ALL parcel delivery is FUBAR

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With the possible exception of Amazon who doesn’t carry OEM motorcycle parts, or ship my own parcels for me.

UPS shipped parts from MA to Raleigh near me in a timely fashion. Then instead of loading them out for delivery as is their routine, they sent them to Louisville for who knows what reason, where they’ve been sitting for days.

FedEx had a package of photos riding around on their delivery truck for three days. Drove past my house every day. Watched them do it. Now the package is back in Durham. Just sitting there.

Someone on the forum took great pains to NOT mail a package through the black hole that is USPS in Greensboro, and sent it through Durham instead. It still went to Greensboro, in the opposite direction. It did make it to my house.
 
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The sane folks that have been delivering to my house forever have suddenly got amnesia, and have been giving our stuff to the neighbors
 
If we leave the gate open on our long driveway at address 205, Amazon trucks will come down the driveway to ask if this is address 211. Upon finding that it is not, they want to know where is 211? Upon finding that I do not know, they leave. Then, we close the gate. One day soon, I'm going to install the automatic gate mechanism!
 
Amazon driver gave me three packages, I did not look at the labels since it was dark at 6:30PM and wife was expecting shipment.
Neighbor rings my bell and has box for us, I looked at the three boxes I got and they were for him!
 
Only problem i have out here is prime is more like one week shipping. Signed up for jpcycles program (includes 2 day shipping), we'll see how they do.
 
Diablos said:
Only problem i have out here is prime is more like one week shipping. Signed up for jpcycles program (includes 2 day shipping), we'll see how they do.
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They get some sketchy commentary from time to time on the forums. If they don’t behave I’d use Dennis Kirk, or Revzilla. I also find stuff at Cycle Gear that is less bike specific.
 
fieldgrade said:
They get some sketchy commentary from time to time on the forums. If they don’t behave I’d use Dennis Kirk, or Revzilla. I also find stuff at Cycle Gear that is less bike specific.
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Their membership is also good at cyclegear and revzilla, so i thought it was pretty decent.
 
Diablos said:
Their membership is also good at cyclegear and revzilla, so i thought it was pretty decent.
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You know, I forgot that they are a conglomerate now. They might even own Dennis Kirk.
 
So, my muffler clamps that went errantly to Louisville four days ago left Louisville at 6:29am this morning, and then arrived at Louisville fifteen minutes later.

Guess I’ll ride 15 miles to the dealer this morning and just buy them in person. What a novel idea.
 
fieldgrade said:
So, my muffler clamps that went errantly to Louisville four days ago left Louisville at 6:29am this morning, and then arrived at Louisville fifteen minutes later.

Guess I’ll ride 15 miles to the dealer this morning and just buy them in person. What a novel idea.
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driver have the squirts? 😂
 
FWIW I judge them by their trips per day. I see 1 UPS truck, 1 Amazon truck, sometimes 2 USPS trucks, but usually three FedEx trucks delivering on my street each day. Three trucks covering the same ground, every day. why!?

OTOH package delivery in my area is not an issue. Stuff gets here reasonably fast by any carrier.
 
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FWIW I judge them by their trips per day. I see 1 UPS truck, 1 Amazon truck, sometimes 2 USPS trucks, but usually three FedEx trucks delivering on my street each day. Three trucks covering the same ground, every day.
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Indeed. Same thing here. And Fed Ex comes here from much farther away.
 
Catfish said:
FWIW I judge them by their trips per day. I see 1 UPS truck, 1 Amazon truck, sometimes 2 USPS trucks, but usually three FedEx trucks delivering on my street each day. Three trucks covering the same ground, every day. why!?

OTOH package delivery in my area is not an issue. Stuff gets here reasonably fast by any carrier.
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deliveries and pickups are sometimes different driers/trucks depending on how loaded down they are and what they have scheduled to pickup.
also, fedex ground and fedex express are different and don't cover eachothers stuff.
Can you tell i deal with this a lot too?
 
USPS hasn't had a regular driver or even an employee on my route in 10 years. Driver Du Jour, with corresponding slack attention to detail. USPS package shipping sometimes kinda seems to be like sailing on a ship across the Atlantic in Steerage Class in the 1920's. Hey aren't you lucky- we actually got it there ! USPS apparently can no longer attract and retain the kind of career employee they used to .

