@Room101 SO true! A good number of our meh purchases we buy knowing it will be a nice gift or gag for someone, but with zero hurry to get it. With most of the orders, I totally forget about what it was and then a meh box arrives and the kids get to open it and we all participate in the surprise factor. “Ohhhh, that’s right, a thingamabob to hold a cellphone around your neck!”
(P.S. - Don’t laugh, that thing is actually fantastic for reading chords/tab off your cellphone while playing guitar.)
Don’t laugh, that thing is actually fantastic for reading chords/tab off your cellphone while playing guitar.
OK THAT makes sense. I tried desperately to find a reason I would ever use this, but couldn’t come up with one… of course, it doesn’t really matter since I don’t play guitar…
@spitfire6006006
Then remember that it represents Pitney Bowes time and add a couple of weeks for the inexplicable detours.
(unsolicited business hint for PB… hire a logistics person… or at least someone that can read a map!)
Amazon doesn’t do next day for many things anymore.
… And even before Coronavirus hit they were getting pretty bad about meeting “guaranteed shipping times”. Amazon shipping has been slipping for a long time.
@Barney@medz I broke down and ordered the Princess Bride/Fleetwood Mac Rumors shirt this morning (somehow received a hefty discount on it, too). It says I’ll have it by the 26th. We’ll see.
It seems everything I’ve ordered lately that is shipping via USPS is wandering all over the country. Ordered swim suit bottoms from a company in my state 5 hours south of me. Supposed to arrive on the 19th. For some odd reason they’ve traveled to White Plains, NY, and then on to New Jersey.
@medz I am prime and I do not get 2-day shipping anymore from Zon. Right now I just added a prime item and it will not arrive until June 26, but a different Prime item will not be here until between July 3rd and July 7, so it depends what you order?
For months I have been ordering RC hobby stuff from vendors in Florida - tiny companies, much smaller than Meh. USPS nearly always gets it to me in Oregon in two business days, or three at most during covid time. Just plain old first class parcels.
I don’t know how they are doing it, nor do I know what every other company is doing differently, but maybe they have just ruined me so that my expectations are too high.
@blandoon You’ve got small companies, small enough that they are shipping them out same day, and possibly sending in flat rate priority boxes. While a company like this is at times taking orders that will be shipped en mass directly by the company that made the product, like the jerky and the sausage a while back, but most of the time it’s coming from the same warehouse as morningsave and sidedeal, and going through a 3rd party handler that’s got a bulk discount rate on shipping. Not shipping first class
They are doing something like sorting by destination and filling and wrapping pallets or containers that then go across the country by contracted truck and get broken up at the destination center and go to local post office for cheap last mile delivery.
Since they are scanning a code on a pallet that’s tied to all the codes for the packages contained, I think in some cases the weirdness in tracking is due to things like a package code getting tied into multiple pallets, “in transit [city name]” may mean it should be on it’s way to that city, etc.
@kevinrs I clearly have less knowledge of the topic than you… I guess I’m mostly saying that it pays to find and patronize the small vendors that really want to please because it’s made me realize how little I actually need Amazon.
@blandoon It is good to patronize those small businesses.
You just can’t compare the shipping you get from them to meh, and you can’t compare amazon to meh either. they are at opposite ends. Small is quick but costly, amazon is quick because of scale. Meh is slow because they are selling cheap stuff really cheap, and shipping cheap is part of how they can get the price down.
The recent crazy ship times are probably due to things like limited trucking due to coronavirus and high demand meaning truckers take higher paying loads than pitney bowes is shipping.
I honestly wonder if there’s been an influx of new customers. I can’t imagine anyone that’s been with mediocre labs for a while to expect anything decent when it comes to shipping. Hell, I remember the ole snail post comments when Woot was well, what Meh is now
Oh, they’ve done far worse than fail you. They’ve hurt you, and they wish to go on hurting you. They shall leave you as you left them: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dying sale-a-day site, buried alive.
If you really needed your 12-pack of Fun Putty quickly, then yeah, this was not the site to order it from. But the delivery estimate on it seems accurate, so that’s really on you.
Count yourself lucky that you didn’t order a toothbrush here.
Everything takes about a month to arrive. They are using Pitney Bowes logistics, which will keep stuff in a warehouse for a long time before filling up and dispatching a truck to anywhere near your city. It’s the slow boat of truck shipping.
@moonhat is to blame!
Amazon has a lot more money and their own logistics company.
@Ignorant perhaps Meh should see if Amazon wants to buy Meh. I bet they would do a fantastic job running it.
@MrMark sounds like a solid plan, nothing could go wrong.
Did you ever stop and think that if you would quit failing Meh then they would quit failing you?
@therealjrn RIP Thomas Cook :c
EDIT: That meme actually shows an arrival lmao
@PooltoyWolf
Maybe a train station one would be better.
@therealjrn Hahaha
@cranky1950 You’re cranky.
@hems79 fersure!
For me the whole fun is forgetting I ordered a piece of crap and then being surprised when a box of crap arrives. It’s like Random Mehxmas Day!
If I really need something within a day or two I go to Amazon.
@Room101 Me too!
@Room101 @sammydog01
I go to target, cause well, it’s not AMazon
@Room101 I think they use pony express but only when the silk road has too many detours.
@Room101 @smartshopper2 No, the Pony Express was legendary for on time delivery.
@Room101
SO true! A good number of our meh purchases we buy knowing it will be a nice gift or gag for someone, but with zero hurry to get it. With most of the orders, I totally forget about what it was and then a meh box arrives and the kids get to open it and we all participate in the surprise factor. “Ohhhh, that’s right, a thingamabob to hold a cellphone around your neck!”
