Anyone having just terrible shipping experiences this Holiday season?

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Anyone ever have to do the chargeback process with your credit card company for a lost package? Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, but from what I’ve been reading there are consumer protections in place for items that are bought but never recieved.

I honestly did not expect this many responses to my initial question… it’s pretty disturbing to be honest. This is just a tiny sample of all the packages being shipped right now, so I can just imagine the total scope of the problems. It really makes me think about buying higher value items online vs trying to source them locally ( especially this time of year).

 

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To update this, my one larger value package from USPS got delivered today...I thought it was lost for sure.... Woke up to a text saying it was scanned at my local post office and was out for delivery....so no scans at all from when it was accepted at its origin (Nov 25th) to when it was scanned at my regional distribution center and then my local post office (Dec 8th). Box was beat up a bit, and the tape was kinda coming off, but the contents were okay and all there. The one item from the boutique vendor got delivered today as well....that one never got scanned until an "arrived at hub" scan which was my local post office. The one item I have coming from FedEx actually got scanned into and out of a FedEx location about 1.5 hour from my house. Tracking said it was supposed to be delivered today, but it never made it on a truck (according to the scans) so I'm not expecting it....maybe tomorrow or the next day...

I have a buddy that drives OTR for UPS that I run into every now and then. I saw him recently and asked about the shipping issues...he said last week when he was making a run to South Dakota, there were three USPS truck/trailers in the ditch, and they were there for 2 days before they got pulled out