Thread: This is why I hate shipping...

Originally Posted by Suticat

Keep in mind that this address is only an hour and fifteen minutes from my house.
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I could have tied it to a blind senior walking with prostate issues and had it make less stops than this package.

You mean i could have delivered it.

Why didn't it depart huntingdon beach? Was it dematerialised to outside the facility?

People make mistakes & as Forest Gump says "it happens"
I posted a razor to France & it took 5 weeks. PO said it was located in Rio during the trip but not to worry as it would eventually get there

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Why didn't it depart huntingdon beach? Was it dematerialised to outside the facility?

Teleportation or the Tardis would be my guesses.

My personal favorite was watching an item i bought from California. I live in Virginia, and was excited to see it was in Tennesee because (usually) that means it's going to arrive within 2 days. BUT instead of coming further east, it went back West to Oklahoma, then up North to Michigan, and finally found it's way here a week passed the expected due date.

At that point, I adopted Rezdog's approach. Life is less stressful, and the surprise packages are like miniature early Christmases. Win-win!

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Classic, this has made my day...cleaning keyboard now...

My worst was a razor that for some reason looped 20 times in rural PO in California. It took two days to get from MN to CA and then looped for a week in one place

When I was in college in the early 80's, mail consistently took 4 weeks to get from Minnesota to Massachusetts. That meant that "care packages," containing primarily cookies and other goodies from my mother and grandmother, were a bit past their prime by the time they got to me. Apparently, for some reason, mail coming east was being delayed in Chicago.

After a couple of years of over-indulging on the stale contents of the care packages, I asked both of them to stop sending the goodies. I made it clear that, though I appreciated the sentiments, I had of habit of bingeing on the contents when they did show up. They honored my request until the following Valentine's day, when my Grandmother told me that she sent me just "one cookie." Eventually, when the box showed up, there was in fact just a single heart shaped chocolate chip cookie inside.

It was at least 2 inches thick and about 18 inches across!

Just this weekend I had a 1000$ razor returned to me after a 2 month roundabout return to sender.
It was near its destination in Oakland when it was out for delivery. then nothing for 2 weeks. Then to san berdino, then to LA, then nothing for 4 weeks, and then it was back in my PO box.
Something had scraped the label and turned a 4 on the zip code into a 1 (or a 7 depending on whom you ask).

So 2 months after sending it out, it was back to me.
Luckily, the customer was pretty 'zen' about it.
This week I'll check the edge and then send it out again.

Originally Posted by Suticat

Keep in mind that this address is only an hour and fifteen minutes from my house.
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I could have tied it to a blind senior walking with prostate issues and had it make less stops than this package.

Har! At Least it did get here Tim...and it will be on it's way back to you tomorrow. I'm sending it via a Senior Person I know...he only suffers from the occasional bout of 'some-timers disease'!