I think they have a 10-sided die and roll it at every location to decide where to send it next. Each time you have a 1 in 10 shot. Eventually the odds tip in your favor.
/giphy odd tipping
@ELUNO@f00l@ybmuG I actually paid for a license for WinZip back when it was useful. (Was it Niko Mak Computing – or something like that at the time? Why do I remember that? They eventually decided my “lifetime” license had expired. Not sure before or after Corel bought it.)
It is best to be amused, as the alternative is not pretty.
At 65 MPH, Greenwood IN is less than 4 hours drive away my home in Ypsilanti. So one of my packages only lost a day each way as it traveled from Indiana to somewhere in town to be “Picked up and Processed by Agent” and back to Greenwood.
The really slow part for that package was the 8 days to go 30 miles from Royal Oak to the Ypsilanti post office.
Assuming the post office gets the package to me tomorrow, its trip will have taken only 14 days.
Another package left Texas on the same day, and it has bounced between Indiana and Texas. It hasn’t traveled as far as Blaineg’s package yet, but it is trying.
I think a bunch of the scans are not actually showing the package is at that location. I’ve got one that appears to have taken 4 days to get from texas to indiana, the next day was scanned twice in indiana, then twice in texas, the next day california and a second city in california, the next day the second CA city then back to the first, the next day back to Texas, a day later back to city 1 in CA, 3 days later back to Ca city 2. That was Saturday, hasn’t been scanned again since, 15 days in transit so far, and it hasn’t got to the post office yet.
@hamjudo Looking. So far I’ve got one delivered to FDR facility in Bloomington CA at 2 AM and Enroute Processed at COMMERCE CA at 2 AM same day. They are an hour apart. Scanned simultaneously if it was to be believed.
7:47 PM the next day In Transit back in Grapevine TX, 21 hour drive according to google. So that one is technically possible, but would probably violate some laws unless you’ve got 3 drivers driving in shifts. But then it’s in transit COMMERCE again 3:14 AM the next day. So 7 1/2 hours if it’s all stated as times from one time zone, at most 9 1/2 hours since it’s 2 time zones difference.
I mean, does this top it?
You’ve got a couple of days on me, and Kentucky, but mine went to IN, back to TX, to CA, back to TX, and back to CA, apparently. At one point this one was showing it was in the destination city, but that disappeared, along with some other steps.
that last scan on the 30th was replaced by an identical one June 7, 2020 10:11 pm
I also have another one that was only scanned twice and hasn’t left grapevine tx. Last scan was on the 21st.
I have a theory (harrumph) that the dots on the time line
represent shipping/label/routing info and the black boxes
represent the actual package.
Makes sort of sense about 85% of the time …
At least your package is moving around the country. Mine started in Texas like everyone else but hasn’t moved for 7 days until Pitney Bowes “Inducted” it. It’s now June 3 which means it hasn’t moved an inch for another 7 days. 14 days in Texas so far and it has to make it all the way to Florida.
And I have one item from the Meh-rathaon that hasn’t shipped yet and is still pending.
@cengland0 Oh, I’ve got those too. One has it’s last scan “In Transit Grapevine TX” on May 21, so 13 days unscanned so far. Definitely on the “Over” 10 days delay list
In my first job after graduating college, I worked for a company that had a “remote office” in Arizona and one in Louisiana Each of these remote locations consisted of a single room office with a remote printer and a two employee work rotation. This was despite the fact that the company had a dozen regional locations across the United States with hundreds of employees at each location. The reason? This was back when essentially all vendor bills were paid via check, and they had researched that the specific locations in AZ and LA had the least efficient post offices in the country. It was common in those days that bills needed to be “postmarked by” as opposed to “received by”. They could meet the postmark criteria for a bill and maximize the float on those funds. In addition, checks were printed in the location farthest from their destination (e.g. an east coast vendor was paid out of Arizona)
Yikes… I think you “win” this one!
I think they have a 10-sided die and roll it at every location to decide where to send it next. Each time you have a 1 in 10 shot. Eventually the odds tip in your favor.
/giphy odd tipping
@ybmuG
You rolled a total of 4
/roll d10
@mike808 which in PB-newgistics terms is craps…
@ybmuG
You rolled a total of 7
If you don’t like it, roll again for a new destination.
/roll d10
@mike808 if only we could…
@ybmuG
Go to USPS for the actual tracking. Pissboy Bowels tends to lie about tracking info.
Oops. Misread that as go to POTUS.
@rtjhnstn Yummy.
@rtjhnstn They differ in the details, but both agree it’s on the second lap around the country.
The more I read about PB, the more horrified I am. What a mess.
I have a theory that PB-newgistics tracking concerns the movements of all corresponding packages in all possible alt universes.
The only thing they don’t seem to put into their tracking log (the log available to the potential recipient) is package movement in this universe.
@f00l so now I have to add which universe I’m in to my address? I’m just getting used to zip+4!
@ybmuG
/giphy But of course!
@f00l phew! For a minute there I thought PB had taken over giphy!
@f00l @ybmuG i liked winzip
@ELUNO @ybmuG
Past tense? Is it gone?
It’s been a while since I plugged in/booted a win machine.
@f00l @ybmuG It’s not gone, but it’s bloatware now. Windows can open zip files natively. 7zip is better for anything else.
@ELUNO @f00l I recall I liked gzip, but I’m not sure if that was Unix-based. Was 25+ years ago…
@ELUNO @ybmuG
I think I remember that it became bloatware and I think I also switched over to 7zip but then I just blew off windows
I still have some machine stuck in various closets not plugged in for years I need to book them and clean off their hard drives or something
@f00l The Infinite Improbability Drive?
