I’m still waiting on 3 packages ordered as Xmas gifts. One was ordered 12/11 from Zaful, which means its coming from China. They are pretty good about shipping so I’ll wait.
One was ordered on 12/6 from Etsy and wasn’t shipped until the 14th! It’s coming from Canada and last I saw it had arrived at customs. I don’t think I get updates from there, sigh…
The other was ordered over Thanksgiving! It must be coming from China too although that wasn’t apparent when I ordered it. I wish things like that were more apparent, especially on Amazon. You don’t have a clue until you see how long the shipping will be, and then it is often a window of several weeks which isn’t convenient if you ever go away.
I ordered something that shipped out of somewhere near Miami, and it was stuck in Miami for about three days. It was sent Priority, so it should have been delivered within that time. This was a couple weeks ago.
It ended up taking a week to get to me. I’m in Davenport.
I ordered some things a week ago, paid extra for two day FedEx shipping. I’m sure the shipping will be within the two days, however, the company has not even processed the order yet, though the items were in stock. Really annoying, but I’m glad my kids are grown and it’s not a big deal.
Did 99% of shopping online. All showed up including an item that was backordered and not supposed to arrive before Christmas. A few things took an extra couple days beyond when they should have arrived which made for some last minute gift wrapping but all is good. Sure beats schlepping out to the stores, looking for parking spots, and fighting the crowds, IMO.
I also aim for fulfilled by Amazon and 2 day delivery.
I also check the order to see estimated delivery before finalizing.
And I have cancelled orders when I failed to see that the delivery date
was going to take too long.
Well I am waiting on an order shipped from Amazon via UPS that is taking a very circuitous route.
The tracking record shows something like this, where delivery should have been on 12/22
Wednesday, 12/20-- package received by carrier in Pennsylvania
Thursday 12/21 – package leaves carrier in PA, arrives at facility in California east bay area (about 45 min. from where I live)
Friday 12/22 - package leaves east bay facility, arrives at facility in city about 15 minutes from where I live at 5 am. Now here is where it gets weird – package is never delivered but shows up at 7pm back in the east bay, at a more distant facility about an hour away. (so rather than come to me, my delivery has been put on a truck headed the opposite direction.
Saturday 12/23 – package back at nearby facility by 2 am… but not put out for delivery.
It is supposed to now arrive tomorrow … I’ll see. I’m going to request an extension to my Amazon Prime subscription over this one.
I once sent a book to an address less than two miles from my home, via usps, with tracking. It took the same sort of crazy route: out to Other State 1, then Further State 2, then back closer to home. Took about 8 days. I try to tell myself that’s a random weirdness.
The 12/6 order from Canada actually arrived today. Or maybe super late last night and we never noticed.
As for Prime, it’s been a bit slow lately. They must be overwhelmed. Still, D wanted to order a pair of boots in a certain size and Amazon only had one left. I told her to order it quickly, but even though it was Prime, it shifted to 5-7 day shipping in the ordering process. She ordered it quickly but had it sent to Grandma’s house so we should overlap.
Have to give some thumbs up. I ordered something from Prime and it arrived in 2 days. Ordered 4 things from Macy’s on Tuesday night (late) and they arrived in 3 different packages on Thursday and Friday, no charge for shipping.
It is interesting; I just ordered a few items for work, all Prime with delivery not due until 1/2/18. All items are listed in stock, and while not sold by Amazon, all are shipped by Amazon. Two items from the same seller are showing different delivery dates, one actually being two days, so I find that a bit odd. Why not send both items together unless one is not in stock, even when it shows in stock.
I returned many things today from 3 different Amazon orders. For two of those orders, they wanted me to send them in different packages even though they were going to the same address! It cost $0, but it costs us all doing this much frivolous shipping. I was very happy to take them to this local package place that has USPS, UPS, and Fedex pickup for free. The USPS guy was right there so out they went!
2 earlier packages still AWOL. I didn’t have time to call about them today.
My daughter had an order randomly travel through Guam on its way to delivery.
I sent a check to the 529 account two weeks ago. Less than 500 miles and it still hasn’t been received. They did say they credit it to the year the envelope was time stamped by the USPS.
@snowball Since you are buying from Amazon merchants, the merchandise is probably located at different fulfillment centers hence the different delivery dates. I used to have a decent side business with Amazon and used them for fulfillment but they got really crazy with the fees and it became too hard to make money. One of the issues was requiring merchants to send merchandise to different centers or paying Amazon extra for the privilege of sending to the center closest to you.
I lost at least 8 hours of my holiday sitting at the computer filling out insurance claim forms for USPS. What an exercise in frustration! I shipped 3 boxes of books from my NJ home to my FL home and only one box arrived. All I got from the other 2 shipments was the box tops returned to the NJ house. Both boxes were insured, one for $300 and one for $400, but I’ve learned that doesn’t mean the post office pays that amount. I am required to go online and fill out a claim form and attach proof of the value of each book. And the website is horrible - I filled out lots of details for each book and attached a ton of pdf files to support my claim only to have my claim rejected because some drop down menus wouldn’t open. First try was using Firefox, second try was on Chrome. I found others with the same problem on Reddit and learned to just keep trying different browsers. Finally had success with Edge. How ridiculous that it takes that much trial and error. And they limit you to 10 items per claim and there were more books than that in each box.