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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Big Frank on February 02, 2024, 08:54:15 AM
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Like lightning hitting the same place multiple times. But they're hitting anything but my mailbox with one package. Two packages left the same place, the same time, Thursday, January 25th. Both made it to a USPS facility in Flint at the same time, Saturday, January 27th. One package was delivered Monday, January 29th. But the other one has been in limbo since the 27th. I'm afraid it's on a long, strange trip somewhere. It may eventually turn up, and it may not. If it doesn't it may not be able to be replaced. It's a Limited Edition Solid Zirconium Flashlight, with only 3.000 available worldwide. To get from the "USPS Facility" to the post office, I think they just have to get the package from the south side of the building where the semis come in, to the west side which is the actual post office that customers visit. There may be another postal facility around there that I haven't seen, but that whole ZIP code is only 4/10ths of a square mile. And somehow they manage to lose my packages there after they already have them. These 2 packages arrived and departed everywhere within a minute of each other, until one vanished. And they haven't updated the daily status of it this month.
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As of 6:05 am, my Informed Delivery page for this hasn't been updated in a whole week. It's "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late" and "Moving Through Network". So, it takes over a week to travel less than 3 miles. That's not good by anyone's standards. Google Maps says it's a 1 hour, 5 minute walk to my house from the Main Post Office.
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It's bad all over. I was gifted some material from my Dad's AAF base in England, and all was great until it was set to go overseas to the US. There it sat. I had a tracking number, and after a while (3-4 weeks) I contact Royal Mail. After taking a week or so to respond, I got a vanilla letter saying "Golly, gee whiz, we don't know what happened to the package." I contacted the small museum that sent it, and they got in touch with RM, and since so much time had elapsed, they refunded the shipping charge to them.
They didn't have to, but the museum sent more stuff, this time by FedEx, and it arrived in 3-4 days.
Three months later, I opened my mail box, and there's the original box, with a sticker on it from RM stating that he package cannot under any circumstances be put on a plane. The only thing I can figure is that it contained 3 linked .50 cal casings that the museum had recovered from the ground at the AAF (and had given to me as a thank you for a nice donation). It was just the casings (I figured it was the end of a test link belt for the armorers to check the functioning of the .50s) and some weenie at RM saw the x-ray and panicked thinking they were live rounds.
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And still no updates since January 31st. If I don't hear anything by next Tuesday (if I can wait that long) I'm going to contact Olight and see if they consider it lost and will replace it. I'll be contacting USPS too, for the good it will do.
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USPS eventually took the listing for that package off my Informed Delivery. I think it was about a week ago. Someone in charge probably threw their arms up in the air and said I don't know. I wonder if they gave Olight back the money the limited edition flashlight was worth. I guess mine is 1 of 2,999 now instead of 1 of 3,000. Oh the rarity. :)
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An hour ago they said Held at Post Office, At Customer Request about the package they delivered maybe 7 hours ago and previously said that they delivered this afternoon. HUH? ??? They think that they made a Delivery Attempt and instead of accepting it I told them to hold it, but it was something that didn't need to be signed for, and they stuck it in my mailbox. Once again, they have me wondering just exactly WTF is going on here?
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Newsflash: The USPS still sucks. Saturday when I looked at the Informed Delivery site to check the progress of my package, it said Tendered to Military for Final Delivery. Delivered to Agent, and when I went outside, it was here. WTF? ??? Why would they deliver it to an agent, or give it to the military to deliver to me, or say that they did?
Now I have a package on the way from Wicked Grips. They're in Flint, but their mailing address is in Davison. The shipping label was created in Flushing and USPS was in possession of the package in Clio Monday. I guess Wicked Grips is in one of the suburbs and not in the city. Anyway, when the post office had my package in Clio, they didn't send it to me. I'm less than 15 miles from the Clio post office, and it's only a 17 or 18 minute drive. But they shipped it about 90 miles to a distribution center somewhere in Detroit. It arrived there Monday night and they expect it to be delivered to me on Wednesday. That's 2 days longer than it should take to go 15 miles.
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Yeah, well FedEx got me again. I ordered some pond flocculent and voila'...the contents of the package got spilled before it got to me. They keep saying it will be delivered "today" for the last few days when in actuality it was returned to sender I have gotten a refund 3 days ago.
