's ok when you've just sold something on ebay but to ship something else you have to maintain a balance or send the money to your paypal acct and wait a couple of days.
That being said, lately I've been using the USPS, their tracking is much improved over what they had a couple of years ago and I was told by someone else who sells on ebay and ships with them that an insurance claim is much easier to make than UPS.
As far as the "no discount" thing the first time I walked into a customer center in my browns, I was told it's the "friends and family" pricing plan. "You pay what we pay."
If you ship through paypal shipping the prices are better though, I guess it's corporate pricing. You have to have a balance in your paypal acct to do this though, it's ok when you've just sold something on ebay but to ship something else you have to maintain a balance or send the money to your paypal acct and wait a couple of days.
That being said, lately I've been using the USPS, their tracking is much improved over what they had a couple of years ago and I was told by someone else who sells on ebay and ships with them that an insurance claim is much easier to make than UPS.
Last edited:
Cementups
Box Monkey
There is a bit more to the story but I prefer to only give you the highlights and the parts relevant to this post.
Mr. 7
The monkey on the left.
I'm glad to hear X cut you a break. In my mind, we're all in the same line of work. We all deliver stuff, whether your USPS, UPS, X, whatever.
On my rt. I know where some UPS guys and their families live and work, I go out of my way to do an extra good job delivering to them. Heck, just this morning, I ran into the UPS guy that del'd to my house twice this week (I happen to know him for a while) in the coffee shop. They must have recently moved him into my neighborhood. I made a big point to say "Hey, I've noticed that the UPS service in my neighborhood has dramatically increased lately, I think I'm gonna call your sup. and tell him".
klein
Für Meno :)
UPS Stores making a fortune here (along side with UPS), due to the now full blown Canada Postal Strike !
Chad Redeker, manager of the UPS Store on Jasper Avenue, has seen an increase in volume in the last two weeks.
“Compared to this time last year, about 50 per cent more,” he said
http://www.metronews.ca/edmonton/lo...trike-puts-couriers-in-driver-s-seat?rand=967
Chad Redeker, manager of the UPS Store on Jasper Avenue, has seen an increase in volume in the last two weeks.
“Compared to this time last year, about 50 per cent more,” he said
http://www.metronews.ca/edmonton/lo...trike-puts-couriers-in-driver-s-seat?rand=967
