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Does UPS ship on Saturday?

post #1 of 23
8/9/03 at 8:15am
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I know that this is a really stupid question, but does UPS ship on Saturdays as well? I ordered yesterday (a 5670), and I am wondering if I might have the lappy by Monday since I got 2nd day shipping...

I wish........
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post #2 of 23
8/9/03 at 8:31am
did u get a tracking number yet? i think they might ship on saturdays...but i know they don't deliver on weekends..that would cost extra.

ps...i just figured out why u spell sager, "saJer"...haha
i've been saying "sa-grr" all along
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post #3 of 23
8/9/03 at 8:33am
well i got Next Diar AIR from UPS and I was told by Adam that i would get it delivered to me today (sat) so I hope they deliver on the weekends.....
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post #4 of 23
8/9/03 at 8:34am
I forgot to add. I paid 90 bucks for shipping so they had Better deliver on the weekends....
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post #5 of 23
8/9/03 at 8:37am
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Yeah shipping is awfully pricey around here. Well, I guess it is well protected an insured and all that.
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post #6 of 23
8/9/03 at 8:39am
hehe..i looked at ups's terms and conditions. saturday delivery is an option for next day air and 2nd day...but i guess u'll have to check ur doorstep today...hopefully u'll see a big brown box

i paid for ups ground...30 bucks...thats good enough for me...i'm in no hurry
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post #7 of 23
8/9/03 at 8:42am
UPS does not ship on saturdays nor does fedex. You have to pay extra to have it delivered on saturday. Sorry man...
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post #8 of 23
8/9/03 at 9:00am
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Where's the UPS man when you need him? He always brings me these Amazon.com boxes. I hate those! I have so little room and so many books that I tossed out my table and my mattress and built a table out of books and filled up the bed frame with books to sleep on (paperbacks all the way for cushy comfort, I have two Tom Clancy novels as pillows). I am think about making a book fridge, that might be bad if I decide to read one of them (lack of cooling).
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post #9 of 23
8/9/03 at 9:53am
UPS will ship on Saturday, but only if you specify & pay for Saturday delivery.

~John
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post #10 of 23
8/9/03 at 9:54am
Yeah...what was what I was going ot say to soulreaper. they DO ship on sat. SO does Fed ex..
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post #11 of 23
8/9/03 at 2:56pm
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But there was no option for Sat. delivery when I ordered!!!!
I paid $60 for shipping, how much more do they want? BTW: How big is the 5670's shipping box? Like a tower shipping box from Dell?
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post #12 of 23
8/9/03 at 3:05pm
Ive received items from UPS on saturday before, and id imagine the box is small as possible
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post #13 of 23
8/9/03 at 3:09pm
Not sure on the size thing, but the shipping containers for all my Sagers (7 to date) have been very impressive. It would take a lot more than the typical shipping ramp ape to cause any damage. There's an outer case with plenty of shock material and then the inner box that is very sturdy with full suspension of your sweet little machiine. The size of the outer box will likely surprise you.

As for shipping, hah, try second day or even one day air to Hawaii. Sorry, bub, no such thing exists. And no ground at all. Second Day Air to here is miminum 3 days and that doesn't count the weekends. So, if it goes out on Thursday, its not going to be here till Monday or more likely Tuesday. Friday is for sure Tuesday at best.
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post #14 of 23
8/9/03 at 3:58pm
try 7 days for fedex to courier an external usb notebook harddrive to Australia, and charge $30 for the privelege.

Would have been just as fast and much cheaper to post through the normal mail services - wasn't an option though - courier services only.
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post #15 of 23
8/9/03 at 4:10pm
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Hell... when I ordered same day shipping on my scanner when I lived back in Antarctica....... it took three weeks to get it from Texas to Peru to Antarctica because we had a BIG storm for two weeks and then the plane was down for repairs for a few days and then I finally got it. Now I inhabit the ISS (Int'l Space Station) so I don't get ANY shipments anymore 'cause all the shuttles are down...... kinda sucks when the battery dies and your AC is in the fritz.
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post #16 of 23
8/9/03 at 5:50pm
Most shipping companies today will ship whenever you want, 365.25 days a year. Well, at least from major metropolitan areas.

The only question is, how much are they going to charge you for shipping on Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, shipping in the middle of the night, etc....

Check out UPS SonicAir. It's a UPS service that will pick up whenever you want 24x7x365, and ship same-day air, if possible, to the recipient. Of course, shipping charges can be a bit high - one example I plugged in ran over $7800 - or two to three times what your new Sager cost you.


-phubar
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post #17 of 23
8/9/03 at 9:43pm
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There are 365.25 days a year? Are you kidding me? I know about the leap year stuff, but shouldn't 365.25 be the average but not the actual count since that varies by what year it is?
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post #18 of 23
8/9/03 at 9:53pm
It is not exactly 365 because the Earth has not made one exact cycle around the sun at 12:00 AM on January 1st. You could also factor in leap year.
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post #19 of 23
8/9/03 at 11:34pm
Actually the year, or one complete orbit around the sun, takes 365.241 days.

That's why the normal calendar year has 365, but we add a Feb 29 every 4 years to make the average calendar year 365.25.

That's still not quite accurate, so every hundred years we skip adding a Feb 29 to take the average down to 365.24. That's why years divisible by 100 are generally not leap years, even though they are divisible by 4.

"But wait, phubar," you cry, "year 2000 was a leap year!" Well, that's beacause, to add back the .001 days to the average yearly calendar to make 365.241, years divisible by 1000 are leap years, even though they're also divisible by 100.

Aren't you glad to have been around for such a momentous occasion in history? Febuary 29, 2000 is the first day in history to be subject to that exception to the exception to the leap year rule. (Leap years weren't in effect back in 1000 AD).


-phubar
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post #20 of 23
8/10/03 at 2:55am
wow..when did this post become a history lesson?
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