Sometimes shipping just doesnt make any sense

[WaTaGuMp]

On Thursday I ordered something on ebay. Item location Van Nuys, about 50 miles from me. It shipped Friday, expected delivery, Tuesday, makes sense it takes that long to go 50 miles, this is UPS. I say next time, mail it. Small useless rant over.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Is it 50 miles or 5 miles?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Is it 50 miles or 5 miles?

Fixed, its fitty.

 

[TwiceOver]

Amazon over-nighted me an $8 item the other day...

 

[IronWing]

Orders Thursday, expects on Tuesday, and bitches?
<puts on old man hat and gets warmed up>
I remember when you sent a postcard requesting the catalog so you could see what was available. Then filling out the form at the back of the catalog and mailing the check. Getting something could be a three month process.

 

[SKORPI0]

Ordered via Amazon, shipped via USPS - delivered on a Sunday morning.
About 79 miles, less than 12 hours. Of course I paid an extra $11 for overnight shipping. :\

May 14, 2016 , 8:03 pm
Departed Shipping Partner Facility KENOSHA, WI 53144
May 15, 2016 , 7:52 am
Delivered, Front Door/Porch ORLAND PARK, IL 60462

 

[DrPizza]

On Thursday I ordered something on ebay. Item location Van Nuys, about 50 miles from me. It shipped Friday, expected delivery, Tuesday, makes sense it takes that long to go 50 miles, this is UPS. I say next time, mail it. Small useless rant over.

I'm often amused when people seem to believe that UPS is going to dedicate one truck to pick up an order and drive it straight to their house. Even if you order from a company that's 2 miles from your house, a little common sense should say that the order is going to go to a distribution center, etc. They're not just going to swing by and drop it off. It's just not efficient to do so. Hell, if my next door neighbor mailed a letter to me, it's likely to travel 60 miles to the regional sorting center, then back to the local post office, then to me. 2 days - not the mailman stopping to read the address on every sent letter, and deciding, "oh, I've got an ink pad, I can cancel out the stamp, back up 100 yards, and drop this letter off."

 

[WaTaGuMp]

My monitor that shipped from KOREA, bought on a Friday, arrived the following Tuesday.

 

[SlitheryDee]

My monitor that shipped from KOREA, bought on a Friday, arrived the following Tuesday.

My camera that shipped from CHINA, bought on an April, arrived the following May.

 

[zerocool84]

I'm often amused when people seem to believe that UPS is going to dedicate one truck to pick up an order and drive it straight to their house. Even if you order from a company that's 2 miles from your house, a little common sense should say that the order is going to go to a distribution center, etc. They're not just going to swing by and drop it off. It's just not efficient to do so. Hell, if my next door neighbor mailed a letter to me, it's likely to travel 60 miles to the regional sorting center, then back to the local post office, then to me. 2 days - not the mailman stopping to read the address on every sent letter, and deciding, "oh, I've got an ink pad, I can cancel out the stamp, back up 100 yards, and drop this letter off."

This

Lots of posters that rant about shipping on here have no common sense about it.

 

[Humpy]

I'm often amused when people seem to believe that UPS is going to dedicate one truck to pick up an order and drive it straight to their house.

:biggrin: If Dominoes can do it so can UPS. Can't be that hard.

 

[RLGL]

UPS shuts down on the weekend except for premium services

 

[Ketchup]

I actually feel the opposite, to a degree. Had to buy a couple wheels for a craftsman lawn mower. Closest Sears that stocked it was 80 miles away! Order from Sears online? $20 if I wanted it in less than 2 weeks. Guy from ebay had them cheaper and at my doir in 2 days. It's the retailers that are killing themselves, the shipping companies are doing great, imo.

 

[Jeff7]

It's computers doing efficient routing, likely accounting for more variables than a person could.

 

[thesmokingman]

USPS is better equipped for local deliveries.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

USPS is better equipped for local deliveries.

Yup, hence why I wished he would have used them instead. Last week I got a delivery from Amazon, they used their own shipping method, the item was dropped off at around 9:15 in the morning. UPS, doesn't come until around 4pm or later, on their normal ground shipping. I got it on Saturday also. :thumbsup:

 

[MtnMan]

And that is why you are not in charge of logistics at UPS or FedEx.

 

[pmv]

I'm often amused when people seem to believe that UPS is going to dedicate one truck to pick up an order and drive it straight to their house. Even if you order from a company that's 2 miles from your house, a little common sense should say that the order is going to go to a distribution center, etc. They're not just going to swing by and drop it off. It's just not efficient to do so. Hell, if my next door neighbor mailed a letter to me, it's likely to travel 60 miles to the regional sorting center, then back to the local post office, then to me. 2 days - not the mailman stopping to read the address on every sent letter, and deciding, "oh, I've got an ink pad, I can cancel out the stamp, back up 100 yards, and drop this letter off."

