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[software]

I ordered a product from QVC.

It never went anywhere, tracking stalled.

After 3 weeks it was determined to be lost in the mail, QVC agreed to give me a refund.

I went to the vendor's website to order directly.

It was tracked to be delivered Tuesday.

I checked when I got home from work, I checked when I got back from dinner, then again before I went to bed - 9pm-ish.

Wish I had checked this morning, tracking tells me it was delivered at 10:30 last night!

[deepwaterdotter]

Last week UPS delivered a package to my front door at 8:30 p.m.

[software]

That's a  long day.

I hear these drivers start delivering around dawn

@deepwaterdotter

[Laura14]

I ordered from Target over a week ago when they had an online only discount.  They split my order into three deliveries with two set to deliver last week and the last one being for this past Monday.  

I got one on time.  The other two got stuck an hour away for days.  I finally just got one this afternoon that they gave up trying to deliver and just gave to the post office which was right on it. 

I am still waiting for my third.  

Target sent me an email to rate my delivery experience a few days ago.  I deleted it because I had nothing nice to say.  They sent it again today and I took them up at their insistence.  I was nice and did type that I know it's a busy time of year but I was still out two of my three deliveries as of this morning and my local store had it in stock.  Online convenience went to extremely inconvenient quickly.

Not sure I'll do any more deliveries until after Christmas.  UPS, you're welcome.  

[Lipstickdiva]

@Laura14, I'm in the exact same boat with Target.  I ordered 2 things on Cyber Monday. 

One was delivered in 2 days. Thank goodness because that was a child's gift that I had to have dropped off to my church Sunday.

The other item was scheduled to be delivered Monday but I don't have it.  When I checked tracking this morning, it is in my local UPS hub but didn't say it was out for delivery today, only that it had arrived there. 

As an aside, yesterday morning when I left my house for work at 7:30 a.m., USPS was dropping a package off to the house across the street.  I also saw USPS delivering packages on Sunday.

[Cumbercookie13]

I had one package delivered by UPS this holiday. I ordered it back in October before they started getting super busy and had no problems. Everything else was sent USPS and they have done an excellent job of getting my packages to me. I saw a UPS truck stop in front of my driveway last night before 5pm to deliver something to my neighbor. The guys looked exhausted. I don't envy them this time of year.

[Laura14]

@Lipstickdiva  Well then I am glad I said something for both of us.  Both of mine sat at the hub for days too.  One must still be having coffee in the break room. 

[puttypiesmom]

A few of my packages have been sitting in the post office since the 2nd, I have smartpost to thank for that. Today is Wed and only 1 is out for delivery. The tracking goes in this order po given electronic notification to expect pkg, package sent to po, package accepted by po.  The following day after package is accepted by po, delivery is supposed to happen. 

[puttypiesmom]

A delivery person in a Ryder truck delivered my pet food yesterday. Coincidentally, my neighbor had an order too as her order was on the same truck. I had no idea she ordered from the same company or was waiting on an order at the same time. Delivery time was very fast. 

[Venezia]

With all the sales, Black Friday deals, Cyber Monday deals, free shipping days at this time of year, the delivery services are going to be inundated and likely working all the hours of the day to get things delivered.

It's no wonder things are taking a bit longer.  I have several items enroute and as long as they get to me intact and the delivery drivers stay safe (not having an accident because they're trying to do too much, too fast), I'm okay with that.

I expect things to take longer in the run-up to Christmas.