4wd
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Where is my case of Klondike’s ?!?!?!
UPS rant
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I've learned when it says "Out For Delivery" just relax. It will get there that day. Don't pay too much attention to the time of delivery. Chances are it will change. And when it does it will be later, not sooner.
When I order a firearm from a distributor, I get E-Mailed a tracking number, and I know exactly to the minute when it is delivered to my FFL. It even shows the last name of who signed for it.
I've found that these type of business address deliveries are more prompt and exact. And are almost always on time. At least around here that's the way the ball bounces. Sometimes too much information isn't always an advantage. It just makes you over anxious and worry more.
When I order a firearm from a distributor, I get E-Mailed a tracking number, and I know exactly to the minute when it is delivered to my FFL. It even shows the last name of who signed for it.
I've found that these type of business address deliveries are more prompt and exact. And are almost always on time. At least around here that's the way the ball bounces. Sometimes too much information isn't always an advantage. It just makes you over anxious and worry more.
Having OCD about a package delivery!
So....no idea if this was the case but the morning loaders can make or break a driver. If your first deliveries are buried in the truck, it's a nightmare.
I've personally watched my driver during the holidays dig through a truck that's still ~50% full at 6pm trying to find packages for me. One is up high on the right, one is down low on the left, another is at the very front, etc.
The handheld tells them they have X number of packages for a given address, but finding those packages in a truck is another story. And remember some may be small envelopes and some may be large boxes.
I've personally watched my driver during the holidays dig through a truck that's still ~50% full at 6pm trying to find packages for me. One is up high on the right, one is down low on the left, another is at the very front, etc.
The handheld tells them they have X number of packages for a given address, but finding those packages in a truck is another story. And remember some may be small envelopes and some may be large boxes.
The postal service makes UPS look like seal team six. I can’t complain about UPS when my USPS orders cross the country three times before they arrive, if they even get to me at all.
So did it arrive?
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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I agree with that one!
Day 1: receipt scan
Day 2: item is in transit
Day 3: item is in transit
Day 4: item is in transit
Day 5: item inexplicably scanned again at ORIGIN facility
Day 6: item is in transit
and so on
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
NOT surprised. I had the same exact thing happen with two orders with USPS.
Shipper got my order shipped asap in less than 24 hrs of placing order. They then seemed to fall into
the USPS quicksand trap. Both orders from same place in about 6 mo period.
Day 1: receipt scan
Day 2: item is in transit
Day 3: item is in transit
Day 4: item is 15 mi from my home! Yeah!
Day 5: item is being shipped from 15 mi from home to New Jersey which is 1200 to 1300 mi away!?
Day 6: item is in transit
Day 7: item is in transit
Day 8: item is still on its way to New Jersey - Arrived late that night
Day 9: item is being shipped back from New Jersey which is 1200 to 1300 mi away.
Day 10: item is in transit
Day 11: item is in transit
Day 12: item is in transit - arrived late after round trip across USA..... WHY? TWICE?
Most folks today would commit suicide if they had to travel back 30 years ago and live. No cell phones widespread, pagers....payphones.....mail order...check by mail....
Wow....today we have a given day and aprx time of arrival of something we just ordered 5 minutes ago.......and some complain.
Cant wait for Jesus.
Wow....today we have a given day and aprx time of arrival of something we just ordered 5 minutes ago.......and some complain.
Cant wait for Jesus.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
DELETE
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
While in high school dang pager would go off and Im having to look all over the road for a WORKING pay phone to call my mom.
If only we could go back. I wouldn’t say no.
AZjeff
$50 Site Donor 2023
We live in the times we live in, that was then, this is now. Old guys were saying the same thing 30 years ago. My simple mind looks at things like this simply, if something is agreed on or promised it should be delivered, nothing more or less. If i'm told my prescription will be ready at 2 pm then it should be. If I'm told the parts I ordered at NAPA will be there tomorrow then they should be. If UPS says a package will be delivered Thursday by 5 pm it should be. Can't believe we make excuses because the truck loader mixed the truck up or we should just accept poor performance just because. Wonder how a 5% failure to deliver as promised stacks up in other industries? That's a UPS problem not mine. Do what you say you will whether you is UPS or your mechanic.
People have been waiting for Jesus for a while. Odds are you're going to go to him first! ;7)
I agree about not going back but UPS is on time 95+% of the time. Its pretty much the standard in shipping industrial parts for that reason. The other carrier is usually avoided.
Also if you actually read your shipping ticket and bill of lading for UPS its an estimate, not a promise. So the argument that they agreed to something is not quite accurate.
No one is perfect - except maybe the one previously mentioned. 95% sounds pretty good to me.
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I could live with that...but it is a set of $2300 reservoir shocks....patience is a virtue I guess. today I will chase the truck down when he gets close.....pretty sure he has a girlfriend in the next neighborhood over as it seem to be over there a lot.
a day late..but all in one piece....lucky Bilstein does a superb job of packing there $2300 shocks as came in 5 packages and one looked like it might have been air dropped from 10,000 feet.
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funny, I remember ordering from JC whitney in the early 70's...send a paper from with a check then wait with up to a month...also remember COD that was great as you did not have to wait for the check to clear but you needed exact cash lol...I admit I am spoiled...
4wd
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Good news is they’d have melted in his truck
Ugh, I definitely echo and empathize with this.
I sent off an oil analysis sample to Oil Analyzers / Polaris the morning of April 7 and it just finally got there today, April 17. It took multiple days before USPS tracking even showed up (never even saw the initial source location on tracking), and then it ping-ponged between Indianapolis and Lebanon, IN. My previous sample did the same.
It seems that USPS likes for packages to take the scenic route.
UPS is far from perfect, but it's better enough that today I bought the pre-paid UPS labeled Oil Analyzers kits from Amsoil for my next few rounds of oil analysis. Maybe they'll only take 7 days instead of 10!
