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I think three orders I placed on Black Friday should be arriving today. What?s that? Like fifteen days or so?
I would say with Covid, a surge of packages from Black Friday, and the usual holiday shipping there?s a backlog of boxes like you wouldn?t believe and the wonderful people at FedEx, UPS, and the post office are doing all they can right now.
And that bullshit Surepost is the worst. They stand around and point at each other.
5 days to go from Denver to Denver? I like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by OctopusHighball
So I went to ship a light box (12x12x18 inches 10 lbs) to ft Leonard Wood area last week. USPS said $82 and it would take 2 weeks. I left without shipping, as I could drive there and back in 36 hours.
Went to UPS with the same package, shipped standard for $21. It arrived 40 hrs later.
WTF. Is the USPS trying to go out of business or are they just that incompetent/inefficient?
Severely unionized, aka incompetent and inefficient.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric P
I'll never understand how they lose money with a .gov mandated monopoly.
XPO is the worst shipper I have seen. We rarely hire shippers, the clients do that to arrange shipping to and from. XPO has "lost" 3 shipments in the last few months. These aren't little things. 10 foot long pallet of steel things is one they lost. How do you lose that? I have heard this from many XPO users also. Is there an XPO shipping yard full of stuff that they don't know what to do with? Starting to think XPO "loses" things, then sells them off to balance the monthly books after underbidding shipment costs on a regular basis.
Shipment tracking makes me laugh. The shipping companies highlight it as a benefit to the client, but what it really does is show how stupid/inept the shipping system is. Sure takes the heat off the shipper when the person receiving can look up a late package and see that I sent it when agreed and the box is bouncing around the USPS system for days and days making no progress. So much nicer than back when I was shipping lots of boxes and had to devote a portion of each day calling local post offices trying to track down lost packages that some lazy employee didnt want to mess with and stuck on a shelf and ignored.
This seemed appropriate for this thread. Sorry...don't know how to imbed from imgur.
https://imgur.com/gallery/vSR3tBJ
The other issue we're running into is the signature proof of deliveries nearly all say "C19" "Covid" or something similar. Companies like FedEx don't want to hand their digital signature pads to a hundred people a day so they get a verbal name and sign it "Covid". Seriously.
Had a guy a few weeks ago say he didn't get his delivery. FedEx POD said it was delivered to his address and to someone with his name. But the signature said "C19" so he claimed he never got it.
Not sure how FedEx got his full name right if they didn't deliver it to him, but since there was no signature, I had to eat it and deliver another at no charge.
You are so right. Not sure how they can lose these things. Most have a half dozen shipping labels with addresses secured to all side. And then they put those little barcode BOL# stickers all over the pallets too. In order for them not to know what to do with a pallet they'd have to somehow pull off all the plastic wrap, all the dozen or so stickers, the manufacturer labels and packing lists that are typically on the boxes or goods somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by clodhopper
Even if they did lose ALL of that, God forbid they look at the manufacturer name of the stuff and pull the BOL paperwork from those shippers and figure it out. Nope.
You're right, they must have a frequent customer card at the scrap yard or something.