Around here Fedex Ground is a local logistics company low bid contracting with Fedex stickers on the doors of Budget rental trucks. Zero point Zero on a scale of ten. Bizarre package routing and irregular status updates, so my Hazmat deliveries makes me tense. Note: Fed-ex Next Day air, etc is still the corporate Fed-ex we mostly think of. Different crew entirely and still usually On Point.

UPS in my experience is the most consistent, if not always perfect- for ground service and better. They've gotten expensive in the past few years but I believe still haven't gone to a contracted Vendor for local Ground deliveries model, at least where I live. Like I said, some issues but at least status updates are more consistent and its Brown till its on my porch. Plus, I met one of the local drivers I knew a few years ago in the Sheriffs office permit line, so...

Amazon delivery has had a few ups and downs also- a couple days ago there was a woman on my street in her personal car doing Amazon Prime deliveries, so either they are short on vehicles, drivers, or both as the holiday season ramps up. I have noticed that many of the Amazon Prime Sprinter vans I see in traffic are looking kinda battle scarred, so I think its interesting now that they've been at it a few years how they'll cope with fleet management.

All first world problems for sure.
 
So, my $1.17 (and $4.00 for delivery) pack of a dozen pictures from Walmart (for my old Mom) that rode around on a Fed Ex truck for two days and then sat at the Durham Fed Ex hub for 2-3 days after that, was sent back out for delivery at 12:45 PM today, and delivered at 10:05 PM tonight, 25 miles away. That has to be at least the fourth Fed Ex vehicle I have seen in my little neighborhood today.
 
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The USPS doesnt like to drive on my driveway, so they just put in the tracking notes "no one home or unable to deliver", while fedex on the other hand just leaves my packages with the neighbors or last year they just left a package at the end of my driveway by the road. I actually thought it was trash someone had thrown out until I saw my name on it.
 
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I had two packages of the same size with the same contents (why the seller did that I have no idea) leave the same place headed my way via fedex. One went to Durham and was delivered in 2 days, the other went to Charlotte first, then Durham, then Charlotte.... then magically showed up 4 days later. No tracking info after it went back to Charlotte. The Charlotte package was pretty badly beat up, but the packaging did it's job.

Random, but not unexpected.
 
Very on topic here, I was just out in the tactical grocery getter and in the parking lot off on the side of Food Lion there was a u-haul packed with packages and two rando SUVs next to it. There were three dudes in UPS 'vests' moving packages from the truck to the SUVs.

Pretty ballsy for a package theft ring to operate in the open at 1pm.... so maybe it's just where UPS stashes stuff when their distribution centers are overloaded? Or how things get moved between hubs without a scan, it went u-haul?
 
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Very on topic here, I was just out in the tactical grocery getter and in the parking lot off on the side of Food Lion there was a u-haul packed with packages and two rando SUVs next to it. There were three dudes in UPS 'vests' moving packages from the truck to the SUVs.

Pretty ballsy for a package theft ring to operate in the open at 1pm.... so maybe it's just where UPS stashes stuff when their distribution centers are overloaded? Or how things get moved between hubs without a scan, it went u-haul?
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cant remember if it was ups or fedex, but they delivered to the house in a uhaul last week. im guessing its due to vehicles being down for maintenance or not enough vehicles to meet demand.
 
I've seen USPS contract carriers use a uhaul in a pinch.
 
regarding rentals, today a Ryder rental delivered our shipment.
 
…and then sometimes, you have deliveries like this. Hoodie showed up in time for my son to wear it to school tomorrow. When I checked this morning and saw the mechanical failure, I assumed there was no chance it was happening. 18.5 hours from origin scan in TX until it was on my porch…and it was “free” shipping from Woot! since I’m an Amazon customer.

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well, today a lady in what i think was her private SUV delivered our package.
she had a UPS vest on, and her SUV had UPS magnetic signs on both sides.
 
Saw the fed ex truck come by the house 3 times yesterday, driver even waived once then marked my package as undelivered no one at home.
 
I'm waiting for a package from Idaho via FedEx. Expected delivery is tomorrow morning.

It went from northern Idaho to Portland, OR; sat around for the weekend. From there to southern Idaho. Thence Nebraska, and, surprisingly logically, to Missouri.

On Wednesday evening, it arrived in Canton. North Carolina. 16 miles from my house.

11:30 this morning, they sent it to Charlotte.

HTF they make money doing that, I can't imagine.
 
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