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What the Hell is UPS Doing? Here is the Tracking for a Package I Ordered

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30 comments on What the Hell is UPS Doing? Here is the Tracking for a Package I Ordered

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My String On Dec 6

My String On Dec 7

My String On Dec 10

Synopsis 

  • Dec 6, Tucson, AZ, 532 Miles Away
  • Dec 6, Goodyear AZ, 404 Miles Away
  • Dec 7, Las Vegas NV, 119 Miles Away
  • Dec 7, Salt Lake City UT, 302 Miles Away (Undoubtable Passing Through St. George from Las Vegas!)
  • Dec 10, Maumee OH, 1847 Miles Away
  • Dec 10, Hodgkins IL, 1621 Miles Away

Update – It made it back to Salt Lake City and headed to St. George.

Meanwhile, this is beyond ridiculous and it’s not the first time something like this has happened to me with UPS. 

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RJM Consulting
RJM Consulting
4 years ago
So, here’s my debacle from FEDEX: 2 round trips from Memphis to CT (my home state) without stopping to deliver it to my house. Most recent ‘scan’ (sic: should be “scam’) shows that it is again in CT, but at still another city.  After 3 calls, each of which is terminated by “wait, let me get you to someone who can help…..” then, dial tone, I have no idea when or if I will receive this package (originally sent with 2 day delivery… some 10 days ago!) I understand delays, but what kind of incompetence sends the package back and forth to the main hub? Especially perplexing (to me and to the service reps who “don’t understand that at all”, is a scanned departure from Memphis on 12/14 followed by A SECOND DEPARTURE FROM MEMPHIS on 12/15! No wonder they kept dumping me into the ether…
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kiers
kiers
4 years ago
Breaking: UPS changing name to OOPS! (Onboarding Overnight Package Services) Breaking!
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MikeC
MikeC
4 years ago
UPS is mostly reliable for me. FedEx and USPS are a disaster. FedEx is almost always at least a day late while USPS is usually weeks late assuming you even get it.
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KidHorn
KidHorn
4 years ago
And once again fedex claims to have delivered something today and it isn’t here. Wonder which neighbor it went to. They screw things up about 70% of the time.
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MATHGAME
MATHGAME
4 years ago
Very interesting string theories …
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LawrenceBird
LawrenceBird
4 years ago
Just going by what has happened a few times to me with USPS.   Your package was probably part of a larger pallet (included correctly or not).  From what I was told, there is a common pallet shipping label that is scanned and the individual items only get scanned at actual final delivery. 
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KidHorn
KidHorn
4 years ago
UPS has issues, but Fedex is far worse. I cringe when I find out Fedex is delivering. Never know when or where it will arrive, but I know it won’t arrive at their initial estimate at my house. I recently had a 130lb subwoofer delivered 10 houses away at a street number that was completely different than mine. Fortunately my neighbors are honest.
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kiers
kiers
4 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
for a minute I thought you meant 130lb woofing dog….
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Six000mileyear
Six000mileyear
4 years ago
My significant other has a package stuck at our local post office. I’ve been there 3x this week to drop stuff off. They are so understaffed that they will scan no more than 10 pre-packaged, pre-paid items in my presence. If I had 11 items, they would request I just leave them on the receiving counter. I need a receipt for my business, so I’ve been fortunate enough to have 10 or fewer items. I might be able to go through the line again, or drive 4 miles to the next post office.
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ColoradoAccountant
ColoradoAccountant
4 years ago
Mish:  Calmez vouz.  Years ago I took my son for a road trip all around Utah during his high school Spring Break.  We had just seen the movie “The fastest Indian” with Anthony Hopkins (great feel good movie).  We went to the Bonnevile Salt Flats.  Oops, it was under 6 inches of water.  A Spring thing.  Then all those wonderous parks.  What did I learn?  Utah is transitory because it is made up of sandstone, which wind and water can change into fantastic shapes.  Colorado is granite.  
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Carl_R
Carl_R
4 years ago
Between the 7th and the 10th, I’d say it got on a wrong truck. They sorted it in Ohio, and sent it back.
I am having a funny issue with a package I shipped to Washington state via USPS. The package was sitting in Memphis, and they said it would still arrive in Washington the same day. Mmhmm, right. Now it is “In transit, arriving late”, and hasn’t been scanned anywhere for a couple of days.
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Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
UPS took the cheapest route and not the most direct one. Your package probably piggy backed off of the transport of more valuable loads since it is a small package. They just throw it on top. If you got it on time that’s all that counts.
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Zardoz
Zardoz
4 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
But… my outrage!
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Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  Zardoz
……was misplaced.
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RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
That must be scenic route delivery class.
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kiers
kiers
4 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
this can be dressed up in a simple corporate press release (I used to work in Inv Relations):
Quantum Computer running our logistics routing (aka Travelling Salesman) algorithm ran into turbulence till QUantum of Solace provided.
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Eddie_T
Eddie_T
4 years ago
Hope you didn’t get too strung out waiting…    🙂
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Gloe
Gloe
4 years ago
That kind of thing happens to me with the post office (USPS) but not UPS.
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LCP
LCP
4 years ago
This is the kind of experience we’re having with orders too. Sheesh, idiots are running everything now.
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Bam_Man
Bam_Man
4 years ago
Reply to  LCP
^^^TRUTH^^^
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Mish
Mish
4 years ago
Current package now scheduled for delivery 
Hooray – I get my string
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IB6
IB6
4 years ago
They are lowering their carbon footprint…DUH!!!
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Tex
Tex
4 years ago
They’re “Union, union, union!” jobs!!! +++
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Christoball
Christoball
4 years ago
Reply to  Tex
This time of year UPS has a lot of seasonal help to process the huge volume due to Christmas. All the carriers do. Seasonal help is not Union and they usually start work very early in the morning at 3:00 AM. The volume is huge and Mish’s package accidentally got misdirected on the wrong truck. It was probably put on a long haul truck that did not notice the misdirection until it arrived at the next regional center 1847 miles away. Every once in a while one gets away from them. A lot can go wrong at 3:00 AM but usually doesn’t. By George I think you’ll get it.
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StukiMoi
StukiMoi
4 years ago
Reply to  Christoball
A small, lightweight package can get stuck with/between {a} larger ones. Hard to notice if reliant on line-of-sight barcode scans. RFID tags would make things much less error prone, but is still not widely deployed.
Over time, rfid, as well as standardized container sizes all the way down to fraction-of-cigarette-pack sizes, will be deployed. To facilitate package routing; increasingly granular international toll collection and clearing of goods transported by autonomous transport platforms; and selling/shipping directly to foreign end users, without reliance on end-country deep pocket agents/distributors for ambulance chasers and hucksters to shake down.
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
4 years ago
Sounds like they are stringing you along.
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Scooot
Scooot
4 years ago
UPS – Undelivered Plastic String 🙂 
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
4 years ago
Reply to  Scooot
Years ago UPS drivers carried a can of brown spray paint.  In case of an accident they were supposed to spray out the logo ‘so no one would know UPS involved’.  LOL.
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kiers
kiers
4 years ago
Reply to  Tony Bennett
don’t give UBER any more bad ideas…….from hiring rapists, criminals…to this!
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PreCambrian
PreCambrian
4 years ago
You can’t get there from here.
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