Midway magazine shipping disappointment

[Cousin Vinnie]

I ordered some magazines and a barrel from Midway and paid for UPS delivery. I was expecting delivery today and when UPS didn't arrive, I checked my tracking number and found that my packages were shipped UPS than delivered to a post office for final delivery. My problem is that the post office they were delivered to is over 100 miles away! Who knows now when I will receive my products. Wondering if anyone else has had this problem with Midway shipping and a sloooooow delivery and having the PO do final delivery?
Disappointing to say the least!

PS; they were M&P Magazines is why I posted here.

 

[N4KVE]

It's got nothing to do with Midway. The Post Office, UPS, & Fedex all have contracts with each other. Your shipment can start with one company, & end with another in today's cost cutting economy. I know many of the regular postal employees in my area who have high salaries & benefits are being retired early, & being replaced with new hires at a much lower rate of pay, & no benefits. I'm sure UPS & Fedex are doing the same thing. So to cut costs, they are intertwining their delivery process if it saves money. GARY

 

[SmurfHunter]

Depends what shipping type you picked.

 

[Gyrene6891]

When UPS gives over to the post office is dependent on where the local distribution center is locate with respect to a postal center. They will not take it to your address if it is more effecient to delover to a distribution center 100 miles away. Reality is by the time you read most of these answers you will probably have the product and already be at the range with them.

 

[catcus-jack]

Some people would complain if you hung them with a new rope.

 

[sstewart]

In defense of Cousin Vinny, I too was disappointed with Midway on the shipping on my 1st order. Because I didn't understand their std. shipping method was this UPS/USPS hybrid. I thought it was UPS ground.

I also think that having your order go to shipped status (on Friday or Saturday), doesn't mean that it has left the building, is a little misleading. Since they don't leave until Monday early AM. Just IMO.

Really Midway is just being fine lined on these steps with their computer system. I am not criticizing.

PS you can upgrade the std shipping to UPS ground for $3.50 after it has shipped, but before USPS gets it.

 

[jag22]

Been discussed before, UPS isn't effective at driving around neighborhoods looking for your house. USPS is, they do it 6 days a week. So Christmas comes a day or two late, you're supposed to be an adult, deal with it.

 

[Penmon]

At work we use Priority Mail as a main form of delivery.
We find them to be nearly as quick as Fed Ex, I would expect that you will have the package tomorow unless you live on the dark side of the moon.

 

[bmyers]

My orders come quickly from Midway using the USP/USPS service.

As other posters have noted, this is very common practice. It started in rural areas because for UPS/FEDEX and other services it is not profitable for them to deliver there. So contracts were started to cover rural areas. As they have found more need for cost saving measures, more agreements have been reached which now covers everywhere.

In addition, the USPS has started offering tracking similar to UPS to allow packages to be followed more closely. Postal carriers are starting to have to carry scanners with them hooked to cell phones that upload the scans every 15 minutes allowing more timely package tracking (similar to UPS).

 

[Dino1]

Took me 6 months to get mags from S&W for my Shield, and 7 months to get 22 round mags from Glock for my .40 Carbine. Times are tough for gun owners wanting hard to find items. And a 25 round mag showed up the other day for my 15-22 that I totally forgot I ordered.

 

[dullh]

I don't like the fact that private carriers feel the need to keep the USPS afloat. The USPS will always be around without private help; the gubment will just throw money at it for one reason - it's a huge jobs program for minorities, therefore it can not be allowed to fail.

Now that the non sequitur rant is done, I jumped into the frenzy as well and ordered two mags from Midway. It was the first and so far the only availability tip I got from this forum that actually paid off. They showed up at my PO Box on time. No trouble here. Yours is seemingly an isolated incident. Hope you can recover your mags, because who knows when they'll be widely available again.

At least you didn't order from Optics Planet...I ordered an in stock holster from them 15 days ago and they still have not shipped it. Two calls, two runarounds...I'm calling them back tomorrow to cancel the order and get my money back.

 

[JGH]

This type of shipping is called Mail Innovations. I just had an issue with them myself today. I live about 90 miles from Midway...and ordered last Wednesday. I received my package this evening in the mail box. Way to long if you ask me for being somewhat local.

