She puts the 'pro' in procrastination.
Yep, it’s someone else’s fault. In my neighborhood there have been two men on every UPS truck for the past week. Some of them were in rental trucks. My neighbors on each side of me got a package from two different trucks. Management was helping them deliver. I think they did the best they could.
These people should be happy they’re going to get something the day after Christmas. Lots of people didn’t get anything the day OF Christmas.
this is the worst delivery season ever
I had a sweater and a book I ordered for my sons that didn’t come
I had to go out on Christmas Eve and buy replacements. I will be returning the delivered ones when they get here.
This is why we embrace the free market and choice for comsumers. UPS of late has had a very bad history, but there’s always FEDEX and other couriers should we need a choice. Of course the democrats want to eliminate that choice entirely with their nazi healthcare disaster, but at least we can stil choose whether or not to use UPS. At least until after next election...
They buy something online on Christmas Eve and expect to have it gift-wrapped right there under the tree on Christmas morning.
If you do your Christmas shopping online, then set yourself a cut-off date and ignore the website's "Guarantee delivery" date. Buy the crap you need before, the 15th for example, and it'll get there.
I used to process orders from Etoys a long time ago and this crap happened all the time.
I had two deliveries from UPS last week and when they couldn’t drive up our .4 of a mile, very steep, gravel driveway they walked up and delivered them to our door.
That takes dedication.
On the other hand FEDEX dropped a package off and stuck it behind a bush. We didn’t even know it had been delivered. We just noticed it there when we came home one afternoon.
You are correct.
I ordered a fairly cumbersome item and did not expect it to be here until after Christmas, yet it showed up on the 23rd; from what we've seen with our own eyes, all of the carriers have been on their game this year.
Mr. niteowl77
Note to Susie: Order earlier -—Stupid!
UPS delivered a package to us at 7 pm last night, Christmas Eve.
I'm not that old, and I can still remember TV ads for Christmas products that said clearly: "Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery." Oh, well ...
As my wife would say, "I know how she votes".
I guess it's beyond the math/reasoning skills of the Left to figure out that a high volume season might call for sending things early. The same folks probably consider the Obama-Care disaster to just be a glitch that couldn't be avoided...
If you wait until the last minute you are taking a chance of not getting it in time. I watched Budget trucks roll up with drivers delivering right up until late last night. I haven’t seen my regular driver in weeks, they have done a fabulous job.
My gripe is with the Post Office. Mailed 4 packages on 16 Dec - 2 to the same Colorado address and 2 to the same Alaska address. One showed up in time for Christmas in Colorado, and one in Alaska. Tracking for the second one to Colorado gives no information other than it was mailed on the 16th and went to California.
UPS has been great for us this year, delivering on Christmas Eve and getting a late order to us. (our late, not theirs). Maybe people should think further ahead than four days for Christmas.
They’ve pretty much always come through for us. (although the package left this year in the pouring rain, COULD have been left on the porch)
Their website said they wanted residential deliveries done by 3PM... lolz...
they didn’t get here till nearly 4 and the driver/helper were in no hurry either
Yeah, UPS usually works incredibly hard, and until the last couple of weeks, they have actually been ahead of schedule on my deliveries...
But overwhelmed like they are, I’ve had two packages stuck in one of their Kansas depots for five business days.
Fortunately they aren’t Christmas gifts or anything I need quickly.
This is nothing. USPS was 6 days late on a two-day Priority package. No choice of shippers.
There are valid reasons why people order late. Sometimes they are waiting for a paycheck. Sometimes a retail store never came through with a promised special order gift, so an order for for something nice had to be placed at the last minute. etc. etc.
It’s been a pretty good year for delivery services. The new partnership between Fedex and the Post office has been particularly good. I ordered an item from 800 miles away last Saturday afternoon, the letter carrier delivered it on Sunday.
They’re finally beginning to carefully examine where the sources of irritation are and fixing them. The new Amazon locker set-up is cool if you can’t be home for the delivery, and my UPS guy often leaves a note saying where he’ll be later in the afternoon when we miss connections.
I think improvements in those areas will be the 2014 story. With their radio based delivery systems now, for example, there’s no reason they couldn’t allow you to have them re-deliver same day when they miss you.
Placed a order Monday afternoon for the Company, told them I did not need before Christmas, or even before the First, just whenever. Next Morning arrived. So had to inventory and put away.
UPS did fine by me. The second day orders arrived on schedule or in some cases a day earlier. I love Amazon prime for last minute Christmas shopping.
Fed Ex is the one that ticked me off. 3 days to deliver a package that was supposed to be on overnight service. Then when they did deliver it, they recorded it as being on the porch and instead they left it out by the road where we couldn’t see it from the house. Thankfully I had given it enough time that it was here Christmas eve, but it was still a concern until we found where they put it.