Random Rants
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I don't know if it's just my luck or if something is going on with USPS but I have currently 2 orders inbound that are stalling in tracking.
Both show up as 'Your package is moving within the USPS network and is on track to be delivered to its final destination. It is currently in transit to the next facility.' but they haven't moved since a couple of weeks (one is even aproaching a month)
I'm in Belgium and it seems the average parcel can take up to 30 days, but this is starting to feel like it might be lost in the mail. Anyone else in Europe notice heavy delays on the USPS front?
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Sorry to hear that. There is some deliberate sabotage ongoing at USPS and we are experiencing the impact stateside too.
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Sorry to hear that. There is some deliberate sabotage ongoing at USPS and we are experiencing the impact stateside too.
sabotage to cause delays or to lose parcels?
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Yeah. I don’t want to go down the rabbit hole so I’ll leave it at this: USPS as a public entity has a lot of enemies. Crippling it and stoking broad dissatisfaction is a way of gathering political momentum to privatize it.
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I shipped a GAH pendant to the UK back on the 5/30. I was contacted by the buyer a few days ago and I had assumed that it had already been delivered but there are no tracking updates since the 15th when it left US customs. Now, looking back at the tracking, it says that the estimated delivery is July 4th! I know that Brexit has complicated things but no way should it take >30 days from the US to the UK especially when shipping was $40 for something that weighs less than an ounce.
I'm still at a loss as to how @scarfmace's chore coat is still MIA. It's pretty discouraging and makes me hesitant to ship overseas if this is going to be the new normal.
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I shipped a GAH pendant to the UK back on the 5/30. I was contacted by the buyer a few days ago and I had assumed that it had already been delivered but there are no tracking updates since the 15th when it left US customs. Now, looking back at the tracking, it says that the estimated delivery is July 4th! I know that Brexit has complicated things but no way should it take >30 days from the US to the UK especially when shipping was $40 for something that weighs less than an ounce.
I'm still at a loss as to how @scarfmace's chore coat is still MIA. It's pretty discouraging and makes me hesitant to ship overseas if this is going to be the new normal.
This may have a bearing on the ongoing tale of the Mad Red @jordanscollected
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@Clint_D March 12th the Mad Red was shipped to Germany. It sat in Chicago until it cleared customs on May 15th. We haven't heard a word since then.
The irony of how frustrated and mad I am about this delay will only add to the story of its travels once round 2 (fingers crossed) begins.
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Happy to see that both my parcels finaly got an update yesterday and are both on their way overseas! Looks like they just got held back and where not lost afterall.
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Generally speaking DPD are absolutely fantastic, the only problem for me is I sit about halfway around their route and tend to be the first delivery after their 1-hour lunch break. So I can just see them sat there, stuffing their face whilst I wait in great anticipation for my deliveries. It kills me
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I've got you beat — my UPS guy lives right down the street from me, so I'm always the very last on his route. I get my packages around 7 or 8PM usually. Brutal waiting!
That said, I don't know why exactly I'm last on the route — it's not like he drives the truck home and parks it in front of his house. He has to take it back. Anyway, I guess just bad luck haha…
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@popvulture ouch, they must be sliw days
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This is me checking the UPS tracking for the lost and only 4XL 526PJ in existence that I ordered a couple weeks ago.
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Yikes!!! Hope it makes the trek!!!!
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…bad mudslide in western Tokyo, hope all is well for the Iron Heart crew there. :o
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If you've never had the transmission go out on an F-350 Super Duty while towing a 25 foot trailer and blocking four lanes of traffic in all directions, then the tow not having an inch and 7/8 ball hitch, so you block traffic for over an hour, I highly recommend it. Talk about an exercise in humility.
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I am so tired. But I am glad that's over. And they didn't seem too mad about it at work.
How you doing Giles?
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I'm doing good thank you, but the new Kayak is using muscles I did not know I had, so I am knackered. But that is part of the reason I got it, to build up the strength in my legs…
I did have a bit of a "discussion" at the public dock yesterday. It was the first time I was landing the thing, so I was a little nervous about remembering everything and not making a complete lash of it. I got out of the kayak on the slipway and a motorboat came in behind me:
"Oi, we are landing there"
"Yeah, so am I and I got here first"
"Well I need to land now"
"I'll only be a few mins, and I did get here before you"etc etc etc
After I got the kayak out, the boat owner came over and was exceedingly nice to me. I think he knew he had been a complete twat. He did not actually say sorry, but did give me some advice on good fishing spots....
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I love how you say twat
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Haha yes, it's something special — I dated a British girl for a while and it always cracked me up when she called somebody one. It's all in the pronunciation, too — we yanks tend to pronounce it like "twot" but the Brit "at" usage is way better. They win at the insults.
