UPS USPS total blunder.

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I ordered some mower parts from Amazon that were sent using UPS/USPS shipping. The parts were supposed to arrive today. I got a notice that my shipment had a glitch but might still make it on time delivery.
So I checked tracking and it showed UPS delivered package to Houston USPS main facility and that it was out for delivery. Now comes the glitch. I haven't moved to IL but that's where the package was delivered from Houston USPS. LOL That's only maybe 1000 miles off track.
I seriously doubt my package will get delivered to me today from IL unless USPS sends it by overnight air delivery.

I am glad I wasn't in any dire need for the parts today.
 
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That must have been using the super duper econo shipping. Noticed the other day that Amazon was listing some different shipping options. As you know if you have Amazon Prime
you automatically get 2 day and if it is late, I call CS and complain loudly, they will give you a $10-15 credit
 
Yep, I just got informed of an Amazon prime being "returned to shipper due to shipping issue"???
Will be reshipped or refunded.
In other words, it's been lost or stolen.
As long as they know that and correct that I'm OK assuming I didn't need it when promised.
This Amazon 2 day free shipping thing has some caveats.
And it was turned over to the USPS
 
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I have had packages take a trip across the country before return backing to its destination....


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I often wonder how anything is delivered correctly. One day I mailed 2 checks, each to a different area. Both were lost... NEVER happened back East. Recently, the carrier routes were changed. Our mail used to arrive mid-morning; now it arrives between 3 and 4PM. All because someone 'upstairs' had a eraser on their pencil. The new carrier(s) are either unsure of the new routes or angry or both. I vote for both.

There are some 2.2 million people living in our valley. The G.P.O. on Sunset has 2 clerks on duty. Two. You can't make this stuff up.

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I made a purchase from a company in Texas recently that was shipped using UPS "mail innovations". It went from Texas to a postal processing facility in middle Tennessee via UPS. In so doing it passed within 10 miles of my home in central Arkansas. It was then transported by USPS back to Little Rock. This "mail innovation" added probably 300-400 miles of transportation and absolutely added 5 days to the delivery delay.
 
If it's a straight up "UPS only" or a "FedEx only" delivery, I've had pretty good luck. Since Amazon went to the "last mile delivery" where UPS/FedEx delivers to the main post office and USPS delivers the package to the home, it's really been hit and miss.

It's one of those things that sounds like it should work great in theory, but in actual practice, not so much.
 
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Update: The package actually was delivered Saturday. The package supposedly went from KY to Houston to IL then back to Houston then delivered to me. Long way around but it did get here when it was supposed to.
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I live 100 miles from Midway. It used to be if I ordered anything before 2 PM it would be delivered the next day by UPS. Now they use the UPS to USPS, and it has taken as long as 8 days to get here. I often add a large item (bag of shotgun wads) to make the package too large and it will come UPS all the way.
 
Midway orders shipped ups and usps goes through Georgia , Montgomery and Birmingham . Last Nov. package disappeared when it reached Huntsville USPS and finally delivered end of Jan . very dirty and crushed. Had another leave Montgomery and shipped to Tulsa and back . But it happens, when a rookie driver I picked a load in Michigan and was headed to Columbus OH when read address again was Columbus IN .
 
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I ordered some plumbing parts from a company in Florida, and paid for second-day air via UPS. I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, so it should have been an easy ship for UPS since they have a major base at DFW Airport. After three days, they hadn't arrived. I contacted the seller, and they forwarded the tracking number, so I was able to watch the bizarre progression of my package. It had been shipped the day of my order, and went immediately to Alabama (?). Then it went straight to Los Angeles. Apparently UPS couldn't find the small, out-of-the-way, and rarely used DFW Airport :rolleyes:. From there, it bounced around in not one, not two, but three different UPS facilities in LA. Finally, over a week after it was shipped, it was delivered. I checked the address label, and it was perfectly correct. The shipper refunded my second day air fee, and the parts fit perfectly in my oddball Kohler toilet, so it all worked out, but how it happened with the correct address firmly attached to the package will continue to be a mystery.

That said, I have to admit that I get excellent service from UPS on my ammo shipments from SG Ammo. Despite the fact they are shipped by ground, they always show up on my porch 24 to 48 hours after ordering.
 
Couple years ago I bought myself a Nikon SLR for Christmas. Best price at the time was from Target, so I ordered it and a couple of accessories. The camera shipped from one distribution center and the accessories from another. camera showed up in 4 days. Acc package shows it is at the local UPS waiting to be picked up by USPS. After 8 days of waiting I called Target and told them the story. they resent the merchandise, this time with no glitches. March 17 the following year the original package shows up, no worse for the wear; with the original shipping date of Dec 11 on the label. Who knows where it had been?!:confused:
 
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Some years ago I ordered a K31 Swiss rifle from a gentleman in Pittstburgh, the other side of Pa. Loved having that C&R. Rifle showed up FedEx next day. Liked it so much I ordered another K31 from the same guy. Now it gets good.

For 2 days the FedEx guy drove right past the house, I watched go by. Called FedEx, they said my package had never actually left Pittsburgh even though tracking said it was in Lancaster.

Called next day, now package with mistakenly routed to upstate NY near the Canadian border- they thought. :mad:

Called next day- package was in a FedEx trailer that caught fire and burned to the ground on the Turnpike 3 days ago- probably.:(

Called the next day- they weren't sure of anything at that point. Told them AGAIN that they had lost a rifle, and told them I was contacting ATF.

Next day, sitting on the sofa, THUMP on the porch. You guessed it, 1 each rifle. I called FedEx to say thank you. They had no idea how it got there, they were still looking for it. I called the seller in Pittsburgh, he had a whole garage full or these guns, said he was using UPS from now on. :p
 
Sometimes a late delivery is a good thing.............

My wife called about her order of super duper hair supplies that she had ordered, not showing up and they sent out another order which she received in five days.

A week later, guess what showed up at the door !! :eek:
 
the bar code reader misread the packages bar code and sent it
to where the bar code it read ..

I worked in a big parts plant for a few years and it happened there all
the time .. a grease smear or even just a wrinkle in the packaging can cause it ..

Its the result of laying off people and having machines do what was their jobs !!
 
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