Why has shipping become so frustrating.

[streamerfish]

I'm been ordering alot of parts/supplies lately. Clearly shipping is pretty slow right now. Maybe because of the storms, maybe for whatever reasons....

I have some small handgun parts that that I paid for Fedex 2 day shipping on. Over a week ago. Fedex tracking showed that its supposedly been sitting in a facility about 6hrs away from me by truck for 4 days, with a delivery date of yesterday, as of this morning. I just checked on it again.

Now its apparently 2/3rd across the country and never arrived near me?!?!?

As best as I can tell in 7 days my two 2 shipping package has traveled 500 miles in the wrong direction......

Should I just make another order and choose UPS instead??? Its a cheap order, just a couple springs, I paid triple the cost in shipping to get them here before the weekend to get the pistol back together and start testing the ammo I'm loading lol.

First world problems I guess, but man does stuff like this get annoying.

 

[RockAndSage]

It's the weather. Nothing anybody can do about it.

 

[Rich M]

We used to buy stuff and get 8-10 weeks delivery. Forget you ordered it. By time you got it was a surprise, like Christmas present.

Those were the days. Now you can track it to your house abd see a dirtbag steal it off yer porch on Ring camera.

 

[Macintosh]

95% of it is the weather most likely, this week shut down large parts of the east and midwest.

BUT this stuff is always changing. Fedex ground and fedex air recently merged, and as a result they are less than well organized right now. At work we ship inbound and outbound with fedex and are definitely seeing really varied performance, and extremely poor communication, etc. just remember, we dropped UPS for fedex for problems. Neither of them is perfect. At some point we’ll probably get fed up and switch back to ups.

 

[sambo3006]

I'm currently 12 days into waiting on a package coming to Missouri from Florida via USPS, with no progress after it departed the post office. It looks like I'll be filing a missing mail claim. It's probably sitting somewhere amongst a huge pile of mail that backed up due to the weather. Thankfully, it isn't something that I needed right away.

 

[JJ1179]

The high prices of shipping always piss me off too! Amazon can get your package to you the same day for free and the other carriers want an excessive amount of money for shipping.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

I have a set of lawn mower wheels that were suppose to be here from Amazom a week ago. They're web site says they've been sitting in one of there facilities, 20 miles away, since Sunday. WTF?

 

[ODB]

The high prices of shipping always piss me off too! Amazon can get your package to you the same day for free and the other carriers want an excessive amount of money for shipping.

Amazon is WHY the other carriers want more for shipping - and nothing is free. They have negotiated bargain basement rates due to 'volume' and let the walk-up folks pay the differential.

Amazon does this for other things too, like Aubible. Do not get me started on the net effect of their Allocation Factor and what it does to royalties.

 

[JJ1179]

Amazon is WHY the other carriers want more for shipping - and nothing is free. They have negotiated bargain basement rates due to 'volume' and let the walk-up folks pay the differential.

Amazon does this for other things too, like Aubible. Do not get me started on the net effect of their Allocation Factor and what it does to royalties.

Yes, you’re correct, NOTHING is free. I always say the same thing. I was mostly using that as a reference for my post.

 

[Legend]

I mailed a walnut stock blank from Oregon to South Carolina on January 16th. Tracking said it would arrive on the 21st. Guess how far it made it as if today....Eugene. I spent $65 to just be frustrated. Yep there was a storm but it was supposed to be delivered before the storm hit.

18 to get days to go 82 miles!!!

 

[whaack]

I'm been ordering alot of parts/supplies lately. Clearly shipping is pretty slow right now. Maybe because of the storms, maybe for whatever reasons....

I have some small handgun parts that that I paid for Fedex 2 day shipping on. Over a week ago. Fedex tracking showed that its supposedly been sitting in a facility about 6hrs away from me by truck for 4 days, with a delivery date of yesterday, as of this morning. I just checked on it again.

Now its apparently 2/3rd across the country and never arrived near me?!?!?

As best as I can tell in 7 days my two 2 shipping package has traveled 500 miles in the wrong direction......

Should I just make another order and choose UPS instead??? Its a cheap order, just a couple springs, I paid triple the cost in shipping to get them here before the weekend to get the pistol back together and start testing the ammo I'm loading lol.

First world problems I guess, but man does stuff like this get annoying.

It’s not just shipping. Everything is broken. Nothing works like it should anymore snd everything is getting worse. Wish Jesus would come back already.

 

[RK93]

I sent a Howa Mini, barreled action to Montana to be cerakoted. It was sent back USPS, on Jan 16, made it to Newark NJ on the 27th. Tracking hasnt been updated since then.

 

[gwtravis]

Fedex is a joke and has been for a long time. 2day is not a real thing to them anymore and you won't win a dispute.