lost deliveries, will they stop?
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Has this returned to normal, i.e. less loss, or same?
It seemed that with the pandemic it became a free for all.
I have business cases where there were delivery confirmations, yet items never delivered. We know this for a fact, that nobody ever came to our business location (security cams support). Too many to mention. But this was when the carriers were not required to obtain signatures.
I did not know this, but the distributors are insuring the shipments. I know as a company, my employer does not.
I had 23 boxes shipped to my residence--I know this is not wise but it's covid remote working I guess.
Well 1/23 was missing, and the dollar value is north of $5k.
I felt upset because misdeliveries is a pet peeve, and who's to say when no signature required, I didn't, let's use the dirty word, steal this item?
One clue thankfully showed something is not right.
22 boxes delivered at 12:48 PM. No signature required despite the dollar value being almost six figures--again, I am stupid to allow my employer to ship to my home. Stupid.
the missing 23rd box showed delivered same day, as part of the 22, at 17:30 EDT.
Here's where I question the validity of that.
They don't come 2X per day to a residence.
So, do they have controls in place where in order to show delivery of a package, the actual barcode must be scanned? Or can a driver manually enter it? If the driver cannot manually enter it, where does the GPS on the vehicle place the driver at 17:30 EDT on that day? If he can manually enter it, does the system show that, and why did he have to manually enter it?
It took a month to straighten out. The distributor sent another item and I found out they do have insurance.
In the last 2 decades, for it to touch me personally somehow, that's only the 2nd misdelivery. But at work in corporate environments, too many to even mention. It does have to do with volume, say Mr. Doe is signing, he's signing for palettes of items. He's not inspecting them one by one before signing, get what I mean?
Just last week a vendor sent me wine, adult signature required. I got a call tag and had it held. So maybe, signatures are back. I sure hope so.
Here in the chicago area the
Here in the chicago area the bulk of amazon deliveries are by their own service (TBAxxxxx). Going back at least a year or more now.
What I have noticed is before deliveries were usually early - 10am-2pm. Now i'm lucky to get it at by 8pm.
Near by are 3 (three) amazon warehouses - within a 5 mile radius! One is a flex (drivers use their own vehicles), the other two are amazon branded vans.
That's a lot of delivery power. I was reading somewhere that in some areas, amazon is delivering for none amazon shipments too.
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For the past month, I've been getting USPS package deliveries on Saturday and Sunday! This is a first in my rural area.
The deliveries are made with a USPS vehicle by someone other than our regular mail carrier.
The practice may be temporary however until the backlog of package deliveries in our area is reduced.
Anyone else getting weekend deliveries?
Yes for a while now, in the USPS Jeep looking vehicle, Saturday's and Sundays. See them in the neighborhood all the time.
I don't have a regular carrier though. I'm 5 blocks from the post office and I think they give the route to "the new guy" hardly ever see the same person delivering for more than a week or two, and, it comes at all different times of the day, sometimes as late as 7 pm.
. 2 Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S, Nuvi 2689, 2 Nuvi 2460, Zumo 550, Zumo 450, Uniden R3 radar detector with GPS built in, includes RLC info. Uconnect 430N Garmin based, built into my Jeep. .
I setup
an LTL and used UPS freight. The other end didn't like the price and set it up themselves through a broker who chose FedEx Freight.
The interesting thing is same dimensions and weight, through the broker the class was 85, UPS told me 100, and with an online calculator I got 110. Very fishy. I have a feeling a broker knows what they can use to reduce the cost while not triggering a rebill.
Analogy--water boils at 212 F and freezes at 32 F. A broker knows he can say it freezes at 29 F and that if he says 28 F he's busted lol
This I don't believe can get lost I mean a truck with a pup is gonna back into a dock and has a BOL.
Lol. I've received various
Lol. I've received various packages from business mislabeled in terms of weight. Most recently, a 2 lb priority package was labeled as 1 lb.
I had my first "TBN"
I had my first "TBN" delivery from Amazon a week or so ago also in ABQ. I heard a truck outside, actually a rental van, and they dropped it at my front door. When I look at Amazon orders it shows a picture of the box sitting on the patio (I really need to sweep my patio!). I wonder if/when they get the ABQ distribution centers up adn running if more will be delivered that way?
Amazon map
I got my second TBA delivery here in Albuquerque today. This time I happened to look at the Amazon "orders" page tracking link between the time it was logged as "out for delivery" (11:20 a.m. in this case" and arrival, and thus saw the famous map. It marked my house location with a red mark (on the house, not the address) and showed the delivery vehicle location with a different color, and narrated the number of stops to go. The updates were a little erratic, but I got really good warning that delivery was imminent. Perhaps because I had updated my Amazon delivery preference from unspecified location to "front door", the driver did not drop it in my mailbox as the different one did yesterday, but drove right up to the front gate, and handed the box to me.
personal GPS user since 1992
wouldn't you know
that FedEx shipment showed up. This proves it's actually FedEx, not our office. Again, I think there are zero guarantees today, so there is a real low level of service. Kinda like flood insurance where cost and risk/reward are not there for the insured, although maybe today it's gonna make more sense.
When I got my 2007 car, the tire warranty was $395 and a tire was over $400 so I took it (5 year warranty and never used it).
But runflats at the time were relatively new. Those fake insurances shot up to over $1500 when a buddy asked me in 2010 if he should get it. Insurance never loses but sometimes they don't rate things properly when technology changes and they get caught somehow. Take those "free" credit card insurance coverages...anyone ever use it? They don't make it very easy, but human nature sees "free" and that means good lol
alternate locations
I have used this method of delivery and it is great. Our carrier delivers to my neighborhood Staples store which is open until 9pm so I can pick it up after work.
my
walmart.com order that's supposed to be delivered today, no trace of it in the USPS system after the shipper shipped it lol
Then again I think we're in agreement, many times USPS lacks all the info in-between drop off and delivery.
But the last one arrived in Phila in 2 days, then went out to Harrisburg, came back, went back out, and got delivered almost 2 weeks later from memory...
These should be orders that are not critical, and they're not....