Rant on shipping

[CloverKnollFarms]

I don't care about communicating, I do care about physical parts to get jobs done. Everyone is using USPS, and I don't know if I'll have the part in three days, or 6 weeks...

No wonder people can't get equipment repaired. The parts are stuck in shipping

 

[ruffdog]

Today I have three packages in limbo. The longest lost, is 20 days since last scan in Indianapolis. USPS doesn’t want to settle a claim, because they know it’s there, somewhere… meanwhile I can’t close up a motor without a couple seals

I just had a package come from Ohio right through Indy and didn't have an issue. In fact, it came two days earlier than expected.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

I just had a package come from Ohio right through Indy and didn't have an issue. In fact, it came two days earlier than expected.

My son did too. Sadly the Indy USPS is in the news due to their shortcomings. I'm not the only one

 

[Jstpssng]

30 years ago when I first started working for myself, one of my contracts was with Georgia-Pacific, 3 towns away. I gave them a good price because I could turn in an invoice on Tuesday and receive the check in Friday, giving me cash flow.

Occasionally though the scanner would read a "0" in my zip code as an "8", sending it out west and back. Those times always seemed to be when I was going out of town and could use the money.

 

[goeduck]

Several years ago our local post office had two slots for mail local and not. They would hand sort the local and send the rest out to the Albany hub to be sorted and sent out.
Then they stopped doing the local sort but left the slots as they had been but it all went to Albany to be sorted so what used to be next day or the day after went to being 3 days at best often 5 days.

Our "local mail" slot is completely gone. We do have a "misboxed mail" slot for mail put in the wrong PO Box.

 

[mjonesnh]

My son did too. Sadly the Indy USPS is in the news due to their shortcomings. I'm not the only one

Ordered some filters for my tractor from a dealer in Indiana that were shipped Wednesday. After finding out they were shipped USPS and going through Indianapolis sort facility I thought of your problems getting packages delivered. Figured probably 3-4 weeks wait. To my surprise they showed here in TN. today only 1 day later than tracking said they would. Maybe things are improving there at the Indy sort center

 

[Jstpssng]

I am ordering baby chicks this spring from McMurray's... I had forgotten about it but apparently have a credit there from the last time, when they all arrive dead.

You guys are scaring me.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

I did just receive my motocross boots that were shipped in January...
They spent all but two days of that in the Indianapolis facility.

I still have a graphics kit from February 6th there.

I discovered that if I include some ORMD in each order, it ships via UPS, and it's more reliable

 

[NoTrespassing]

Anybody willing to ship an Airtag through Indy? That might be interesting.

 

[Jstpssng]

I placed 4 different orders on Saturday, it turns out at least one will be coming by each service. It'll be interesting to see which gets here first. Oddly enough, the new welder I ordered is coming through the mail.