WARNING! Don't EVER use UPS United Parcel Service!

On Thursday I went to a UPS Packaging store in Utah and paid $238 to 2-day ship some pieces of art to my daughter in Denver for her showing in an art gallery there. I was told (the man at the store confirmed with UPS via phone) that the delivery would be made by 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. Because of that, I decided to have the packages sent to my daughter's work place which is located in the middle of downtown Denver. The place closes at 5:00 p.m so we thought we would be fine.

It was critical that she receive the packages that day, on Saturday, so that she could set up on Monday for the show. If it wasn't, I never would have paid that kind of money to ship something. It was an option for me to drive them to her, but at the reassurances of the man at the UPS Store, I shipped them instead.

At 4:00 p.m. on Saturday it became apparent the packages would not be there before 5:00 p.m. My daughter and I both made phone calls. We were told 7 different things by the UPS "Customer Service." All the way from, "we don't deliver after 4:00 on Saturdays, sorry" to "wait until 7:00 p.m. for the packages" to "just keep waiting until the packages arrive, they are coming" to "the packages haven't been sorted in Commerce City yet."

We looked online at various times and saw that until midnight that night, the status of both packages was, "In Transit - On Time." We didn't understand this, particularly as one of the packages had not been scanned at Commerce City yet, and the other one had been scanned there 24 hours previous but not moved (apparently) after that.

Baffled and bewildered by the conflicting words from UPS "Customer Service", my daughter sat in a dark downtown Denver alley for three hours waiting for packages that never came. At one point she called me and told me she felt that she was in dire danger (she was waiting in her car next to a methodone clinic) and that she felt she needed to leave for her own safety. I told her to leave and she did.

The next day I called UPS again and was told that both packages were lost. I said "How did you lose BOTH of them? They weren't tied together!!!" However, for the 8th time, the "Customer Service" person clearly could have cared less about our plight and hung up on me when I demanded to speak to a manager.

I have read the other posts here about UPS. We agree with them - UPS are liars, unethical, incompetent, and could care less about the cargo they carry or the people who mail them. My daughter had a once in a lifetime opportunity to show her art in a fantastic Denver Gallery, and now that opportunity is lost forever.

As of this typing, the packages are still "lost." UPS will not discuss it further with us. We cannot get put through to a manager, so we're starting an online campaign in an attempt to get my daughter's priceless art back to her.

I realize that sometimes things are lost in transit. That happens. But when we get 8 different people from UPS telling us 8 different things, and they are ALL lies, that is how you know you are being scammed. Further, the danger that my daughter was in because of these lies makes my blood boil.

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you use this company to ship anything of value. Use the Post Office or FedEx. We actually realized that they would have been a lot cheaper than this scam UPS is running.