Efficiency in Shipping

[O2HeN2]

Ordered a 3D printer from Prague, CZ on November 26th. It was shipped FedEx in two packages on December 7th. Haven't received them yet, but here are their two paths so far:

The printer itself:

Prague, CZ
Koeln, DE
Prague, CZ
Koeln, DE
Frankfurt, DE
Memphis, USA (at this time I breathed a sigh of relief, but...)
Winnipeg, CA
Memphis, USA
Colorado Springs, USA

I learned, I'm not holding my breath.

The second package, which I believe is filament for the printer:

Prague, CZ
Koeln, DE
Prague, CZ
Koeln, DE
Memphis, USA (day after the above package arrived in Memphis, and as before, I relaxed, but...)
Koeln, DE (yes, ALL THE WAY BACK TO GERMANY!)
Indianapolis, USA

And that's where it sits this morning.

Given two separate shipments, I guess I can understand effing up one's routing, but both? And by so much? Imagine how cheap FedEX would be if they didn't double their work?

O2

[colorider]

For my business I get about 12 or more boxes delivered a day via FedEx. Various size boxes and weight. All come from the same manufacturer. For the past month, a certain driver won’t deliver the long boxes. These boxes are aprox 8# ,7 feet long and 4x4. Imagine a box that would hold an iron drapery rod. 11 times in the past month the driver is marking these deliveries as “refused by recipient” and taking them back to FedEx in Denver. Even on redeliveries he is doing this. FedEx is sending them back to the manufacturer unless I can catch the tracking that day and see the refusal note. Then I have to put a pick up request and get them myself at FedEx. FedEx doesn’t give a shit. They keep claiming someone is refusing these boxes, even though the other stuff is being delivered just fine. I’m in a whirlwind of pissed off you can’t imagine.

[Bailey Guns]

For my business I get about 12 or more boxes delivered a day via FedEx. Various size boxes and weight. All come from the same manufacturer. For the past month, a certain driver won’t deliver the long boxes. These boxes are aprox 8# ,7 feet long and 4x4. Imagine a box that would hold an iron drapery rod. 11 times in the past month the driver is marking these deliveries as “refused by recipient” and taking them back to FedEx in Denver. Even on redeliveries he is doing this. FedEx is sending them back to the manufacturer unless I can catch the tracking that day and see the refusal note. Then I have to put a pick up request and get them myself at FedEx. FedEx doesn’t give a shit. They keep claiming someone is refusing these boxes, even though the other stuff is being delivered just fine. I’m in a whirlwind of pissed off you can’t imagine.

Oh, no... I can imagine. I've lived it. I'm so frustrated and disgusted by the attitudes I see nearly every day with every business I interact with. No one cares and no one is accountable. And I don't hold back what I'm thinking anymore to be polite or reasonable. I let them know, right away, exactly how I feel. I just can't pretend to put up with it any longer.

When someone simply just does their job anymore I'm so pleasantly shocked I react like they've just done me the biggest favor ever in my entire life.

[Great-Kazoo]

3 different items, 2 different vendors. EXPECTED Delivery by 12/10/21

You item[s] is in transit to the next facility.

Somewhere, between here & there. Good thing i didn't need them, this week. Never mind the parcel that was sent out 12 business days ago, to N.H. . Expected delivery 12/7/21. Oh yeah i'm real happy.

[HoneyBadger]

Nobody in Hawaii even bothers tracking their packages... they will get here when they get here. Sometimes Amazon prime stuff shows up in 2 days, sometimes it takes 3 weeks. Amazon is in the process of building an actual distro center on the island, but currently they just use rented space for high-demand items (which explains why some items arrive in only 2 days). Shipping anything that isn't through amazon or USPS flat rate adds about $8/lb. Frustrating when there are important things coming via your way and you have no idea when they'll actually arrive.

[brutal]

Nobody in Hawaii even bothers tracking their packages... they will get here when they get here. Sometimes Amazon prime stuff shows up in 2 days, sometimes it takes 3 weeks. Amazon is in the process of building an actual distro center on the island, but currently they just use rented space for high-demand items (which explains why some items arrive in only 2 days). Shipping anything that isn't through amazon or USPS flat rate adds about $8/lb. Frustrating when there are important things coming via your way and you have no idea when they'll actually arrive.

It took us 2 months to get a UPS (battery backup) shipped to Guam. Final leg, the airline refused it due to height? 2 flat boxes on a pallet and I know it wasn't a puddle jumper flying in there as I've talked to cargo pilots that fly in there. I've also seen them loading the large containers on UA passenger flights.

Just guessing they contracted with a passenger airline in this case. Only by having the freight forwarder break it down into 2 separate boxes did it make it. Then, to make matters worse, Stupid Eaton didn't include the signal cable.

[hollohas]

A family member of mine moved overseas with his family this past summer for a few years to do military stuff.

Their stuff left before them but didn't get there until 6 months after them. Ouch.

[HoneyBadger]

Yeah, our stuff got here surprisingly fast - only took about 8 weeks. Took us longer than that to find housing.

[ray1970]

Had a package shipped to my house in Thornton. Arrived in Denver early on Monday. By the end of the day Monday it was in the Springs. Twenty nine minutes later it was back in Denver. It spent the next day in transit, maybe in a wooden cart pulled by a donkey. Early this morning it arrived back in Colorado Springs. It says it should be arriving tomorrow.

[kidicarus13]

Someone is being untruthful.