Rant on shipping

[Jstpssng]

Have you tried Woods directly?
Would be surprised if they dont stock them

I ordered a set today. Woods doesn't sell direct to the consumer though, so I had to wait for the dealer to open.
I will probably end up welding them on anyways, I doubt I will ever need another set. I wouldn't need these if one hadn't come off and gotten buried someplace.

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm getting almost the same notice; "Your package is in transit and on it's way to the next destination." I sent a soil sample via Priority Mail two weeks ago tomorrow, to a lab about 70 miles away. If it ever gets there, it will take two weeks for them to process it; putting me into the middle of May. By then it will be useless, as it's planting time and I"ll be doing my best guess to what I need to add including lime, manure, and fertilizer.

Contrast that to UPS; if an order is shipped I can watch it travel from place to place. Generally it will arrive at least a day earlier than estimated.
USPS used to have the same tracking system but not anymore.

Funny thing; while USPS is still saying that this package is "in transit" I received an email tonight with the results of that same soil test, which took two weeks to produce. Perhaps their tracking isn't what it's cracked up to be but at least they delivered the goods; at the end of the day, that's better than promising and not delivering. Just in time, too... Test results indicate that I definitely do not want to apply that lime which I bought today.

 

[ultrarunner]

I've found in the past year or so USPS tracking is a novelty. It gets dropped off half way across the US and the next update maybe a week later is "out for delivery"

I did my first Tractor Supply online order... Ordered 2 items... both shipped same day... One arrived in 5 days and the other just now several weeks later... the tracking showed it out for delivery all of last week...

 

[goeduck]

The special treatment of China is my rant about shipping.

Trump Fights to Fix Shipping Rates That Favor China | RealClearPolitics

 

[thepumpguysc]

I'm not much of a Tractor Supply fan myself..
I wanted to get their parts washer fluid, so I checked my local store & their site said they had several..
I jump in the truck {w/o calling} & make the 100 mile r/t.. I get there & walk up & down the isle where it "should be"..
no luck.. I finally get someone to help me & she does the exact same thing.. walk up & down the isles..
I said, "your site said u have several".. so she goes over to her computer & says, "yup, thats what it says.. but u cant go by THAT"..
WTH.??!!! THATS what ITS FOR.!! I end up ordering it shipped to the store{free} & like u geys I get the notice of "its in transit" or something stupid to that effect..
It took about 2-3 weeks for it to get to the store..
SO, just remember.. no matter what the quantity states "on hand" at your local store.. "u cant go by THAT".. lol

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm not much of a Tractor Supply fan myself..
I wanted to get their parts washer fluid, so I checked my local store & their site said they had several..
I jump in the truck {w/o calling} & make the 100 mile r/t.. I get there & walk up & down the isle where it "should be"..
no luck.. I finally get someone to help me & she does the exact same thing.. walk up & down the isles..
I said, "your site said u have several".. so she goes over to her computer & says, "yup, thats what it says.. but u cant go by THAT"..
WTH.??!!! THATS what ITS FOR.!! I end up ordering it shipped to the store{free} & like u geys I get the notice of "its in transit" or something stupid to that effect..
It took about 2-3 weeks for it to get to the store..
SO, just remember.. no matter what the quantity states "on hand" at your local store.. "u cant go by THAT".. lol

My neighbor had the exact opposite experience; bar&chain oil was on sale so he went in to pick up a couple of cases. There were only two gallons on the shelf so he found an employee, who told him that's all that there was. He went home, got online and ordered more, and immediately got notified that his order was in... they had plenty in stock out back. From here it's about 110 miles round trip.
The only thing that I buy there is dog food, everything else I'm able to get for less someplace else.

 

[Gem99ultra]

Sure, I too have Amazon Prime, which no longer means a thing in the world. Just another $99/year thrown out the window. BUT - my hack is with FedEx. I had a nice size order placed with Sam's Club. Sam's shipped it pretty quick; not the next day, but within 3 or 4 days. Good enough for these times. However, 2 weeks later I still had not received my order.

Sam's tracing showed the order shipped and delivered. FedEx "Proof of Delivery" showed that the order had delivered to me 2 days after being picked up. Not so; never received! I then tried contacting Sam's to discuss this problem, but spent an hour on the internet waiting to talk to a contact. Contact never came on. So I gave up on the problem for a while, while I cooled down some and went to set on the porch and sip a cup of coffee.

