Rant on shipping

[riptides]

Internal tracking systems lag behind reality. Part of the under promise over deliver mind set.

Slow shipping is bad enough. But incorrect tracking info just adds fuel to the fire. Here's my experience this week on an order for an air compressor from Home Depot:
Ordered 12/7 (Debit card charged immediately.)
Delivery promised by 12/24 or 12/25
First tracking info was that it was 'on the road' on 12/9
Next info was that it was delivered 12/11 -huh? I didn't get it!!!
(Shipper's "Customer Service" only works 8-4:30 Monday thru Friday; no info over the weekend)
On 12/14 shipper says delivery would be 12/21
Compressor delivered 12/15.

So much for tracking information.

 

[Jstpssng]

I placed an order last week, with an estimated date of Friday. (Actually it was originally two days ago as previously stated but...)
It shipped via UPS yesterday, this AM I got a "Delayed" notice. After logging onto the UPS site I found that instead of being delivered the 18th the new estimated date is the 17th. That's my kind of delay. :thumbsup:

 

[Peter 315]

I placed an order last week, with an estimated date of Friday. (Actually it was originally two days ago as previously stated but...)
It shipped via UPS yesterday, this AM I got a "Delayed" notice. After logging onto the UPS site I found that instead of being delivered the 18th the new estimated date is the 17th. That's my kind of delay. :thumbsup:

January 17th........

 

[JethroB]

And oddball wouldn't call you of course.

They may still be mad at me from years ago when I suggested in March that they take their Christmas yard display down. Two retired lady college professors. Oddballs for sure.

 

[Jstpssng]

January 17th........

You made me check... it should be here tomorrow.

When I bought my grapple this spring it was scheduled to be delivered to a business 50 miles away. On the original delivery date I was notified that it was stuck at terminal 170 miles away., and would be delivered the following week. Every day the next week they kicked it down the road another day or two and I was getting rather POed; it literally spent longer in shipping than it took MTL to fill the order. Finally I happened to stop by the place it was being delivered to and he asked me when I was going to get it out of his yard. It had been delivered almost a week earlier, even though the website showed it was still stuck at the terminal waiting for a truck.

 

[ultrarunner]

Ok... here is my story... I paid to have a car shipped from New York to Oakland CA...

It was picked up in upstate and moved to New Jersey Depot for cross country...

I was expecting the car and nothing except "In transit" showed on tracking.

I finally was able to locate and dispatch said none of their transporters could move a narrow track car as it might fall through the ramps... they used a rollback to get it to NJ.

After much scrambling... FedEx agreed to pick it up and deliver... It was 5 weeks on a NJ dock... what a mess.

The auto shipper that advertised classic and antique didn't realize the dimensions of a 1950 Crosley... they still wanted to be paid for New York pickup... of course that went no where with me...

 

[California]

... shipper that advertised classic and antique didn't realize the dimensions of a 1950 Crosley...

Crosley? My memory of those is they were unbearably loud inside. Ear-splitting. I think due to the engine assembled out of discrete tubing and plate components instead of a cast engine block.

A neighbor was a CHP officer and had a couple that ran, and a couple more out back. His kids would invite others to go on adventures with his Dad, mostly a few blocks in the neighborhood winding the thing up to unGodly rpms before shifting up. (But not moving very fast). Claimed 26 hp but not nearly as competent as the later VW imports at similar hp which were practical transportation.

Don't take it on the freeway!

 

[user.69169]

How de he!! could a Crosley fall thru de ramps? Thing don't weigh 2000 pounds full of water.

 

[dragoneggs]

Nothing is free.............

Love and happiness?

 

[Peter 315]

Love and happiness?

NO.....