Rant on shipping

[ultrarunner]

Those decisions are no longer mine...

After 25 years as salaried director of engineering the new organization eliminated that position and made me hourly Chief Engineer...

Old habits die hard and I will occasionally have the need to overstep like last month when a large hot water let go and I had a new one in later that Saturday putting it on my personal credit card.... get it done.

Not willing to cable etc... to replace phone system especially with future uncertain...

 

[Jstpssng]

The other side of my last question should be "How old is the system?"... planned obsolescence is very real, and completely counter to the recycling discussion going on in another thread.
I bought my first new color TV ever in 2005... not realizing that everything was going digital and I would no longer be able to get a signal here. That set has been down in my shed for almost 15 years... what are the chances it would even work if I wanted it to.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep... you could call me old school... heck, the first car I bought is a 1929 Model A Ford... still watch TV on a 1980 Zenith Color Console TV with rabbit ears and convertor box and my Apple //e computer and Daisey Wheel Printer work just fine... thank you. Kenmore Avacado Green Washer Dryer date from late 60's...

The CSU Nortel System is 1995 and cost a pretty penny or a lot of pennies back then and it still serves 120 desksets thereabouts...

 

[goeduck]

I bought something on ebay and I got an email saying it is estimated to arrive on Monday but no attached tracking link and nothing on line in myebay. Strange how we get used to having a tracking link as additional information. When activities are scheduled that need the part, it sure is nice to be able to double check that it was actually shipped. Then it is just the shipping company you worry about.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Seems to me that either you get your stuff quickly and don't need a tracking number, or your stuff doesn't show up on time and the tracking information is useless. So really, what's the point?

 

[ultrarunner]

Monday morning at 5 am I will be on phone with seller based in Florida... part was to ship from LosAngeles warehouse.

No attempted delivery tags or visits from UPS Saturday or this morning at Hospital...

 

[fried1765]

Monday morning at 5 am I will be on phone with seller based in Florida... part was to ship from LosAngeles warehouse.

No attempted delivery tags or visits from UPS Saturday or this morning at Hospital...

Yeah ...... the seller will be there at 5 AM EST, but the warehouse won't be awake at 5 AM PST.
FedEx just delivered a 34 lb. bag of dog food at 11:00AM EST .....today is SUNDAY !!!

 

[goeduck]

Seems to me that either you get your stuff quickly and don't need a tracking number, or your stuff doesn't show up on time and the tracking information is useless. So really, what's the point?

If you have something that depends on receiving the part before you can do the next step, the tracking is huge.

At work we have emergency repair calls and I will schedule a crew around a delivery date if the tracking history and sender information matches and looks solid. If the sender says they shipped an item but the tracking says it has not even been picked up I will not schedule around the senders estimated delivery date.


Similar thing can happen home projects.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Stuff seems to get here inversely proportional to how badly I needed it. If time isn't an issue, it's here (out in the boonies) in a short time I simply can't believe. If it's critical, it's missing in action and tracking information is of no use whatever. Maybe, that's just MY reality in this Earth School! Lady friend ordered a purse in Sept, (Amazon maybe???) that never showed up. Tracking info of no use. So, it's stalled at a certain point. They sent another, that she got. Four + months later, original arrives! lol

Reminds me so much of the great state of the art. interactive, utility power outage system. In severe situations, your outage will simply sit for days at "Pending Investigation" Of what wordly use is that? Better to hop in your vehicle, find a crew, thank them for their great service and ask if they can tell you anything. Old school always works best!

I see George Carlin as being more accurate all the time. It's all about providing illusion.

 

[ultrarunner]

Either 1 of 2 things happened is my guess... package not properly shipped OR UPS decided not to deliver on Saturday as receiving is closed weekends... has happened even when paying for Saturday!