(P.S. - Don’t laugh, that thing is actually fantastic for reading chords/tab off your cellphone while playing guitar.)
@jester747 @Room101
OK THAT makes sense. I tried desperately to find a reason I would ever use this, but couldn’t come up with one… of course, it doesn’t really matter since I don’t play guitar…
You gotta pay attention to the eta
@spitfire6006006
Then remember that it represents Pitney Bowes time and add a couple of weeks for the inexplicable detours.
(unsolicited business hint for PB… hire a logistics person… or at least someone that can read a map!)
Amazon doesn’t do next day for many things anymore.
… And even before Coronavirus hit they were getting pretty bad about meeting “guaranteed shipping times”. Amazon shipping has been slipping for a long time.
@OnionSoup
I’ll bet they haven’t.
Only half of my Amazon orders are making it in 2 days. Otherwise like 2 weeks.
@medz Yeah, Amazon is not setting any speed records, although for some reason, Woot is doing pretty good with their deliveries.
@Barney @medz I broke down and ordered the Princess Bride/Fleetwood Mac Rumors shirt this morning (somehow received a hefty discount on it, too). It says I’ll have it by the 26th. We’ll see.
It seems everything I’ve ordered lately that is shipping via USPS is wandering all over the country. Ordered swim suit bottoms from a company in my state 5 hours south of me. Supposed to arrive on the 19th. For some odd reason they’ve traveled to White Plains, NY, and then on to New Jersey.
Maybe I’ll get them before summer is over.
@LaVikinga you must have prime. Somewhere or other - maybe the deals thread here? - I saw that prime members get 40% off shirts.
@medz I am prime and I do not get 2-day shipping anymore from Zon. Right now I just added a prime item and it will not arrive until June 26, but a different Prime item will not be here until between July 3rd and July 7, so it depends what you order?
@caffeine_dude @medz I live a half hour away from a warehouse so stuff either comes in over a week or the next day.
For months I have been ordering RC hobby stuff from vendors in Florida - tiny companies, much smaller than Meh. USPS nearly always gets it to me in Oregon in two business days, or three at most during covid time. Just plain old first class parcels.
I don’t know how they are doing it, nor do I know what every other company is doing differently, but maybe they have just ruined me so that my expectations are too high.
@blandoon You’ve got small companies, small enough that they are shipping them out same day, and possibly sending in flat rate priority boxes. While a company like this is at times taking orders that will be shipped en mass directly by the company that made the product, like the jerky and the sausage a while back, but most of the time it’s coming from the same warehouse as morningsave and sidedeal, and going through a 3rd party handler that’s got a bulk discount rate on shipping. Not shipping first class
They are doing something like sorting by destination and filling and wrapping pallets or containers that then go across the country by contracted truck and get broken up at the destination center and go to local post office for cheap last mile delivery.
Since they are scanning a code on a pallet that’s tied to all the codes for the packages contained, I think in some cases the weirdness in tracking is due to things like a package code getting tied into multiple pallets, “in transit [city name]” may mean it should be on it’s way to that city, etc.
@kevinrs I clearly have less knowledge of the topic than you… I guess I’m mostly saying that it pays to find and patronize the small vendors that really want to please because it’s made me realize how little I actually need Amazon.
@blandoon It is good to patronize those small businesses.
You just can’t compare the shipping you get from them to meh, and you can’t compare amazon to meh either. they are at opposite ends. Small is quick but costly, amazon is quick because of scale. Meh is slow because they are selling cheap stuff really cheap, and shipping cheap is part of how they can get the price down.
The recent crazy ship times are probably due to things like limited trucking due to coronavirus and high demand meaning truckers take higher paying loads than pitney bowes is shipping.
@blandoon RDQ?
@djslack mostly RDQ and GetFPV. They are in Orlando and Sarasota respectively, I think.
This site is the worst ungrateful staff
And the day-later-followup-post-to-bump-the-thread.
Classic.
@dirkdigler650 You do realize that not one staff member has answered here? We’re all just forums jerks.
@sammydog01 that i am aware of. I refer to the emails i recieved when i canceled my membership.
@dirkdigler650 well if you canceled then I guess all that’s left is
/giphy bye Felicia
@dirkdigler650 if they’re the worst ungrateful, does that mean they’re the best grateful?
@dirkdigler650 How can we miss you if you won’t leave?
@blaineg @dirkdigler650
@OnionSoup i asked your mom that last night
If you really believe Meh won’t fail you again, I have some swamp land to sell you for cheap.
@RedOak to make that property really attractive and get the highest price you probably need a bridge over that swamp too.
I honestly wonder if there’s been an influx of new customers. I can’t imagine anyone that’s been with mediocre labs for a while to expect anything decent when it comes to shipping. Hell, I remember the ole snail post comments when Woot was well, what Meh is now
@MrMikenIkes Maybe it’s the free membership that popped up on slickdeals?
Oh, they’ve done far worse than fail you. They’ve hurt you, and they wish to go on hurting you. They shall leave you as you left them: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dying sale-a-day site, buried alive.
Meeeehhhh!
@macromeh Bravo!
@macromeh From Meh’s heart, they stab at thee. For hate’s sake, they spit their last breath at thee.
KuoH
Same here. Ordered on May 15th still nothing. But that’s ok because THAT’S MEH!!! :
If you really needed your 12-pack of Fun Putty quickly, then yeah, this was not the site to order it from. But the delivery estimate on it seems accurate, so that’s really on you.
Count yourself lucky that you didn’t order a toothbrush here.
Everything takes about a month to arrive. They are using Pitney Bowes logistics, which will keep stuff in a warehouse for a long time before filling up and dispatching a truck to anywhere near your city. It’s the slow boat of truck shipping.