Daniel where is my package

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The package of Pen Cases and Pen mills I bought form you and you shipped to me on Thursday the 19 has not got her as of Saturday. 100 miles in a minor snow storm and they couldn't make over the summit. Checked this evening to see where it is. It left Anchorage Alaska at 10:50 pm Saturday the 19Th. I just laugh. Your Harry Reid and My Nancy Pelosi expect to have a well run health system for us and their Post Office can't even get package 100 miles with sending 2500 miles out of it way. I could have driven through the snow storm and come to your Birthday Party faster than the USPS delivering a simple Priority Mail package. I feel better got my political rant in. Tell you what I am going to do I will send you Nancy and you send us OJ from out there in Lovelock, to make it even I will include 3 slimline pen kits and 3 pine pen blanks cut out of a warped 2X4.

Not your fault you did your part. Maybe the package will meet up with Ratty as he travels around the country. Be interesting to see where it goes from Anchorage. I say it gets here on Saturday as I think the PO is closed on Black Friday, come to think about next Monday would be a better guess. Have great week
 
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Tom, I am saving this post in my scrap book. I have had packages go from Salt Lake to Las Vegas, then LA to Sacramento and then finally come to Reno. it is an 8 hour drive from Salt lake to Reno on I-80.

But a 2 hour trip from Reno to Sac via Anchorage has got to be some sort of record.

I'm not sure the state can afford your trade offer though. mmmmm a Nancy for an O.J.
I might be able to swing that if we didn't already have the burden of a Reed. the warped 2x4 makes it tempting though. I could send it to my post office. they might get the idea if they have a visual aid.

good luck tracking down that package it is probably in San Diego by now.
 
I used to rant about the bills that got lost by the Postal Service, going across town in Racine.

One day a guy at the City Hall "one-upped" me. Showed me an envelope he sent across town, that took a month to get there. Turned the envelope over and it had the postal cancellation stamp, clearly marked, Paris-France.
 
I live in Allen, Texas (north of Dallas). Once I had a UPS package come into the distribution center for Dallas-FortWorth (Mesquite) which is about 40 miles from here. They sent it to Sherman, which is past here and another 40 miles away. This package went back and forth between the 2 sites twice, then they sent it to McAllen, Texas which is 500 miles from here. Package finally arrived 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 days after it passed within one mile of here...
 
I spent many, many, many - oh hell....lots - of years working for UPS. The stories I could tell you about our daily transformation from package shipping company to package travel agents to package detectives could take up an entirely new thread, even better if you think about some of the things people tried to ship. Some of the stories are pretty funny - let your imagination go wild!
Cheers
 
I do have to say this is the first time I have had problems with USPS and Priority mail. I have bought many things at IAP and on Ebay and have never had a problem until this. I was planning on driving over to Reno but the storm on Friday changed my mind. To many Idiots trying to do 70MPH in the snow. It will be interesting to see where in goes next if not here. This came after having a big fight with my Newspaper subscription and arguing with some collector over it. I was sitting at my computer with my account on the screen showing I was up to date and the collector telling to fax a copy of both sides of my check ( don't have the hard check sent to me anymore) or the paper will be stopped on Sunday. I finially told him to F off and I would subscribe to the SF Chronicle of LA times. Paper didn't come Sunday, made phone call and it was here in 15 min. Paper showed up today.

Daniel, I was thinking if I sent you Nancy and you sent me OJ we could put him on Death Row with Scott Petterson and then they would both be where they belong. You could do whatever you want with Nancy. Everytime we go to Idaho and go by OJ's new home we flip him off. What a desolate place to be. Makes it kind of hard to have visitors out there.
 
I can beat that!

My company routinely sends an overnight package from one part of Connecticut to another. (Roughly 35 miles) Checking the UPS tracking we find that it never gets delivered the next day and is always routed to Tennessee. Seems that there is a flaw in the routing system and they can't seem to figure it out. It also seems that we never learn the lesson because it's still being sent week after week.
 
LOML ordered a Electric Turkey Roaster from Amazon and a 3 party vendor. She paid $15 for expedited shipping. Ordered Wednesday night, shipped on Thursday morning 11/19 said it would get between 11/20 and 11/25. FedEx dropped it off a noon Friday, I was impressed. It came from some small company in Indiana. According to USPS my package is still on the way from Anchorage maybe I should call Sara.
 
When I was in NJ, I had to get my paperwork in by Fedex Overnight each week.
My house was on the Palisades, my office was in the Meadowlands. I could down the hill
out my back window and see the block it was on. I could also look another 2 miles
across the Meadowlands over to Teterboro and see where the Fedex building was.

