Delivery fails
Dec. 12th, 2020 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujSo I try to "buy local" or at least "buy small", by not getting my stuff from giants like Amazon and Walmart. Unfortunately, the little guys are really a lot worse at providing services.
I bought some long underwear, and the random place I ended up with took like two weeks before I actually received them, and the tracking was terrible. They were using a DHL/post office combination, but they only told me about the post office part so for over a week it said "en route to post office". If they had told me about the DHL part, it would have told me where it was and at least when it was going to get to the post office. I actually ended up going through their support in order to learn about this. So, they should have told me about DHL in the confirmation email. Still, it was a (in these days) ridiculous amount of time before I received my package.
The other fun thing about the long underwear purchase is that the place ended up being primarily an "adult clothing" place, and in the "you might also like" section there were things like bras with cutouts for your nipples. NSFW! Fortunately we're all working at home now!
Separately, I should have paid an additional $2 for shipping on my bicycle odometer, which I bought from some small bike shop. That would have gotten me UPS rather than USPS. The Postal Service is sucking hard. My odometer, according to tracking, has been in an adjacent town for three days. Tracking says "in Transit, Arriving Late". Duh! It also says "It is currently in transit to the next facility." Well, no. It's only 10 miles away, and I'm sure it's not been in transit for three days. A snail would get here sooner. It's sitting in a pile somewhere, just not having managed to get onto the truck for our town. I don't know if there's anything I can do to say "please go get my package off of the pile and send it to me" for the post office.
I bought some long underwear, and the random place I ended up with took like two weeks before I actually received them, and the tracking was terrible. They were using a DHL/post office combination, but they only told me about the post office part so for over a week it said "en route to post office". If they had told me about the DHL part, it would have told me where it was and at least when it was going to get to the post office. I actually ended up going through their support in order to learn about this. So, they should have told me about DHL in the confirmation email. Still, it was a (in these days) ridiculous amount of time before I received my package.
The other fun thing about the long underwear purchase is that the place ended up being primarily an "adult clothing" place, and in the "you might also like" section there were things like bras with cutouts for your nipples. NSFW! Fortunately we're all working at home now!
Separately, I should have paid an additional $2 for shipping on my bicycle odometer, which I bought from some small bike shop. That would have gotten me UPS rather than USPS. The Postal Service is sucking hard. My odometer, according to tracking, has been in an adjacent town for three days. Tracking says "in Transit, Arriving Late". Duh! It also says "It is currently in transit to the next facility." Well, no. It's only 10 miles away, and I'm sure it's not been in transit for three days. A snail would get here sooner. It's sitting in a pile somewhere, just not having managed to get onto the truck for our town. I don't know if there's anything I can do to say "please go get my package off of the pile and send it to me" for the post office.
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Date: 2020-12-14 05:46 pm (UTC)I checked the status of one package yesterday & it said "on truck for delivery on Monday". That's cool. I assumed that they just don't deliver on Sundays as a way to provide cheaper service. Well, I checked the status this morning & it said "delivered Sunday, left on front porch". Yep, it had been delivered and sat outside overnight.
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Date: 2020-12-14 07:27 pm (UTC)