PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: President-Elect Bob Noel on October 16, 2020, 12:15:03 PM
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I ordered a gizmo from Bestbuy. They shipped it UPS, with final delivery via the USPS. ok, that's worked in the past, but about once a week the mailman delivers a piece of mail to my house when the addressee clearly is a different house different street different number.
Last Friday (9 Oct), the package was marked "delivered" but was no where to be seen at my house.
To Bestbuy's credit, when informed of the failure to deliver, they sent another one. Unfortunately they shipped this one USPS all the way.
Tuesday (13 Oct) the original package shows up on my front steps. But the replacement had finally been picked up by USPS earlier that day and so was on the way... (I figure that whoever got the original package Friday gave it back to the mailman Saturday, who waited until Tuesday to give it to me)
Early Wednesday morning, the replacement package arrives at the local distribution center (not too far from my house)...and then it get sent back out to the Nashua hub... Thursday it arrives in Wisconsin... and Friday afternoon it's back at the local distrubtion center...not sure why the package got a side trip from Wilmington MA to Wisconsin and back.
I guess Bestbuy got its money's worth on those shipping charges...
(and yes, I'll be hand-delivering the replacement package back to the local bestbuy...if I ever get it)
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I think the USPS is making things as delivered before they really are to make their numbers look better.
I have had issues where it says it was delivered then a day or two later it finally shows up.
Now I get Amazon delivery drivers and they take picture to prove they dropped it off.
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Long long ago I ordered some Levis from JC Penny, while they were still a going concern. They had my size, and they were cheap. Never showed up. I called J C Penny, told them the deal, and they sent them again. Got them, happy me.
About a month later I was looking out my front door and I saw a package that looked suspiciously like the package that arrived at my porch with the jeans. I walked over, and sure enough it had been addressed to me. It got delivered to a house who's address was completely different from mine except the street. That fact that it sat on their porch the whole time attests to a) how surprisingly safe my neighborhood is and b) why I never got to know those guys.
I tried to make it right but JC Penny was pretty clueless about the whole thing. SO I keep the jeans. I think I'm wearing one of those very pants right now.
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The exact same thing happened to me. The tracking said “delivered, left in mailbox” but it was not. After waiting a day or two to see if it showed up I contacted the shipper and they shipped a second one. A week later the original package showed up, they were books so I had no use for two sets. I contacted them and asked if they wanted me to send the extra set back and they said no, keep it on us. So I gave it to my brother.
Since then it has happened more, that tracking says delivered but it’s not, but it comes within another day or two. It happens with my neighbors too. This has been occurring ever since UPS partnered with USPS and it’s a total disaster. Reliable delivery was why I always used UPS in the first place.
I read somewhere that this occurs because the contract between them relies on there being a good delivery rate, so they scan it “delivered” even when it stays on the truck longer for whatever reason. They’re shooting themselves in the foot, I am moving to FedEx when I have a choice. So far around here FedEx uses its own delivery drivers all the way to my door.
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My USPS Priority Mail packages seem to arrive a day, two or three late, but they arrive. No explanation for lateness of course.
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I had several packages a few months that were not delivered. But I received a status update that said "Item held at recipients request". No way I requested that. After this happened a few times I read an article that said it was happening all over. Apparently carriers are under pressure to get everything delivered on time, but if the recipient requests it to not be delivered, it doesn't' count against them.
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I had several packages a few months that were not delivered. But I received a status update that said "Item held at recipients request". No way I requested that. After this happened a few times I read an article that said it was happening all over. Apparently carriers are under pressure to get everything delivered on time, but if the recipient requests it to not be delivered, it doesn't' count against them.
Yes I, and some of my neighbors, have also got that one. >:(
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My USPS Priority Mail packages seem to arrive a day, two or three late, but they arrive. No explanation for lateness of course.
It’s the Rona. That’s their excuse for 2020. Not sure what they’ll use next year.
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Nothing pisses me off more when I order something and says it will be delivered by UPS or FedEx, only to have them pass it off to USPS. That will always add a couple of extra days to the delivery. And all 3 services come to my neighborhood every day.
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Nothing pisses me off more when I order something and says it will be delivered by UPS or FedEx, only to have them pass it off to USPS. That will always add a couple of extra days to the delivery. And all 3 services come to my neighborhood every day.
That seems to be the trend if you want “free shipping.” So UPS ships it across the country to a distribution center within a few hundred miles, and III can track it up to that point.
Then they hand it off to the USPS and it is in limbo for as long as it takes for the USPS to get around to deliver it. I’ve started just paying for shipping to avoid that.
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That seems to be the trend if you want “free shipping.” So UPS ships it across the country to a distribution center within a few hundred miles, and III can track it up to that point.
Then they hand it off to the USPS and it is in limbo for as long as it takes for the USPS to get around to deliver it. I’ve started just paying for shipping to avoid that.
I've had it happen with paid shipping.
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My latest USPS nightmare. I sent a document 2-Day priority Monday, and it still hasn't arrived. Tracking says it is still in transit and has been delayed and will arrive late. They are absolute shit anymore.
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Last week, my wife sent a package to our son for their 25th anniversary. Sent it two day, took sevens days. Atlanta, GA to Concord, NC
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Last week, my wife sent a package to our son for their 25th anniversary. Sent it two day, took sevens days. Atlanta, GA to Concord, NC
The USPS is doing this shit on purpose.
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The USPS is doing this shit on purpose.
Why?
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Why?
There’s something on their site about not enough drivers because covid. I think it’s an excuse. Also maybe all the mail in ballots are messing things up maybe?
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Why?
Create more chaos and economic uncertainty.
And they HATE Trump.
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Maybe it’s a localized thing, but we’ve been getting stuff we order online (mostly from Amazon) generally on or before the estimated date. Today I got one package that was estimated for delivery yesterday, one that was estimated for Monday and one for next Wednesday. All via USPS. So two were days earlier and one slipped a day. We’re not that far (as the truck drives) from one of Amazon’s shipping centers in Denver, which may account for the better than average delivery times.
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No problems here on anything received or shipped.
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I sent a package (of dirt) to the University of Florida extension office for soil analysis. Fedex wanted around $22. UPS wanted $19. USPS wanted $4.50. I chose USPS. It got there in 2 days. I knew this because for that $4.50 I got a tracking number.
I received my aircraft re-registration card yesterday (Saturday, Oct 24). I ordered it on Tuesday, Oct 20 (over the internet) and it was sent out (postmarked) on Wednesday, Oct 21. So, 3 days from Oklahoma to Florida and delivered on a Saturday for $0.50.
The majority of people that complain about the Post Office getting rid of collection boxes and consolidating sorting centers are the people that do almost all of their correspondence over the internet and never even use those collection boxes or send much by snail mail anyway.
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Maybe it’s a localized thing, but we’ve been getting stuff we order online (mostly from Amazon) generally on or before the estimated date. Today I got one package that was estimated for delivery yesterday, one that was estimated for Monday and one for next Wednesday. All via USPS. So two were days earlier and one slipped a day. We’re not that far (as the truck drives) from one of Amazon’s shipping centers in Denver, which may account for the better than average delivery times.
I ordered something from Amazon on Sunday evening and it arrived Monday afternoon. Free shipping. I don't know how they do it.
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There’s something on their site about not enough drivers because covid. I think it’s an excuse. Also maybe all the mail in ballots are messing things up maybe?
I'm raising the bullshit flag on not enough drivers. People will fight for a postal service job.
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I'm raising the bullshit flag on not enough drivers. People will fight for a postal service job.
Especially since this kind of stuff was happening before covid.