Tuesday, December 19, 2006
UPS Says Anti-Semitic 'Apartheid" Rumors Not True
Officials at United Parcel Service are vehemently fighting back rumors that their company practices "package apartheid" by refusing to deliver to Jewish settlements in the West Bank while offering service to Palestinian communities behind the Green Line.
A UPS spokesman said that the inability to serve some locations in Israel's disputed territories is purely a matter of economics rather than an effort to deny service to Jewish customers in the West Bank.
"This has nothing to do with politics, nothing," John Flick, a UPS international spokesman, repeatedly told FOXNews.com in two phone interviews.
The charges blew up in UPS' face last week after columnist Debbie Schlussel investigated a claim by one of her readers who was told she could not have a package delivered from the United States to Gush Etzion, a religious Jewish outpost in the West Bank located just 15 minutes from Jerusalem.
The reader told Schlussel that she was told UPS would not deliver beyond the Green Line, the marker that represents the boundary drawn between Israel and the territory captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. But when asked about delivery to Palestinian city of Ramallah, the home of Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank, the service representative said packages could be sent there.
"Last night, I called UPS to verify this, and, in fact, it is true. Not only is it true, but UPS will not recognize even parts of Israel that are within the 'Green Line,' such as the Golan Heights," Schlussel wrote in the first of several updates on the story. "Today, they won't deliver to Jewish areas. Tomorrow, it will be Christian areas. But the Islamic terrorist-infested areas, no prob. UPS: Official delivery service of the Jihad. DHL: Still free and strong."
Flick said the confusion started because the automated system used by UPS service representatives to assist customers is based on postal codes and if a customer calls in to send a package to an area without a postal code, the service representative tells the customer that UPS can’t deliver to that area. Israel, where UPS has been operating since 1988, does not use postal codes.
"This issue is one of incorrect information in our systems for our customer service centers," Flick said. "We definitely screwed up and we are now addressing the postal code gap."
http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=10234
Officials at United Parcel Service are vehemently fighting back rumors that their company practices "package apartheid" by refusing to deliver to Jewish settlements in the West Bank while offering service to Palestinian communities behind the Green Line.
A UPS spokesman said that the inability to serve some locations in Israel's disputed territories is purely a matter of economics rather than an effort to deny service to Jewish customers in the West Bank.
"This has nothing to do with politics, nothing," John Flick, a UPS international spokesman, repeatedly told FOXNews.com in two phone interviews.
The charges blew up in UPS' face last week after columnist Debbie Schlussel investigated a claim by one of her readers who was told she could not have a package delivered from the United States to Gush Etzion, a religious Jewish outpost in the West Bank located just 15 minutes from Jerusalem.
The reader told Schlussel that she was told UPS would not deliver beyond the Green Line, the marker that represents the boundary drawn between Israel and the territory captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. But when asked about delivery to Palestinian city of Ramallah, the home of Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank, the service representative said packages could be sent there.
"Last night, I called UPS to verify this, and, in fact, it is true. Not only is it true, but UPS will not recognize even parts of Israel that are within the 'Green Line,' such as the Golan Heights," Schlussel wrote in the first of several updates on the story. "Today, they won't deliver to Jewish areas. Tomorrow, it will be Christian areas. But the Islamic terrorist-infested areas, no prob. UPS: Official delivery service of the Jihad. DHL: Still free and strong."
Flick said the confusion started because the automated system used by UPS service representatives to assist customers is based on postal codes and if a customer calls in to send a package to an area without a postal code, the service representative tells the customer that UPS can’t deliver to that area. Israel, where UPS has been operating since 1988, does not use postal codes.
"This issue is one of incorrect information in our systems for our customer service centers," Flick said. "We definitely screwed up and we are now addressing the postal code gap."
http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=10234
Comments:
sure they do! they use five didget zip codes like the US!
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