A complete tanking of our shipping system?

[ausf]

Anyone else notice a drop off of service lately?

I know UPS was overwhelmed this past season and USPS is restructuring, but...

This is what happened to me in the past week:

A Priority Mail from CA to NY got to my local sort facility only to arrive, sort, depart and arrive again over and over for 8 days. It then went to the next town over by mistake and back to the facility again. Total time in transit: 14 days. Normally I wouldn't care, I grew up in the 6-8 weeks for delivery world, but this was a waterbased glue that couldn't sit out in the sub zero mailbox all day, so I had to keep arranging to check in case the tracking was wrong.

A 2nd Day Air from VA via UPS was On the truck and out for delivery, only to go back to the local hub and get this, on a plane to Ohio. :S 2 days later it was back in NY at the same hub and out for delivery, again. That was for my 12 year old son who was patiently waiting for the Rosetta Stone German course. B)

Fed Ex used to be the loose cannon in my next of the woods, but now they're the only consistent one. Besides the above, I've had 3 USPS things completely disappear leading up to Christmas and all over, not like my mailman's living room is filling up with all my stuff.

 

[Plastik Smurff]

Don't worry mate,the postal service here in Australia runs on camel power.They used to use skippys but they would'nt work for peanuts. And the dummys that deliver the post cannot read as I found out while waiting the arrival of some PE.It was packaged in a A4 envolope with cardboard insert to keep it stiff and on the front written in big lettering DO NOT BEND,I found it folded in half in my mailbox(which is big enough to hold A4 size boxes). You don't have to be smart to deliver mail that's for sure.

 

[SA Dave]

Posted a package to a mate in UK a few months back Few weeks later they delivered the package to me :facepalm

They still refuse to refund me because they delivered the package :smack

TIA
(This is Africa)

 

[chukw]

Bear in mind the recent weather and it's influence on the airline schedules.

 

[cb1]

I work in air cargo, weather can and does play havoc on flight schedules.

 

[ausf]

I hear you on the weather, this isn't delays, both of these were in 10 miles of my house in under 2 days. One was finally delivered 12 days later and the other just plain took off on it's own excursion in a different direction after being on the truck.

 

[moon puppy]

Bear in mind the recent weather and it's influence on the airline schedules.

True but out on the truck THEN Back to the hub and on an airplane?

Maybe bad tracking info? :idonno

 

[Firesmacker]

Must be regional. I've ordered a few things from Sprue Bros and it all came on time.

 

[chukw]

I really should have read the whole post.

 

[Tony lee]

A week ago my order Sprue Bros(Kansas City Hub) went way north into Iowa,two days later went back to Kansas City then took two days to make a 3 1/2 hour drive south to me, NO weather involved.

High dollar charges for half ass service. Excuse my French.

Tony lee

 

[Jeeves]

I've had the same thing happen a few weeks back...sat in one place for like a week...

 

[ausf]

I've had the same thing happen a few weeks back...sat in one place for like a week...

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Maybe it's a NY thing.

I forgot right before Thanksgiving I ordered a Forbidden Planet one sheet through Amazon. It wasn't Prime eligible, so after a week or so I went to track it. It was listed as ready for pickup and my pickup location (USPS). Only no one could tell me what that was and the post office didn't have it. Then after another week or so it was updated to delivered to pickup location.

At least that was Amazon, so within minutes of opening a report they refunded the money and Priority Mailed a replacement. I was after Christmas now, but I can't complain about the price in the end.

 

[Tankbuilder]

At least it didn't take just under a year for you to get your package.

One of mine went missing in another city west of me. 2nd parcel was turned back by Canada Customs. 3rd parcel was in Customs for awhile before disappearing. 4th parcel made it to me.

Cheers

 

[kryptosdaddy]

I think it could be nearly everyone, maybe the system was hacked? I'm watching two things bounce around in CA and TX now- one item did make it a few days out of it's scheduled delivery time, but I agree that the weather could have an impact. Perhapse they are routing stuff around these affected areas?

 

[ausf]

The title was tongue firmly planted in cheek, I originally had it as our styrene delivery system but it was too long to input.

Again, I'm from the 6-8 weeks forget you even sent for it generation, so I'm still amazed anything gets to you in 2 days from anywhere.

These were just a host of bizarrities in a normally tight system. UPS customer service confirmed it wasn't tracking, the package did travel that route, VA to Chester NY to Columbus Ohio to Chester NY. I only noticed because my son saved up his own scratch to buy it and was closely watching progress.

The glue was a temp issue, if it was a book, I wouldn't care if it took a month. I buy a lot of used books and even media mail gets here faster than I ever expect. And the Tamiya JS-2 on my doorstep less than 48 hrs from Japan was pretty cool.

Tankbuilder,
I don't get the US/Canadian border and mail. I get from and send stuff to Europe, Asia and Australia quicker than 300 miles North of me. When Trumpeter came out with the 1/16 T-34 series, it was the Canadian shops that got it first, so I ordered to get a jump on it. It sat in a 'Sortation Faciilty' for over 3 weeks. I assumed the sortation facility was the trunk of an '86 Celebrity somewhere.

 

[Sharkmouth]

The glue was a temp issue...

Sounds like Gators' Grip stuff...

I stopped tracking... I liked it when things showed up and you said to yourself "Cool! I didn't know I ordered it!" except I sometimes end with duplicates!


Regards,

 

[chukw]

Getting stuff from Canada does seem to take forever, but eventually it does show up, eh? ;D

 

[jknaus]

Getting stuff from Canada does seem to take forever, but eventually it does show up, eh? ;D

And vice versa. Although I have some stuff coming from Ontario that hasnt arrived, while some stuff from Hong Kong is already here. Go figure. :hmmm
James

 

[Plastik Smurff]

Getting stuff from Canada does seem to take forever, but eventually it does show up, eh? ;D

Canada is part of the US ain't it ? :yipee :woohoo:

 

[White_Wolf]

Don't worry mate,the postal service here in Australia runs on camel power.They used to use skippys but they would'nt work for peanuts. And the dummys that deliver the post cannot read as I found out while waiting the arrival of some PE.It was packaged in a A4 envolope with cardboard insert to keep it stiff and on the front written in big lettering DO NOT BEND,I found it folded in half in my mailbox(which is big enough to hold A4 size boxes). You don't have to be smart to deliver mail that's for sure.

With ya mate. I ordered some stuff from VIC, paid Express Delivery (next business day) and then waited and waited.
Because I live on a new estate, the good folks at AusPost have not updated their info and they were labelling all my parcels (never the letters) with a "WRONG POSTCODE" sticker and that made them be late by at least 2 days.
It ended up with me calling the Postal Services Ombudsman, got one of the senior AusPost call me and assure me things would not happen again. To their credit, haven't had a problem since.

Post contractors are just that - contractors who usually are doing a good job but sometimes they stuff up monumentally and it just takes forever to sort it out.

Raise the issue with the Post and Authorities :fencing and then :vmad followed by :evil: and then some B) and in the end it should all be