Rant on shipping

[fried1765]

I'm still fighting amazon for the $150 refund and the $50 return shipping they forced me to pay. I've resorted to hand written, no spell check letters. First 2, return to sender, address unknown. (that was a good song). So far, 6 months.

I am happy to say that, after 6 months, i won my credit card dispute with barclays. I disputed a $40 charge that morphed into a $350 bill with the fees and interest. Every time I responded that i would never, in my life, pay those fees etc.

Nothing was happening and the fees just kept growing. I took 2 hits on my credit rating so my insurance rates are going up. Try to straighten that out!

Went to some gov web site, filled in some forms, all the sudden, all is forgotten, alls well.

They are ****** and if you don't stand up to them they will crank you just as hard as you let them. I probably spent thousands of dollars of my time, energy, emotion etc. It would have been much easier to just pay the $40

F. them, come and get it!

Now, i gotta go beat up amazon. Amazing, i have friends, male friends that almost worship amazon.

I find Amazon worship by some, to be very much cult like!
I do use them occasionally, but absolutely avoid if other sellers have the same items at equal or (often) lower price.

 

[Jstpssng]

I find Amazon worship by some, to be very much cult like!
I do use them occasionally, but absolutely avoid if other sellers have the same items at equal or (often) lower price.

Amazon, Walmart, you can make a pretty good list of places which some worship while others demonize the same institutions.

 

[Diggin It]

I have no loyalty to any one store or business. I go where I get the best value for the current purchase. Every once in a while though, I find that a certain store has a dark history and I start to back away from them.

 

[fried1765]

I have no loyalty to any one store or business. I go where I get the best value for the current purchase. Every once in a while though, I find that a certain store has a dark history and I start to back away from them.

Yup......same here!

 

[Jstpssng]

I have no loyalty to any one store or business. I go where I get the best value for the current purchase. Every once in a while though, I find that a certain store has a dark history and I start to back away from them.

:thumbsup: Vote with your wallet.

 

[kcflhrc]

My wife buys a lot of stuff on Etsy. Mostly sewing stuff, material and things. Most of those seller's use USPS. She can literally get an item from across the country faster than she can get an item from a seller 20 minutes up the road. It boggles my mind. I do live rural but it absolutely makes no sense to me how they can screw something up that is so easy. The last item went from Olathe KS, literally 20 minutes up the road from us, to Kansas City MO, spent 2 days there, back to Kansas City KS, spent 2 days there, finally to our local Post Office in Kansas, said it was delivered to a PO box at 9:00 pm last Thursday. Finally arrived at our house the next day in the mail box.

Another item from Illinois straight to our house in 3 days



Another item I had to drive to the local PO for, they couldn't find it, there it was sitting in a BIN to be delivered, no one ever picked it up.

They suck beyond belief. :laughing:

 

[fried1765]

My wife buys a lot of stuff on Etsy. Mostly sewing stuff, material and things. Most of those seller's use USPS. She can literally get an item from across the country faster than she can get an item from a seller 20 minutes up the road. It boggles my mind. I do live rural but it absolutely makes no sense to me how they can screw something up that is so easy. The last item went from Olathe KS, literally 20 minutes up the road from us, to Kansas City MO, spent 2 days there, back to Kansas City KS, spent 2 days there, finally to our local Post Office in Kansas, said it was delivered to a PO box at 9:00 pm last Thursday. Finally arrived at our house the next day in the mail box.

Another item from Illinois straight to our house in 3 days



Another item I had to drive to the local PO for, they couldn't find it, there it was sitting in a BIN to be delivered, no one ever picked it up.

They suck beyond belief. :laughing:

Now nearing the end of tenth day, for a USPS tracked delivery from 649 miles away.
Nothing in sight yet!

 

[Diggin It]

The large answer to the USPS situation can't be discussed here other than to say it has been deliberately slowed down.

 

[tallyho8]

I don't subscribe to the conspiracy theory that USPS has been deliberately slowed down. At one time USPS only hired the cream of the crop and gave them thorough training. In later years with federal hiring mandates they have had to hire many that don't fit the bill "cream of the crop". This resulted in USPS being slightly less efficient than in the past.

This year, with so many workers out with the virus and others out because they rather collect the high unemployment check instead of working, USPS had to hire just anyone willing to work as temporary workers until they can get their regulars back. With only the most basic of training, if any, they are not equipped to do some of the more complex tasks at USPS and make many mistakes.

For example, one of my orders is now a few days late and tracking shows that it was routed to zip 70002 instead of 70072 which is the post office our mail is sent to to be delivered to our local post office. Simple and common mistakes like this by new workers can delay mail for several days while it is re-routed. To say these actions are deliberate instead of just mistakes by careless, untrained workers is just not facing reality.

 

[lman]

Vote with your wallet.

Sounds kind of like a bribe.