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zercules

Might Stick Around
Dec 28, 2024
91
969
NorCal
USPS is going through it right now because the current administration wants to privatize it. My order of the beast made it to my regional distribution center about 50 miles from my address but instead of reaching my local post office, it took a vacation in Hawaii for a week. It was ground advantage shipping, too! But it eventually made its way to me about a week delayed.
 

Pipeski

Starting to Get Obsessed
Dec 14, 2017
298
1,333
Southeast
I’ve had this same issue predominantly with Watch City orders. Living in TN, somehow my orders get routed to Atlanta, back up north to Columbia SC, then to Nashville. I try and not make sense of the postal service.
 
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Flatfish

Part of the Furniture Now
Jan 20, 2022
912
2,179
West Wales
I sometimes buy stuff from China.
I can track it all the way around the world, only for the postman to deliver it to the house up the road and I have to go and get it.
 
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ofafeather

Lifer
Apr 26, 2020
3,034
9,493
52
Where NY, CT & MA meet
Our regular rural carrier is fantastic! If he’s out, though…A few weeks ago we didn’t have mail for days because there are no replacement drivers available and when they pull from other areas the carriers don’t know the routes.

We recently had an eBay order that took over 2 weeks to arrive to NY from TN bc it went to San Diego. Sheesh!
 
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abecox

Part of the Furniture Now
Sep 8, 2010
760
8,091
Cleveland, OH
I had a recent package go from South Carolina to Memphis to Aurora Colorado. I live in Ohio. Make it make sense.

But I also had a package delivered this week that came from UPS, they said it was delivered but the picture was not my front stoop. Guess their drivers can't be added to check addresses either. I at least was able to get my stuff cause the homeowner was mowing the lawn out front and I just asked. Nice guy, he thought my dog was cute.
 
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troutface

Lifer
Oct 26, 2012
2,662
16,511
Colorado
I might have the record for most mistaken mileage on a package. I sent it from here in Colorado to my brother in Austria. I guess they didn't bother to look at the international zip code and instead sent it to Australia first, then back to Colorado, then on to my brother. Yikes !
 
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bullet08

Lifer
Nov 26, 2018
10,590
42,572
RTP, NC. USA
Too damned bad Amazon doesn't deal in pipe tobacco. Maybe I should call up that dude with a wondering eye and big titties gf to let him know where they money is.
 

troutface

Lifer
Oct 26, 2012
2,662
16,511
Colorado
if you want to really piss and moan get epididymitis. And it will also give you plenty to complain about.
Been there, done that, didn't want the t-shirt. And to boot I suffered the indignity of having a female doc poke my balls and I almost flew off the table in pain. :eek:
 
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OzPiper

Lifer
Nov 30, 2020
8,094
46,467
73
Sydney, Australia
Isn't there some way to benefit? Is there a market for, say, small batch bourbon with 6,000 miles on the clock, resell for a premium or something?
Used to a thing with sherry
Shipped from Spain across the equator to India, then again back to Old Blighty, “East India Sherry” fetched a premium as the rocking and rolling during the voyage was deemed to enhance the blending of its components and hasten the maturation process
 
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paulfg

Lifer
Feb 21, 2016
1,734
3,269
Corfu Greece
I currently have a parcel from the UK with fedex,tracked to Thessaloniki Greece (I am in Greece).
2 days later shows Kolen Germany,about 1 hour after it shows as arriving in Germany I get a call from fedex Greece about a customs query.I mention the tracking to her and 5 minutes later shows Greece again.
There is no way that parcel went to Germany and back inside 2 hours
 

Sig

Lifer
Jul 18, 2023
2,064
11,708
54
Western NY
USPS is going through it right now because the current administration wants to privatize it. My order of the beast made it to my regional distribution center about 50 miles from my address but instead of reaching my local post office, it took a vacation in Hawaii for a week. It was ground advantage shipping, too! But it eventually made its way to me about a week delayed.
Good, a private company will take complaints seriously.
The current USPS just sends you to their complaint department run by Helen Waite.
They tell me to go to Helen Waite all the time. :(
 
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