I have quit buying anything from Palmetto State because of FedEx. If I want anything and it's being shipped FedEx I just don't want it anymore....
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I've had better luck with FedEx than the post office, but I can't figure out why everything comes from FedEx OnSite, on Dixie Hwy in Saginaw 31 miles away, when there's a FedEx Shipping Center at the airport in Flint, less than 5 miles away.
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What's worse than dealing with USPS? Dealing USPS AND Canada Post! It took 5 days for my package to go from Vancouver, BC to Bell Gardens, CA, south of Los Angeles. It's about 1287 miles, or 257 miles per day. The total time Canada Post expects the journey to take from BC to my house is 16 days. It's another 2,274 miles to Flint, so as long as my package travels 27 miles per day it will be here on the 28th. It's only a 33 hour drive, so it should be here sooner than that. The entire trip form Vancouver to Flint is a 36 hour drive, but due to the way Canada Post and USPS both work, they say it should be here within 16 days. If you drove 2 hours and 4 minutes per day you cover that distance within the amount of time they say.
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And the U.S. Postal Service strikes again! I have a package coming that went from Virginia to D.C. on the 14th, then went to Indianapolis, IN, 140 miles too far west, on the afternoon on the 15th. It was expected to be here on the 17th. But on the 18th it was still "In Transit to Next Facility", and now they're saying "Arriving Late" and Delivery Date Unknown. It only takes about 4 hours, 20 minutes to drive from Indianapolis to Flint, like a trip from my house to the U.P., but it takes the post office several days, not hours, to get a package that far. And they have freakin' jets! From the time it hit Indianapolis on the 15th until it was in transit on the 18th, where the heck was it? I hope it doesn't take an extra 2 week city to city tour across the country like the package I had landed in Detroit before its nearly coast to coast adventure.
My package from Canada left Los Angeles yesterday, so at least that one is moving and accounted for. UPS would have it here in 3 or 4 days with the cheapest ground delivery, but we'll see what the post office is capable of. UPS and FedEx both deliver my packages on time if not early, and 95% of the bring take them to the back door like I ask, like these 2. They're usually somewhere between the edge of the porch and storm door, but occasionally make it onto the table, usually if it's pouring rain and it's the only dry spot.
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My package from Vancouver landed in Chicago at 1 am. Maybe it will be here in a few days. The other package, which arrived in Indianapolis last Tuesday afternoon is still "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late Delivery Date Unknown". I don't know where the next facility is, maybe Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ::) But it shouldn't take 6 days or more to get from one facility to another one, somewhere along the way. I think they lost my sold-out, limited-edition Stonewashed Titanium Gears Olight Arkfeld Pro. It wouldn't be the first time one of my packages with something irreplaceable disappeared for several days, or longer.
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My package from Canada made it here today. But the other one arrived in Indianapolis 9 days ago and was in transit to next facility 5 days ago. Google maps says it takes 108 hours to walk from Indianapolis to Flint. If you walked 12 hours a day it would take 9 days, which it's already been, and there's still no telling where in the world it is.
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USPS tracking is worthless. I have learned that they scan the packages when they are assigned to a truck. The packages are put in carts that are for a designated final destination. As the truck moves across country, at each stop some carts will come off and more will be added. Those coming off will either be at their final PO, at which point the scan is entered in a way it is accessible. If the cart is moving on the scan is not accessible. Because of this, what I call a flaw in the system, you see when your package leaves the origination point and next when it arrives at the final point before going out for delivery. Another flaw is that often times the scan for when the package goes out for delivery is not accessible until after the delivery is verified.
I don't know who designed this software, but with the little I know about programing I am certain that it took more work to create a system that hides certain points of contact than to be fully transparent with every scan point.
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The good news is the didn't lose the sold-out titanium gears Olight I ordered on pre-sale. They're expected to start shipping in early June. They've only lost regular stuff that can be replaced. I just checked again and nothing has been updated.
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I don't know who designed this software, but with the little I know about programing I am certain that it took more work to create a system that hides certain points of contact than to be fully transparent with every scan point.
