Originally posted by Ex Finn. BTW, down here the men in brown do a one hell of a good job. So do the xE deF people.
I am currently located in the Sierra Nevada mountains about midway between the capitols of California and Nevada. I am on a rutted gravel road with no USPS action -- I use a PO box -- and where GPS and cells are unreliable, and all the maps are wrong.
UPS usually manages to find my
trailer modular home, and to leave stuff on the sheltered front porch. Not so with DeFex. DeFex left my K20D+lenses shipment on a neighbor's porch -- I found it the next day. DeFex left a box full of photo paper and IR film on my unsheltered back porch, in the sun in a heat wave -- I found it when I returned home two days later. I had specifically instructed that deliveries NOT be left there. I've written to DeFex to
congratulate them for hiring the retarded as drivers. (I've sent similar notes to SaturdayNightLive re: their writers.)
I ship what I can with USPS, otherwise with UPS. I try to route all incoming non-postal shipments through UPS. I will not do business with DeFex unless there is absolutely no alternative. DeFex sucks.
But I'm not bitter.