Can someone please explain why any shipper would send an item this way?
15Shipped from:
LOS ANGELES, CA, US
Shipped on:
Wednesday, 2018-03-14 04:03 PM
Delivery to:
Oconomowoc, WI, US
Service:
FedEx SmartPost
Delivery Progresses
Monday, 2018-03-19 06:57 AM BURBANK, IL, US In transit
Sunday:
2018-03-18 08:49 PM ALVA, OK, US In transit
BURBANK, IL, US 06:57 PM in transit
ENCINO, NM, US 07:48 AM In transit
BURBANK, IL, US 06:57 AM In transit
Saturday:
2018-03-17 06:42 PM PARKS, AZ, US In transit
BURBANK, IL, US 06:56 PM In transit
SAN BERNARDINO, CA, US 06:24 AM In transit
MINOOKA, IL, US 06:03 AM In transit
Friday:
2018-03-16 06:24 PM LOS ANGELES, CA, US In transit
SEDGWICK, CO, US 05:01 PM In transit
RICHFIELD, UT, US 04:48 AM In transit
Thursday:
2018-03-15 FEDEX SMARTPOST LOS ANGELES, CA, US
09:13 PM Departed FedEx location
APPLE VALLEY, CA, US 02:39 PM In transit
FEDEX SMARTPOST LOS ANGELES, CA, US 09:02 AM
Arrived at FedEx location LOS ANGELES, CA, US 02:29 AM
Left FedEx origin facility Wednesday, 2018-03-14
Shipped LOS ANGELES, CA, US 08:34 PM
Arrived at FedEx location 04:03 PM
Picked up US 10:09 AM
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Logistics
The item has a double personality? Maybe it found the secret to space and time. Being in two places simultaneously would be a handy trick.
I have found Fedex likes to hold packages hostage
21 minutes to get from Minooka, IL to San Bernardino, CA?
No way.
Got to be two different packages.
@DennisG2014 time zone change?
@RiotDemon I’m too lazy to do the math to see if that would account for the time/distance, but I still have a feeling that this is somehow two different packages on the same tracking #.
@DennisG2014 @RiotDemon I know I know I know
/giphy wildly raising hand to be called on
Teletransporter!!!
Huh. FedEx is apparently now a department of the U.S. Government.
Your package was entered in to the “what is the most number of miles in 5 days we can send something between point A and point B contest” and there was no launch time to send it by way of the space station?
/giphy “random walk”
@f00l You won the giphy lottery.
Everybody loves Burbank.
/image burbank
/giphy burbank?
At this point, I am willing to believe FedEx just threw it in a mailbox and had someone tell a nice story of where it’s been.
@rtjhnstn On second thought, if FedEx had just put it in the mail, it would have been here by now!
Because you can’t get there, from here.
Some days I really hate FedEx
@tinamarie1974
every day
Um it’s FedEx. They suck. That’s why your tracking is messed up. Oh and they are also incompetent. I’ve had numerous packages they say are delivered then the next day they are driving around in some other state. Yeah FedEx they suck. If there was anyway to use any other shipper I would always do it.
They thought your package might enjoy a tour of America… what a lucky box!
/giphy lucky box
The package went on the right truck, but since it was shipped economy, it stays on the truck until the 5 days have passed, and then the truck it has been on the whole time gets to the place it should be and prepped for delivery. If you don’t pay for 2-day, you don’t get 2-day, even if it’s at the place it’s supposed to be in 2 days. They will sit it on the truck for a few more days, riding around the country.
@mike808
I had a package recently which took a week to be delivered, DESPITE having 2nd Day Air shipping.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/the-reign-and-blame-of-the-goatoshop#5a8c611b95bf1f0cd8c21a53
@PlacidPenguin
Mehbe dey didit despite you.
@mike808 If this is accurate it’s a travesty.
@PooltoyWolf I have known this to happen with UPS. They load 3 days worth of delivery on the truck, so you can’t go to the center and pick it up (1 day to tell them to take it off the truck, another to hold at the center, and the next before you can pickup between 9am and 4pm). By the time they get to doing that, you might as well let them keep it on the truck and deliver it on the original 5-day delivery schedule.
There are no early/late or weekend hours at the customer service desk at UPS. Union rules or some such excuse was what I was told. But they clearly load/unload the trucks at night, so somebody is working there after hours.
Around here, FedEx is waaaay better than UPS to the recieving party. UPS only cares about the shipper, and your satisfaction with their delivery of your package is not their concern/problem.
/giphy tardis
The package had been misbehaving and had to be punished.
