Niles, Michigan resident received wet, broken, and delayed packages. Photos of badly stacked boxes in UPS truck. Sales of bumper stickers.

Jonathan Freedland describes his experience with UPS in sending a crate of stuff from California to Britain, including the admission of a UPS manager that the handling had been a "catalogue of errors". [Guardian]

On international shipments, United Parcel Service charges the recipients with fees not disclosed to the shipper.