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JulieI was mailing a $25 Cracker Jack (sic!) to central California from Berkeley, California, and I decided to have UPS pick it up at my house for $5, just to see how the package was treated. The card's trip was a horror beyond imaginging. They couldn't deliver it second day, because the guy lived in a
"Gated community," and the (substitute) delivery guy forgot his key. The next day, they said nobody was home. Receiver said "Send it to my office. Anyone would have answered the bell for the delivery guy--he probably didn't even try." I called UPS, and told them to re-direct it, and sure enough, it got there overnight (from the same city it had been in for some time now!). "The package was in shreads, but the card survived," receiver said. I think it was the shreadded nature of the package that kept them from delivering it in the first place!