So I bought this pen on e-bay. A pen made in china shipped from china on August 23 for over night delivery to Hornby Island BC Canada. This usually takes two days. Not this time. The pen flew from China to Germany. From Germany to the UK. Then to Kentucky USA. Back to the UK. Back to Kentucky again. Then to Seattle Washington. Then to Richmond BC Canada. Then to Nanaimo where it was given to Canada Post who delivered the pen to me on the 5th of September. I was on the phone with the shipper and the shipping company on a daily basis. The shipping company was of no help,and it took the a week before they redirected the pen in the right direction. The shipper felt so bad had send another pen with a different shipping company and it had arrived two days earlier.

I don't think it's Purolator because as far as I know, Purolator only operates in Canada so it couldn't be in China. I voted FedEx

My question is what is this topic doing in the Pelikan forum?

Hmm. --Doug

So, why not tell us who it is? I've heard bad stories about all three shipping companies.

UPS [font="Comic Sans MS"][/font]

Sorry,,,,I don't know really how that happened. I'm still sort of new to this forum thing. How do I fix it ????


......Stani

Oh, UPS. I marked DHL. I'm not sure why....

On the bright side, you could say... that UPS efficiently shipped the pen around the world in its effort to correct its mistake. (It's a stretch, I know.)


Nice of the vendor to send you another pen gratis.

UPS?

I worked for them for 25 years and no collect a pension. We could spend days recanting horror stories! Louisville was the giveaway!
PMS

I would have chosen UPS, except that apparently the pen finally arrived unbroken.

Efficiently?

John

I voted for UPS. They mangled my paintings in an overseas mailing then gave me the runaround.

OT, but I thought they were covered under Teamster's pension (defined contribution, vesting (under Pension Reform Act in five years??)).

AIR, UPS is the biggest single shipper left that Teamsters have a contract with.