Ahhhhh, UPS, how I love thee....

[phylodog]

Waiting on a very expensive item from UPS. Watching the tracking and it's out for delivery today. I spot the truck in the neighborhood on my way out to work so I hang close for a few. Wife tells me the driver just pulled up so I turn around and head home to grab the package real quick. Get a text a few minutes later telling me the driver couldn't find my package on the truck. Really? Those trucks don't look all that big to me, wouldn't think it would take all that long to find it. Driver told my wife he'd be back so I'm sitting here holding my breath for that to happen.

Always something with UPS & Fedex, never fails.

 

[T.Lex]

ha!

I have a batch of Black Friday, not that expensive stuff and UPS update told me that it is in Indy, but that a trailer was late arriving to the terminal, so they don't know when the delivery will be.

Wait.

Its been 12 miles away since 11:30 last night.

How difficult is this, really.

(I know, I know, its more complicated than I can possibly imagine.)

 

[lovemachine]

I actually believe it. The drivers don’t load their own trucks. They have to sort thru a number of packages to find yours. Also, their schedule for delivery is all messed up. Their route is pre-determined every morning. It’s a new system UPS has developed to be more efficient on their deliveries.

The UPS drivers hate it.

Also, this time of year, it’s all messed up because of Christmas shopping.

 

[phylodog]

ha!

I have a batch of Black Friday, not that expensive stuff and UPS update told me that it is in Indy, but that a trailer was late arriving to the terminal, so they don't know when the delivery will be.

Wait.

Its been 12 miles away since 11:30 last night.

How difficult is this, really.

(I know, I know, its more complicated than I can possibly imagine.)

I got the same message then half an hour later it said on the truck for delivery

 

[rhino]

On the bright side, UPS and FedEx almost always bring fun or at least neutral stuff. Bad stuff like bills are the bailiwick of the dreaded USPS!

 

[churchmouse]

Smaller parts/pieces are now shoved off to the USPS for delivery. Zero effective tracking on some. 7 to 10 working days has been the norm for delivery.

I can and have ordered parts for my 64 Impala restoration project and gotten them on my doorstep the next afternoon. These boxes are near to and exceed 100Lbs at times and they get here PDQ.

A 3oz (or lighter) part for a 1911 takes 2 weeks. WTF.

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

Stickers with 4 letters... O-R-M-D.

A fill-in driver once asked, why is that so heavy...

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Stickers with 4 letters... O-R-M-D.

A fill-in driver once asked, why is that so heavy...

My driver calls those packages "gun food".

 

[hoosierdoc]

supposedly my package arrived in indy and now they can't say why but they can't deliver it and can't give me an estimate of when they can

Your package scheduled for delivery on Wednesday, 11/29/2017 may be delayed due to unexpected circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Exception Reason: Due to operating conditions, your package may be delayed.
Exception Resolution: Delivery will be rescheduled.

​

 

[Leadeye]

Count yourself lucky they don't just leave it at the mailbox instead of driving up the hill.

 

[Alamo]

Just make sure the brown Santa at the door isn't really the Grinch. Last year in Houston a guy opened the door to a UPS guy holding box only to find out it was a home invasion. Homeowner got a fractured skull and 28 staples in his noggin. This year two UPS guys got robbed inside their UPS truck. The robbers took their cell phones, wallets, and...uniforms.

Man in UPS uniform, 3 others accused of assaulting, robbing...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...-while-delivering-packages-in-west-university

 

[edporch]

Waiting on a very expensive item from UPS. Watching the tracking and it's out for delivery today. I spot the truck in the neighborhood on my way out to work so I hang close for a few. Wife tells me the driver just pulled up so I turn around and head home to grab the package real quick. Get a text a few minutes later telling me the driver couldn't find my package on the truck. Really? Those trucks don't look all that big to me, wouldn't think it would take all that long to find it. Driver told my wife he'd be back so I'm sitting here holding my breath for that to happen.

Always something with UPS & Fedex, never fails.

My guess would be that they're trying to make each stop go quickly because they have so many packages to deliver.
So if it takes any time at all to find a package, they'll just claim they can't find it.

I had a UPS package the driver said he couldn't find.
It was a small package.

I gave him a sob story about how mad my wife would be, and could he just look again.
He FINALLY found it.

 

[hoosierdoc]

When we ran hartatac we'd get lots of 40# PMAGS boxes around this time of year. Fairly easy to find those 100-mag cases and still they had to search the truck for a while sometimes

 

[singlesix]

Hope I didn't jinx myself reading this thread, new toy due on Friday.

 

[phylodog]

Still waiting for him to return as promised...

 

[Rookie]

Is it what I think it is?

 

[4651feeder]

It's now been 18 months since I've had to put that raggedy brown uniform on (retired) , don't miss any of it this time of year except for some of the people I no longer see. Got word all the regional hubs (Indy, Chicago/CACH) ran sorts this Holiday to process the plethora of inbound volume forecast via rail. Two extended centers that I know of had so many trailers stacked up on their lots Monday morning for preload to process....that they couldn't process it all in one day for delivery (according to time in transit, a lot of that volume shouldn't have been on Mondays' sort schedule anyways, they were trying to get a jump on it), hence packages will show @ X and the consumer will now be tapping their toe wondering why their package is mere miles away and not out for delivery. I can tell you that where I'm located, for a driver to have left the building Monday with a package car containing less than floor to ceiling, front to back would have been a rarity.

During peak a lot of these drivers will deliver 200+ stops with 350+ packages per day plus make their normal assigned pick-ups.

Any questions?

 

[phylodog]

Is it what I think it is?

Of course, this kind of thing would never happen to me on an $8 iPhone screen protector.

 

[churchmouse]

It's now been 18 months since I've had to put that raggedy brown uniform on (retired) , don't miss any of it this time of year except for some of the people I no longer see. Got word all the regional hubs (Indy, Chicago/CACH) ran sorts this Holiday to process the plethora of inbound volume forecast via rail. Two extended centers that I know of had so many trailers stacked up on their lots Monday morning for preload to process....that they couldn't process it all in one day for delivery (according to time in transit, a lot of that volume shouldn't have been on Mondays' sort schedule anyways, they were trying to get a jump on it), hence packages will show @ X and the consumer will now be tapping their toe wondering why their package is mere miles away and not out for delivery. I can tell you that where I'm located, for a driver to have left the building Monday with a package car containing less than floor to ceiling, front to back would have been a rarity.

During peak a lot of these drivers will deliver 200+ stops with 350+ packages per day plus make their normal assigned pick-ups.

Any questions?

No questions at all. I understand completely. This is one of the reasons they put the small stuff out to USPS so they can loose it.

 

[Rookie]

Of course, this kind of thing would never happen to me on an $8 iPhone screen protector.

I still hate you