I spoke with a Customer Service Rep at Midway today about this and she informed me that they are having alot of VERY slow deliveries with this method and are getting tons of complaints. It was explained to me that the issue is with UPS handing off the package to USPS. It seems UPS doesn't put much priority in making the hand off and as such, it delays things a great deal.

Some local deliveries using this delivery service (Mail Innovations, or MI) are taking over 10 days to deliver. If an order goes past 10 days before delivery, Midway will ship a new order out to you and they will deal with tracking down the previous order. The tracking # provided for this type of service seldom works...so says the Rep at Midway...so the customer may not be able to track their order being delivered either.

Moral of the story...if none of the above appeals to you (it sure doesn't to me) make sure to designate UPS Ground or any of the other choices given for delivery. Midway is getting VERY low rates for using this service and as such, we customers who are looking for money savings...usually pick the less expensive way. In my mind...this type of service is counter productive as it multiplies the number of hands your package goes through, etc... Regular ole UPS Ground or faster for me from now on.

 

[shawn mccarver]

I ordered some magazines and a barrel from Midway and paid for UPS delivery. I was expecting delivery today and when UPS didn't arrive, I checked my tracking number and found that my packages were shipped UPS than delivered to a post office for final delivery. My problem is that the post office they were delivered to is over 100 miles away! Who knows now when I will receive my products. Wondering if anyone else has had this problem with Midway shipping and a sloooooow delivery and having the PO do final delivery?
Disappointing to say the least!

PS; they were M&P Magazines is why I posted here.

When you order from Midway USA, this shipping method, called UPS Mail Innovations, is one of the shipping options the buyer selects when completing the order. Just like Amazon, the ordering process lets you ship almost any way you want, and rates for each method are calculated for you, so you can change it before you finalize if you want.

 

[rwsmith]

No problems so far...

When I place an order, the method is spelled out. Usually it's a UPS,USPS or similar combination. My vendors ship out items when they get them. Also regardless of type of delivery, the packages make their way down the line and I get what I ordered in about a week. When the packages get to my town, it's usually 1-2 days at the most for delivery.

 

[MPFan40]

I had 9mm 17 round mags on order from S&W since May of this year. Midway has been the only vendor I have found that has had the factory mags in stock, at a decent price, and actually delivered my order. Yes it took a couple of days longer using the ups/post office hybrid, but it was a whole lot better than not knowing when S&W was going to ship, After midway delivered the first two, I cancelled the S&W order, which was about $8 more per mag, and shipping was more expensive. My hat is off to midway in providing a break in the S&W magazine drought, without extorting their customers, like a different vendor recently did at $100 per mag.
I bought my m&p conversion barrels from them, and they shipped quickly, and were priced right. I recommend Midway based on my experience with them.

 

[JPaul85]

Mine came UPS/USPS today... They were sitting in my mailbox when I got home from work, Two days earlier than I was quoted.

 

[Rastoff]

When you selected the delivery option, did they guarantee a delivery speed?

 

[Robotech]

UPS has dropped off my last three shipments at three different post offices...

The first went to my local post office, and I received it the next day.

The second went to another nearby office, and it took three more days for delivery, because it still had to get to my local post office.

This last time it was "possibly" at a post office in Ohio. That was 5-days ago, with another tracking entry saying it made it to yet another point here in Michigan the same day, but still not my local branch. 8-days in transit so far... And no discernible pattern as to how UPS decides to turn packages over to the USPS for final delivery.

My best guess is that the packages just get tossed on a truck heading in the right general direction, to be dropped off at whatever post office is convienient.

 

[TahoeDust]

I am also waiting on an order from Midway and was just telling someone today it seams like it is taking longer than it should. I don't blame Midway, I blame myself for not know what UPS Mail Innovation shipping was. Next time if their is any sense of urgency I will choose another method.

My other complaint is the ridiculous number of emails I have gotten from Midway sense I ordered from them. They have been blowing up my inbox.

 

[Gyrene6891]

Since we have been waiting this long to get 9MM mags surely a couple more days is no great shakes in the whole scheme of things. Look how long we have been waiting to have a steady flow of ammo...