Rant on shipping

[ultrarunner]

With the winter storm backups our FedEx delivered today but no pickups... until Tuesday.

Signs everywhere hiring delivery drivers and many have sign on bonuses.

 

[Jstpssng]

With the winter storm backups our FedEx delivered today but no pickups... until Tuesday.

Signs everywhere hiring delivery drivers and many have sign on bonuses.

Before Christmas I tried to look into moonlighting for UPS. Talk about going down a rabbit hole. I never did find out what I wanted to know yet still get notices almost daily of dollar stores that are hiring.

 

[tallyho8]

Found this a third way up my drive yesterday, apparently thrown there the day before by UPS. They have never done this before. When I saw it, I thought an empty bag had blown out of my ranger when I took the trash out to the road.
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So we can get a text from Amazon with a photo showing where the package was delivered, I wonder if we can text UPS or Amazon with a photo showing where they are mis-delivered?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My son says tracking shows it was delivered at 1:40 am. My security cam shows no vehicles then. I see it on my camera, propped against the fence post at daylight. The wind later blew it.

Found it on video, unfortunately dark out. , they came Friday night at 20:44. Stopped on the road, drove past my driveway, backed up and came up the drive to the fence, then left. Then came back at 20:46 and pulled into driveway again.

 

[goeduck]

Maybe we are fortunate around here... never any issue with drivers. Sometimes the package might get diverted for some reason but the deliveries have always been great. Christmas time I like to tip them in some way.

Same here. We are seeing Prime trucks deliver to the house now, not just UPS and Fedex. Last year on our shared lane (4 houses) we put up the blue reflective signs at the county road and at the Y in the lane, that helps the new drivers. We also have less people looking for another house come down the 1000 foot long lane now.

Prior to that I had my home made house number signage up, but the other 3 did not.

Blue Address Sign Request

If everyone had good and uniform signage, there probably would be fewer delivery problems.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Most people here have the green address signs.

 

[Alan W.]

My son ordered some items for his 3d printer from Amazon. Package came it was women’s ski pants and socks. Called Amazon got return label and parts would be resent. UPS stopped next day to pick up package and they left a package. It was what he originally ordered. They had somehow created two identical shipping labels and one got on the wrong package. But by this time they have resent the original order which comes a few days later. Amazon says don’t worry about it our mistake.

Had a new UPS driver yesterday, turns out he was a local boy from a couple ridges over. Asked where the usual guy was and found out he had taken a bad fall on the ice and was having to have some scans on his head.

 

[Oaktree]

If everyone had good and uniform signage, there probably would be fewer delivery problems.

Our town offered something like that a few years ago (one-shot deal, we're a pretty small town). Forget what it cost, but it was less than what your town quoted, included T-post, and the town's road crew would install it. I think there was a grant from the state to improve accuracy for 911 calls in rural communities.

 

[ultrarunner]

My son ordered some items for his 3d printer from Amazon. Package came it was women’s ski pants and socks. Called Amazon got return label and parts would be resent. UPS stopped next day to pick up package and they left a package. It was what he originally ordered. They had somehow created two identical shipping labels and one got on the wrong package. But by this time they have resent the original order which comes a few days later. Amazon says don’t worry about it our mistake.

Had a new UPS driver yesterday, turns out he was a local boy from a couple ridges over. Asked where the usual guy was and found out he had taken a bad fall on the ice and was having to have some scans on his head.

Not living with snow and ice makes it easy to overlook the difficulties making deliveries in such...

Anything I can do to make it easier the better my overall service.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Our town offered something like that a few years ago (one-shot deal, we're a pretty small town). Forget what it cost, but it was less than what your town quoted, included T-post, and the town's road crew would install it. I think there was a grant from the state to improve accuracy for 911 calls in rural communities.

Used to be local 4H or maybe FFA sold the address reflective signs. I bought mine on Amazon