The local drivers in my area are great. Love every single one of them.
Their keyboard drones, yeah i cant say enough bad about them even if i lived for a millennia.
They all either need to be taken out and flinced, keel hauled, screaming bull, or used in Saw movies.
Their keyboard drones, yeah i cant say enough bad about them even if i lived for a millennia.
They all either need to be taken out and flinced, keel hauled, screaming bull, or used in Saw movies.
The instant that happens (well, give it a couple months), service will go to complete $#1+ and you’ll be right back where we started. You might make a lot of money with that strategy, if you don’t get too greedy and know when to get out.
UPS has a delivery hub about 10 miles from here. It does have restricted "open to the public" hours for a reason. The same facility is the distribution hub for eastern Ohio the northern panhandle of West Virginia and south west Pennsylvania. The place is closed to the public during the time the brown trucks are using the same access roads. I haven't been there in some time, but they used to have Saturday hours. I didn't choose UPS for my Digikey order since they typically get here between 7 and 9 PM while Fedex usually delivers before lunch. I had my experiments all ready to go on the scheduled delivery date, just solder in the chips and hit the go or blow button. The USPS delivers in the morning, but their routing takes one to two extra days. UPS does have a place where I can talk to a real human face to face.
Here in rural West Virginia Amazon uses the USPS and UPS for delivery. There are no Amazon Logistics drivers here.
The tracking now shows my Fedex package as "out for delivery." It has shown this before, but the delivery was rescheduled due to "dangerous weather." They called a mildly cold and rainy day "dangerous" on Saturday. Yesterday our church cancelled Sunday service because their parking lot was solid ice, and an unexpected snowstorm was approaching. The snow began about 10 AM and continued ALL DAY LONG. There is now about 3 inches on my driveway and a frozen mess of snow, frozen mud and ice on the lawn. The NWS has just dropped a real "Hazardous Weather Alert" on us. I haven't ventured outside yet to see how bad it is, but the winds are usually calm until after sunup. High temp for the day is expected to be 13 F with 15 to 20 MPH winds. What will Fedex do?
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There are still two entries associated with my tracking number. One still shows the misdelivery with a picture of my package sitting at a house that I do not recognize. Fedex still insists that I look for the package, so I walked most of our dirt road and none of the houses match the one in the picture. The other has shown "out for delivery" every day including today, but nothing shows up.
Today I get an email titled "Tell us about your recently closed FedEx support ticket C-177378971 experience." Since they closed my complaint without resolving anything, and I still don't have my parts, I wasn't very positive in my responses on the survey. WTF is up with that place?
Today I get an email titled "Tell us about your recently closed FedEx support ticket C-177378971 experience." Since they closed my complaint without resolving anything, and I still don't have my parts, I wasn't very positive in my responses on the survey. WTF is up with that place?
That sucks.
Amazon's logistics amazes me.
For Christmas they actually rent U-Haul trucks to make their deliveries.
They'll deliver your package to Florida.
When we reached 15 degrees, saw the sun come out and realized that it was the warmest that it will get until Thursday afternoon, we left for a grocery stock up, Aldi, Walmart and Kroger, then took the new Hyundai through the car wash. When we returned there was a box from Digikey on my front porch. There was no "delivered" email, picture, or text like there was for the wrong delivery. Weather forecast calls for a high of 13 F with rain (neat trick) tomorrow so I might be busy outside some, but otherwise I should find myself trying to hand solder some tiny SMD stuff.
One of the FB guys saves his big Amazon Prime boxes and puts the stuff he can't recycle in them. The porch-bandits in his area do the recycling.
Over the past few years we have had surprisingly little problem with porch pirates, but I make sure to be around for anything really valuable and to ask for signature required for delivery of high value items so that they cannot be left in my absence. (The USPS disregards those and carriers have been know to sign, hence I avoid the postal service for high value items.
Perhaps your neighbor brought it to you?
It has happened to me.... I got their, they got mine.
There are honest people in this World.
