Thread: It's a puzzle

Ordered some shaving supplies from Toronto Canada shipped to my home in the same province as Toronto. It had free shipping with tracking and shipped FedEx. Sent Tuesday and as of yesterday, Wednesday, it was in Memphis TN USA. Must be looking for Elvis. By the time it gets here it will have crossed the international border twice. On what planet does this make any sense? Using Hubs must be amazingly cheap to move it over twice as far as need be.

Bob

That doesnt surprise me one bit.

Originally Posted by Gasman

That doesnt surprise me one bit.

Me neither.

We have a P.O. Box, so no problem with the mail delivery, other than the occasional trip around the country for a parcel. If you watch the tracking, sometimes it's comical. They're all guilty of this.
It is amazing how often FedEx and UPS leave packages at my house that don't belong, even though our street number is posted on both sides of the road. What's next...a neon sign?? I swear they just toss out the packages when their G.P.S. tells them to.

Pete <:-}

Think how I felt, when Tc shared his new custom with a few of us. It was delivered to the wrong address..!!

I was freaking out... Tc is gonna kill me..!!!

Post office helped me find it, even though they were closed. The manager stayed till we figured it out.

It was at a house the next street over that had the same address #, but didn't have the right street name.

Whew....!!!!

I'd like to meet Tc, but not on those terms.!

I have had similar problems in U.S.. Ship items to east coast from Florida and they go by way of Seattle, WA. Ship to west coast and they go by way of north east.

Damn I was never clued in to that Mike!

As for comical, I was waiting for a very important part on my bike from California, it went to Omaha, then St. Louis , so I figured good Memphis next, wrong Raleigh North Carolina, then Southaven Ms. then Memphis, package was delayed all told by 5 days, really had me on edge

When I sent a razor back to the owner in Canada, it left Walla Wala and landed in Spokane (which is about 150 miles from the Canadian border) then was sent to San Fransisco which is about 728 straight line miles from Spokane, then it was sent to Vancouver Canada and then to the owner.

When the owner had sent it to me it landed in Chicago IL then was sent to New Jersey, then to Seattle then to Spokane and then to Walla Walla WA.

I asked the vendor what my shipment was doing in Memphis TN USA. They contacted FedEx and it turns out it was a routing error and they apologised for any inconvenience it will cause me. Now we know what free shipping is worth.

Bob

I get things from Amazon all the time and no matter where they are coming from if it's Amazon shipping themselves it goes to Phoenix first then up here.

I just got a FedEx package from the UK today. It sat in their facility in Feltham (near the airport in London) for 5 days. Most of the time things come fast and on time but now and then there's a screwup except if it's DHL. Things disappear from their U.S Hub all the time.

Of course then there's a time my son got a new computer delivered by UPS and when the tracking said delivered and it was nowhere in site I called UPS and they weren't very concerned about it. When I told them it cost 5 grand they became very concerned and called the driver who retrieved it from the wrong address he delivered it to and even had a scribbled signature to prove it. He blamed it on a torn address label on the box. When we got it the label was in perfect condition.

I chuckle when I get tracking numbers.

At least most of the time if it a day or week or two one way or the other it doesn't make much difference to me.

What happened before tracking numbers and people were not so bored at home to bother checking on their packages?

It used to be if my letter came from around the world for 1 cent and the person that sent it might be dead before I received it?

I just bought a birthday gift online that is for a couple of months from now. I have gotten at lest 10 emails about the process and tracking number for the package.

They are using this tracking thing for advertisement and a reason to keep contacting me.

If it doesn't show up in a month I might look into it but if it goes from the US to Hong Kong and then to Amsterdam before arriving here I don't really care!