That didn't stop them from picking up my package at 7:30PM and sending it the to the
office 3 miles away via Memphis for 10:30AM delivery..
 
Since we're trading war stories, when I was in college I lived in an apartment in Riverside right next to the college. The apartment was actually closer to the classrooms than the college dorms were. Several times I received a letter from my mom in Sacramento 500 miles away. When I opened it there would be a letter to me from the college sent to my moms address, when I opened that, there would be another letter from the college to my apartments address with a stamp from the post office saying they address doesn't exist. The only problem was the "non-existent" address and the address on my mom's envelope were exactly the same. When I showed it to the post office they couldn't explain it:eek:
 
Gin N' Tonic said:
My company routinely sends an overnight package from one part of Connecticut to another. (Roughly 35 miles) Checking the UPS tracking we find that it never gets delivered the next day and is always routed to Tennessee. Seems that there is a flaw in the routing system and they can't seem to figure it out. It also seems that we never learn the lesson because it's still being sent week after week.
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Seems like you could save the company some money by offering to do it for gas money and a burger.
 
OKay.......I would be neglectful in my duties if I did not do at least a little bit of defense work here. You would not imagine how many times we got phone calls asking if the driver who picked up the persons package in New York had made it to California yet? They think the driver goes all the way across country for just their package. Even better, people called to ask where their package was and when we asked them for the information on it so we could track it, they would many times say "It's the brown one, about a foot square". Honest ! Or how many times we would tell people they do not need to pay for overnight service when it was going across town, just pay for regular ground service and their response was "But I need it there by tomorrow". With brains like that, we just shut up.
Now, ask me about the human heads that someone tried to ship across country in a styrofoam ice chest - honest to God true story!!!
Gotta' go.....got deliveries to goof up!
Cheers!
 
...oh, one other thing.......a favorite trick of companies is to print the shipping/tracking label for the package as soon as the order is placed, even though the order is not filled until a few days later. The tracking number is then transmitted to the buyer who is led to believe that the package is on the way. When it does not show up on time, the seller blames the carrier. If you ever see companies say "We process all orders the same day they are received. Orders can then take 10-14 business days to be delivered", you know they are buying time on the back of the carrier.
Certainly none of the carriers ever make a mistake right (is that lightening I see coming at me?)
Just a fun fact.........
 
ON the other hand, I routinely watch my Ground package tracking number not
move for three or four days and then make the cross country trip and get delivered
in one day. Makes me wonder if it's punishment for not paying for Overnight..
 
NewLondon88 said:
ON the other hand, I routinely watch my Ground package tracking number not
move for three or four days and then make the cross country trip and get delivered
in one day. Makes me wonder if it's punishment for not paying for Overnight..
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Nope......the service is for a certain delivery day no matter how it gets there. It can be that the package was not scanned at the origin but is actualy on its' way which makes it look like it has not moved. Unless it goes in the air, it's moving. Packages going from Los Angeles to Florida can very realistically stop along the way many times for consolidation just like airlines fly planes to fill them up as much as possible.
I always went with the theory that as long as it got delivered safely on the day that I paid for, what do I care if it gets a few frequent flyer miles along the way.

Cheers....
 
Then I had my photography business a client said that he sent the check (the check is in the mail. Well the Client put the wrong zip code on the letter and the letter went to joilet Ill. Long story short the client walked into my store several days after the event and demanded his money back. -- At the same time the mail was delivered, and there was this clients letter with a Joilet Ill cancellation on it with a date showing the letter was mailed from Ill the day after his daughters wedding date. It also showed the wrong zip code.
 
bobleibo said:
Nope......the service is for a certain delivery day no matter how it gets there. It can be that the package was not scanned at the origin but is actualy on its' way which makes it look like it has not moved. Unless it goes in the air, it's moving. Packages going from Los Angeles to Florida can very realistically stop along the way many times for consolidation just like airlines fly planes to fill them up as much as possible.
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Oh, I understand that.. it just amuses. Right now there is a package for
me that went from the vendor to San Diego. Then to Cerritos, where it will
sit until early morning of 12/1. Then it will be scanned leaving Cerritos at
about 1AM, hop a flight across the country to land in Keene NH by about
7AM. By noon or so it will be on my doorstep. At least that's how it usually
works..
 