We know that it was not originally delivered to anyone who lives on our dirt road since I walked most of the road this morning looking for the house in the picture. There are no houses that even remotely resemble the house in the original delivery picture. All of our immediate neighbors are in their 80's except one, and she is in bad shape physically. We all know and often help each other. Since I am in the best physical shape of the bunch, they would have called me to come get it if they had it.
I just ran the tracking number again to find that my package has been delivered.......twice! Fedex must have found my package without my help and brought it to my house at 4:02 PM which is during the time we were gone. I now believe that they knew where it was the whole time and weren't going to send a driver here on the weekend unless there were other deliveries in this area. I started calling them within 10 minutes after the initial wrong delivery on Friday before noon. They probably sent the driver out to fetch it on Friday. It would have saved me a bunch of grief if he brought it here directly after fetching it. Being honest about it would have helped too.
When I have the choice for delivery, I will no longer choose Fedex.
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I placed another order with Digikey. I used the USPS this time. Maybe they can beat the 10 days to go 400 miles that Fedex took.
Holy crap, you dodged a bullet
I have a quartz lock direct drive JVC turntable with an SME Series III arm that I don't need, or use, but I haven't listed anywhere for sale because I am afraid to ship it, and don't want to make a custom, wood, shipping crate for it (and charge extra for).
I have a quartz lock direct drive JVC turntable with an SME Series III arm that I don't need, or use, but I haven't listed anywhere for sale because I am afraid to ship it, and don't want to make a custom, wood, shipping crate for it (and charge extra for).
I've heard some claim that signs like that just makes the box a target for the bad employees.
But, in UPS's defense that appears to be a moving box and not a shipping box. Moving boxes are never designed to hold up to shipping, they are very flimsy in comparison to an actual shipping box with a rating like shown below.
And I'm guessing that "H" on the label means heavy. For a heavy item like that with a solid wood frame poking at the edges of the box I wouldn't go with anything less than a double wall box.
Only ship in boxes that have a label like this with the high bursting test rating and where the bottom weight listed exceeds your items weight:
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That was a 5U, 400 mm case. In the past we've had good luck shipping those beasts. Just put enough stuff inside ( foam forms, peanuts, double walled ) and LOTS of duct tape on the outside.
I think this time the plywood made it heavier and the monkey just couldn't get a hold of it.
My plan is gonna make a killing selling flat pack wood boxes based on that design.
I got an idea....
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My wife called me as I was getting out of the house on the Costco parking lot.
"Did you see the text and pictures I sent you? You got a package.."
"Oh, Oh..."
It would be nice if Gianluca would sell boxes for his cases, just like companies like Conrad Johnson does. I got a box for a CJ MF2100 for 50 bucks plus 15 more shipping. The boxes survive fine because they are light.
I think this time the plywood made it heavier and the monkey just couldn't get a hold of it.
My plan is gonna make a killing selling flat pack wood boxes based on that design.
I got an idea....
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My wife called me as I was getting out of the house on the Costco parking lot.
"Did you see the text and pictures I sent you? You got a package.."
"Oh, Oh..."
It would be nice if Gianluca would sell boxes for his cases, just like companies like Conrad Johnson does. I got a box for a CJ MF2100 for 50 bucks plus 15 more shipping. The boxes survive fine because they are light.
I've had good luck shipping things from Canada. I had an Akai AS980 shipped. The "biggest receiver" ever made, I think, at 27" wide. Truth be told, though, it was shipped via Canada Post and USPS and I did help my female USPS delivery lady to bring it to the house.
That box and receiver survived just fine.
I think UPS and FedEx go to graduate school:
Fragile: Use sledgehammer to fit into slot.
Insured: Use baseball bat to fit into slot.
Oversized: Drive over it. Twice.
Bullseye: Handle with the utmost care.
I can now officially compare import duties between FedEx and UPS now.. UPS completed while the package was in-route, and FedEx took two months after the product arrived in the US.
The import duties with UPS wasn't expected, btw, I ordered $111+shipping in parts and paid $101 in tariffs and brokerage fees..
The import duties with UPS wasn't expected, btw, I ordered $111+shipping in parts and paid $101 in tariffs and brokerage fees..