Here's a crazy UPS story to help keep our minds off Corky until it arrives safely into cyclotoine's hands and Dr.D can breath easy.

A year and half ago in 2006 a BF member (who posts mostly in 50+) talked about a leaf peeping tour of New England. Since his best airfare from Denver was to Manchester, NH, we worked it out and I lent him two bikes for the duration of his trip. In order not to carry all his bike gear on the plane he shipped his stuff in a big suit case via UPS to my house.

Now, fast forward one year to this past Fall 2007. One day I come home and there's this big suit case by the door. Where did it come from? It looked familiar. I soon realize it belonged to the same BFer who visited me a year earlier.

So I PMed him and find out he and his wife had recently traveled to CA. Once again he shipped the suitcase via UPS. When they returned to Denver the UPS suitcase never arrived. It was over two weeks late and UPS couldn't locate it. So he contacted UPS, and the next day my regular driver stopped by and retrieved the lost suitcase.

Story over? Not quite!

About a month later I receive a bill from UPS for $95! So I call them up, explain the whole story, and they tell me not to worry about the charge.

Story over? Still not!

Another month passes and a second bill comes, this time with a penalty and interest so now it's $120! I call again, put on my best pastoral tone, and this time start escalating until I get to the U.S. billing director. He agrees to drop the charges and puts this in an email to me.

The moral to this story: "Remember to remove your year old UPS shipping labels or your suitcase might end up in NH and not Denver!"