Re: Rant

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Kachina624

I'm really glad you got your packages, too

ellaphant · ‎12-13-2010

WENGIRL42

She does NOT know where they are.

Pearlee · ‎06-11-2011

@suzyQ3 wrote:
@Pearlee wrote:
I like to support local businesses and also artisans who come to arts and crafts fairs in our city. Plus, those vendors' items are very unique gifts that the recipient is unlikely to have or get from someone else. Love shopping that way!
That's lovely. I do, too. But I buy more things online, and I would prefer they show up when tracking says that they have.

Apples and oranges.

ROTFLMAO! I wasn't comparing anything to anything. Just stating another advantage of shopping locally, esp. if deliveries are driving a person to rants and headaches. Too funny!

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

Good...a happy ending. I just got a Q package today after it sat in the local PO for three days.

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

This same thing happened to me with a few packages. Apparently, the tracking says it was delivered by UPS but it was still on the truck. Lo and behold it arrived the following morning. Very frustrating but not worth getting upset over.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@september wrote:
I think having a lot of things go wrong with deliveries is frustrating. I'd be upset, too.

as for the question about shopping locally, there can be many reasons why this doesn't work for us. Being disabled (like the OP) is one. In my case, I live in a small town with somewhat limited shopping options. I have to spend at least 90 minutes in the car to get to a bigger city, and if there's roadwork, unusually heavy traffic, or an accident, it can be longer.

I hear you there. My closest options for any decent shopping are 30-60 min each way, plus the walking.

And then there is - I buy what I need/want, or what my giftees have said they want. I have to deal with the b&m stores that have (or don't have) what I'm searching for. I stopped buying clever & unique (but unwanted) a few years ago.

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Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Trinity11 wrote:
This same thing happened to me with a few packages. Apparently, the tracking says it was delivered by UPS but it was still on the truck. Lo and behold it arrived the following morning. Very frustrating but not worth getting upset over.

That's what happened to me @Trinity11

I called UPS to say it was reported delivered but nada, the CS woman said they do that all the time. I bet it's guys who can't keep up with their quota.

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

This past May I went away for several days and had ordered a pair of shoes a week before. I tracked the package and the shoes were supposed to get to me the day before I left. I got an update from UPS that they had arrived at the nearest Hub that is about a fifteen minute drive away and that my shoes were transferred to USPS! Since I was leaving early the next morning, I would not get my package until my return home four days later.I didn't need the shoes for the trip but I didn't want the box to sit outside my door for several days.

One of the first things that I did when I returned home was to check on my delivery because while away I received notification that it was delivered. One of my neighbors had kept it for me.

You Don't Own Me- Leslie Gore
(You don't Know) How Glad I Am- Nancy Wilson

september · ‎03-09-2010

@Moonchilde wrote:
@september wrote:
I think having a lot of things go wrong with deliveries is frustrating. I'd be upset, too.

as for the question about shopping locally, there can be many reasons why this doesn't work for us. Being disabled (like the OP) is one. In my case, I live in a small town with somewhat limited shopping options. I have to spend at least 90 minutes in the car to get to a bigger city, and if there's roadwork, unusually heavy traffic, or an accident, it can be longer.

I hear you there. My closest options for any decent shopping are 30-60 min each way, plus the walking.

And then there is - I buy what I need/want, or what my giftees have said they want. I have to deal with the b&m stores that have (or don't have) what I'm searching for. I stopped buying clever & unique (but unwanted) a few years ago.

Yes...that, too The "don't have" part of the equation. I often go out of town to shop, only to come home and have to buy what I want/need in my size or the color I want?

I ask myself why I just wasted a whole day when I could have just ordered online in the first place.