jabow Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Yesterday. 13 JUL, I was looking at my Email and Opened up a saved Msg from a On-line Hobby Shop that was tracking coming package. It said Package Status was 'Delivered'. What?? I didn't get it!! Then I checked Date Delivered, ... 13 July. Then checked Time of delivery, .... 12:51 PM. What??? Looked at my watch and it was 1:01 PM???? Yeah Right!! Went and checked my mail-box ..... There it was!!! only about 8 or 9 minutes had passed!! Pretty darn cool, huh?? Anyone else have similar story?? One Great thing about retirement!! Bo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Helmsman Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 All delivery services like USPS, UPS, FedEx have this sort of notifications nowadays. Very often I call my wife at home asking her to collect packages at front door as our delivery drivers never knock let alone ring a bell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viper730 Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 yep and that feature sure comes in handy when you want to sneak one past her.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Helmsman Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Never had to :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
breadneck Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 I had a shipment coming in from Az. a week ago. Had been tracking it regularly during the 14 day transit and was slowly loosing my patience as it closed in. I was literally sitting in my chair 30 feet from my mailbox when all of a sudden the tracking said the postman had attempted to deliver it 10 minutes ago. We just got new post boxes actually larger than the shipment i had incoming. Here they don`t leave shipments "out in the open" like in the US so i was expecting the shipment to be delivered to the local p.o. office here the very same day as this is only 500 yards away. Oh boy was i annoyed when i had to wait a whole day to get my shipment in hand. And they have a commercial going saying "some are more preoccupied delivering than others" Well that`s a joke. I filed a useless complaint just to let them know this ain`t cutting my butter close enough. Longest 24 hours i`ve had in a while, lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Tangentially related: patent troll smackdown... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/two-judges-smack-down-notorious-patent-holder-shipping-and-transit-in-one-week/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dnl42 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Yeah, that kind of BS has happened to me a few times. <rant> Also had them claim delivery for an item that never showed up. Of course, they immediately went to "it must have been stolen." When I explained that another package that they delivered 20m later was waiting for me, they were only momentarily embarrassed before they told me that was too bad for me, I needed to complain to the sender. THREE MONTHS later, I got an email from the shipper asking for the correct address for a badly damaged package returned as "no such address." As you might expect, the address was correct. It was pretty clear they mis-delivered that package. Luckily, the package (Planet Models' 1/48 XF10F Jaguar) survived the USPS's best efforts to lose and/or destroy it. I asked the shipper to send by some other method, and received it a couple of days later. </rant> Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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