Rant on shipping

[dragoneggs]

Ranking my top 10 delivery services as of late...

1. UPS
2. FEDEX
10. USPS

 

[Jstpssng]

I was on the Staples website today looking for a new printer. Of course they didn't have anything I was interested in, but one did fit the bill and "Order within 5 hours, 38 minutes and it will be delivered to your house Monday." I placed the order and moved on to other things. Toniight I opened my confirmation email and discovered that as soon as I'd placed my order, the date was pushed back to next Friday. Of course it's too late to easily cancel the order...meaning that I will still need to drive 90 miles to work for any color prints next week.

 

[user.69169]

Want delivery entertainment come to W NYState and watch Post Office. Dey hired too many SWIFT drivers so now der is rule can't back up more den 50 feet in Buffalo region. Little Grumman vans pulling U turns everyplace because driver dumb enough to believe data logger in his hand hooked into truck and reports every time he goes in reverse. Lot of people been getting packages to de door for 50 years now gotta go to PO to pick up package. Gotta have turnaround in Blacktop or concrete driveway or turnaround approved by postmaster slug or pick up your own mail.
Just somethin else don't work no more in America.. Glad I'm old.

 

[MF243RedTop]

Ranking my top 10 delivery services as of late...

1. UPS
2. FEDEX
10. USPS

UPS and FedEx are about equal here.

BUT

Had a package delivered by USPS to my home.
They pulled up the drive and left it on the back of my boat under open shelter .. no problem..
Went out to get the package and they left my standard mail on boat with it.. Not acceptable!
I have a mailbox, the mail goes in it!
Just laziness I guess..

 

[Dftodd]

UPS and FedEx are about equal here.

BUT

Had a package delivered by USPS to my home.
They pulled up the drive and left it on the back of my boat under open shelter .. no problem..
Went out to get the package and they left my standard mail on boat with it.. Not acceptable!
I have a mailbox, the mail goes in it!
Just laziness I guess..

They usually leave both together when dropping packages at my house. They place the package on the letters to keep the from blowing away.

 

[LouNY]

UPS and FedEx are about equal here.

BUT

Had a package delivered by USPS to my home.
They pulled up the drive and left it on the back of my boat under open shelter .. no problem..
Went out to get the package and they left my standard mail on boat with it.. Not acceptable!
I have a mailbox, the mail goes in it!
Just laziness I guess..

They usually do the same here,
and I appreciate it.
My mailbox is 1/4 mile from the house.

 

[ultrarunner]

Last year I spent several thousand dollars with Northern before Christmas... some for work but most for Christmas gifts...

Several Christmas gifts arrived after New Years which meant I had to pay to forward them...

Not acceptable... especially when ordered in November with December 10th ship...

I sent email to Northern saying cancel if not able to arrive for Christmas...

Have not ordered anything since and let the vouchers expire...

The idea was to use them to buy more but they are issued after order ships... so post Christmas ship means too late to use...

 

[Diggin It]

Ordered some yard lights from the Blue box store. $35 total - 'free shipping'. Placed the order on Monday, the 7th. Got the ship notice a few hours ago, 5 days later. Then I get a FedEx notice that the delivery is scheduled for Sunday. I understand they get significant discounts, but it still has to be costing them at least half of what I paid.

 

[Oaktree]

Ordered some yard lights from the Blue box store. $35 total - 'free shipping'. Placed the order on Monday, the 7th. Got the ship notice a few hours ago, 5 days later. Then I get a FedEx notice that the delivery is scheduled for Sunday. I understand they get significant discounts, but it still has to be costing them at least half of what I paid.

I get that a lot of stuff isn't so important that it's gotta be delivered on Sunday, but the delivery services are being swamped this year, way more than normal. Not likely they'd be able to deliver everything M-F.

I've been seeing a lot of ads past few days by UPS looking for temp workers to deliver using their own vehicles...$20/hr, plus 57.5¢/mi. and a cell phone stipend per day (not sure what that's about). Don't think I've ever seen that before.

 

[Howling]

All the carriers are swamped this year. FedEx and UPS did holiday rate increases this year and are putting shipping limits on some customers. My FedEx rates jumped up late November.

They all are scrambling for equipment and people. Saturday delivers used to be an extra charge. Now they are delivering 7 days a week to get the most out of trucks and available people. I have seen both FedEx and UPS locally running rental trucks this year. Had a UPS delivery from a personal car at beginning of the month.

Amazon building out their own network rapidly. But is still shifting some packages back to USPS because they are only carrier not allow to limit shipping.

My local mail carrier retired at end of November. They pushed him to stay through holidays. But he knew better and left before the crazy.

 

[Rebeldad1]

UPS and FedEx are about equal here.

BUT

Had a package delivered by USPS to my home.
They pulled up the drive and left it on the back of my boat under open shelter .. no problem..
Went out to get the package and they left my standard mail on boat with it.. Not acceptable!
I have a mailbox, the mail goes in it!
Just laziness I guess..

We get USPS packages delivered to our door also and he gives us our mail as well. Dont find that lazy just being courteous. Saves us a 1/2 mile trip to the mailbox.
We have UPS ans FEDEX. Both are doing the best they can in uncertain times. Both fdrivers went from getting home from work around 6pm to after 10pm most days.

