Our USPS mail gets diverted to the Milwaukee hub, ever since they shut down our local distribution center.
Even if you mail or ship locally, it still goes to Milwaukee and then comes back for delivery.
Even if you mail or ship locally, it still goes to Milwaukee and then comes back for delivery.
I have seen things that come to Boston, then get sent to Nashua, back to Boston and finally here, 1.5 miles from the Boston city line.
I have also had things go to Newark NJ from Boston and then back - more often than not those just disappear.
It's sort of maddening, and I have had packages go missing for up to 4wks which the USPS informs me are lost, and then they sometimes still show up, and to the USPS they still show as lost. Sort of a crap shoot.
Strangely I have had things disappear at UPS as well particularly at Christmas. One was a rather rare parts cassette tape deck which was packed in an X-box package and had clearly been opened and stuffed back in the box. It showed up about 3 weeks after Christmas (about 6 weeks late) on my doorstep and the UPS driver literally ran away having dropped it off.
I choose the FedEx option when I have choice. Amazon's shipping has been very reliable as well.
I have also had things go to Newark NJ from Boston and then back - more often than not those just disappear.
It's sort of maddening, and I have had packages go missing for up to 4wks which the USPS informs me are lost, and then they sometimes still show up, and to the USPS they still show as lost. Sort of a crap shoot.
Strangely I have had things disappear at UPS as well particularly at Christmas. One was a rather rare parts cassette tape deck which was packed in an X-box package and had clearly been opened and stuffed back in the box. It showed up about 3 weeks after Christmas (about 6 weeks late) on my doorstep and the UPS driver literally ran away having dropped it off.
I choose the FedEx option when I have choice. Amazon's shipping has been very reliable as well.
Our mail comes from Pittsburgh even if it's mailed from across the street. The local post office can not sort mail.
I ordered some parts from Digikey on Thursday July 22. My last order went Fedex from DK to Memphis, then worked it's way back here so a two day delivery took 5 days. Fedex is notoriously unreliable here, so I decided to choose another option.
At checkout Fedex was not even a choice, so I chose USPS Priority Mail. They are usually two or three days from Digikey to here, and Saturday is a valid business day for them.
So Friday night at 10 PM the USPS has the box in Minnesota, and by 11:15 PM it's in the Grand Forks North Dakota distribution center. So far so good.....Then it goes off the radar screen for 3 days, then reappears in the Pittsburgh distribution center at 12:00 AM today. This is slower than usual, but the normal flow.
Somehow today at 4:28 PM the shipment was "received in Grand Forks. The acceptance of your package is pending." WTF?????
This kind of nonsense often precedes a rate increase.
I ordered some parts from Digikey on Thursday July 22. My last order went Fedex from DK to Memphis, then worked it's way back here so a two day delivery took 5 days. Fedex is notoriously unreliable here, so I decided to choose another option.
At checkout Fedex was not even a choice, so I chose USPS Priority Mail. They are usually two or three days from Digikey to here, and Saturday is a valid business day for them.
So Friday night at 10 PM the USPS has the box in Minnesota, and by 11:15 PM it's in the Grand Forks North Dakota distribution center. So far so good.....Then it goes off the radar screen for 3 days, then reappears in the Pittsburgh distribution center at 12:00 AM today. This is slower than usual, but the normal flow.
Somehow today at 4:28 PM the shipment was "received in Grand Forks. The acceptance of your package is pending." WTF?????
This kind of nonsense often precedes a rate increase.
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What you describe is usually the precursor to lost in my limited experience. Hopefully the outcome is better.
Amazon deliveries here come either USPS or UPS. Since a private Amazon delivery driver here got mauled by a Pit Bull a couple years ago Amazon stopped private delivery in this area.
The mail girl comes to my mailbox every morning except Sunday. I ship all my boards by USPS and in 16 years, two have been lost on domestic soil and two destroyed by a mail munching machine, both in the PNW near SeaTac.
UPS will not drive down the dirt road to our place in bad weather, neither will Fedex. The definition of bad weather depends on the driver. Neither has tossed a TV set over the fence, but there is no fence. A female Fedex driver pushed a snow blower out of the back of the truck with her legs letting it fall to the driveway. The box was bashed up, but the machine was fine.
A UPS driver attempted to carry a 90 pound HP RF signal generator up the stairs to our front porch, losing his grip and dropping it to the concrete. At this point he gets back in the truck and vanishes. I stuck the package in my van and drove it unopened to the UPS distribution center near here. It needed a new display which cost me $125. UPS said that it was "inadequately packaged" and refused my claim.
In both cases I had a hand truck on the driveway in plain sight with a large note stating to please ring the doorbell and I would fetch the box from their truck. Usually both Fedex and UPS will do this.
When the USPS gets a big box for me the mail girl tells me to go fetch it from the post office. She delivers mail in a Honda CRV, the back of which is usually full of Amazon boxes.
The DK box contains some hard to get rotary encoders which have been on back order for over 6 months. If they do get lost they will probably be out of stock again before I can reorder them. The CPU and Codec chips have been on back order for almost a year, so this project may never happen.
In a "miracle" of USPS efficiency the package was placed in a transporter borrowed from Star Trek and beamed directly into the local post office bypassing the distribution center entirely. It is now "out for delivery."
In reality, the arrival scan in Grand Forks was in error, or more likely delayed from the original shipment received date sometime Friday night.
I will believe it when the box appears in my mailbox.
In reality, the arrival scan in Grand Forks was in error, or more likely delayed from the original shipment received date sometime Friday night.
I will believe it when the box appears in my mailbox.
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Be glad you aren't dealing with Canada Post. My wife mailed a few homemade masks from the US and they made it to Canada and sat for nearly year (to the day) before showing up with a "sorry" note. Everything we send there is hit or miss.
I have one that I figure is going "space available".
It took two days from the time it hit a distribution center until it left. It left two days ago and does not show arriving anywhere. I suspect it will either go to Memphis or Knoxville next. Knoxville in normally the last stop before Johnson City.
It took two days from the time it hit a distribution center until it left. It left two days ago and does not show arriving anywhere. I suspect it will either go to Memphis or Knoxville next. Knoxville in normally the last stop before Johnson City.
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I remember when ups delivered an air compressor to our house years ago, damn thing made it all the way from China and then met it’s demise right there in our driveway, assumably from having been dropped onto the concrete from the back of the truck. The freshly oil saturated box was a forensic clue.
I have seen things rerouted before when it didn’t appear to make sense, recently.
I have seen things rerouted before when it didn’t appear to make sense, recently.
I have had critical items for work get jacked up like that. If you ever want to see a bunch of desperate people, try the ups hub at the last time for pickup on Friday night. Last I was there a woman was sobbing in the lobby and there were several other despondent people waiting for the chance to hear some important package did not arrive.
