Rant on shipping

[Doofy]

I have one med delivered by UPS. I wouldn't rely on the postal service to get it to me before it goes bad since it's packed in a cooler carton. UPS picks it up from the depot a couple states over and has it on my door step the next afternoon.

The one time my maintance drugs were mail order and shipped USPS, they would take 4 days at the earliest,, usually 6 to 7 days from two states over to get here. That shot would be bad by the time I received it.

And at $15,000 a dose....... who's gonna pay for another dose???

Insurance as well as the pharmacy would both tell me to get bent if I demanded another shot.

Sad that the USPS is so hard to deal with concerning lost, missing or damaged items. Easier to write it off than to try getting satisfaction from them. I wouldn't trust them delivering life saving Meds either.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sounds more like a problem on Amazon's part, not the USPS. They can't deliver what they don't have.

Both shipped by USPS.
What’s weird is 2nd one disappeared from Amazon orders, unless I search it, then it shows shipped by USPS.

 

[goeduck]

Medication by mail never worked well for me. I would rather go to a local drugster.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My insurance wants me to use mail order medicines, so they charge me more to pick it up from my local pharmacy. Costing me $21 month more right now. Bunch of people at work complained, so one of the managers took down people’s grievances with our health plan. Nothing changed this year, and that manager moved to a different company.

 

[Oaktree]

Medication by mail never worked well for me. I would rather go to a local drugster.

Same here.
The insurance I use has only 2 "preferred" pharmacies...their mail order or a supermarket chain, the nearest store of which is an hour's drive away. Since our doctor wrote all prescriptions for a 3 month supply, it's easy enough to combine mine and my wife's refills into one visit, make a day trip out of it. This particular supermarket is much nicer than anything nearby, so we do our "stock up" grocery run at the same time.

 

[mrmikey]

I use Costco pharmacy and they use Canada Post. I'm not a fan of Canada Post as a company other than our local delivery driver is great. I've not had a problem.......yet.........Mike

 

[Dftodd]

Medication by mail never worked well for me. I would rather go to a local drugster.

I had issues with my mail order meds. I was locked in to using certain pharmacy. Using another pharmacy more then 3 times and you got penalized for it.

Nearest pharmacy was 30 miles one way.

So I decided to try the mail order. Thats when the nightmare started. They started getting really goofy with their billing. After spending roughly 30 hrs on the phone, I got fed up, wrote them a check for what I owed them, not for what they said I owed, and told them good luck getting the rest.

They sent a sales rep into my wifes work for a sales pitch to try and get the nursing home she worked at to switch to them.

Wife handled all the pharmacy orders and billing. She stopped him mid way through his pitch in the morning meeting and asked who he was with.

As soon as he said the name of the company, my wife threw him out of the building She told him there was no way she was gonna deal with them. My husband just spent over 30hrs on the phone trying to get his meds straightened out and you still got it wrong. There is no way I'm gonna do that for 100 patients.

They have since opened a pharmacy locally. So any normal prescriptions and maintenance drugs get sent to them to fill.

I'm stuck using mail order for one drug since it has to come from the specialty pharmacy. So far they have been pretty decent and the couple times I have had issues, it was resolved pretty quickly.

I did have to get my companies HR manager involved when I went on the medication though. Everything was approved, but the bloody pharmacy wouldn't send me the medication. And nobody could explain why. After a couple days I lost my patience with them and got the HR manager involved.

HR manager put me in touch with the sales representative that managed the companies account. Which was a major account for them with over 30,000 people. Within a couple hrs they shipped the meds out.

 

[California]

Wow. Kaiser HMO here. Their emphasis is preventive medical care to reduce the need for treatment, and they're pretty good at it.

None of those pharmacy hassles. Walk downstairs from clinic to pharmacy and they are already preparing your order, your name appears on a message board in a few minutes. Pay $5~$10 deductible sometimes, and walk out. It's rare to be asked to pay retail for a prescription and their generic Iboprufin, allergy medicine, etc that is non prescription is inexpensive. Mailorder similar. Everything (in our experience) gets mailed out by their regional pharmacy by next day. What you pay to subscribe, covers all the BS so you never see an invoice.

Health care treatment likewise, usually a $10 fee as you check in for anything then never an invoice or discussion of cost.

Going into Kaiser can feel like the DMV but that's just the screening counter, the medical professionals are excellent.

I hope it isn't too political to say Kaiser has been looked at as a model for lower cost health care.

 

[Doofy]

My pharmacy by mail has $0 deductible. All other pharmacies charge me a $4 co-pay for a 90 day supply. Very Happy as some of my Scripps are very expensive.

 

[MossRoad]

Ordered a tire for my suburban. It showed up today. I guess i was expecting it in a box, but it was just a tire laying on the front steps with a label on it. Looked kinda funny. Too bad I didn't have an old couch out there for them to set it on.