 

[PILOON]

I've had my share of UPS problems.
From tracked parcels showing' out for delivery' 6 days in a row to 'improperly packaged' (but they complimented me on my skills when I drove 30 miles to the depot).
Latest is to hang a parcel on my garbage box hoping I'd find it B4 a thief did.

Post office is no hassle. I signed a waiver so the postie can sign for registered on my behalf.
Heck she even sends me a Xmas card! (LOL, I always gift her at Xmas)

FedX does OK by me, heck once he got stuck so I pulled him with my CUT and next day had a nice gift as a thank you.

UPS seems to sub contract to local small outfits a lot and they are unpredictable. Leave a card for me to pick up 20 miles away only to find the package is not there yet.
Note I have a waiver signed at my door just to avoid those problems.
Guess he can't read.

 

[MF243RedTop]

We get USPS packages delivered to our door also and he gives us our mail as well. Dont find that lazy just being courteous. Saves us a 1/2 mile trip to the mailbox.
We have UPS ans FEDEX. Both are doing the best they can in uncertain times. Both fdrivers went from getting home from work around 6pm to after 10pm most days.

Yes I understand the gesture and that's great.
But to come home and find your mail scattered across the yard or rained soaked from a thunderstorm.. would be a XXXX moment. Especially if it was important documents or something like that. One side of my yard borders a large open field off to the west, northwest.
Which is the direction of the majority of thunderstorms that blow in. The wind rips across it towards my house and shelters ..

 

[user.69169]

Got de Informed Delivery thing from de Post Office. Like Postmistress said a few years back "amazing what we can accomplish wid a barely literate work force". Like dey say, if it fits it ships. Not even God knows where it winds up but it did ship.

If you miss de Memo, FedEx, UPS & Post Office all in bed together, dey hold package tradeoff at rural locations to save duplicating miles traveled. Drivers all Union members and don't none give a d a m.

 

[Oaktree]

We have UPS ans FEDEX. Both are doing the best they can in uncertain times. Both fdrivers went from getting home from work around 6pm to after 10pm most days.

I hope they get paid by the hour. At least around here those drivers put in rather long days this time of year even before covid.

UPS seems to sub contract to local small outfits a lot and they are unpredictable. Leave a card for me to pick up 20 miles away only to find the package is not there yet.
Note I have a waiver signed at my door just to avoid those problems.
Guess he can't read.

To be fair, those services are straight out right now, and I'm sure a lot of these temps are only minimally trained (with tight deadlines).

But to come home and find your mail scattered across the yard or rained soaked from a thunderstorm.. would be a XXXX moment. Especially if it was important documents or something like that. One side of my yard borders a large open field off to the west, northwest.
Which is the direction of the majority of thunderstorms that blow in. The wind rips across it towards my house and shelters ..

Can't say I've ever had that happen. USPS has always put any mail inside my porch when it didn't fit in the mailbox, UPS and Fedex have always done the same. Maybe you need an obvious safe place for them to put it.

 

[MF243RedTop]

Can't say I've ever had that happen. USPS has always put any mail inside my porch when it didn't fit in the mailbox, UPS and Fedex have always done the same. Maybe you need an obvious safe place for them to put it.

They can leave it in my mailbox :thumbsup:
The mail was ordinary size, just left it on my boat with a package under the edge of a open shelter.

 

[user.69169]

They can leave it in my mailbox :thumbsup:
The mail was ordinary size, just left it on my boat with a package under the edge of a open shelter.

You should most definitely email your Postmaster telling him bout de terrible service yer carrier performed.
After you hit SEND kick back and ponder how many miles & hours you gonna spend getting your packages from PostOffice. Guarantee carriers gonna put you on list of Special Customers. Probably share wid UPS & FedEx guys too.

 

[Oaktree]

You should most definitely email your Postmaster telling him bout de terrible service yer carrier performed.
After you hit SEND kick back and ponder how many miles & hours you gonna spend getting your packages from PostOffice. Guarantee carriers gonna put you on list of Special Customers. Probably share wid UPS & FedEx guys too.

I doubt that they'd share it with the competition, but I have found the USPS quite responsive the few times I've needed to complain about something. Quite a change from maybe 30 years ago.

 

[fried1765]

I am waiting for a small USPS package shipped from Sandston, VA on Dec. 5th.
Tomorrow will be 10 days, and tracking still shows enroute.
Shipping distance is 649 miles.

If the package did actually arrive tomorrow, that would equal 65 miles per day.
I believe that the pony express could have done better!

 

[Frankenkubota]

I'm still fighting amazon for the $150 refund and the $50 return shipping they forced me to pay. I've resorted to hand written, no spell check letters. First 2, return to sender, address unknown. (that was a good song). So far, 6 months.

I am happy to say that, after 6 months, i won my credit card dispute with barclays. I disputed a $40 charge that morphed into a $350 bill with the fees and interest. Every time I responded that i would never, in my life, pay those fees etc.

Nothing was happening and the fees just kept growing. I took 2 hits on my credit rating so my insurance rates are going up. Try to straighten that out!

Went to some gov web site, filled in some forms, all the sudden, all is forgotten, alls well.

They are ****** and if you don't stand up to them they will crank you just as hard as you let them. I probably spent thousands of dollars of my time, energy, emotion etc. It would have been much easier to just pay the $40

F. them, come and get it!

Now, i gotta go beat up amazon. Amazing, i have friends, male friends that almost worship amazon.