OT "ARRIVING LATE"

Canugghead

Dumb question for @RRP, why not just send gasket instructions as email attachment, save yourself the expense and save few trees?

paqman

alaskanassasin said:

@Canadians it’s interesting you didn’t miss your official postal delivery institution.  This made me reflect on things i actually count on the usps for. Electric bills (I don’t think there is an online portal to see your bill), dreaded IRS correspondence only comes via mail unless they knock on your door, personal cards like birthday or Christmas, checks from vendors, and insurance/healthcare correspondence. However usps is very affordable and convenient for small packages and postage for letters.

I have e-bills for everything and I don’t care for flyers!  However, I placed two orders with companies in the US.  One of them shipped with USPS, the other shipped with DHL; both are handing off packages to Canada Post after they cross the border.  Tracking shows all packages are stuck in some sorting center since November 19th with no signs of them moving despite the end of the strike.  Fortunately, the orders were for myself and were not Christmas gifts.  Canada Post has the most decent broker/import fees of all companies.

alaskanassasin

paqman said:

alaskanassasin said:

@Canadians it’s interesting you didn’t miss your official postal delivery institution.  This made me reflect on things i actually count on the usps for. Electric bills (I don’t think there is an online portal to see your bill), dreaded IRS correspondence only comes via mail unless they knock on your door, personal cards like birthday or Christmas, checks from vendors, and insurance/healthcare correspondence. However usps is very affordable and convenient for small packages and postage for letters.

I have e-bills for everything and I don’t care for flyers!  However, I placed two orders with companies in the US.  One of them shipped with USPS, the other shipped with DHL; both are handing off packages to Canada Post after they cross the border.  Tracking shows all packages are stuck in some sorting center since November 19th with no signs of them moving despite the end of the strike.  Fortunately, the orders were for myself and were not Christmas gifts.  Canada Post has the most decent broker/import fees of all companies.

DHL van pulls up into my yard, Me: Do you think next time you can park on the driveway?  DHL Driver: Huh? Me: the big grey thing that splits the lawn, we try to stay on it.

alaskanassasin

Canugghead said:

Dumb question for @RRP, why not just send gasket instructions as email attachment, save yourself the expense and save few trees?

 Why do you hate BC?

zaphod

I asked about that sort of thing years ago when a part for work apparently went backwards across the continent after being a mere 100miles or so from me. I was told that if an update to status is changed from a remote location then the update reflects that location.  So in my case a part that had made it to Toronto had an update entered from Louisiana and the tracking report reflected Louisiana. But the part did not go from the states to Toronto and then back to Louisiana for a quick side trip.

That was at least 30 years ago, but i would not be surprised if tracking software was still that bad.

tjv

We use all three services, UPS, Fedex and USPS. Like anything with human interaction, some good and some not so good. Our UPS driver has a helper. He says the helper slows him down, interferes with his routine. 

I don't know why USPS doesn't go to an every other day delivery.  I have important stuff emailed and packages sent UPS or Fedex. I can wait on junk mail. It would be an easy way to redirect funds into facility updates.

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zaphod

up in Canada one of the contentions in this year's strike was resumption of Saturday delivery. Granted to community "superboxes" for the most part, but still a return to 6 days a week.

TechsasJim

I had to cancel an AMZ order for a Lodge 7.5qt enamel Dutch Oven.    Placed the order and was to be delivered last Friday.    Then they moved deliver to January.   Had to cancel it, need by date was pre-Christmas.   

Maybe it’s the strikes or order-overload?

alaskanassasin

zaphod said:

up in Canada one of the contentions in this year's strike was resumption of Saturday delivery. Granted to community "superboxes" for the most part, but still a return to 6 days a week.

Mail never stopped here, 6 days a week though i remember wondering if it was contagious in the early days lol.

RRP

Canugghead said:

Dumb question for @RRP, why not just send gasket instructions as email attachment, save yourself the expense and save few trees?

I've thought that, but I like to think that when "Bobbie Buyer" goes out on Saturday morning to apply his gasket he might appreciate having those printed instructions in his hand for easy reference instead of taking his phone or laptop outside with him, especially if he has Permatex on his fingers! Granted if I emailed them he could print them out himself, but if I was trying to make a profit providing this service then I would have upped my prices instead of keeping them the same for soon to be 23 years! 

johnkitchens

FedEx has been holding some of our packages hostage. 

DoubleEgger

johnkitchens said:

FedEx has been holding some of our packages hostage. 

Welcome back sir. 

johnkitchens

DoubleEgger said:

johnkitchens said:

FedEx has been holding some of our packages hostage. 

Welcome back sir. 

Thank you!

WeberWho

It finally made its way to the right address 13 days later. 

Elijah

I'll add that in my area usps is just as reliable as ups. FedEx is not. Many large cuts of meat have been wasted on their account. 

lousubcap

I am impressed that this "trashing shipping companies" thread still has a pulse.  Way back when (yes old here) a shipping thread that called out a five lettered company would get nuked in under 90 minutes.
The Buffalo has mellowed with age or can relate to the daily frustrations.  

kl8ton

lousubcap said:

The Buffalo has mellowed with age or can relate to the daily frustrations.  

I think Hannah wears the horns now. 

I've shared this story before....  When I worked in IT, I ordered a printer from CDW. It was a color laser printer with multiple paper trays.  I could be wrong but I think it was strapped to a mini skid. The warehouse that it shipped from was a two and a half hour drive away for me.  It should have been one business day with UPS ground.  After some time of not seeing it arrive, I tracked it. It's last known location was Buenos Aires Argentina. 

alaskanassasin

Swmbo shipped a package to Cincinnati on the 12th and it still hasn’t arrived.