Black Friday 2021

[Apache]

I ordered some tweezers to use in my laser welder. They are from a third party and originated in Memphis Tennessee. Imagine my surprise when USPS shipped them from Memphis to New York State then New Jersey and have now left Tallahassee on their way to me. I live in South Georgia. Straight line delivery would have had them to me in three days. I guess USPS is taking a page out of the book Airlines use to route passengers.
Apache

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I just checked my order and it's also delayed. This has happened to me before.

Walmart sucks at on-time delivery!

The last time Walmart told me something was delayed, I'd already received it a day or two before. About a week later, they informed me it was shipped. But generally stuff has arrived when it's supposed to.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

This year is worse than last year. It's starting way too early and stores are having way too many sales events with way too many start times. It's hard keeping up with them. How I long for the days when they only had one ad with a short 3 to 4 day sales period.

At least this year it's for a good reason: Trying to get people to shop earlier to avoid delivery issues that are pretty much 100% certain to happen.

Granted they'll probably keep doing it every year from now on, even after things settle down. Just wait, ten more years or so and the sales will start in June.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Apache

I ordered some tweezers to use in my laser welder. They are from a third party and originated in Memphis Tennessee. Imagine my surprise when USPS shipped them from Memphis to New York State then New Jersey and have now left Tallahassee on their way to me. I live in South Georgia. Straight line delivery would have had them to me in three days. I guess USPS is taking a page out of the book Airlines use to route passengers.
Apache

USPS tracking is often a work of fiction.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

The last time Walmart told me something was delayed, I'd already received it a day or two before. About a week later, they informed me it was shipped. But generally stuff has arrived when it's supposed to.

Well, well, well. My Chromebook is here. They delivered it from the store. Nice job Walmart

[tubemonkey]

Sam's Club

Sam's first Black Friday event is now live.

For details about dates, links to BF ads and items on sale, please see Sam's BF post.

[4691mls]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

USPS tracking is often a work of fiction.

I once ordered something from an eBay seller one state over. Probably a 2 hour drive from my town to theirs. Bur the Post Office routed it from the seller's town to a larger city in their state (opposite direction from me), then sent it to a large city in my state (nowhere near me) and eventually back to me. The whole process took several days and hundreds of miles.

[Apache]

I had a package of diamonds shipped from Rochester New York that went to Miami, then Ft. Lauderdale, then to Miami Beach, back to Ft Lauderdale, Miami Beach again, followed by Jacksonville and on to Tallahassee before it showed up at my business. This was USPS and it was an Priority Express Next Day package that actually took a week and a half.
This year I have had four packages shipped overnight from Lafayette Louisiana go to Flint N=Michigan first.
My diamond company shipped a package of diamonds to Alaska via Fed Ex and they ended up in Hong Kong.
If Fed Ex and UPS ever merge they should name the company Fed Up.
Apache

[OtinG]

I rarely use USPS, for obvious reasons. I used to use UPS a lot, but now they are the worst. I think they should be renamed to "Oops". My door cam caught an UPS guy literally throwing a package onto my front porch last year. Thankfully it wasn't a breakable item, but still... And early this year they delivered a Sony Bravia 4K HDR TV that had an obvious large ding on the packaging and a shattered screen where the ding was. Amazon replaced it without questions, but I made sure they knew UPS had banged up the package in shipping or delivery.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by Apache

If Fed Ex and UPS ever merge they should name the company Fed Up.

Nah, F'd Up would be a much better (and accurate) name.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Well, well, well. My Chromebook is here. They delivered it from the store. Nice job Walmart

My TV is still showing as delayed, with no other information. Really annoying.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

USPS tracking is often a work of fiction.

Originally Posted by 4691mls

I once ordered something from an eBay seller one state over. Probably a 2 hour drive from my town to theirs. Bur the Post Office routed it from the seller's town to a larger city in their state (opposite direction from me), then sent it to a large city in my state (nowhere near me) and eventually back to me. The whole process took several days and hundreds of miles.

That's been happening for decades, even for standard size envelope first class letters. It has its own (perverse) logic. They quit sorting outgoing mail at local post offices and only sort at processing centers. That resulted in very local first class mail delivery times taking at least a one day hit.

Forget interstate, I live in a town midway between two large cities less than 100 miles apart. If I send a letter to my own town, it goes to the city to the north then back to my town. If I send a letter to the next town in the direction of the other city, it goes to the city to the north, then the other city, then to the town whose border is only a few blocks away. (The entire space between the cities is filled in with suburbs.) This allowed USPS to greatly reduce the number of employees and macines doing mail sorting.

My reference to fiction was because some of my packages supposedly made multiple large trips all over the country in very short times.

[LDB]

I ordered a computer from HP on 9/1. They said it would be built and shipped on 10/6. Long time but ok. Then around 9/28 they email and say it won't be done until 11/4. I called and almost cancelled but didn't. Yesterday they emailed and said not until 12/7 and if I want to cancel to reply. I emailed back to cancel and refund ASAP. I'll hopefully find a good pc in one of the black Friday promos.

[4691mls]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

That's been happening for decades, even for standard size envelope first class letters. It has its own (perverse) logic. They quit sorting outgoing mail at local post offices and only sort at processing centers. That resulted in very local first class mail delivery times taking at least a one day hit.

Forget interstate, I live in a town midway between two large cities less than 100 miles apart. If I send a letter to my own town, it goes to the city to the north then back to my town. If I send a letter to the next town in the direction of the other city, it goes to the city to the north, then the other city, then to the town whose border is only a few blocks away. (The entire space between the cities is filled in with suburbs.) This allowed USPS to greatly reduce the number of employees and macines doing mail sorting.

My reference to fiction was because some of my packages supposedly made multiple large trips all over the country in very short times.

We also lost our closest processing center so even local mail now goes out of town to be processed and then comes back. I remember the good old days when the post office actually had a separate collection box for local mail so if you mailed something to an address in your own town it would get there the next day.

[4691mls]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Nah, F'd Up would be a much better (and accurate) name.

That was my thought too! "Fed Up" would be the customers!