UPS Deliveries

[TomG2]

How does your park handle UPS deliveries? Ours used to come directly to our site but the park has decided to have them all delivered to the office instead. This can result in a day or two delay if the delivery is made after office hours or a weekend is involved for instance. I don't know why they wanted to get involved in the parcel business.

[GordonThree]

TomG2 wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
They probably don't want a lot of delivery trucks driving through the parks.

It is a control thing. They even want us to "Let them know" if we are going to be out of the park overnight. There is plenty of traffic in the park with or without a UPS truck once or twice a day. I simply wanted a quick poll to determine if most parks collect and hold parcel deliveries in the office or let the deliveries come right to the sites.

Sure sounds like a control thing, or a nosey want to be in everyone's business.

[TomG2]

2gypsies wrote:
They probably don't want a lot of delivery trucks driving through the parks.

It is a control thing. They even want us to "Let them know" if we are going to be out of the park overnight. There is plenty of traffic in the park with or without a UPS truck once or twice a day. I simply wanted a quick poll to determine if most parks collect and hold parcel deliveries in the office or let the deliveries come right to the sites.

[2gypsies1]

They probably don't want a lot of delivery trucks driving through the parks.

[rk911]

TomG2 wrote:
Thanks for all the responses. I was curious how other RV parks handle deliveries. I want mine delivered to my site. I will write both Amazon and UPS to complain that my "Two day delivery" now has another potential snag along the way. When my new generator arrives, I do not want to have to drive my truck to the office to pick it up. Much nicer to see it on my patio. Our park is "supposed" to provide enough security to ensure that it will be on my patio when I get home from the store.

out winter park provides a mailbox at each site. postal and package deliveries come right to us.

[Gonzo42]

Having had NUMEROUS bad experiences with UPS, I only use FedEx and I have an account with them. If you buy anything on line, I would think you could give them your account #, especially if you are on the phone.

Another thought is that not having your packages delivered to your door but rather at an office, you would curb the 'Porch Pirates'.

[Supercharged]

TomG2 wrote:
How does your park handle UPS deliveries? Ours used to come directly to our site but the park has decided to have them all delivered to the office instead. This can result in a day or two delay if the delivery is made after office hours or a weekend is involved for instance. I don't know why they wanted to get involved in the parcel business.

I put things out front to get rid of them, last month got rid of 12 old boxes full.

[TomG2]

Thanks for all the responses. I was curious how other RV parks handle deliveries. I want mine delivered to my site. I will write both Amazon and UPS to complain that my "Two day delivery" now has another potential snag along the way. When my new generator arrives, I do not want to have to drive my truck to the office to pick it up. Much nicer to see it on my patio. Our park is "supposed" to provide enough security to ensure that it will be on my patio when I get home from the store.

[mgirardo]

UPS offers UPS My Choice. It's a free service that allows you to track your packages. You can also use it to put holds on deliveries at the local facility or have delivered to a UPS store. They do have a premium service that you can pay for on a monthly basis, but for my the free version works fine.

After Hurricane Irma, UPS had a backlog since the local facility was closed the week after Irma hit. Since it would have delayed a package I really needed, I just went on the web site and had them hold it at the local facility.

With UPS My Choice, you can store multiple addresses, so I have our home address and our summer address stored and I can easily toggle between the two. The app will give you notifications of pending deliveries as well as confirmation of delivery, but only for the primary address. Notifications are emailed as well, again only for the primary address.

It's a great free tool and being able to have packages held or delivered to the local UPS Store at no extra charge is a great feature. Our Seasonal Park does not allow packages to be delivered, although if one slips through, they will deliver it to our site.

-Michael

[GordonThree]

rk911 wrote:

GordonThree wrote:
If you pay the monthly fee for UPS Plus or whatever it's called, you can have your packages delivered to the nearby ups store. They should have better operating hours than the resort office...

I had a package drop shipped from the mfg to a local UPS store in a town we were headed to. that store kept the package for me for at least 10-days before we arrived. no charge for accepting the delivery or for keeping the package for me. is this UPS plus something new?

New within the last few years. It's a web based service that lets you manage deliveries, like redirecting to a store or work address. You can also see more details on tracking, etc.

Asking for the package to be shipped to a ups store originally is a good plan too.

[rk911]

GordonThree wrote:
If you pay the monthly fee for UPS Plus or whatever it's called, you can have your packages delivered to the nearby ups store. They should have better operating hours than the resort office...

I had a package drop shipped from the mfg to a local UPS store in a town we were headed to. that store kept the package for me for at least 10-days before we arrived. no charge for accepting the delivery or for keeping the package for me. is this UPS plus something new?

[doc_brown]

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Their park ...their 'rules'

Personally was glad that a park even accepted mail/packages vs having to find another place.....General Delivery/Post Office, UPS Store etc.

Ditto.

[Dick_B]

We had a delivery returned by the office because it arrived before we did and didn't have our name or site number on the label which is not always easy to do.

[the_bear_II]

Couple of the RV Resorts we've stayed in the packages were left in the office where anyone could grab them. We had one disappear at one park. Plus an envelope containing a birthday card was taken that had been placed in the alphabetical mail slots. The staff saw two ladies messing around by the mail slots which are at the back of the store/office. The ladies left and were spotted walking out of the RV Park...obviously didn't belong there. Police were called and a report taken. Nothing ever came of either theft.

[Chuck_thehammer]

I know the South Carolina state parks.. it at the park office and they call you to come an get it.. with proper ID..

here in Texas.. its to the camp site... UPS went by today about 10:30... FedEx was 11am...

USPS is to the park Office...

[DiskDoctr]

TomG2 wrote:
Good point. I am not happy with the deal at all. Now, I have to take a vehicle to the office if I am anticipating a large delivery rather than walking. A couple of the people in the office like to get involved in all the park resident's business.

You think they'll tell anyone when a package comes from "Sexy Penguin Outfits R US" ? :E 😛 LOL.

What about medications? VA sends theirs all out by mail.

Does the office call you as soon as a package arrives so you know to refrigerate that "Ice Cream of the Month Club" package right away? How do they store the insulin?

Surely any 'insurance' would be null and void once the office accepts the packages?

Then again, it would be nice to not wait around all day for a package 😉

That's a tough one 😉