FedEx: When it absolutely, positively has to be some random place at some random time. I’ve had packages sit in warehouses for days, had them pick up a projector (shipping prepaid by the manufacturer), only to have the projector vanish in space and time for eternity (so far). The tracking number was assigned to another parcel, which meant my parcel wasn’t trackable…finally got a replacement through the largess of Vivitek, as FedEx just couldn’t give a shit. Had the same size parcels from the same warehouse take from 4 to 14 days via Smartpost. Be on some sort of routing paradise with parcels from Meh and getting a consistent 3 days delivery time (their last saving grace).
I’ve been using FedEx since it’s inception, and it’s level of service has placed it behind “Stuffed into cow anus and shot from cannon” in my list of preferred shipping methods. Their customer service has deteriorated by the year…with the recent addition of the world’s first passive-aggressive automated customer service computer.
Funny thing is as bought and paid for pols try to dismember, cripple, and play nasty games with it’s pension funding preparing to serve it up to the gods of “privatization”, I’ve enjoyed the best service from the USPS, who have none of the “too cheap to pay for 2nd Day service? We’ll hold your cheaper service parcel till the last day of the time you’ve paid for” (I’ve gotten a standard Priority Mail parcel from Boston to Phoenix in two days on the majority of occasions. I get my SmartPost parcel no more than 24 hours after handover from FedEx (which generally takes two days to get it from their Phoenix warehouse to the USPS). Phew!
To be fair, UPS started the “hold till last minute in warehouse”, “keep on trucking”, “letter of the law” pettiness. They rate after “use city sanitation trucks as contract carriers” on my list, BTW.
We have tennis balls orbiting the moon, due to tracking errors.
@unmlobo300 I thought those were golf balls. I didn’t know any of the Apollo missions played tennis on the moon.
@unmlobo300 No we don’t.
Moon orbits are unstable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy)
Reading why should give you even more appreciation of ‘the maths’ involved in what NASA did 50 years ago without smartphones, Kerbal, supercomputers, or even knowing that the moon has uneven gravity, as we didn’t detect/measure it until '68, after we went there and back.
@mike808 @unmlobo300
The math.
Singular.
We’re Ammuricans and all.
And in this case, the stateside customary usage is superior.
In the case of math, method is madness is power.
@f00l @unmlobo300
‘the maths’ is intentional. This is 'Murica.
Q.E.D.
@mike808 @unmlobo300
Nope.
Nope.
The word mathematics is singular.
(Possible lazy and lame) evidence for my claim:
From Google:
Kinda easy-peasy def for the public, but makes my point.
Nope.
math is N American slang for the singular word mathematics.
maths is UK slang for same.
Our slang is techincally slightly better imho, for vanishingly small reasons. The distinction does matter ever so slightly for metaphoric value. Many notable UK and EU mathematics profs routinely use math instead of maths in speaking (I’ve done no survey or count).
Perhaps the reasons they do so have to do with some perceived or real degree of US intellectual or cultural dominance in the field, or perhaps there is a linguistic or other reason. Or perhaps the reason is purely and simply custom. But they do. Or the ones I’ve heard in person or seen video of do.
No. Multiple mathematical operations, yes.
But not multiple maths, as we use it here. Never met a pure math prof or math dept prof from anywhere that used it thus.
Perhaps usage is diff in engineering/nat sci depts etc. I’ve no experience outside the math dept.
There will be no need for that (multiple maths [as a plural extension of the evocative US math dept usage of math]) until our (species) brains-knowledge-reasoning come to conjugate themselves so completely into something rich and strange that our entire notion of logic itself (including language/sign/symbol/etc) explodes into something fairly unrecognizable by current standards, and yet is quite rigorous in itself and rigorously consistent with our current practices.
If our species survives as sentient and inquisitive non-slaves over the coming millennia +, I hope and expect that our awareness of, and attempt to come to terms with, the explosion of logic/math into “much and large completely rigorous strangeness” will happen, possibly multiple times, or as an ongoing thing.
Tho it might take a while. And all this is just my little fantasy.
Well, that went afield.
Hmmmm. Oh dear.
I must check the Madness Meter.
A slight accidental salute to the discussion of FedEx’s apparent attempt to play at a “Random Walk”?
None of this matters a whit, except to a few aficionados and fanatics. And, perhaps, to humorists. So, all good.
@f00l
@mike808
Indeed.
The icing on the cake is that FedEx delivered it to the wrong address on 3/22. I still don’t have what I bought as of 3/23.
My wild theory is:
The label is stuck to another box.
That’s the theory on our tennis balls: that the shipping label fell off and they can’t track it.
@unmlobo300 I heard that those tennis balls are orbiting the moon.
The only positive thing I can say is Wootizon refunded me my money.
Game Over.
@rtjhnstn So how much did you want what went astray?