Learned a Lesson at the Post Office

[weedpharma]

next time your at the po take something in and have them weigh it than take it home and compare the results.

Ask for their calibration certificate.

WeedphRma

 

[aczlan]

We've had issues many times with a package that was sent from a post office arriving postage due... Not quite sure how that works.

Aaron Z

 

[RandyT]

I have a great mail carrier, she'll go way and above to deliver packages. If it's raining, she won't leave a package at the house before she drives by the farm to see if I'm down there.

I did have another lousy experience with FedEx SmartPost just recently. I ordered some stuff that was shipped from a warehouse 140 miles away from me. They picked it up, transported it 300 miles away to the west, let it sit in the shipping facility there for three days, then transported it back east another 300 or so miles and transferred it to a Post Office that was 40 miles from the original shipping warehouse. All in all, it took ten days and 655 miles to get a package to me that started it's trip only a couple of hours away. During that same period, I also ordered something from Amazon that was shipped from Kansas (over 900 miles) and it was shipped free in two days.

I have the same problem when I order things from Cabelas. From ft. wayne, IN, to Cleveland,OH, to Indy, to Chicago, to Mattoon, which at that time they take it to the post office to deliver to me.

Have has Fedex packages go from California, to Indy, to St, Louis, to Effingham. The package went past my house three times before it got to me.

 

[jwstewar]

I got a new cell phone back in the spring, I had an issue with it. I called AT&T and they sent a new one out. Within an hour I figured out what was going on with my original phone and fixed. I called AT&T to say cancel the order I fixed my phone. They said they couldn't as it had already been sent to the warehouse, but when the new phone came just write return to sender on it and it would be OK. So the phone comes, I don't open and I write RETURN TO SENDER and I take it to work to mail it. 3 days later it shows up at the house again. I repeat the process. 3 days later, it shows up at the house once again. So finally for the 3rd time, I ended up taking it to the local post office and they printed a new label or something, not sure, but it didn't cost me anything and it didn't come back, but it must have taken awhile because 3 weeks after that AT&T sent me a msg saying they hadn't received my phone. Finally another week after that, I received a msg that they had.

 

[jerrybob]

I didn't use a flat rate box because the item that I was shipping just fit into a 14 inch on each side, box. The flat rate boxes are small - I've used them to ship steel tools before.

You need to "think outside the box!":laughing:

 

[Travelover]

You need to "think outside the box!":laughing:

I shipped a small flat rate box once that was almost solid steel inside. You should have seen the clerk's expression when I handed it off to her. :laughing: She almost dropped it on her foot.