Comments on: One of the reasons I don’t ship Purolator

By: xinit

xinit — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:39 +0000

Jon; I was going to reply fully on this thread, but your comment was important enough to warrant a brand new blog post by way of response. Thanks for your help!

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bankrupt artist v.3 » Blog Archive » Skitt’s Law in action — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:04 +0000

[...] wrote about a bad experience with a website back in 2005, and I made an off-handed reference to a bit of bad grammar I found in an error [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:57:30 +0000

I think purolator should just give out coupons for Fedex.

BTW, the apostrophe stands for a missing letter or letters, and is not required for the possesive.

‘Purolator is’ shortens to purolator’s, as in ‘purolator’s a diseased, pus-filled blister on the udder of a dead goat’.

Purolators or purolators’ are both accepted possesive spellings, as in
‘purolators attempts at customer service are best described as masturbatory’ or
‘purolators’ name should probably be shortened to just plain later.

Even if you don’t know how to spell perfectly either, I agree with you that purolator really is a very poor company.

By: It takes all kinds of winners at bankrupt artist v.3

It takes all kinds of winners at bankrupt artist v.3 — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:47:15 +0000

[...] story, and I was only mocking their useless web form for tracking your packages. I posted about one of the multitude of reasons I try to avoid Purolator; this one was about the uselessness of their system in accessing shipping information from a Linux [...]

By: xinit

xinit — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:59:52 +0000

Man, I would so love to work for CGI and have nothing but time…

By: Euphoria

Euphoria — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:37:22 +0000

You are so wanted.

By: xinit

xinit — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:06:34 +0000

Shane; you need to read and think before you post from your work computer.

First, this is a post from January 2005, when the Purolator system was bitching that you needed to use IE 4.0 or greater; when in fact I was using greater than IE 4.0. It has nothing to do with my jokingly suggesting that they need a programmer. Christ, no wonder my packages go missing.

For the other reasons that I don’t use Purolator… general incompetence of their delivery people and the people on the phones doing dispatch. Every single time I have shipped a server with Purolator, it has arrived non-functional with damaged corners and impact marks. I spent more time talking about filing insurance claims than I’d like to think about. Where was also the laptop that was run over by a driver, but I’m sure my experiences are nothing.

Quick? Sure. It helps if you aren’t shipping anything important or valuable. Value for money? Fuck no. Do you have nothing better to do from your work computer than hunt out people bad mouthing the people who write your cheques?

By: Me

Me — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:45:28 +0000

This post is totally lame. You state you won’t use Purolator because of a simple spelling error? Or that it doesn’t support your old-ass IE 4? If you’re such a hot-shot programmer then why are you using the technology of the past?

As for the reply you received from Purolator, it was typical? It was advising you that the issue has been addressed and being worked out. What else did you expect to hear? And since then, it’s been fixed so you decide to complain about the way the rest of the site is designed?

This whole post is one large complaint from the original poster because he was declined by his lack of skill to do the website design himself. Now all he can do is rant about whoever did it and how crappy it is and feel sorry for himself. The post itself has nothing to do with the company’s main goal which is picking up and delivering packages as quickly as possible.

By: Mg

Mg — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:29:33 +0000

yea your right purolator is shit i work for them last 7 years
i love my job but i know how much purolator suck
purolator was parthner with post canada,and post canada
is a gouvermental businness.so look how gouvernement rules the country
is the same shit with purolator lots of incompetent work for them

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bankrupt artist v.3 » — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:19:20 +0000

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