Two examples about government management. One was they foreclosured on the Chicken Ranch and ran it for a period of time until they could find a buyer. In that intervening time it went bankrupt. The feds couldn’t turn a profit running a house of prostitution. The other is Obamacare. Obama said that if you couldn’t get the website to work you could always sign up by mail. Think about that. The government developed a web site slower than the post office.
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I know that I am chasing a rabbit down a different hole, so I will start with USPS.
With the USPS you get what you pay for. Regardless of how the department reached the point it now occupies, you get what you pay for and what it is. USPS is not designed to be fast or customer friendly. They move items from point A to point B within a structured and inflexible system. Their current customer base, bulk mailers and last mile for UPS and FedEx, are utilizing what USPS has morphed to.
USPS is suffering from an all-too-common illness within our society. I can't remember the technical name, but it is when you are given a directive to do something, so you agree to comply and in doing so you go overboard. It reared its ugly head with school libraries. When told control access to certain literature for appropriateness, librarians said "Sure, I'll do that" and then they removed all the literature from the shelves and screamed "book bans" and "censorship." The directive was to say what is valuable information for high school students isn't for the consumption of fifth graders.
In that mindset, the USPS has been told "no overtime," so they limited to eight-hour days. However, instead of stagering shifts they went full 8 - 5 for everyone. They complied with the directive.
Another common issue in government, and many presidents have pulled their hair out over it. Now Musk is trying to make a dent in it in his brief four month term. "I have a budget of one million dollars, so I must use it." A department does their job under budget, but under fear of losing budget money for next year the over purchase supplies, do make work jobs, anything that will burn the surplus. Workers do "make work jobs" to justify their position. This is part of making systems and programs far more complex than necessary. They create multiple levels of repetition, or spread the work out over four clerks rather than one stop, to create positions and fulfill promises and give paybacks.
Guess what. In ranting over what I see in USPS I just explained and justified what Musk is advising and implementing for Pres. Trump. It is what every company does when they merge, purchase, change leadership, or just hold an internal audit on operations.
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The sad part is when you have no choice.
Last week I ordered items from two places. Both had no other shipping option than USPS.
One item (thankfully it was the time-sensitive one) arrived on time and intact. The other was due to arrive the same day, but took an extra seven days due to being re-routed to different hubs multiple times.....and all it had to do was go fro SC to GA.
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The sad part is when you have no choice.
Last week I ordered items from two places. Both had no other shipping option than USPS.
One item (thankfully it was the time-sensitive one) arrived on time and intact. The other was due to arrive the same day, but took an extra seven days due to being re-routed to different hubs multiple times.....and all it had to do was go fro SC to GA.
SC to GA. What is that, about 9,000 miles? :)
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.....and all it had to do was go fro SC to GA.
It’s the regional bottleneck in Palmetto, GA, SW of Atlanta on I-85. Opened 14 months ago, it’s had, at times trucks lined up by the dozens, because they couldn’t process the packages fast enough. And untested sorting system they just opened overnight last year, after laying off dozens from the old facility. Some of which they’ve had to rehire. They’re probably still got mail from last year laying around.
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The sad part is when you have no choice.
Last week I ordered items from two places. Both had no other shipping option than USPS.
One item (thankfully it was the time-sensitive one) arrived on time and intact. The other was due to arrive the same day, but took an extra seven days due to being re-routed to different hubs multiple times.....and all it had to do was go fro SC to GA.
its even worse if your address is a po box as you are way out in the country. only USPS
they all suck, but it really does seem like some hubs are just trash, if it has to go thru one of the bad ones, its just bad.
I just recently had a next day air delivery that only had to go about 160 miles take 4 days. It was from seattle to portland. so not exactly small hubs.
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If "next day air" takes 4 days, do you still have to pay for it? They should at least refund all except what the cheapest ground shipping would have cost. My package that arrived in Indy 13 days ago is still on it's way to the next facility, but they haven't updated it in 10 days. It's lost. I think it's time for a replacement. It already took 2 weeks to get from Virginia to wherever it is now.
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They ate it. Luckily the live things in it survived.
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so i just got a package from MO to ID thru USPS. I ordered it very late in the day on 4/24 shipped late on the 25th, got here a little after 2 today the 28th.
just standard value shipping, nothing crazy. mean while the item i order on the 22 and shipped on the 23 from KS to ID shipped UPS ground is still 3 days out. both were relatively small, and light.
