Off Topic Weird Circuitous Shipping !

I’ve never really had packages bounce around, but USPS sure will leave notices saying that they tried to deliver the package when I was sitting in my living room. For a date that’s already passed.

Oh, and they also will just leave cardboard packages out in the rain because they don’t want to walk to my door.

Oh, and they sure will just drive right by and never deliver because they’ve just decided to take an off day. Literally, the knife arrives at the local PO, they say “out for delivery”, and they just don’t even try. I have to track the knife down and get it myself.

Oh, and Amazon does things like drop packages in random shrubs 50 yards from my mailbox and 100 from the front door.
 
It happens to me all the time...not just with knives. These shippers use some sort of software that moves the stuff we order all over the place which doesn't seem to make sense, but I'm sure for them it minimizes their cost and maximizes profit. That's their priority.... certainly not speed.
 
DocJD said:
Ever had a knife you are anxiously awaiting , so you keep checking on the tracking location ?

You get all excited , 'case your package has arrived close by and should be delivered tomorrow .

Nothing shows up . So you check again and are shocked to see that your knife has now mysteriously passed you by and journeyed on to far away places , for no discernible reason .

I have one now , loitering around somewhere in CA , west coast . Shipped from NH , east coast . Stopped by briefly in Nashville ,( where it should have gone local) , just to tease me .
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I had a knife shipped from the southeast (can't remember which state) and I got the delivered notification. Hurried home, no knife. I recheck the tracking, turns out it was delivered to someone in Seattle. I'm just outside of Chicago.

Thankfully, it ended up being the company gave me the wrong tracking number.

Remember, USPS often ships on passenger flights, which rarely make sense.

To give examples, here are a few flights I've been on with stopovers that make little sense:

Houston to Chicago, stopover in Minneapolis. Dafuq?

Chicago to Houston, stop in Atlanta

Las Vegas to Chicago, stop in Los Angeles

Just how it is. It sucks, not to mention when they get lost.

I work in the town where the local USPS distribution hub is, 8 miles from where I live. I once had a package arrive at the local hub (palatine, il) get sent to the palatine local p.o., go back to the hub, get sent to my local p.o., then get sent back to the hub, then two days later back to my local p.o., then finally arrive. Again, dafuq?

Owning a business, we have a good relationship with both our postal workers and UPS driver. Same UPS driver for 20 years, postal people come and go every few years.

Our mail woman got injured last April, was out for a month. Temp worker couldn't be bothered to deliver the mail to the individual offices in my building. I work in a small two store building, my family's business takes up all four offices on the first floor, another the other four offices. I walk in from lunch one day to a giant bundle of mail thrown in the hallway. This goes on for several days. I call and complain. Next day a bundle twice the size thrown in the hall. Not just mail for our office building, but for the entire strip mall, which is more than 1/8 mile long. On it was a note saying "I am not responsible for delivering your God damned mail!"

Disgruntled postal employees indeed. Finally a few days later we got a normal person delivering.
 
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When I bought my Mnandi it went from NY to Omaha, then to Puerto Rico for the weekend then back to Omaha and on to me.

I also had a Sebenza once leave and return to Chicago 6 times in 10 days before making it to Nebraska.
 
Bob Denman said:
I have a lot of packages bounce between Newark, Albany; Newburgh; and a couple of centers in Massachusetts...
I think they're just piling up the frequent flier miles!
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Living upstate, I've had packages hit the same spots before finally getting to Latham (UPS), Albany (USPS) or Rensselaer (Fedex).
 
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