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I don't understand shipping (1 Viewer)

i dunno, i order my weed from bc and quebec to ontario and it arrives next day for 0$ shipping, via fedex. 

 
Saw the thread title and thought it was about that internet thing where fans of shows desperately try and get their favorite characters to hook up.

Because there was no way it could be about shipping shipping.

 
RUSF18 said:
Saw the thread title and thought it was about that internet thing where fans of shows desperately try and get their favorite characters to hook up.

Because there was no way it could be about shipping shipping.
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Honestly, that topic sounds worse.  Unless you're a 12 year old girl.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Chapter One: I Love Licking My Balls
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Please.  They are refined and civilized.  They're corgis.  They speak with the Queen's accent.  It's a proven fact that British people are all gentlemen and ladies.  Stiff upper lip.  It's mental, mate.  Jammie Dodger.  Millicent Bystander.  What's all this, then?

If anything, he's writing about licking his bollocks.  I wouldn't know, though, because apparently it's on a train to Nebraska at the moment.

 
dgreen said:
It's cheaper than truck or air. FedEx loads up many shipping containers with goods that their customers didn't seem to express/pay for the need to receive it quicker and they put them on trains, stopping at many transfer stations, changing trains, and eventually getting on a truck towards the end. Really, it's kind of amazing you'll ever have it appear on your doorstep.
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Even guaranteed stuff, if it is shipping cross-country, will often go on a train, unless you pay for expedited service that requires it to go by air. 

Ned said:
Herein lies the problem. They are the absolute worst. 
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There are much slower companies than Fedex when it comes to LTL services.  

 
My favorite is now how they word they updates in the tracking.  It's current location is "In Transit to Beaver Crossings, NE".  Might as well just say it's in transit to my house.  Saying it's en route to a random location isn't really an update.  I'm starting to think this tracking stuff is about as accurate as the Domino's Pizza Tracker.

 
On Friday, the new update had it in Harrisburg (65 miles from my house).

Saturday it was in Breinigsville (21 miles from my house).

Sunday, it arrived at Reading (15 miles from my house).

Today it arrived at my local post office (3 miles from my house).

Honestly, if they would have called me, I would have just driven out to Harrisburg and picked it up on Friday.  At this point, no change to the Thursday delivery date.  I'm sure it wants to rest for a couple days before making it's final 3 mile trek to the house.  

 
Amazon is so freakishly fast that I try to buy my online stuff through it whenever possible.   Most of my orders show up the next day, free shipping.  It's unreal. 

 
TheIronSheik said:
I ordered a picture book from Google.  Paid for it last Wednesday.  It took them 1 day to create it and give it to FedEx.  I got an text saying it had been picked up and was on it's way to the local shipping facility.  I put the tracking number in on Thursday morning and it said it was at the facility in Nowheresville, OR and the scheduled delivery date was 8/19.  That's crazy.  But the next day, I got another text saying there was a delivery date update.  Fully expecting it to correct the date to sometime this week, it actually moved it to 8/22.

That's two weeks since it arrived at FedEx.  Up until yesterday, it hadn't left the facility.  Today it is in Idaho.  Crazy part is, there were 3 shipping options and I chose the middle one.  If I had chosen the cheapest, it might still be sitting in Oregon.  It doesn't even seem possible to ship something this slow is this day and age.

Side note:  I can't wait to see the responses to this before this gets posted.  After being an idiot and hitting enter somehow mid post, I then had a mini emergency at work that caused me to have to step away for a while.  This will be a huge let down for most,  if not everyone.  My apologies in advance.
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They lost it and found it again.  Check for damage when you get it.

 
TheIronSheik said:
On Friday, the new update had it in Harrisburg (65 miles from my house).

Saturday it was in Breinigsville (21 miles from my house).

Sunday, it arrived at Reading (15 miles from my house).

Today it arrived at my local post office (3 miles from my house).

Honestly, if they would have called me, I would have just driven out to Harrisburg and picked it up on Friday.  At this point, no change to the Thursday delivery date.  I'm sure it wants to rest for a couple days before making it's final 3 mile trek to the house.  
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Praying for eventual delivery 

 
Arizona Ron said:
Amazon is so freakishly fast that I try to buy my online stuff through it whenever possible.   Most of my orders show up the next day, free shipping.  It's unreal. 
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Now many areas and products have same-day shipping. I think there is some element of the Amazon experience be so efficient that we expect all companies (like FedEx, USPS, other retail companies, etc.) to have the same focus on fast delivery, even when these very companies (USPS, UPS, even FedEx until recently) are very involved in getting Amazon orders to your door.

For this particular use case, I get OP's frustration in it taking so long to ship a book when it comes from other retailers that much faster.

 
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TheIronSheik said:
My favorite is now how they word they updates in the tracking.  It's current location is "In Transit to Beaver Crossings, NE".  Might as well just say it's in transit to my house.  Saying it's en route to a random location isn't really an update.  I'm starting to think this tracking stuff is about as accurate as the Domino's Pizza Tracker.
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Did y'all see that blog post where some guy actually investigated this to see if it was legit and it was most certainly not?  

 
TheIronSheik said:
  Saying it's en route to a random location isn't really an update.  I'm starting to think this tracking stuff is about as accurate as the Domino's Pizza Tracker.
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 "Driver was hungry.  Pulled over to side of road to eat your pizza.  Will eventually come back to your location with replacement pizza."

 
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