Daniel

Package still show that it left Anchorage AK. Saturday Night. I have 2 more packages on the way from Bruce119 and Nolan. Which one will get here first. The one from Nolan will probably be shipped today by Priority Mail from Oakdale Ca about 75 miles away and the one from Bruce will go basicly coast to coast. I am not upset just an old retired guy getting bored. Won't be turning Pens untill next week as I have to put the Christmas Decorations up outside and the interior ones out of storage so LOML can start inside. I still say my package is trying to find Ratty on his tour of the USA
 
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I am assuming the vendor is in San Diego, which is a small hub. They send their packages to Cerritos California (one of 5 hubs in the L.A. area) for consolidation who then sends it to Ontario California for the flight out. It then stops in Louisville for more consolidation since nothing in the New England states are large enough for a direct flight. Then off it goes to NH. Trust me, UPS looks for every single way to save a penny on every shipment. Contrary to what many believe, there is not that much profit in an individual package shipment. Every time a package is mis-routed, it wipes out the profit for the next 20-30 packages down the line. The entire system is a never ending series of consolidations back and forth across the country every night. You should be in Louisville, Ky (the main UPS air hub) at 3:00 a.m.........your brain will blow a fuse.

Next time you try to get a direct flight out of NH to anywhere past the Mississippi, it will make sense.



NewLondon88 said:
Oh, I understand that.. it just amuses. Right now there is a package for
me that went from the vendor to San Diego. Then to Cerritos, where it will
sit until early morning of 12/1. Then it will be scanned leaving Cerritos at
about 1AM, hop a flight across the country to land in Keene NH by about
7AM. By noon or so it will be on my doorstep. At least that's how it usually
works..
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Here is a fun one for ya'.....
My daughter is in the US Navy stationed in San Diego. Since UPS is not allowed to deliver to an APO address, I am forced to send it through my friends at the US Post Office. Packages from Utah to San Diego go from here to San Francisco for military consolidation then to San Diego.....MINIMUM time to get a package to her is 2 weeks! Sad that we treat the service personnel that way. Christmas goodies are stale by then. We finally rented a box at the local UPS Store in San Diego which I send it to and call her to let her know to go get it. Shipping time - 2 DAYS.
 
Update

As of early this morning the package was processed through the sort faciliy in Marysville, CA about 40 mile north of here. Sacramento is the major sort facility in this area why in Marysville I have no Idea, bet it doesn't get here untill Tuesday.
 
I ordered some things from an Art Store in NY. It was supposed to be at my door 3 days later. On the 4th day I checked its tracking. It had gone from NY to Ripon, WI to Guam and back to Ripon, WI. The next day it was back in NY.

Okay, Following day it was back in WI and I thought I'd see it in a day or two.

It made 3 of those trips down to Guam and back to NY via WI before it finally went down to Texas, San Diego and finally here.

That was DHL
 
It is here

The package of pen cases has finally arrived this afternoon. It was the first of 5 orders from member of IAP but the last to arrived. The package is in great shape don't know where besides Alaska it has been. Oh! it is here and the adventure is over. Maybe we should have congress investigate and pass a law or something. Daniel lets put Nancy and Harry on it.
 
You guys missed all the fun... you're only dealing with domestic shipments... trying moving packages around the world internationally.

I worked for a major international airlines back in the '60 & '70's as load master on the cargo planes... we had a serviceman's trunk boarded a flight in SFO destined for Germany. The flight was one of our "round the world" flights so we had potentially lots of places to lose the trunk.... when it didn't arrive in Germany we started a trace. The flight went from SF to Honolulu, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Guam, and others I don't remember before it arrived in Frankfurt. After about 4 weeks, no sign of the trunk and we were going to have to pay a claim.... Planes are normally cycled in and out of a station about every 3 to 4 weeks, depending on maintenance, schedules etc... I always check my planes before we started loading. I was checking the plane and there in the front belly sat the trunk we had been tracing for 4 weeks.. back in SF. I think it had been around the world a dozen times...
 
BTW, when Fred Smith came up with the concept for FEDEX, everyone said it would never work.... He set up the company with a fleet of Lear Jets and Memphis as his hub... all shipments no matter the destination went to MEM and back... Today, most of the courier companies use the same concept, including the USPS, UPS, Emory (you may or may not remember Emory), Purolator (merged with Emory), DHL, etc...
 
Until about a year ago I always had good luck with both first class and priority mail. But, things have changed. Priority can now take several days longer than first class. What used to be cheap parcel post now costs more than priority, a rate increase that has not been publicized. I suspect the slow priority will be used as a lever to raise rates again (they just did recently) on priority.
BTW, the title of this thread bothers me. It casts the impression that Daniel is at fault.
 
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