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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,630
    Dumb question for @RRP, why not just send gasket instructions as email attachment, save yourself the expense and save few trees?
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  • paqman
    paqman Posts: 4,919
    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.

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  • alaskanassasin
    alaskanassasin Posts: 8,883
    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.
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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  • alaskanassasin
    alaskanassasin Posts: 8,883
    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?
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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  • zaphod
    zaphod Posts: 1,013
    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.
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    Large BGE, Jonesing for a MiniMax
    The Vegegrilltarian

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  • tjv
    tjv Posts: 3,846
    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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    www.ceramicgrillstore.com ACGP, Inc.
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  • zaphod
    zaphod Posts: 1,013
    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.
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    Large BGE, Jonesing for a MiniMax
    The Vegegrilltarian

    The first rule of egg club is: you do NOT talk about egg club.
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  • TechsasJim
    TechsasJim Posts: 2,252
    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?
    LBGE, 28” BS, Weber Kettle, HCI 7.8 SE Texas
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  • alaskanassasin
    alaskanassasin Posts: 8,883
    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.
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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  • johnkitchens
    johnkitchens Posts: 5,234
    FedEx has been holding some of our packages hostage. 


    Louisville, GA - 2 Large BGE's
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,140
    johnkitchens said:
    FedEx has been holding some of our packages hostage. 

    Welcome back sir. 
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  • johnkitchens
    johnkitchens Posts: 5,234
    DoubleEgger said:
    johnkitchens said:
    FedEx has been holding some of our packages hostage. 

    Welcome back sir. 
    Thank you!

    Louisville, GA - 2 Large BGE's
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,521
    It finally made its way to the right address 13 days later. 


    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • Elijah
    Elijah Posts: 877
    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. 
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,665
    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.  

    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • kl8ton
    kl8ton Posts: 6,395
    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. 
    Large, Medium, MiniMax, 36" Blackstone
    Grand Rapids MI
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  • alaskanassasin
    alaskanassasin Posts: 8,883
    Swmbo shipped a package to Cincinnati on the 12th and it still hasn’t arrived. 
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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