The more anxious you are to receive a package, the less likely you are to receive it on schedule.

I sent the ECU for the bike out to Washington to have it reflashed. Sent Monday, they received iat Wednesday, reflashed and put back in the mail same day. Tracking number said it'd be here today.

Nope. Tracking history says it's been enjoying the scenery between SF and Oakland CA, but it's "On it's way to destination".

Potentially rideable weather mid week next week. I'm going to be hugely bummed if it doesn't show up in time.

At least they haven't lost it and held on to $500 worth of electronics for two months like they did with mine.

Somehow the Inspector General was able to have them 'find' it in two days.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
At least they haven't lost it and held on to $500 worth of electronics for two months like they did with mine.

Somehow the Inspector General was able to have them 'find' it in two days.

Well, I certainly hope not, but I'm not taking any options off the table until I have it in my hot little hands.

About three years ago I put a bunch of my childhood slot cars on ebay.

Some of them did really well and then I had to ship the group out via USPS. I sent 12 packages and insured all but the last because I figured... hey, what are the odds?

So a few days go by and guess what? The ONLY package I didn't insure vanishes in Oakland CA. The USPS could tell me the package entered their facility but never left...

Somewhere in Oakland there is a happy USPS employee with a 60's Cox slot car...

I just had one go from PA to Seattle and then to Anchorage. I live in Puyallup which is about 35 miles south of Seattle. I guess the package needed a vacation.

It’s threads like this that make me worried to buy or sell off the internet. *^^^ totally stinks, sorry.

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Originally posted by Rinehart:

Somewhere in Oakland there is a happy USPS employee with a 60's Cox slot car...

Might be the same one that ran off with $177 worth of Legos that evaporated.

"We are sure it was delivered, they just forgot to scan it"

People keep asking me what's in the box when I deliver packages to them. Like, how the fuck am I supposed to know? You're the dipshit who ordered it. Don't ask me what it is!

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Originally posted by .38supersig:

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Originally posted by Rinehart:

Somewhere in Oakland there is a happy USPS employee with a 60's Cox slot car...

Might be the same one that ran off with $177 worth of Legos that evaporated.

"We are sure it was delivered, they just forgot to scan it"

Yep, to add insult to injury, they refused to refund the shipping cost and told me sorry, can't find it.

USPS has been good to me. I always ship UPS, but some places (like Brownells) ship to me via USPS. The tracking has worked, I've asked for text updates, and I've gotten the shipments on time or early. Granted, we're talking a sample size of six or seven, but I have not had any bad experiences with USPS.

I can’t ever remember having an issue with UPS, but have had more than a couple with Fedex and USPS. This past Friday I get a notice that I missed a USPS package and it will be available to pick up at the post office after 1030a on Saturday. No problem, but when I went on Saturday to pick up package the conversation went something like this:

I get told uhhh we don’t have your package here...

So I reply ok where is it?

We don’t really know it might be on the truck for redelivery..

Hmm well that sounds funny because unless requested USPS doesn’t redeliver items a second time..

Give me your name and number and we’ll call you as soon as we know.

Ok and I left

5 minutes later I get a phone call from a manager stating he got ahold of the driver and they have too many packages on the truck to know if they have mine, but they’ll redirect their route to my area next so I should know in the next 15 minutes if they have it or not..

Needless to say Monday I’ll be back at the post office hunting for my package again.



In Fedex and USPS defense I get 50 times more packages from them than I do from UPS so maybe it’s just a numbers game..

Checked tracking, they found it, and it was in Scarborough (Southern Maine distribution center) yesterday, which means it'll be here today, right?

Nope. President's Day. Everything closed.

There's a fairly lengthy list of things I don't do: I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't dance. AND I DON'T DO PATIENCE!!!

God DAMN it.

Yep, same here. I ordered a backpack from Midway. They are located in Columbia Mo, Im west of Topeka Kansas. Normally its 2 days from them to my house. It goes from Columbia to KC to my house.

This time it went by way of Chicago.

Still waiting.

Same boat here. I purchased a Photo Editing program for my computer and thought I'd also purchase their 488pg book that can be used as a quick reference guide besides online videos and the help tutorial. I purchased and paid for it on Feb 1rst and what should have taken a week or 10days is now on the 19th day. Though he did put it in the mail it's been touring the USA since. I get an iMessage update now and again stating "It's on it's way to the destination!"

Nothing new, and not just with packages.

When I was little, (1970s) my mother mailed a letter to my grandmother. The letter was supposed to go from Georgia to Washington State. It was sent to Florida, stamped "Return To Sender, Addressee Unknown," and returned to her in Georgia.

And then there's Fedex, who, being too fookin lazy to deliver my package themselves, instead drop it off at the local post office for them to deliver.

Even though I paid for next day delivery, no worries, I don't really need it "next day" and delaying it another day will be fine.

Fedex can suck a bag of dicks as far as I'm concerned. I hate that outfit.