With shipping so disrupted
Uber and Lift should consider offering “daisy chain” package delivery
where vehicles heading in the general direction
hand off packages so that they eventually make their journey to the customer.

Kind of like a human hitch hiker who goes from New York City to Los Angeles bumming rides.

One story that I have heard from the WW-II generation is that if you were wearing your uniform during that period you could hitch hike amazingly well from a military base to your home and back because drivers were highly motivated to help you.

Similar stories are leaking out of Cuba about how formal public transportation has broken down, but ordinary “non-elite” Cubans are helping one another travel in makeshift ways.

UPS is not going to be outdone! https://www.ktvu.com/news/ups-worker-arrested-on-delivery-route-in-piedmont-after-caught-stealing

Once Amazon gets their package delivery service completely up and running it should free up the other three for getting back to normal.

THEN a 2nd theft occurs when the intended customer calls the seller/retailer and demands a replacement. PLEASE don't say insurance will pick it up. After 15 years I have NEVER been able to collect on UPS or USPS insurance. Both make you fill out 100 pages of forms and documentation hoping you will throw in the towel. They are correct in my case.

But it's a write off, you can write it off!

Could just be your UPS area/division distribution hub....I've only had 1 claim with UPS in the last 35+ yrs of shipping world wide with them, the claim was about 5 yrs ago on a damaged shipment (forktruck tracks across the crushed box/contents) one phone call to UPS rep, and a check for the insured amount was issued, no paper work, I had the customer return the box to a UPS depot for inspection, along with the driver's note of damage when delivered....I always specify that my customers note/document with the driver/UPS any and all damage to a shipping container no matter how minor.....now FedEx on the other hand is a sh1t service at any end of the spectrum, I refuse to use them....

You can take something to a UPS store, pay to have THEM pack it after selling you a box and packing materials, buy insurance, and then have a claim denied because "the article was not packed correctly." They don't care.

I got paid $375 from postal, a 3 foot long crated item that the driver opened the back of the tall van and pulled from about 5 feet up and watched it hit the concrete then drive picked it up and brought to buyers porch who happened to have two camera views.

But they have stupid loopholes in there favor on claims. Like I dont think one can win with a cash deal at the post office and a simple Ins. receipt.... they want every single related doc and then some, running the transaction through a business is in the persons favor..... and then you wait like 3 months for a check.

I bought 20 window molding clips on ebay on 8-24. the seller shipped them the same day USPS. They were due on the 28th.On the 27th they were purportedly in Lenexa Ks, just outside of KC (good). On the 28th they arrived in Wichita KS which is ~ 200 miles south west (the wrong way) (not good). Since then they have been reported to have left Wichita and are in transit to the next distribution center and will be arriving late.
I'm thinking the next distribution center is in Siberia.
I have asked for a refund
As i said earlier, it's like rolling the dice

Cut the seller some slack here. Probably went 1sr class & that is low priority.
Smaller items do tend to get miss-sorted at times, but usually gets there.
Better late then never.

While we're at it, look at this tracking history via FedEx - start at the bottom & go up. One muffler for a customer about 70 miles away in Michigan. I dropped this off at a FedEx ship center (Walgreens) on Wed. Aug. 25. STILL not delivered! Why the hell did this box get sent to TN. & NC? Why don't they route it through Alaska for chrissakes! I'm thinking it may NEVER get there, & if it does not, FedEx will not pay for a lost package - they will tell me to pound sand like 3 other times. What complete incompetence. I'm SO sick of this crap.


Thursday, September 2, 2021
8:41 PM PERRYSBURG, OH Departed FedEx location

11:45 AM PERRYSBURG, OH Arrived at FedEx location
8:42 AM PERRYSBURG, OH In transit

Wednesday, September 1, 2021
9:18 AM KERNERSVILLE, NC Departed FedEx location

12:25 AM KERNERSVILLE, NC Shipment exception Barcode label unreadable and replaced
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

8:49 PM KERNERSVILLE, NC Arrived at FedEx location
Monday, August 30, 2021

10:59 PM ARLINGTON, TN In transit

11:54 AM PERRYSBURG, OH Departed FedEx location
Saturday, August 28, 2021

8:46 AM PERRYSBURG, OH Departed FedEx location

4:25 AM PERRYSBURG, OH Arrived at FedEx location

Friday, August 27, 2021
10:13 PM LAKE ORION, MI Left FedEx origin facility

9:10 PM LAKE ORION, MI Arrived at FedEx location

3:43 PM LAKE ORION, MI Picked up
Thursday, August 26, 2021

8:16 PM HIGHLAND, MI Dropped off at FedEx OnSite-WALGREENS 9252 Package received after final location pickup has occurred. Scheduled for pickup next business day.

7:46 PM Shipment information sent to FedEx

The excuse I've seen is that many UPS stores are franchisee-owned (not directly owned by UPS), so UPS is not responsible if a non-corporate store did the packing!
What a racket.

I do know that years back ALL of their packages went through TN as it was their main hub. Even if it was being shipped a block away it went through TN. Don't know if things have changed or not but that was the case several years back.

Didn't make sense to me but that is the way their system worked

I have, by waiting 4 additional days. I'd love to wait more but I have a car that need to be finished and it's delaying the progress. So I bought them elsewhere yesterday and they will be here tomorrow. BTW they are still not showing any movement since the 28th.

in my OPINION, if you took the independent contractor to small claims court for improper packing it would be a slam dunk judgement in your favor.

1st class or priority: big difference in how handled. A small 1st class envelope will get mixed in with 1st class boxes.
Some only use priority regardless of weight for this reason.
But it does 2x the charges in many cases.
Only thing worst would be media mail

Day....ummm ... all these negative Nancy’s ..

Getting a back rear aftermarket panel for the Charger in today from LA CA ....

It was sent on Tuesday ...

The D/A shipped it 1st class likely to save the $$. Now it's going to cost him more through a lost sale and return cost if it ever shows up. He's already blown it by it not getting here by the 28th as stated in the listing. So per Ebay that's an automatic refund even if it does show up later.

I don't think anyone can do anything correctly any more. I ordered some cheese spread from an Amazon seller. Shipped USPS and gave me a tracking number. Tracking number shows item delivered, I didn't get it. Go to local post office, they look at tracking number, it is for a different package to a different address. In the meantime seller contacts me and claims the package is lost and issues me a refund. So I re-order from the same company. This time they use FedEx. Tracking number says item left on front porch. Maybe so, but it wasn't my front porch. Contacted seller and once more they issue a refund. Thinking third time's a charm I try to re-order again this morning and guess what? Unavailable. I guess giving away all that free cheese spread broke them.