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Fed ex... from sf bay area to me just out side boise.
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Fed ex... from sf bay area to me just out side boise.
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I wonder how many states it's going to visit on its tour?
I messaged Olight Monday night about my missing package. They reshipped it Tuesday and it's expected to be here Friday. I got a box full of Thermold clips from Arizona today. It was Priority Mail and only took 2 days instead of all week. If they treated every package like Priority Mail, maybe they would all get here.
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It was actually delivered the next day. Makes me wonder if it got on the wrong plane some where or if thr Memphis was wrong.
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I was behind a guy in the post office once and he was wanting to send some documents via USPS Overnight/Next Day.
The lady at the counter literally said "We can't guarantee they'll get there when you need them there.....maybe you should go to UPS since they guarantee they'll be there at 10:00 AM."
And, at the time, UPS was cheaper for overnight documents.
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If you're shipping books or other media, I think USPS still has a "media" rate that's really cheap, but slow. If you sent CDs and books by media rate it could be quite a bit cheaper than UPS, but I prefer UPS for most things. I don't recall ever overnight shipping anything.
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Back in the days before you just zip a file electronically, we shipped documents, blueprints, and some small parts via UPS overnight to our sister plant in Louisiana. Always got there on time.
I bet it's a gamble now even for UPS.
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Back in the days before you just zip a file electronically, we shipped documents, blueprints, and some small parts via UPS overnight to our sister plant in Louisiana. Always got there on time.
I bet it's a gamble now even for UPS.
I live in Louisville, which is UPS's main hub. They have announced they are cutting up to 20,000 jobs worldwide because they signed a contract with Amazon to only ship 1/2 as much as they have been. This was by UPS's choice. I think they have been overloaded with Amazon shipments that they don't make very much profit from, and have realized they can't/won't carry that load for the little bit of profit they are making.
I think in the long term this will probably help UPS's response time for "normal" smaller shipments since it will relieve the pressure on the system they are using. IMHO.
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I live in Louisville, which is UPS's main hub. They have announced they are cutting up to 20,000 jobs worldwide because they signed a contract with Amazon to only ship 1/2 as much as they have been. This was by UPS's choice. I think they have been overloaded with Amazon shipments that they don't make very much profit from, and have realized they can't/won't carry that load for the little bit of profit they are making.
I think in the long term this will probably help UPS's response time for "normal" smaller shipments since it will relieve the pressure on the system they are using. IMHO.
Both UPS and USPS took on Last Mile contracts. They both do for Amazon, and USPS also does some UPS and FedEx. For both the Last Mile work overloaded them and harmed their main business. The difference is that UPS is run like a business, they will drop the Last Mile, they will restructure, and they will do fine. USPS is in such financial trouble from lack of business management that they need the cash from this service.
Have you ever wondered why Amazon, UPS, and FedEx would go to others for Last Mile? The profits are in the first 95% of the shippment, and the highest overhead is in the last 5%. If they can find a sucker to do the crap work for them, it is SMART.
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Any shipping company can get hundreds of packages to your local post office a lot cheaper than they can deliver directly to you and hundreds of your neighbors. I don't blame them for letting USPS handle the last mile, but that doesn't mean I like it. One package is still MIA, presumed KIA. The other one was "expected" today, but arrived in Detroit yesterday with no update since then. Maybe tomorrow, if it gets to Flint by 6 am.
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I got my replacement package Monday afternoon, and the original package is no longer listed on my Informed Delivery. I guess they finally admitted it was lost and beyond reasonable hope of ever being recovered. Like a ship that disappears in the middle of the ocean.
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I had 3 packages to ship yesterday. I went with the USPS. I sent a package UPS a month and a half ago...I sent all three with the USPS for less than the one for UPS. And that included the price of insurance at $100, $500 and $1,200 for the packages. So...I'm going to continue to ship with the USPS. If they screw up then OK...I'm still saving money over UPS.
I'm just sayin'....when it comes to me shipping things out of my pocket the $$$'s matter.
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$$$ ALWAYS matter. Especially when you don't have a lot to spare.
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May 09, 2:15 am, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility DETROIT MI DISTRIBUTION CENTER.
