Rant on shipping

[goeduck]

Time to get out of the $139 membership.

And then pray tell how you would watch Thursday Night Football.....

 

[Pixguy]

And then pray tell how you would watch Thursday Night Football.....

I forget it's on half the time anyways.

 

[newbury]

Well, Amazoned again.
Enclosed Trailer has small leak (few drips after storm) around skylight after trip, usually just add a little more Self-Leveling Lap Sealant when it's warm and it's good. Ordered a tube from Amazone on Jan 2nd for delivery by Jan 6th. Local stores were OOS even for shipment.
No problem I thought, trailer won't be moved for month's and I've a bucket under the leak. Started getting messages it's been picked up but delayed. Missed several 70°F days
Finally on Jan 12th I checked Walmart again, they could ship, supposed to be here by by the 18th.
Will see which wins.

 

[hornett22]

One of my Amazon orders coming UPS from KY showed it being in local center for a WEEK. Finally, Amazon said "it's lost" and refunded the amount. Day or two later, I entered the tracking number and it said "Los Angeles, CA". Watched it come back to Memphis, Nashville, and finally local center, where it went out for delivery the next day and I got it. Well traveled raincoat

Imagine how much money they'd be making if they were efficient and organized.

 

[3Ts]

I ordered an unusual size of pipe and the seller provided the tracking number. It got to the 1st transfer point and got stuck. It sat there for a week, I contacted the seller, he resent the pipe, and that one got stuck at the same place also. We finally decided that any other attempts as shipping the pipe was a waste of time and we agreed to cancel the order and refund my money. Note: I would think it would be kinda hard to lose something 6' long, but the USPS in New Jersey did.

 

[Jstpssng]

I ordered an unusual size of pipe and the seller provided the tracking number. It got to the 1st transfer point and got stuck. It sat there for a week, I contacted the seller, he resent the pipe, and that one got stuck at the same place also. We finally decided that any other attempts as shipping the pipe was a waste of time and we agreed to cancel the order and refund my money. Note: I would think it would be kinda hard to lose something 6' long, but the USPS in New Jersey did.

I had something similar. I ordered a breech plug tool for my BP rifle from a shop down in Florida... a 1/2 inch steel rod about 7" long, grooved on one end and fluted on the other. Back then USPS would tell you every stop it made. I watched it come up the eastern seaboard right on schedule until it got to Massachusetts, where it stopped. For about a week it never moved, then it started moving again, and showed up a couple of days later. I've always wondered if they had seen the gun shop return address, xrayed it and thought it might be a bomb or something.

 

[kenmbz]

I just got a package from HDepot. They usually ship free some small items and I decided to buy a few outlet boxes and covers, screws etc. that were not in stock locally.

One box came (9x9x4) and I thought it was empty, ends up it only had a 4" outlet box cover in it (1) and it had slid under the flap where the tape stopped it from falling out.

Not sure how they make money sometimes...

 

[Tinhack]

I've always looked at the Prime fee like pre-paying the shipping fees and saving a bunch if you ordered more than 20-25 items a yr and we do that.

I typically have that many per month. This is current as of this morning. It's been at around 72 for 3 months but dropped at the turn of the new year.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

I have pretty much stopped buying from Amazon. I dropped Prime months ago because of their shipping policies. It just ticked me off that I was paying for two day delivery and they would just sit on the order for five days before they pulled it from stock.
I ordered a snowblower from Amazon and it had a 10 delivery time. I did a little looking around and found the same thing at Walmart so I cancelled the Amazon order and ordered from Walmart. That was on a Sunday, the blower arrived the following Tuesday. I just use Amazon just to check reviews anymore. I won't be surprised if Amazon's market share dwindles significantly. It seems they only city dwellers money.

 

[Alan W.]

Sometimes you have to report the positives.

Placed an order with allskidsteers.com on Thursday afternoon. Mailman delivered the package this Saturday morn

Will continue to do business with this company. Good service by the USPS also.