Rant on shipping

[dragoneggs]

Ranking my top 10 delivery services as of late...

1. UPS
2. FEDEX
10. USPS

 

[Jstpssng]

I was on the Staples website today looking for a new printer. Of course they didn't have anything I was interested in, but one did fit the bill and "Order within 5 hours, 38 minutes and it will be delivered to your house Monday." I placed the order and moved on to other things. Toniight I opened my confirmation email and discovered that as soon as I'd placed my order, the date was pushed back to next Friday. Of course it's too late to easily cancel the order...meaning that I will still need to drive 90 miles to work for any color prints next week.

 

[user.69169]

Want delivery entertainment come to W NYState and watch Post Office. Dey hired too many SWIFT drivers so now der is rule can't back up more den 50 feet in Buffalo region. Little Grumman vans pulling U turns everyplace because driver dumb enough to believe data logger in his hand hooked into truck and reports every time he goes in reverse. Lot of people been getting packages to de door for 50 years now gotta go to PO to pick up package. Gotta have turnaround in Blacktop or concrete driveway or turnaround approved by postmaster slug or pick up your own mail.
Just somethin else don't work no more in America.. Glad I'm old.

 

[MF243RedTop]

Ranking my top 10 delivery services as of late...

1. UPS
2. FEDEX
10. USPS

UPS and FedEx are about equal here.

BUT

Had a package delivered by USPS to my home.
They pulled up the drive and left it on the back of my boat under open shelter .. no problem..
Went out to get the package and they left my standard mail on boat with it.. Not acceptable!
I have a mailbox, the mail goes in it!
Just laziness I guess..

 

[Dftodd]

UPS and FedEx are about equal here.

BUT

Had a package delivered by USPS to my home.
They pulled up the drive and left it on the back of my boat under open shelter .. no problem..
Went out to get the package and they left my standard mail on boat with it.. Not acceptable!
I have a mailbox, the mail goes in it!
Just laziness I guess..

They usually leave both together when dropping packages at my house. They place the package on the letters to keep the from blowing away.

 

[LouNY]

UPS and FedEx are about equal here.

BUT

Had a package delivered by USPS to my home.
They pulled up the drive and left it on the back of my boat under open shelter .. no problem..
Went out to get the package and they left my standard mail on boat with it.. Not acceptable!
I have a mailbox, the mail goes in it!
Just laziness I guess..

They usually do the same here,
and I appreciate it.
My mailbox is 1/4 mile from the house.

 

[ultrarunner]

Last year I spent several thousand dollars with Northern before Christmas... some for work but most for Christmas gifts...

Several Christmas gifts arrived after New Years which meant I had to pay to forward them...

Not acceptable... especially when ordered in November with December 10th ship...

I sent email to Northern saying cancel if not able to arrive for Christmas...

Have not ordered anything since and let the vouchers expire...

The idea was to use them to buy more but they are issued after order ships... so post Christmas ship means too late to use...

 

[Diggin It]

Ordered some yard lights from the Blue box store. $35 total - 'free shipping'. Placed the order on Monday, the 7th. Got the ship notice a few hours ago, 5 days later. Then I get a FedEx notice that the delivery is scheduled for Sunday. I understand they get significant discounts, but it still has to be costing them at least half of what I paid.

 

[Oaktree]

Ordered some yard lights from the Blue box store. $35 total - 'free shipping'. Placed the order on Monday, the 7th. Got the ship notice a few hours ago, 5 days later. Then I get a FedEx notice that the delivery is scheduled for Sunday. I understand they get significant discounts, but it still has to be costing them at least half of what I paid.

I get that a lot of stuff isn't so important that it's gotta be delivered on Sunday, but the delivery services are being swamped this year, way more than normal. Not likely they'd be able to deliver everything M-F.

I've been seeing a lot of ads past few days by UPS looking for temp workers to deliver using their own vehicles...$20/hr, plus 57.5¢/mi. and a cell phone stipend per day (not sure what that's about). Don't think I've ever seen that before.

 

[Howling]

All the carriers are swamped this year. FedEx and UPS did holiday rate increases this year and are putting shipping limits on some customers. My FedEx rates jumped up late November.

They all are scrambling for equipment and people. Saturday delivers used to be an extra charge. Now they are delivering 7 days a week to get the most out of trucks and available people. I have seen both FedEx and UPS locally running rental trucks this year. Had a UPS delivery from a personal car at beginning of the month.

Amazon building out their own network rapidly. But is still shifting some packages back to USPS because they are only carrier not allow to limit shipping.

My local mail carrier retired at end of November. They pushed him to stay through holidays. But he knew better and left before the crazy.