CONTEST Shipping Delay Contest

grabo99 · Feb 19, 2022

Not as bad as others, but the only time I've had an issue with USPS was with this last order. Mr.PedalPCB shipped it out in time, but USPS lost it for a couple weeks with no updates. I contacted their support and heard nothing for days. Then it got randomly delivered a few days ago and as I was taking it out of the mailbox I got a call from USPS telling my package was not lost and would be delivered soon.

Stickman393 · Feb 19, 2022

Chuck D. Bones said:
Home Depot's inventory control system is the worst. It thinks a toilet is a single line item, even though the bowl and tank are boxed separately. We order a toilet, a few days later we get an email that our item is at the store ready for pickup. We get there and they only have the bowl. As far as their inventory control system is concerned, the order was completed. I tell 'em we're not taking delivery of half a toilet. So they re-order it and we cross our fingers and hope that the next shipment includes a tank. The employees are helpful and mean well, but they're at the mercy of their fuck-up inventory system. I'm sure some VP got a kick-back or bonus (or both) for implementing that inventory control system.

Apparently they're always bitching about how much shrinkage they incur at stores.

Which explains why every Home Depot in my area has these decoy CCTV monitoring screens in the isles with all the expensive stuff, hooked up to a motion sensor that goes "BEEP BEEP MOTHER FUCKER" every time you walk past em. Tuned to just the right volume and frequency to make ya see red.

Sometimes they even have pre-recorded-video, screen-in-screen, of overactive big brother types studiously monitoring the cameras and making phone calls while gesturing wildly at their screens. Oscar worthy performance, really.

It's all enough for me to be like...fuck dude...if I didn't have to come back here for work all the time I'd steal something for the principle of it.

sticky1138 · Feb 19, 2022

Last year I shipped someone a used humbucker that I sold on Reverb. When printing the label, I used Reverb's recommended shipping option, which is supposed to automatically calculate the best shipping service for your item. It ended up being through USPS.

It arrived in the destination city right on time, but it was not leaving the PO, and the tracking was stuck on "could not be delivered" for days. I called, and after a customer service loop, it turned out the package was being held due to insufficient shipping fees paid - Reverb's recommended option was about $1.70 short of the actual postage needed to get it to the destination.

I asked if I could just pay the difference on the USPS website, or have the buyer pay in person, since the PO is minutes from the destination, but that was apparently against policy, and they just shipped the humbucker all the way back to me.

I had to buy an additional label (this time outside of Reverb, making sure I shelled out the extra wallet-crushing $1.70). The buyer finally received it a while later. Fortunately he was understanding. The humbucker was only worth about $60, but with all the Reverb fees and double shipping, I should have just kept it for a fridge magnet instead.

JamieJ · Feb 19, 2022

@Bricksnbeatles - that length of post is pretty much an essay. Don’t think of it as procrastination, more essay writing practice.

Good luck with the essay! What is the title of it?

fig · Feb 19, 2022

Still a few hours if anyone got a paper cut when mailing a letter....or maybe you've had an email bounce?

jimilee · Feb 19, 2022

Oooh, I got one. I was getting a PCB from the Texas region. It bounced around texas, going back and forth between two different postal, I don't now, hubs for about a week or so, it was quite comical. I can only imagine what was going through their tiny minds...that looks familiar, didn't we already send this to the wrong place a few days ago??? Were there phone calls between the two, betting who could get it the most?

jimilee · Feb 19, 2022

Oh oh, I ordered a couple of tap tempo chips from Electric druid. After about 6 weeks, I sent him an email saying it hadn't shown up, just giving him a heads up. After two more weeks, nothing, so I send another email saying they still haven't shown up, so he says he'll send me two more. About a week later some show up, and the very next day, more show up....WTF???

fig · Feb 19, 2022

jimilee said:
Were there phone calls between the two, betting who could get it the most?

30-Love

fig · Feb 19, 2022

jimilee said:
About a week later some show up, and the very next day, more show up....WTF???

He'd send more, but he's all tapped out.

Chuck D. Bones · Feb 19, 2022

Stickman393 said:
Which explains why every Home Depot in my area has these decoy CCTV monitoring screens in the isles with all the expensive stuff, hooked up to a motion sensor that goes "BEEP BEEP MOTHER FUCKER" every time you walk past em. Tuned to just the right volume and frequency to make ya see red.

I like to get right up in the camera and use the monitor as a mirror to pick my teeth or some other disgusting act.

fig · Feb 20, 2022

Chuck D. Bones said:
I like to get right up in the camera and use the monitor as a mirror to pick my teeth or some other disgusting act.

I picture two teenage employees in the back office, staring intensely at a monitor and asking one another "What in the hell is that!?", when a manager zooms by, glances, and deadpan says "Chuck's ass, now get back to work!".

fig · Feb 20, 2022

...and with that mental image in everyone's noggin...

It's time for phase 2 of the nightmarish-never-ending-delivery contest! See how contests imitate life? Or is it the other way 'round?

Now I'm going to ask everyone to emote all over their favorite story as I repost them (the contest that makes you do work). The repost with the most votes after this one wins.....well I've forgotten what that was now, but it's probably really cool!

fig · Feb 20, 2022

Entry #1. @chongmagic - Blackberry Blues