Long Shot: Devastated and Ghosted by UShip Company

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  1. JamesJF

    JamesJF Bobtail Member

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    This is a long shot, but worth a try as we have had a devastating loss. I am hopeful the trucking community is a small enough world someone has some information that may help us.

    I am looking for help tracking down some very personal items (Fathers Ashes, estate material, etc.). We used UShip and found a company with whom we have very little information. Names, e-mail, and phone numbers lead to nothing. Uship cannot help us. I will list what I do have from UPS tracking (as someone sent us UPS tracking slips at one point as proof of shipping) and from Uship. The shipped items were cancelled about a week ago. The items were picked up in Collingwood, Ontario on or about March 21st and it's been a back and forth leading no where for months.

    The information we have from UShip is:

    Name: Theophilus Toney
    Email: WinCityShipping@gmail.com
    Phone: (519) 991-1094
    Company Name: WinCity Shipping

    The Company and name on the cancelled UPS tracking slips is Mike Brown (Hamilton Ontario), from XXL Transport.

    The name of the 'shipper' told us his name was 'Dave'.

    If any of the above are familiar names please respond to this post. These may be innocent people and businesses; however, finding people to talk to from this starting point may prove helpful. Thank you.
     
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  3. Judge

    Judge Road Train Member

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    Report It to USPS and Uship, others may know more from Canada laws/rules.
     
  4. JamesJF

    JamesJF Bobtail Member

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    Thank you. We have reported to UShip, and there is nothing they can do, unfortunately. We have been directed to make a local report to the police for stolen items /Fraud. We have done this, and it seems to go nowhere. I'm hopeful of finding some leads anywhere I can.
     
  5. Judge

    Judge Road Train Member

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    you’d think uship would go after their qualified carrier.
     
  6. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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  7. JamesJF

    JamesJF Bobtail Member

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    Thank you so much D. We did find those links as well, and are investigating those avenues. Reaching dead ends once we get email addresses or phone numbers, however. They all are disconnected, go to voicemail, or don't reply.
     
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  8. LOTSO

    LOTSO Heavy Load Member

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    What do you mean Uship can't do anything. Isn't that the whole purpose of using them so if something like this happens, they handle it? Something isn't adding up here.
     
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  9. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    No problem. Everything I search along those lines, comes up empty. I don't mean to get you down but you may have been scammed. There is a lot of #### heads in the freight market . Especially on uship that double broker stuff or just outright steal people's freight and fall off the face of the earth, never being detected... your best bet is to keep hounding uship for info... I believe there is a vetting process every carrier goes thru, if I remember when I signed up you have to have authority with the Fmcsa And they check all that before they grant u access.. Although I could be remembering wrong.. UShip sould have a d.o.t number and mc number of the trucking company or shipping company. If you can find any one of those numbers it will help track these people down.. Let us know how it goes
     
  10. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    Not really. The point of UShip is to be the absolute cheapest shipper. Unfortunately that means the actual people doing the work are not the best in the business.
     
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  11. JamesJF

    JamesJF Bobtail Member

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    This was our last response from UShip. They have stated there is no guarantee with their service. We thought the same as you - The service would have some sort of guarantee or vetting of shippers for tracking purposes. Honestly, we trusted too precious of cargo to send via this method.
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