Rant on shipping

[sd455dan]

I thought I would save money on a tire studding tool by ordering from alibaba with express Air shipping, took a month and DHL handed off to USPS.
Package made it but the name was not even close to mine. Wife refused it.

DHL marked it as delivered and the supplier said DHL says delivered.

Had to quickly call local post office and have the package held.
Sure enough it was the correct package and because our local post office is very well run I didn't lose a couple hundred dollar tool.
It was pure luck because DHL does not have USPS tracking info when they hand the package off so there was no way to track it at that point.

Alibaba asked how the transaction went.
I told them that this transaction was enough to make it very unlikely to ever order through them again.

Amazon /shipping has been great to terrible lately.
TV died Thursday evening before the Superbowl. Looked at a few on amazon picked one on sale and at a good price and selected free prime delivery before 10 am Saturday.

Saturday at 9 am TV arrived.
Ordered a heavy duty extension cord, prime 2 day shipping 8 days ago and maybe tomorrow it will arrive.
No rhyme or reason,
I kid my granddaughter when FED EX messes up, since she works for them.

 

[Diggin It]

It's been quite a while since I've had any meds shipped from CVS. But when they did, they shipped regular USPS.

Can you specify who they use to ship you the meds?

Not that I saw. None of this is perishable or time sensitive. Cold meds, vitamins, allergy stuff, antacids, thermometer, waterpik, wrist BP gizmo, etc.

 

[Alan W.]

Friend of mine called me to say his package arrived that had been lost since July.
The box was in terrible shape. No one could tell him where it had been. It had been shipped UPS. Amazon had long since refunded his money so he got a freebie.

 

[oosik]

I had one problem in the 40+ years out here. A package had to be signed for. They would not come down the driveway to the house. Got a yellow slip - pkg was left at local PO. Picked it up two days later.

Now - pkgs are put in plastic garbage bag and hung on outer gate. I get an email indicating delivery. Works fine for me.

 

[goeduck]

I bought a Reelcraft retractable 12 AWG power cord reel that delivered yesterday. The box was beat up pretty bad but after opening it up I noticed very poor factory packaging that allowed the 44 lb. cord real to flop around in the box so I cannot blame the shipping company. The reel was undamaged, so I guess it was boxed well enough.

 

[Diggin It]

I dunno, I kinda thought the Delivery Instructions were simple .....

And yes, the gate was open, just as shown.

 

[Pixguy]

 

[JethroB]

This (below) is the best tracking info I have seen. It starts clearly with “Label Created”.
USPS and it is tractor related. A test set of flail mower blades from Flail Master for my Caroni.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Behind my mail box, I have a job box, 30X30x48. In reflective 4-inch letters It says, “PARCEL BOX”, and below that it is labeled “USPS-FEDEX-UPS”. And below that in 2-inch letters is “GATE CODE IS COMBO”

The delivery directions are leave in Parcel Box behind Mail Box. One UPS driver continually comes all the way up and leaves things on my porch.

 

[Doofy]

Behind my mail box, I have a job box, 30X30x48. In reflective 4-inch letters It says, “PARCEL BOX”, and below that it is labeled “USPS-FEDEX-UPS”. And below that in 2-inch letters is “GATE CODE IS COMBO”

The delivery directions are leave in Parcel Box behind Mail Box. One UPS driver continually comes all the way up and leaves things on my porch.

Reading comprehension should be a prerequisite for these delivery jobs.