@ELUNO @f00l @ybmuG I actually paid for a license for WinZip back when it was useful. (Was it Niko Mak Computing – or something like that at the time? Why do I remember that? They eventually decided my “lifetime” license had expired. Not sure before or after Corel bought it.)
@ELUNO @f00l @walarney maybe they know something you don’t. You should check your pulse, just to be sure.
@blaineg @f00l Naw, you’d have to brew a cup of tea first.
@ELUNO @f00l @walarney @ybmuG I bought a power supply once that had a “double lifetime warranty”, maybe that’s where your lifetime went.
@ELUNO @f00l @walarney @ybmuG I remember getting a license for the windows version of xtree before windows had a decent file browser built in.
It is best to be amused, as the alternative is not pretty.
At 65 MPH, Greenwood IN is less than 4 hours drive away my home in Ypsilanti. So one of my packages only lost a day each way as it traveled from Indiana to somewhere in town to be “Picked up and Processed by Agent” and back to Greenwood.
The really slow part for that package was the 8 days to go 30 miles from Royal Oak to the Ypsilanti post office.
Assuming the post office gets the package to me tomorrow, its trip will have taken only 14 days.
Another package left Texas on the same day, and it has bounced between Indiana and Texas. It hasn’t traveled as far as Blaineg’s package yet, but it is trying.
I think a bunch of the scans are not actually showing the package is at that location. I’ve got one that appears to have taken 4 days to get from texas to indiana, the next day was scanned twice in indiana, then twice in texas, the next day california and a second city in california, the next day the second CA city then back to the first, the next day back to Texas, a day later back to city 1 in CA, 3 days later back to Ca city 2. That was Saturday, hasn’t been scanned again since, 15 days in transit so far, and it hasn’t got to the post office yet.
@kevinrs Can you find an example where the time between package scans in two cities is significantly less than the drive time?
I had a similar theory, but my tracking data never shows a package moving faster than the speed of a semi on an interstate.
@hamjudo Looking. So far I’ve got one delivered to FDR facility in Bloomington CA at 2 AM and Enroute Processed at COMMERCE CA at 2 AM same day. They are an hour apart. Scanned simultaneously if it was to be believed.
7:47 PM the next day In Transit back in Grapevine TX, 21 hour drive according to google. So that one is technically possible, but would probably violate some laws unless you’ve got 3 drivers driving in shifts. But then it’s in transit COMMERCE again 3:14 AM the next day. So 7 1/2 hours if it’s all stated as times from one time zone, at most 9 1/2 hours since it’s 2 time zones difference.
I mean, does this top it?
You’ve got a couple of days on me, and Kentucky, but mine went to IN, back to TX, to CA, back to TX, and back to CA, apparently. At one point this one was showing it was in the destination city, but that disappeared, along with some other steps.
I’ve also got a package also ordered the 15th, and shipped the 18th, that has only been scanned twice and hasn’t left texas yet.
@kevinrs
Hi neighbor
looks familiar to me, LOL, ever since PB took over . . .
that last scan on the 30th was replaced by an identical one June 7, 2020 10:11 pm
I also have another one that was only scanned twice and hasn’t left grapevine tx. Last scan was on the 21st.
I have a theory (harrumph) that the dots on the time line
represent shipping/label/routing info and the black boxes
represent the actual package.
Makes sort of sense about 85% of the time …
@stolicat boxes are just new days
@kevinrs
/giphy buzz kill
At least your package is moving around the country. Mine started in Texas like everyone else but hasn’t moved for 7 days until Pitney Bowes “Inducted” it. It’s now June 3 which means it hasn’t moved an inch for another 7 days. 14 days in Texas so far and it has to make it all the way to Florida.
And I have one item from the Meh-rathaon that hasn’t shipped yet and is still pending.
@cengland0 Oh, I’ve got those too. One has it’s last scan “In Transit Grapevine TX” on May 21, so 13 days unscanned so far. Definitely on the “Over” 10 days delay list
In my first job after graduating college, I worked for a company that had a “remote office” in Arizona and one in Louisiana Each of these remote locations consisted of a single room office with a remote printer and a two employee work rotation. This was despite the fact that the company had a dozen regional locations across the United States with hundreds of employees at each location. The reason? This was back when essentially all vendor bills were paid via check, and they had researched that the specific locations in AZ and LA had the least efficient post offices in the country. It was common in those days that bills needed to be “postmarked by” as opposed to “received by”. They could meet the postmark criteria for a bill and maximize the float on those funds. In addition, checks were printed in the location farthest from their destination (e.g. an east coast vendor was paid out of Arizona)
@DrWorm lol. Incredible…
@DrWorm @ELUNO But all too believable.
No updates since the 27th (or 23rd, depending on who you believe).
Unsure which reality it currently resides in.
The saga ends. The prodigal socks arrived today.
Along with two other Meh’s: Glitter Valentine’s Candy Corn, and Stroopwafels. Imagine the kind of party we’re having tonight!
My Meh order status page says all three of them are still in transit.
USPS says the socks teleported from Hebron, KY on the 23rd of May, to Utah, today, without any intervening stops.
P-B says they’ve rotted in Salt Lake since May 27th, and then were suddenly delivered today.
The Stroopwafels came in 5 days, via Wine Country Connect and UPS.
The candy corn took 20 days via P-B. Including a couple of weeks in Grapevine and Greenwood, and 9 days bouncing back & forth between SLC and my town.
@blaineg
/giphy wine