May 12, In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late.
Delivery Date Unknown.
The post office is so messed up they could ruin the perfect wet dream. My package from Wisconsin was an hour drive away from here 4 DAYS AGO, and they STILL don't have a &^%$#@! clue when it will be here!
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Metro Atlanta is still has the worst delivery rates in the US. Only 71% of first class letters are delivered on time. AND THIS, according to the article, IS A VAST IMPROVEMENT.
Atl Journal Constitution article in today's paper. I've included the link below but it could be paywalled. I'm a subscriber automatically logged in, so it's hard to tell.
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There's still no trace of the package that went missing 9 days ago, but it's replacement "should" be here Tuesday. It made it from ALBANY, WI to OAK CREEK, WI to MILWAUKEE, WI to CHICAGO, IL to ELK GROVE VILLAGE IL, so far. It only took a couple of days to travel 238 miles. My best guess is it will make a stop or 2 in Indiana, and probably not go east into Ohio, but straight into Michigan. If it keeps taking short trips it may go to Gary, IN and South Bend, IN, then make a few stops in Michigan before getting here. It's been circling around and zigzagging like there's a drunk behind the wheel of a mail truck.
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The first package from Dead Foot Arms, shipped 20 days ago, has finally resurfaced. It arrived in Detroit May 9th, and Pontiac May 24th. Why did it take 15 days to go 30 miles? Heck if I know! A chicken can cross the road at 9 MPH, but my mail was only going 2 MPH. House Cats, Kangaroos, Grizzly bears, Wart hogs, and White-tailed deer can all run 30 MPH, but one little package takes over 2 weeks to cover that distance. 30 miles down, and 40 miles to go. Another 27 days to get here, maybe? Yesterday it was in transit to the next facility and arriving late. No, duh!
The replacement package Dead Foot Arms sent May 16th after that one was lost, is still lost. On May 19th, it left Chicago, then it was in transit to the next facility. It arrived in Detroit, arrived in Detroit again 28 minutes later, left Detroit 20 minutes after that, and arrived in Detroit again 18 minutes after that. It had a busy day, but keeps circling Detroit like the black hole in space I always knew it was. Six days later, on Sunday, it was "in transit to the next facility" and arriving late.
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When I was a kid, my older brother asked me this riddle.
If a police car, fire truck, ambulance, and mail truck all arrive at a 4-way stop at the same time, who has the right of way?
The lying idiot told me the mail truck had the right of way because it's a government vehicle. I believe he meant U.S. government vehicle, since many emergency vehicles are also government vehicles, usually state or local.
The truth is, as the only non-emergency vehicle, the mail truck has to yield to all 3 of the other vehicles. Assuming all 3 have their lights and sirens off, or all 3 have them on, the mail truck yields to the vehicle to their right. That vehicle yields to the vehicle to its right. And that vehicle yields to the vehicle to its right. So the vehicle to the mail truck's left go first, then the next vehicle to the left, then the next, and finally the mail truck. If 1 or 2 of the emergency vehicles have their lights and sirens on, they have the right of way over the 1 or 2 that don't, and the mail truck is still the 4th place loser. Like my brother. :) He's 5 1/2 years older than me, so he was practically an adult in my eyes, and still is, ;) and he's apparently an authority on everything. And because of all the crap he made up and told me, and I believed it, Weird Al's song Everything You Know Is Wrong has special significance to me. When I said something to my mom about all the lies her favorite son told me, she defended him of course, and said he had an active imagination. Active imagination is Mom-speak for Full of S**t. Everything you know is wrong, Black is white, up is down and short is long, And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter, Everything you know is wrong. Everything I thought I knew that my brother told me is wrong.
I was driving on the freeway in the fast lane
With a rabid wolverine in my underwear
When suddenly a guy behind me in the backseat
Popped right up and cupped his hands across my eyes
I guessed is it Uncle Frank or Cousin Louie?
Is it Bob or Joe or Walter?
Could it be Bill or Jim
Or Ed or Bernie or Steve?