I sold something on Ebay once and the buyer turned out to be about 10 minutes walk away. Still went to the post office (about the same distance in the other direction) and posted it to him in order to get proof of postage to satisfy ebay/paypal. Which did feel (and quite possibly _was_) a bit stupid, but I've learned to be super cautious about selling things on ebay.

 

[Fire&Blood]

I'm often amused when people seem to believe that UPS is going to dedicate one truck to pick up an order and drive it straight to their house. Even if you order from a company that's 2 miles from your house, a little common sense should say that the order is going to go to a distribution center, etc. They're not just going to swing by and drop it off. It's just not efficient to do so. Hell, if my next door neighbor mailed a letter to me, it's likely to travel 60 miles to the regional sorting center, then back to the local post office, then to me. 2 days - not the mailman stopping to read the address on every sent letter, and deciding, "oh, I've got an ink pad, I can cancel out the stamp, back up 100 yards, and drop this letter off."

QFT.

In smaller rural areas, it may happen especially in places where everybody knows your name, where it's just a matter of Cliff stopping by Norm's to say hi and save him self an extra trip. Cities and suburbs? Not a chance. I had some surprisingly fast transit times through USPS too and estimated delivery dates have been moved up a few times as well.

On Thursday I ordered something on ebay. Item location Van Nuys, about 50 miles from me. It shipped Friday, expected delivery, Tuesday, makes sense it takes that long to go 50 miles, this is UPS. I say next time, mail it. Small useless rant over.

Thursday orders fail most of the time unless the retailer ships volumes and schedules multiple pickups throughout the day, a package ordered early could "catch up" to late Wednesday's packages, that's how you get a shot of a Friday delivery.

Know that it could have been worse:

http://gizmodo.com/5905096/the-post...ackage-across-the-country-twice-for-no-reason

 

[lxskllr]

Orders Thursday, expects on Tuesday, and bitches?
<puts on old man hat and gets warmed up>
I remember when you sent a postcard requesting the catalog so you could see what was available. Then filling out the form at the back of the catalog and mailing the check. Getting something could be a three month process.

All of this. I have a hard time getting excited about shipping delays. I get stuff from Europe quicker than I got stuff from the US in the bad old days. Virtually unlimited choice, and I can get just about anything in less than two weeks. It's a modern miracle. Praise the internet gods!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Speaking of inefficiency, they stopped sorting mail here years back. If I mail a letter to my neighbour it goes to TORONTO and back. WTF is that shit? They recently stopped printing the newspaper here too, it gets printed again.. in TORONTO then flown here. They did the same with the recycling... and now they're moving it back here. The penny pitching accountants running companies and making jobs disappear never cease to dumbfound me.

As far as shipping goes I find things have improved a LOT in the past decade or so. I remember ordering stuff from Toronto area and having to wait 2 weeks. Now I get stuff from china in like 2 weeks, if it's through Ebay. Amazon is always slower for some reason.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I'm often amused when people seem to believe that UPS is going to dedicate one truck to pick up an order and drive it straight to their house. Even if you order from a company that's 2 miles from your house, a little common sense should say that the order is going to go to a distribution center, etc. They're not just going to swing by and drop it off. It's just not efficient to do so. Hell, if my next door neighbor mailed a letter to me, it's likely to travel 60 miles to the regional sorting center, then back to the local post office, then to me. 2 days - not the mailman stopping to read the address on every sent letter, and deciding, "oh, I've got an ink pad, I can cancel out the stamp, back up 100 yards, and drop this letter off."

I will go as far as to say anybody who believes that is a certifiable idiot.

These are also the same people who believes putting fragile stickers everywhere on their airplane luggage is so going to make an overworked menial handler to treat their package like a baby.

 

[Red Squirrel]

These are also the same people who believes putting fragile stickers everywhere on their airplane luggage is so going to make an overworked menial handler to treat their package like a baby.

lol they probably laugh at that and give it a few extra shakes. Their train of thought is probably something like "What are you going to do, make some kind of scene/outrage at the airport, you do want to get to your destination without being detained by federal agents right?"

 

[Jeff7]

I will go as far as to say anybody who believes that is a certifiable idiot.

These are also the same people who believes putting fragile stickers everywhere on their airplane luggage is so going to make an overworked menial handler to treat their package like a baby.

At work, we've had a few packages delivered to us with the shock tags on them, already showing red, sometimes along multiple axes of motion.

"Do not stack" cones placed on top of palletized packages have also (infrequently) been crushed and even walked on.

 

[Ken g6]

Still could have been worse. I once had a package tracked to Florida, and it never came to Colorado at all. &#128542;