Local School Almost Got a Surprise

[Langenator]

So I ordered a $80 delivered K-31 special from AIM. It was supposed to be delivered Monday. UPS managed to show up during the one hour when my wife wasn't home, so they left a note saying what time (+/- a couple hours) they would try to deliver it Tuesday. So, Tuesday afternoon, I call home. Still no rifle. So I call UPS. Operator says she'll send a message to our local delivery center to call my house.
So, a couple hours later I call my wife again. No call from UPS. So I call again, quite annoyed this time. He says that the package was put on hold for delivery on the 19th-next Monday. I ask who did that, since the UPS guy never actually spoke to anyone at my house. He says he doesn't know, but he'll find out and call me back, on my cell phone this time (I'm still at work.)
So, of course, they called my wife at home. Seems that for some reason, my rifle got put in with a bunch of packages to be delivered to a local school.
Luckily, the schools around here are on spring break, which is why it was on hold. I should be #1 on the delivery list today.

 

[Sportcat]

Lang,

If you live on the Fort, I believe you're in Richland One school district. That rifle may just be a welcomed blessing to a few teachers.

 

[armoredman]

More likely criminal charges would have been filed against you for being so careless as to actually trust UPS to not deliver your "old assault rifle" to a place filed with innocent children doing crack in the gym.....

 

[Mr. Mysterious]

Reinforces why I hate UPS most of the time. The local UPS by me always takes it into their hands to decide the fate of my packages.

The best had to be when the USPS left a package of about 10 knives that I had ordered outside the door to my apartment. It wasn't there when I came back and I'm sure that the local kids now have a nice variety of blades.

 

[Langenator]

I don't actually live on post-nor, due to policies on this and every post I've been stationed at that require personally owned weapons to be kept in the unit arms rooms, do I ever intend to. But I'm pretty sure Forest Acres is still Richland 1.

Rifle was finally delivered, 4 HOURS after they said it would be. That required another call to UPS to get it done, too.

UPS gets no business from me again, ever. And I called AIM to let them know about the problems, but apparently they won't be swithing to Fed Ex.

 

[Firethorn]

They wouldn't dare do that to me

I'd fill up the armoury.



Of course, for all the air force bases I've been too, the only time people were required to store their weapons in the armoury was if they were living in the dormatory.

 

[mcneill]

Back in the fall, I ordered an 1851 Navy from Dixie Gun Works. UPS delivered it about a week later and left it on the front porch. No one was home when it was dropped off. We most always come into the house through the garage and that evening was no exception. The next morning I looked out on the front porch and there was the package. I knew what it was immediately - of course, my breathing stopped for a few heartbeats as I realized that it had sat on the porch all night. Guess it's lucky we live on a dead-end street with honest neighbors.


Jim