Posted by pat/WA on 2/18/12 4:13pm
Msg #412259

UPS shipping label

UPS is insisting that I put a name and address in the shipment from portion of a hand written shipping label. What name and address do you put there? I really don't want to put my name there

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 2/18/12 4:15pm
Msg #412261

The receiver's name and address. n/m

Reply by pat/WA on 2/18/12 4:28pm
Msg #412263

Re: The receiver's name and address.

Thank you

Reply by desktopfull on 2/18/12 4:52pm
Msg #412266

Use the receiver's or borrower's & put in dropbox don't take

to counter. Fed Ex is starting to do the same thing. When Fed Ex agent wouldn't take my package without having my name and address on it, I picked the package up and walked over to the dropbox outside the door dropped it in and left.

Reply by Linda_in_MI on 2/18/12 5:31pm
Msg #412270

This is due to increased security

According to my son at UPS, when you create a hand-written label, they have to be able to track the shipment back to a "verified" account. And the sign at the FedX counter says basically the same thing, adding that you may be required to show photo ID to ship a package. This is regardless of who is paying to ship the package.

Reply by Scriba/NM on 2/19/12 2:30am
Msg #412298

Why do people want to prepare hand-written UPS (or FedEx) labels? They're a mess and half of the time people don't even fill them out correctly.

You simply open a UPS account and a FedEx account and set it up as "Bill to Credit Card." Since you are always billing to account of recipient there is never any charge to your credit card and your labels are always on record, always properly generated and you can keep all of your recipients in your account. A few clicks and your air bill pops out of your printer. All of your recipients are kept in your client list along with preferences. A very easy way to ship.

Been doing that for the last 10 years and it certainly is a lot cleaner (and never any foul ups) than scribbling around on some hand prepared air bill. You always have a record of your shipments in the computer on the UPS or FedEx sites.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 2/19/12 7:02am
Msg #412302

And you risk charge-backs..

That's what all the complaints about this are based on - UPS and FedEx, if they can't verify the the recipient's account, automatically bill to the account on file - yours. Maybe you've never had this happen (I haven't - I hand-print mine) but many have and most have resulted from one of two thing...(a) notary name as sender; or (b) use of an online account to generate airbills.

Anyone who can't print an airbill legibly should just invest in a small cheap typewriter for that purpose.

JMO

Reply by CopperheadVA on 2/19/12 7:11am
Msg #412303

You must have never experienced a chargeback

I stopped preparing online labels after receiving a chargeback from UPS for an account that a TC had closed. When I prepared the online label, the UPS systm did not stop me when I entered the TC's account number for billing. I received the chargeback invoice about two months later. UPS charged my credit card for it and would not reverse it (they could have cared less that I had instructions to use that account number).