Patrick
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« on: May 16, 2015, 08:51:23 AM » |
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This just seems strange. The last couple things we have ordered have been shipped UPS to local Post Office and they delivered package. Never had this happen before, doesn't make sense. But, its getting that not much makes sense to me any more.
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KY,Dave (AKA Misunderstood)
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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2015, 08:54:35 AM » |
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Have had several things come that way. They have a name for it on their end but it escapes me at the moment.
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2015, 09:03:48 AM » |
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Yep that arrangement has been in place for maybe a year, that I've seen. Seems there is more opportunity for SNAFUs and I've seen it slow up deliveries substantially. UPS uses the hub-and-spoke model - stuff from the East is likely to go to SLC first before it's routed to Denver then transferred to USPS and delivered, adding at least a day and often more. I'd rather they just use Priority Mail, it's fast reliable (pretty much) and the cheapest for the speed. Might be only certain size pkgs fit this model; I haven't studied it to see when it happens. Cheaper Than Dirt uses it and I think Midway too. Some Amazon providers.
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Patrick
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« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2015, 09:12:41 AM » |
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Sure doesn't make much sense to me. UPS sends a package to our local UPS hub to then be sent 1.5 miles to the local post office. While both drive down our road every day. Yep, adds 2 days to the shipment.
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« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2015, 09:41:33 AM » |
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Been doing that for quite sometime here even fed ex uses them.
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« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2015, 11:16:01 AM » |
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Have had several things come that way. They have a name for it on their end but it escapes me at the moment.
I believe they call it "Smartpost" |
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« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2015, 11:23:32 AM » |
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its cheaper for UPS to hire the USPS than to pay their own people
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« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2015, 02:58:07 PM » |
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Same here in the Ozarks. BUT-there's always a-BUT-isn't there? I've been in our post office when the U P S driver is delivering to the P O which means my stuff shows up the NEXT day cause when U P S gets there the P O boys are already delivering. So instead of being delivered THAT day I get it the next!   Only ones happy are U P S and post office cuz they both gittin paid.  I M H O that business model IS effed up BUT-there's that word again-but what can I do about it? I knew my package was in Willow Springs BUT I DID NOT know it was at the P O-til I asked U PS and the P O would NOT let me pick my stuff up-told me they would deliver it the next day!  Bike sent an extra day on the lift it didn't have to cause of this idiocy.  RIDE SAFE. |
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« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2015, 04:43:58 PM » |
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Yup got a package USPS just the other day and it had a big Fed X label on it. Made me wonder what was going on.
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« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2015, 04:45:23 PM » |
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I've got orders on Saturdays when it was shipped this way. Would have been Monday if it stayed UPS.
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« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2015, 08:28:15 PM » |
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I have Amazon Prime,which gets me two day shipping. I seem to order things from Amazon on Friday afternoons a lot. Sooo,the Post Office delivers my package on SUNDAY! My wife says it must kill the post person to have to work on a Sunday. I asked one time when I met them at my gate. I didn't get an answer. Or a smile.
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KY,Dave (AKA Misunderstood)
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« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2015, 03:16:27 AM » |
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Have had several things come that way. They have a name for it on their end but it escapes me at the moment.
I believe they call it "Smartpost" Looked it up on the tracking of an item I got. Goes thru a "Mail Innovations Facility" |
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« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2015, 02:17:51 PM » |
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I sell a lot of stuff on ebay and both FedEx and UPS have partnerships with USPS. The shipping options utilizing this partnership are usually cheaper but slower.  |
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