topic Re: ""Tendered to Postal Service"" in Q Talk

Tendered to Postal Service

expatgal — Sat, 17 May 2014 17:44:39 GMT

Boy, do I hate to see this show up on one of my orders! It seems to be happening all the time recently, even though I do not choose "USPS" as my preferred method of delivery. I've had items be in this dreaded "tendering" phase for 10 days! The shipping/delivery from QVC is really unacceptable.

Re: ""Tendered to Postal Service""

KYToby — Sat, 17 May 2014 18:01:58 GMT

QVC ships whichever is the most cost effective for them. On most items, you do have the option of choosing another shipping method, but there are additional charges.

I think I must be in the minority, though, because I love it when I see that the package was given to the post office for delivery. If USPS delivers the package, the item is brought straight to my door rather than being left downstairs in the mailbox area. Additionally, because we have a UPS hub here, and the main post office is only a couple of blocks away, I usually get items the same day they are tendered to the post office.

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Group 5 minus 1 — Sat, 17 May 2014 18:12:11 GMT

And she is back. Our mailbox is 1/4 mile away. If the package is too large the mail carrier will put it on the ground. UPS delvers to our door. We cannot even see our mailbox from our house!!!

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insomniac — Sat, 17 May 2014 18:36:30 GMT

I'm surprised it's okay for your letter carrier to leave a package on the ground, near the mailboxes. I would not find that acceptable.

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chickenbutt — Sat, 17 May 2014 20:39:04 GMT

I recently had an order (from Penzey's) that was shipped UPS ground - GROUND. It had a UPS type tracking number and everything. It had an ETA of yesterday (Friday).

When it arrived in this town it was given to the post office and given a USPS type tracking number. I thought that was quite unusual. It was delivered yesterday, so I can't complain.

But I was surprised. I am familiar with UPS Mail Innovations and SurePost (or whatever the names du jour are for this type of service). They always have a version of a USPS type tracking number. But this particular parcel was shipped by ground with a UPS tracking number.

I've also had some that were UPSMI and UPS kept them and delivered them instead of moving them on to USPS and adding a day to delivery. That was nice.

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alarmclock — Sat, 17 May 2014 22:34:49 GMT

I hate to tell you, but HSN does this and I get my stuff faster than ever. Three days tops.

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Group 5 minus 1 — Sat, 17 May 2014 22:35:08 GMT

It is not ok and we have spoken to our postmaster several times. The problem is we are very rural and don't have the same mail carrier 2 days in a row. Once a mail carrier jammed a vinyl record in our mail box.

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alarmclock — Sat, 17 May 2014 23:08:12 GMT

Bungo - Oh, no. That is not cool. I can't believe that if you request a certain carrier, it gets changed. Why ASK if you are going to do what you want to?

They only thing I can suggest - and it's probably an impossibility -- is to get a UPS Store shipping address. When something comes in, you go pick it up at the store. It's not jammed in your box or worse, stolen.

Bummer.

Re: ""Tendered to Postal Service""

Kjelle — Sun, 18 May 2014 00:14:54 GMT

On 5/17/2014 alarmclock said:
Bungo - Oh, no. That is not cool. I can't believe that if you request a certain carrier, it gets changed. Why ASK if you are going to do what you want to?

They only thing I can suggest - and it's probably an impossibility -- is to get a UPS Store shipping address. When something comes in, you go pick it up at the store. It's not jammed in your box or worse, stolen.

Bummer.

Oh that is a great idea! I seem to order so much stuff for. amazon and the Q. I would love to be able to pick my stuff up easily and not worry about the days that my workplace is closed if I shipped something to myself there. I am one who hates Surepost. I don t like that I have no Idea what tracking number has been assigned and that my package is then "lost in space,"

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alarmclock — Sun, 18 May 2014 00:27:26 GMT

Kjelle - With all of the viral videos of people stealing deliveries, it might be worth the expense. Did you see the girl that followed the UPS truck and grabbed every package on the route?

Disgusting.

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icezeus — Sun, 18 May 2014 00:32:20 GMT

It does not bother me. The most it delays my delivery is usually one day every blue moon it may be two days. There has never been anything that I have ordered from QVC or HSN that is critically urgent for me to receive.

If you want to know what it's like to have to wait for package order through Groupon or Zullilly. That takes from 2-3 weeks after you have made your payment to receive your merchandise.

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Group 5 minus 1 — Sun, 18 May 2014 13:49:44 GMT

Our UPS store is several miles away. Maybe 30 minutes time wise.

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debic — Sun, 18 May 2014 15:16:52 GMT

I dislike it because if it's a large package, the postal carrier will shove it into the lock box whether it fits or not. UPS delivers to our door and will even set it inside it the weather is bad.

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GCR18 — Mon, 19 May 2014 02:19:32 GMT

I don't mind it coming USPS, but I do mind them stuffing things in the mailbox. My postal carrier will take a qvc clothing bag and crumple it, so it fits. It ends up a wrinkled mess. I've had small boxes shoved in there that I had to fight with to get out.

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naturalfan — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:53:46 GMT

I have an really nice mail delivery person. If there is a package for delivery, he always rings my doorbell. If I am not home, he will walk the package to my back door and make sure the gate to the yard is closed so nobody can see that there is a package sitting there.

Re: ""Tendered to Postal Service""

debic — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:58:27 GMT

On 5/20/2014 naturalfan said:
I have an really nice mail delivery person. If there is a package for delivery, he always rings my doorbell. If I am not home, he will walk the package to my back door and make sure the gate to the yard is closed so nobody can see that there is a package sitting there.

I used to have one that would do that, but she retired. I live in an area with large lots, and very few will put themselves out. If they can't shove it in the mail box, (we have locked boxes with 2 large for packages.) I'll have a notice to pick it up at the post office.