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Any Guesses What This Means?

Kachina624 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:08:16 GMT

I just discovered this message on two of my incoming orders.

Does it possibly mean:

1. Holiday will delay my orders.

2. There's a predicted unseasonable blizzard in NJ

3. Heavy traffic on Interstate highways this week-end.

4. We're not in the mood to work

What do you want to bet after this diré warning, there's no delay at all?

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

coffee drinker — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:09:48 GMT

@Kachina624 In simple terms -- you're not getting your package any time soon. Typical, don't you think???!!!

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Johnnyeager — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:17:52 GMT

Worldwide transportation and manufacturing situations.

I believe that this is the proper all-purpose explanation.

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eadu4 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:18:05 GMT

I have now come to realize that I have placed orders for 10 each of a product named "delay" LOL. I also appear to have ordered a number of "backlogs" and "waitlists" I see alot of other people ordered these items too!!! So exciting

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

faeriemoon — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:19:23 GMT

@Kachina624 Good luck with this.

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Desertdi — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:19:45 GMT

@Kachina624 Gasoline prices are sky high, so they're switching to ox-carts.....

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Pearlee — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:24:50 GMT

@Kachina624 Why didn't you ask in Customer Care? Your question is about an order notation so the mods might know, rather than have posters guess?

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

Kachina624 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:25:21 GMT

If you're in New Jersey and there's something unusual going on, please let us know and alert the media. 😲

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

Scorpio1971 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:27:31 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
I just discovered this message on two of my incoming orders.

Does it possibly mean:

1. Holiday will delay my orders.
2. There's a predicted unseasonable blizzard in NJ
3. Heavy traffic on Interstate highways this week-end.
4. We're not in the mood to work

What do you want to bet after this diré warning, there's no delay at all?

@Kachina624

You omitted listing #5.

#5. ALL OF THE ABOVE!

You are lucky you are even getting ANY kind of message. I have items that are taking anywhere from 11-13 days TO SHIP! Numerous calls about different items and it is always the same old answer. No reason other than safety because of COVID & sorry. And some orders sit in "preparing your order" for days & then go to backorder. Getting extremely tired of entire situation.

Ordered several things from Amazon Sunday, May 23rd. Being delivered today, May 27th. Boom! That is service! That is why Jeff Bezos is a multi-multi-multi billionaire.

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

mimy13 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:27:34 GMT

Or #5...Your items will be stopping at a BBQ or two on their scenic journey thorugh NJ and PA.

At least it's not the dreaded red bar, "Hmm...somethnig went wrong. Try again or contact Customer Service."

Lately I've had a few that arrived at UPS facility, then transferred to post office, then processing again at UPS, then delivered by post office. Huh??

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

Kachina624 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:30:06 GMT

@Pearlee wrote:
@Kachina624 Why didn't you ask in Customer Care? Your question is about an order notation so the mods might know, rather than have posters guess?

@Pearlee The mods don't know any more about this than we do. This is for fun, I wanted speculative responses from posters. Our Common Carriers are great with off-the-wall excuses for delays.

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

Pearlee — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:31:52 GMT

@Kachina624 I think the mods might know.

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Sweetbay magnolia — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:35:06 GMT

I have found that PO in Secaucus to be a black hole. This goes back many years, though. It's not a recent phenom, at least for me.

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

LdyBugz — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:36:28 GMT

I think you need to add a couple more to your list:

4. The UPS driver is lost due to Google maps errors.

5. Your package left Secaucus, but we don't know who took it.

6. We really don't know anything about your package but thought we should at least post something to cover our behinds.

Good luck!

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

Kachina624 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:37:26 GMT

Okay Mods, if you know or would like to guess, feel free to chime in.

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Foxxee — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:39:08 GMT

#5. We don't know what we are doing.

I received same message several times. No more tracking info until it was delivered. One delay was well over a week.

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

Kachina624 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:43:36 GMT

@Foxxee wrote:
#5. We don't know what we are doing.

I received same message several times. No more tracking info until it was delivered. One delay was well over a week.

@Foxxee Sounds like it may be, "We're bored with this tracking stuff so have decided to quit".

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

Katrinka23 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:44:16 GMT

My notice says -

"May 26 14:09 - The post office attempted to deliver your UPS Surepost package and left a delivery notice with instructions,"

Still looking for the notice.

Re: Any Guesses What This Means?

SunValley — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:45:36 GMT

Your packages are sick of lockdown and are ready to roam aimlessly around the country

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Spurt — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:50:36 GMT

@Kachina624

Ah KACHINA its just QVC's way of CYA....maybe the trucks are waiting in a gasoline line to fill up.....

I will say I got my Homeworx candles within 4 days ---it was shipped from their NC warehouse to Texas....

However, my Ryka sneakers took awhile....I ordered those on 5/8 and it took "only" 8 days to prepare the order 😊, they were finally delivered on 5/20---shipped from California...still not too bad for a QVC delivery.....

Of course orders from other companies arrived within 3-4 days with regular shipping AND heavy rainstorms too....

GOOD LUCK MY FRIEND!