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billiards_watch
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Patience young grasshopper.
Congrats.
Congrats.
billiards_watch
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They've been getting worst and worst over the years.
Ain't nothin'. Colorado to California went through Hawaii. Or maybe the scanning/tracking system is not perfect. You'd think with barcodes and automatic sorting things would go more smoothly.So I have a cue being shipped from Georgia by USPS to me in Florida. The cue is currently in Chicago. I should have got on my Harley and went to pick it up.
The cue is n the road without me. Must be a great player.
Bad leadership. They needed someone exceptional and they had someone who would be happy if they went out of business. The outgoing Postmaster General had over $30 million invested in PO competitors.
Generally, I've had good luck with USPS. But I ordered something off of eBay a couple weeks back, and it too, is making the rounds. It started in Ohio, and I'm in Texas. So right off the bat, USPS sent it to Washington DC, so it could sit for four days. It eventually made it to Fort Worth (which is normal for my location), but it then sat for another six days. And now it is going in the wrong direction again, and has been sitting at the post office in Millsap, TX (out west of Fort Worth 
), for two days. Go figure....
), for two days. Go figure....
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Iwishiwasrich
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UPS is just as bad or worse.
Is that called "well seasoned" maple?
I had a time sensitive package that needed to come from our little neighbor on the left, Texas, to me in Louisiana. It shipped, to california! Made it all the way back to Texas, somebody "corrected" the zip code, back to california! It made it to me on the second or third bounce, by then stress levels were pretty high!
To be fair, UPS picked up a package in Montana, headed for Louisiana again. Made pretty good time to Salt Lake Utah, and stuck! After a week of no tracking from Salt Lake and no info to be had from UPS, I called a friend in Salt Lake. For once in my life timing was perfect. He was in charge of his company's UPS contract. One that had went over ten million in the last decade and was at two million a year currently. Dan not being a dummy made UPS wine and dine him a week every year when the contract came up for negotiation. The last five days might have been worth only a quarter a package but a lot of good food and wine too. Anyway, this was negotiation week! Dave told the UPS rep that he would be happy for my custom barrel to be found. Two days later it was at my door! Custom engraving so it was definitely mine. Funny thing is that UPS tracking showed my package in Salt Lake for the next couple years.
Shipping always costs me gray hair. What really pissed me off was when my package went from Jackson MS to New Orleans, passing down the highway in front of me! It took another week or ten days to get it the less than hundred miles back from New Orleans. I bought a lathe in New Mexico. Shipping and a road trip were about a wash and I was due a road trip. I fired up my truck!
Hu
To be fair, UPS picked up a package in Montana, headed for Louisiana again. Made pretty good time to Salt Lake Utah, and stuck! After a week of no tracking from Salt Lake and no info to be had from UPS, I called a friend in Salt Lake. For once in my life timing was perfect. He was in charge of his company's UPS contract. One that had went over ten million in the last decade and was at two million a year currently. Dan not being a dummy made UPS wine and dine him a week every year when the contract came up for negotiation. The last five days might have been worth only a quarter a package but a lot of good food and wine too. Anyway, this was negotiation week! Dave told the UPS rep that he would be happy for my custom barrel to be found. Two days later it was at my door! Custom engraving so it was definitely mine. Funny thing is that UPS tracking showed my package in Salt Lake for the next couple years.
Shipping always costs me gray hair. What really pissed me off was when my package went from Jackson MS to New Orleans, passing down the highway in front of me! It took another week or ten days to get it the less than hundred miles back from New Orleans. I bought a lathe in New Mexico. Shipping and a road trip were about a wash and I was due a road trip. I fired up my truck!
Hu
It was CF
Figures....It was CF
All the leaders have been bad plus funding is sketchy. Also we won't get into that three letter hiring practice with for them usually means Distraught, Empty, and Idiotic...
JV
One other thing... to be fair as well. 99% of the time late issues are problems in the distribution centers. I have had stuff go to the town next to mine, go back to the d.c., then back somewhere else, back to the right d.c. and then maybe it gets to me. Carriers have ZERO to do with that. If stuff is "stolen" then everyone is a suspect.
But I tracked a package from Arkansas, to Memphis, to Atlanta, To New Hampshire, to Camden, to Teterboro then me, Flew more than I did this year.
JV
But I tracked a package from Arkansas, to Memphis, to Atlanta, To New Hampshire, to Camden, to Teterboro then me, Flew more than I did this year.
JV
I represent a small division of a Gigantic Japanese Corp. About 5 years ago they switched from UPS to FedEx.
That move may have just been financial but, I'd guess costs are very similar between the two so and UPS would have counter bid with correct pricing. Interesting, when I ship using the Corp. FedEx Account I normally click on Standard Overnight service. They post what you and I would pay along with the actual charges. It looks like this: Regular Charge is $95.00. Your charge is $10.78
As far as adding insurance? I've heard a few companies I've worked for over the years that they don't purchase UPS insurance since they rarely if ever get paid on lost or damaged shipments. Maybe their better with individuals, don't know. Sounds like a Class Action Suit to me if they fight everyone. Not into that. Just saying. If true?..
I switched to FedEx cause with UPS, they ask me what I'm shipping. I'll say letters or tools or books or.... Click Next? and they deny the business.
We're not allowed to ship that item or something to that . I actually set up a new account and things go well for several months, then refuse my business.. OK fine, I don't need you either.
That move may have just been financial but, I'd guess costs are very similar between the two so and UPS would have counter bid with correct pricing. Interesting, when I ship using the Corp. FedEx Account I normally click on Standard Overnight service. They post what you and I would pay along with the actual charges. It looks like this: Regular Charge is $95.00. Your charge is $10.78
As far as adding insurance? I've heard a few companies I've worked for over the years that they don't purchase UPS insurance since they rarely if ever get paid on lost or damaged shipments. Maybe their better with individuals, don't know. Sounds like a Class Action Suit to me if they fight everyone. Not into that. Just saying. If true?..
I switched to FedEx cause with UPS, they ask me what I'm shipping. I'll say letters or tools or books or.... Click Next? and they deny the business.
We're not allowed to ship that item or something to that . I actually set up a new account and things go well for several months, then refuse my business.. OK fine, I don't need you either.