USPS
Provided by Amazon:
December 02, 2008 11:30:00 AM HAZELWOOD MO Arrival Scan
November 29, 2008 04:28:00 AM HAZELWOOD MO Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit
Provided by USPS:
Status: Processed - Your item was processed and left our HAZELWOOD, MO 63042 facility on December 2, 2008.
UPS:
| EARTH CITY, MO, US | 12/03/2008 | 5:01 A.M. | OUT FOR DELIVERY |
| 12/03/2008 | 4:15 A.M. | DESTINATION SCAN | |
| 12/03/2008 | 3:19 A.M. | ARRIVAL SCAN | |
| INDIANAPOLIS, IN, US | 12/02/2008 | 11:54 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN |
| 12/02/2008 | 11:14 P.M. | ARRIVAL SCAN | |
| 12/02/2008 | 10:46 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN | |
| 12/02/2008 | 8:08 P.M. | ARRIVAL SCAN | |
| 12/02/2008 | 7:44 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN | |
| 12/02/2008 | 6:10 P.M. | ORIGIN SCAN | |
| US | 12/02/2008 | 3:36 P.M. | BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED |
What the heck is USPS telling me? on Nov. 29 it appears the package is in Hazelwood, MO. Eleven miles from it's destination. Then, apparently, nothing happened for a couple days. Then suddenly....wow, it's in Hazelwood, MO. But I thought it was already there...? Who knows? Since Amazon wasn't clear I went to look at usps.gov only to find that one tiny tidbit of info. I guess it's coming today? But maybe I should've gotten it yesterday?
UPS, perhaps, is a bit excessive by comparison, but at least I know exactly when they picked up the package, where it bounced around, and the most recent place it's been spotted. And I know that I'll get it today because it's "out for delivery." So I know, since it's being delivered to work, to go look for it. And if I can't find it, to bug the people who might have recieved it with all the other crap we get on any given day.
I'm sure I'll get both (eventually) but I find it interesting that you generally pay more to have USPS ship a package (in my experience), especially if you pay for tracking, but apparently you don't much benefit for it, at least not in terms of tracking info. Maybe they should just stick with letters.
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November 19, 2008 09:02:00 AM CHICAGO IL Delivered
November 19, 2008 08:42:00 AM CHICAGO IL Arrival Scan
November 18, 2008 08:37:00 PM FOREST PARK IL Arrival Scan
November 14, 2008 06:50:00 AM FOREST PARK IL Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit
So it left the seller in Forest Park on Nov 14, and arrived in Forest Park on Nov 18. At the time I checked, on the 18th, I was like great, it's gone 0 miles in 4 days - at that rate it will take infinity days to get here.
However, the local UPS depot here is so incredibly incompetent that I prefer to get things by USPS whenever possible. If I happen to not be home when UPS comes, it becomes a major song and dance to ever get the package, and I have had one package returned to the sender despite assurances the night before that it would be delivered the next day - and the other package traveling with it the entire time WAS delivered. USPS rarely needs signing for, much simpler.
Edited at 2008-12-03 03:13 pm (UTC)