Damn, sucks to hear about some of you guys having UPS troubles.
I'll share what I've done for all my SSC shipments since I've had those kinds of problems with UPS in the past. I signed up for the UPS My Choice thing, its free, and from there you can redirect your package to several locations like a UPS store, a 3rd party UPS shipping place, or their warehouse. This works well for several reasons: The delivery window is too broad and you have to pay to get a shorter time window, you may not be home and they won't leave it without a sig, they always deliver packages in the morning to businesses and residences in the afternoon/evening so I just swing by my UPS location on my lunch break and pick it up without any delays. Never had any problems since I started doing this. The only downside is if you don't have any pick up locations in your area but I imagine this is rare.