Surprisingly, this white station wagon pulled up the drive, a lady gets out an asked if I was expecting a package. I told her I was and it was from Sam's, and apparently lost for 2 weeks. She explained that my package had been delivered to her at her BBQ stand several miles away two weeks ago.

She was very kind to have gone out of her way to come by and let me know that she had kept the package for me, and would also bring it to me. That was over-the-top nice thing for her to offer, but I told her I would come pick it up. Many thanks to that unknown lady! Never found her to personally thank her again for her kind deed. But I do and will frequent her BBQ place now.

What I wonder is HOW FedEx has a "Proof of Delivery" for a package that was delivered to the wrong address miles away from me?

Moral of this story is that a little extra effort on the part of a vendor gets new business, And 'BS' systems and broken promises loses them. I doubt that my business with FedEx will shut them down. But I'm also pretty sure I'm not the only one that has been given the run-around false information by them either.

What goes around, comes around.

 

[kf4uda]

I have never been a fan of the USPS. For years I have been of the opinion that they should be privatized. However, during this corona virus lock down they seem to have improved their service, at least in our area. I am not sure why or how, but I will give credit where it is due. Maybe they will stay this was when the virus blows over.

 

[ultrarunner]

USPS is leaving signature required mail without getting signatures... happened twice recently which is more than odd.

 

[Big Barn]

USPS is leaving signature required mail without getting signatures... happened twice recently which is more than odd.

Same here for me with Canada Post yesterday.

 

[LD48750]

I have never been a fan of the USPS. For years I have been of the opinion that they should be privatized. However, during this corona virus lock down they seem to have improved their service, at least in our area. I am not sure why or how, but I will give credit where it is due. Maybe they will stay this was when the virus blows over.

Lucky you.
The exact opposite here, good service in the past & CRAP now.
Order from PA went to Indianapolis then to Detroit and has sat there for two days less then 30 miles from me.
All that took a week.
I could have had pony express deliver it faster.

 

[Big Barn]

Here is this mornings tracking notification (May 6) for a parcel mailed near Chicago April 13. This is the FIRST notification that actually said something other than “on its way”

 

[California]

Some drop shippers are -really- gaming the system.

A year ago, most everybody selling an item on Ebay (a flashlight) was located in Hubei (Wuhan region, a big manufacturing center). I'm not in a hurry, all the vendors offerings were identical except price so I bought from the cheapest vendor with substantial good feedback. I assumed the item was manufactured right there so choice of vendor was irrelevant.

Then - nearly past the 30 day Ebay feedback window, I get a shipping confirmation in the style of a USPS tracking number. But # unknown at USPS. I finally traced that # to learning it was a Philippine Post number, but they showed 'no information'. Weeks later the item arrived with markings showing China Post (expected) overlaid by Malaysia Post (WTF??). That use of a Philippine Post tracking number was entirely bogus. Likely the claim of the vendor that he is located in China was also bogus. Likely his use of a bogus Philippine Post tracking number was to 'prove' to Ebay that he shipped timely.

This modern world is strange.

 

[sandman2234]

I have been in transportation for over 41 years, and Amazon will be the downfall of many good trucking companies and owner operators.
I received an early Christmas card from my sister, just before Thanksgiving. She always tells everyone what is happening in her world. As I read it, I was thinking that most of this is old news. Then i looked at the postmark, it was almost a year old! I called and spoke with the Bulk mail center, and it seems they were cleaning out a temporary anex, and getting ready for the Christmas rush and were mailing what they found. DUHH!!!

 

[Diggin It]

UPS tracking got kind of weird. They now have a map where you can watch an icon of the truck moving around your area as it gets closer to you. Just watched it make stops at a few nearby houses, then could look out and watch the driver walk up my driveway with the package.

Right on schedule too, but not from AMZ.

 

[Doofy]

Wife just received an LL Bean order that was shipped UPS 2nd Day Air. Only took 9 days!

 

[caver]

I also noticed the UPS tracking map. When the display switches from Nearby?? to Almost there is when it is getting close. I found the map doesn't update frequently enough. Even hitting refresh sometimes wasn't enough as it would sit in one spot for 10 minutes.

 

[Diggin It]

I was bored, it's a less than ideal day outside, so once I saw it on a road nearby, I just sat and watched it. Updated about every 5 minutes or less.

 

[von-mil]

Is the UPS map a smartphone app? Can it be used with a PC?

 

[Diggin It]

I did it yesterday in IE on a PC.