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re: Mom ships son's ashes through UPS and . . .
Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:00 am to chryso
Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:00 am to chryso
I was a UPS driver back in the 80's and 90's. One day I was delivering a package to some guy and he didn't want to sign for it because he wasn't expecting anything. The name on the label didn't provide a clue who shipped the package to him. I flipped the package over and it had been stamped "Cremation Papers Inside". It creeped me out and I almost dropped the package in front of the guy.
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Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:00 am to chryso
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am pretty sure it is illegal to ship remains by any method other than the USPS.
Postal service wants to make sure those remains never make it.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:07 am to hob
I shipped my BIL ashes to his family after my sister died. I used UPS & dont remember what I told them was in the package. I think I said family photos which were also in the box.
His mom asked me to send them when I was cleaning out the house.
His mom asked me to send them when I was cleaning out the house.
This post was edited on 2/1/24 at 10:09 am
Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:11 am to TigerDeacon
I am convinced my wife and her brother have lost their mothers remains. She and I had them in Italy just after her death and at some point she gave them to her brother, she claims. He claims she still has them. They do not know, as far as I know, that the other one has no idea where they are and thinks the other one has them somewhere. I have casually asked both of them - to my wife "did you ever give your mom's urn to your brother"? She will answer yes.
I have asked my BIL "have y'all ever done anything with your mom's ashes" to which he will respond "not yet, (My wife's name) has them". Neither of them have ever asked the other and it ain't my place to whack a hornets nest.
I'm going to be cremated and I don't give a damn what anyone does with my remains but I have asked that they do it immediately before they forget and some old boy buys a storage unit at auction and finds the damned things....just dump 'em anywhere, what do I care, but don't put some poor bastard in a position to have to deal with them.
I have asked my BIL "have y'all ever done anything with your mom's ashes" to which he will respond "not yet, (My wife's name) has them". Neither of them have ever asked the other and it ain't my place to whack a hornets nest.
I'm going to be cremated and I don't give a damn what anyone does with my remains but I have asked that they do it immediately before they forget and some old boy buys a storage unit at auction and finds the damned things....just dump 'em anywhere, what do I care, but don't put some poor bastard in a position to have to deal with them.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:22 am to TigerDeacon
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So, I cremated him, so that he could be right here with me, and we could travel together and do things together
Sounds like Hell...
Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:28 am to TigerDeacon
Only way to ship cremated remains is through USPS, if UPS discovered what it was they probably confiscated it.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 11:31 am to Areddishfish
quote:Quick question—do mail companies not have an X-ray conveyor situation with a program that detects when items do not match up with their descriptions?
However, UPS said in a statement it does not accept shipments of human remains, and the package’s contents were declared by the customer as “clothes.”
Posted on 2/1/24 at 11:32 am to TigerDeacon
Someone looking for a payday.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 11:39 am to dietcoke7
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Someone looking for a payday
She got it.
UPS paid her about $200 and she signed a paper that the matter was officially closed.
She doesn't seem to know what "closed" means.
Nor does she know about laws pertaining to shipping human remains.
There are a lot of things that she doesn't know.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 12:27 pm to AwgustaDawg
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I'm going to be cremated and I don't give a damn what anyone does with my remains
Well, I've made it perfectly clear I want my remains to be scattered throughout Disneyworld. Also, I don't want to be cremated.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 6:04 pm to tss22h8
I wouldn’t think UPS would use our labels
Posted on 2/1/24 at 7:43 pm to morganwadefan
Not what Deontray had in mind when he said he wanted to get his ashes hauled.
This post was edited on 2/1/24 at 7:44 pm
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