When you order a product by mail or on the telephone, you usually have a choice as to how it will be shipped to you. If U.P.S. comes to your home and you are not home, they will keep the package and come again the next day. After three unsuccessful tries, they'll send the package back to the shipper. If the U.S. postal service mail carrier comes with a package and finds you're not home, he or she will leave a slip of paper in your mailbox which you will bring to the post office the next day and exchange for the package. Thus, receiving parcel post rather than U.P.S. is often more convenient for working people who aren't home during the day. U.P.S., on the other hand, especially the economical second day service, is the faster service.

U.P.S. vans are always brown, as are the uniforms of their drivers. There is no way to prove this, and certainly there are exceptions, but there is a popular perception that U.P.S. delivermen, especially those wearing short pants, are sexy. You must determine this for yourself, of course.

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