I probably would have kept on guessing
But about that time we crashed into a truck
And as I'm laying bleeding there on the asphalt
Finally I recognize the face of my Hibachi dealer
Who takes off his prosthetic lips and tells me
[Chorus]
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong
[Verse 2]
I was walking to the kitchen for some Golden Grahams
When I accidentally stepped into an alternate dimension
And soon I was abducted by some aliens from space who kinda looked like Jamie Farr
They sucked out my internal organs
And they took some Polaroids
And said I was a darn good sport
And as a way of saying thank you
They offered to transport me
Back to any point in history that I would care to go
And so I had them send me back to last Thursday night
So I could pay my phone bill on time
Just then the floating disembodied head of Colonel Sanders started yelling
[Chorus]
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
I was just about to mail a letter to my evil twin
When I got a nasty paper cut
And well, to make a long story short
It got infected and I died
So now I'm up in heaven with Saint Peter by the pearly gates
And it's obvious he doesn't like the Nehru jacket that I'm wearing
He tells me that they've got a dress code
Well, he lets me into Heaven anyway
But I get the room next to the noisy ice machine for all eternity
And every day he runs by screaming
[Chorus]
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you used to think was so important
Doesn't really matter anymore
Because the simple fact remains that
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is that
Everything you know is wrong (Everything you know is wrong)
Everything you know is wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJTP1JXyFE
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My package that left ALBANY, WI on the afternoon of May 7th got here today, June 5th. That's 4 weeks and 1 day to travel what Google Maps says is a 6 hour, 10 minute drive. It's a 25 hour bike ride if you take a ferry ride across Lake Michigan, so it's 20 hours of riding and 5 hours sitting on a boat. The replacement package that was sent the afternoon of May 16th, because this one never showed up, is still lost. It arrived in Detroit May 19th, and was supposedly in transit to the next facility on the 25th. That was 11 days ago and it still hasn't made it anyplace from Detroit. This package arrived in Detroit May 9th and Pontiac May 24th. I assume it left Detroit to get there, but there's no record of that. It was In Transit to Next Facility May 28th and ended up in Flint today. It took 12 days to go the last 40 miles, and 15 days to go 30 miles before that, for a total of 27 days from Detroit to Flint, which is only an hour drive. Let me repeat that so it has a chance to sink in. My package took 27 days to get from Detroit to Flint, which is only an hour drive. Check it yourself on Google Maps if you think I'm exaggerating. It's 68.5 miles down I-75.
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The daily Informed Delivery email from the post office on June 14th told me that my package has arrived. On may 5th. ??? Just shy of 6 weeks ago. Gee, thanks for letting me know my package was delivered. ::) I think this was from Olight but I'm not sure. The replacement for the missing package from Dead Foot Arms never showed up, and they took any record of it off my account.
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Wife ordered some sugar-based edible decorations for some cookies she had to make. Fed-Oops threw it on the ground next to the mailbox, took a photo for the delivery proof and then said it was delivered there due to the driveway being gated...... We do not have, and have never had, a gated drive. They should know this since they've thrown plenty of packages on the ground next to the vehicles and between the trucks and back porch.... Idiots.
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It sounds like FedEx and UPS both have a few bad drivers, but USPS is incompetent.
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USPS has been okay the last couple of weeks but Fed
UpEx was a disappointment this week.
Ordered a laser level, (green, self-leveling, X pattern, 165’ outdoors) mainly to survey Steel Challenge stages, but also a fun toy and useful around the house. Twice Saturday I got emails from FX that it would be delivered between 10 and 2 on Saturday. TWICE. I didn’t really get my hopes up because when I checked tracking details it wasn’t marked Out For Delivery. Sure enough at 11pm the status was changed to We’ll Update You When We figure Out What We’re Doing.
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USPS has been okay the last couple of weeks but FedUpEx was a disappointment this week.
Ordered a laser level, (green, self-leveling, X pattern, 165’ outdoors) mainly to survey Steel Challenge stages, but also a fun toy and useful around the house. Twice Saturday I got emails from FX that it would be delivered between 10 and 2 on Saturday. TWICE. I didn’t really get my hopes up because when I checked tracking details it wasn’t marked Out For Delivery. Sure enough at 11pm the status was changed to We’ll Update You When We figure Out What We’re Doing.
I have the post office do that more than anyone, but by email. They'll tell me something is expected to be delivered today, and when I look to see where it is, it's still in another state.