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Post by papaof2 on Oct 19, 2023 19:44:38 GMT -6
Scan History
Oct 19
8:00 am
Departed Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item
STONE MOUNTAIN,GA 30087
Oct 18
11:56 pm
Picked Up by Shipping Partner, USPS Awaiting Item
ATLANTA,GA 30349
If the "shipping partner" picked it up in Atlanta, why didn't they take it directly to the USPS hub in Atlanta instead of Stone Mountain? I know, "economies of scale" - cheaper to dump it all in the truck and run it all through their automated sorter in Stone Mountain and then bring it back to USPS in Atlanta in pre-sorted bins for the best shipping rate. But it seems they're burning a lot of diesel and tire rubber to "save" on shipping...
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Post by feralferret on Oct 19, 2023 20:48:05 GMT -6
Beats me.
Amazon's own internal shipping is just as bad as USPS. They will pull an item from the warehouse in Liberty, MO that will be delivered by a truck out of Riverside, MO which is about 17 miles away. Do they send it directly there? Of course not. They send it to Lenexa, KS first, around 35 miles. Then they send it another 19 miles back to Riverside. 54 miles instead of 17 miles. It also often adds a day to the delivery by the time everything has to be processed the extra time.
A couple of years ago, almost everything I sold on eBay got routed through New Jersey by USPS. Even if it was going to California, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, or Florida.
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Post by techsar on Oct 19, 2023 21:26:49 GMT -6
UPS isn't any better. Item from Kentucky goes to New Orleans (which is the closest major hub) then sends it to Dallas, Shreveport and back to New Orleans.
Go figure...
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Post by gipsy on Oct 19, 2023 21:40:34 GMT -6
Not very well it seems. I have had several packages delivered that were for the neighbors so they can't read addresses either.
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Post by papaof2 on Oct 20, 2023 2:46:12 GMT -6
One of my "favorites" was from Fed-Ex.
Package of LiFePO4 batteries listed as "Delivered" but there's nothing on the porch.
They say it was signed for by "MM". The only "MM" I know lives 400 miles from here.
Ordered the same batteries again about 3 weeks later.
That evening, there's a Fed-Ex package on the porch. But I didn't specify Same Day Air delivery - it's the original package. There has to be a story in that.
A week or so later the second order shows up.
We occasionally get the neighbors' mail and rarely their packages - they occasionally get ours. I expect more of that in the near future: our mailman (yes, a man and his name is Tim) is retiring (at 55) and the route is up for bid. It's apparently a plum route through nice neighborhoods where packages too big for the mailbox can be left on the porch with an almost 100% certainty those packages will be picked up by the addressee. I mostly resolved that by installing a size 1.5 mailbox. Couldn't convince the better half to go with the size 2 mailbox (the big one that's common in the country) but she had second thoughts about that when one of the fill-in carriers stuffed a body pillow in the 1.5 box and it took 15 minutes to get that pillow out without damaging it.
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Post by feralferret on Oct 20, 2023 20:43:43 GMT -6
I'll bet the carrier had fun stuffing the pillow into the mailbox!
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Post by papaof2 on Oct 20, 2023 22:07:58 GMT -6
Some of the fill-in carriers are just too lazy to walk to the front porch and deliver a package there. I saw one put the smaller things in the mailbox (it's on the deadend to a circle of maybe 5 houses) then she DROVE around to the front of the house (corner lot) for a shorter walk to deliver that day's package - but through the wet and probably muddy yard instead of the concrete sidewalk that runs from the driveway which is next to the mailbox. Does that add up to lazy and stupid?
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Post by feralferret on Oct 21, 2023 1:37:51 GMT -6
Yes.
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Post by gipsy on Oct 21, 2023 15:22:30 GMT -6
Yep
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