Rant on shipping

[ultrarunner]

Never again... I sent 4 boxes USPS of California Almonds to Austria one year.

36 days in route express mail.

Tracked my packages to Austria to Canada to Australia... customs hold and then returned to Canada and back to California and then to Germany and then to Australia again!

Third try the charm...

Labels large block print to AUSTRIA...

Guess reading is difficult.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Ordered a pallet fork rack with 36-inch forks and a grapple from Titan. Yesterday I got A message that it had been delivered. Got home, and found a pair of 36-inch forks. No frame and no grapple. Been trying for two hours to find out where the rest of the order is.

 

[kenmbz]

Fedex found and delivered to my front stoop today.
am in shock.

 

[CliffordK]

Tracking from today (on E-Bay)

I had to laugh. They are doing daily updates... package is somewhere, nobody knows where.

Marked as "Arriving on Time". Yet, there usually is a scan in Portland, then in either Eugene or Springfield, followed by "Out for Delivery".

Somehow I think it won't be arriving "Today" as listed by E-Bay.

 

[thepumpguysc]

I sent a fella in need, a spring and piston for a pump… THAT was a week ago last Thursday.!!
It says it’s in Atlanta.. for a 10 days.!!?? (USPS)

 

[goeduck]

Ordered a roll of cat 6 and was curious if it was on schedule. I see Amazon put a delivery time window which I have never seen before. Nice. It seems in the past on my deliveries it was always "by 10 PM"

 

[kenmbz]

Ordered a roll of cat 6 and was curious if it was on schedule. I see Amazon put a delivery time window which I have never seen before. Nice. It seems in the past on my deliveries it was always "by 10 PM"
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Matters which shipper, I get this with UPS, sometimes FedEx and rarely with Amazon delivery.

 

[thepumpguysc]

I forgot about this thread..
otherwise I would have written a book.!!
As I type this, I have 4 incoming pumps that are LOST.!!! The customers ALL used USPS PRIORITY MAIL.!!
Last month, I had a pump that was “in transit” for 55 days.!! The customer insured his pkg for $2500.00.!!
That was probably the only thing that saved him.. USPS wasn’t about to pay that.!!
So, somebody got off their azz and found it..
That is 1 outta 5 with a happy ending.. the other 4 are still “in transit”.. and 3 weeks OVER DUE.!!
The odd thing is, I have no problem shipping them back.. & I use the USPS PRIORITY MAIL SERVICE..

I could see if they were ALL from the same zip code, which could be blamed on one office., but they’re from ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.!!
Washington, Texas, W.Virginia, AND HERES THE KICKER.. a town 50 miles away from me.!!!
The customer actually offered to drive it to me, but I was so busy that I told him he’d have to wait his turn and I couldn’t work on it while he was here.. so he mailed it..
Not my proudest moment..

 

[kenmbz]

I forgot about this thread..
otherwise I would have written a book.!!
As I type this, I have 4 incoming pumps that are LOST.!!! The customers ALL used USPS PRIORITY MAIL.!!
Last month, I had a pump that was “in transit” for 55 days.!! The customer insured his pkg for $2500.00.!!
That was probably the only thing that saved him.. USPS wasn’t about to pay that.!!
So, somebody got off their azz and found it..
That is 1 outta 5 with a happy ending.. the other 4 are still “in transit”.. and 3 weeks OVER DUE.!!
The odd thing is, I have no problem shipping them back.. & I use the USPS PRIORITY MAIL SERVICE..

I could see if they were ALL from the same zip code, which could be blamed on one office., but they’re from ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.!!
Washington, Texas, W.Virginia, AND HERES THE KICKER.. a town 50 miles away from me.!!!
The customer actually offered to drive it to me, but I was so busy that I told him he’d have to wait his turn and I couldn’t work on it while he was here.. so he mailed it..
Not my proudest moment..

Almost every package that gets lost is USPS.
Sometimes I will get items from the same person out of sequence, by weeks.
Had someone send me something on Aug 30 and September 11th, they both showed up on the 17th.
UPS does pretty good still.
Fedex has gotten better, but still sometimes I have to go on a search mission to find a package.

I had to use the insurance with USPS, they would leave the last digit off the package number when responding that they could not find anything.
I had to call them and tell them the number and to stop messing around. That was after the 2 identical items, shipped at different times disappeared at the same USPS location......

Hope fully they will find the packages, so frustrating.

 

[NoTrespassing]

I forgot about this thread..
otherwise I would have written a book.!!
As I type this, I have 4 incoming pumps that are LOST.!!! The customers ALL used USPS PRIORITY MAIL.!!
Last month, I had a pump that was “in transit” for 55 days.!! The customer insured his pkg for $2500.00.!!
That was probably the only thing that saved him.. USPS wasn’t about to pay that.!!
So, somebody got off their azz and found it..
That is 1 outta 5 with a happy ending.. the other 4 are still “in transit”.. and 3 weeks OVER DUE.!!
The odd thing is, I have no problem shipping them back.. & I use the USPS PRIORITY MAIL SERVICE..

I could see if they were ALL from the same zip code, which could be blamed on one office., but they’re from ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.!!
Washington, Texas, W.Virginia, AND HERES THE KICKER.. a town 50 miles away from me.!!!
The customer actually offered to drive it to me, but I was so busy that I told him he’d have to wait his turn and I couldn’t work on it while he was here.. so he mailed it..
Not my proudest moment..

My dad the rural carrier still sends hand written checks to Atlanta Postal Credit Union for deposit. A lot of them never make it there.

I had a check stolen out of a road side city mailbox and washed to the tune of over $3K. Luckily after filing a police report I was reimbursed.