Pa. church to get $1,200 refund from shipping company over destroyed religious items
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
By Patrick Kernan, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (TNS)
The church shipped a valuable set of Stations of the Cross to a Maronite Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., just before Easter, but the set was destroyed in transit. The shipment cost $600. When the shipment was refused by the Florida church, it was sent back to St. Anthony St. George, costing the local church another $600.
To make matters worse, UPS initially ruled that the church wasn’t entitled to a refund. Linda Joseph, a member of the church, said that the boxes weren’t sufficiently packaged in the company’s view. A picture showed the items broken into pieces in the boxes.