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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Big Frank on February 02, 2024, 08:54:15 AM
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Like lightning hitting the same place multiple times. But they're hitting anything but my mailbox with one package. Two packages left the same place, the same time, Thursday, January 25th. Both made it to a USPS facility in Flint at the same time, Saturday, January 27th. One package was delivered Monday, January 29th. But the other one has been in limbo since the 27th. I'm afraid it's on a long, strange trip somewhere. It may eventually turn up, and it may not. If it doesn't it may not be able to be replaced. It's a Limited Edition Solid Zirconium Flashlight, with only 3.000 available worldwide. To get from the "USPS Facility" to the post office, I think they just have to get the package from the south side of the building where the semis come in, to the west side which is the actual post office that customers visit. There may be another postal facility around there that I haven't seen, but that whole ZIP code is only 4/10ths of a square mile. And somehow they manage to lose my packages there after they already have them. These 2 packages arrived and departed everywhere within a minute of each other, until one vanished. And they haven't updated the daily status of it this month.
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As of 6:05 am, my Informed Delivery page for this hasn't been updated in a whole week. It's "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late" and "Moving Through Network". So, it takes over a week to travel less than 3 miles. That's not good by anyone's standards. Google Maps says it's a 1 hour, 5 minute walk to my house from the Main Post Office.
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It's bad all over. I was gifted some material from my Dad's AAF base in England, and all was great until it was set to go overseas to the US. There it sat. I had a tracking number, and after a while (3-4 weeks) I contact Royal Mail. After taking a week or so to respond, I got a vanilla letter saying "Golly, gee whiz, we don't know what happened to the package." I contacted the small museum that sent it, and they got in touch with RM, and since so much time had elapsed, they refunded the shipping charge to them.
They didn't have to, but the museum sent more stuff, this time by FedEx, and it arrived in 3-4 days.
Three months later, I opened my mail box, and there's the original box, with a sticker on it from RM stating that he package cannot under any circumstances be put on a plane. The only thing I can figure is that it contained 3 linked .50 cal casings that the museum had recovered from the ground at the AAF (and had given to me as a thank you for a nice donation). It was just the casings (I figured it was the end of a test link belt for the armorers to check the functioning of the .50s) and some weenie at RM saw the x-ray and panicked thinking they were live rounds.
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And still no updates since January 31st. If I don't hear anything by next Tuesday (if I can wait that long) I'm going to contact Olight and see if they consider it lost and will replace it. I'll be contacting USPS too, for the good it will do.
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USPS eventually took the listing for that package off my Informed Delivery. I think it was about a week ago. Someone in charge probably threw their arms up in the air and said I don't know. I wonder if they gave Olight back the money the limited edition flashlight was worth. I guess mine is 1 of 2,999 now instead of 1 of 3,000. Oh the rarity. :)
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An hour ago they said Held at Post Office, At Customer Request about the package they delivered maybe 7 hours ago and previously said that they delivered this afternoon. HUH? ??? They think that they made a Delivery Attempt and instead of accepting it I told them to hold it, but it was something that didn't need to be signed for, and they stuck it in my mailbox. Once again, they have me wondering just exactly WTF is going on here?
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Newsflash: The USPS still sucks. Saturday when I looked at the Informed Delivery site to check the progress of my package, it said Tendered to Military for Final Delivery. Delivered to Agent, and when I went outside, it was here. WTF? ??? Why would they deliver it to an agent, or give it to the military to deliver to me, or say that they did?
Now I have a package on the way from Wicked Grips. They're in Flint, but their mailing address is in Davison. The shipping label was created in Flushing and USPS was in possession of the package in Clio Monday. I guess Wicked Grips is in one of the suburbs and not in the city. Anyway, when the post office had my package in Clio, they didn't send it to me. I'm less than 15 miles from the Clio post office, and it's only a 17 or 18 minute drive. But they shipped it about 90 miles to a distribution center somewhere in Detroit. It arrived there Monday night and they expect it to be delivered to me on Wednesday. That's 2 days longer than it should take to go 15 miles.
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Yeah, well FedEx got me again. I ordered some pond flocculent and voila'...the contents of the package got spilled before it got to me. They keep saying it will be delivered "today" for the last few days when in actuality it was returned to sender I have gotten a refund 3 days ago.
I have quit buying anything from Palmetto State because of FedEx. If I want anything and it's being shipped FedEx I just don't want it anymore....
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I've had better luck with FedEx than the post office, but I can't figure out why everything comes from FedEx OnSite, on Dixie Hwy in Saginaw 31 miles away, when there's a FedEx Shipping Center at the airport in Flint, less than 5 miles away.
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What's worse than dealing with USPS? Dealing USPS AND Canada Post! It took 5 days for my package to go from Vancouver, BC to Bell Gardens, CA, south of Los Angeles. It's about 1287 miles, or 257 miles per day. The total time Canada Post expects the journey to take from BC to my house is 16 days. It's another 2,274 miles to Flint, so as long as my package travels 27 miles per day it will be here on the 28th. It's only a 33 hour drive, so it should be here sooner than that. The entire trip form Vancouver to Flint is a 36 hour drive, but due to the way Canada Post and USPS both work, they say it should be here within 16 days. If you drove 2 hours and 4 minutes per day you cover that distance within the amount of time they say.
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And the U.S. Postal Service strikes again! I have a package coming that went from Virginia to D.C. on the 14th, then went to Indianapolis, IN, 140 miles too far west, on the afternoon on the 15th. It was expected to be here on the 17th. But on the 18th it was still "In Transit to Next Facility", and now they're saying "Arriving Late" and Delivery Date Unknown. It only takes about 4 hours, 20 minutes to drive from Indianapolis to Flint, like a trip from my house to the U.P., but it takes the post office several days, not hours, to get a package that far. And they have freakin' jets! From the time it hit Indianapolis on the 15th until it was in transit on the 18th, where the heck was it? I hope it doesn't take an extra 2 week city to city tour across the country like the package I had landed in Detroit before its nearly coast to coast adventure.
My package from Canada left Los Angeles yesterday, so at least that one is moving and accounted for. UPS would have it here in 3 or 4 days with the cheapest ground delivery, but we'll see what the post office is capable of. UPS and FedEx both deliver my packages on time if not early, and 95% of the bring take them to the back door like I ask, like these 2. They're usually somewhere between the edge of the porch and storm door, but occasionally make it onto the table, usually if it's pouring rain and it's the only dry spot.