Admiral laughing at me....

[Bubba1235]

I ordered some things to be delivered by UPS and can't wait for the shipment to get here. I check on the UPS tracking site a couple times daily to check it's progress. The admiral seen me doing it and laughed her behind off and asked, "Does that make it get here sooner"? Then tossed in some sort of crack about boys and their toys.

Women just don't understand...:blue:

 

[korygrandy]

Re: Admiral laughing at me....

I ordered some things to be delivered by UPS and can't wait for the shipment to get here. I check on the UPS tracking site a couple times daily to check it's progress. The admiral seen me doing it and laughed her behind off and asked, "Does that make it get here sooner"? Then tossed in some sort of crack about boys and their toys.

Women just don't understand...:blue:

LOL...like she isn't constantly checking UPS for that latest romance novel to arrive :joyous:

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: Admiral laughing at me....

Yah, you know if her Bling Bling, fru-fru stuff came UPS she'd be allllllllll over the tracking thing.

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: Admiral laughing at me....

I ordered some things to be delivered by UPS and can't wait for the shipment to get here. I check on the UPS tracking site a couple times daily to check it's progress. The admiral seen me doing it and laughed her behind off and asked, "Does that make it get here sooner"? Then tossed in some sort of crack about boys and their toys.

Women just don't understand...:blue:

I thought it was just me doing the tracking thing. And I'm lucky, the Admiral tracks too. Now there is a benefit to tracking. Since UPS likes to leave packages on the front porch and nefarious citizens know that fact, you can be home to thwart evil doing. UPS and FedEx both deliver to my neighborhood at the same times everyday so I have about a 30 minute window to keep an eye out.

 

[brnschoneck]

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ahhhh hahahah glad im not the only one !!! again so awesome i can relate !!! everytime i have something coming i do this last x it was my lights , just to get em on and now there on and i cant even go fishn at nght for a while or i wont dont klike the cold !!! lol GET-R-DONE

 

[bassman284]

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I always check tracking. One, it's interesting and two, sometimes things go wrong and the sooner you find out, the sooner you can correct it.

When I was still working I sent out overnight packages several times a week. The (now defunct) carrier we used 20 years ago was a bit unreliable at getting actually getting overnight packages to their destination on the next day. I started checking tracking the first thing in the morning so I would at least know in advance that I was going to get screamed at. We finally switched to FedEx and got away from that problem.

Even with FedEx things can go sour if you're not careful addressing the airbill. I once shipped a box of rework parts to Warren, MI. Checked tracking the next morning and my package was in Louisville, KY. I said some bad words and was about to call FedEx and scream at them when I noticed the shipping info had the wrong zip code. Checked my copy of the airbill and sure enough - the zip should have been 48xxx and I put 43xxx. So I made a humble call to FedEx and asked them to redirect it and called my resident engineer and told him to cancel the rework crew. And started proofreading my airbills very carefully.

 

[82rude]

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i know for a sort of maybe fact the staring at the tracking will indeed kind of make the package arrive somewheres faster,sometimes not here though.

 

[glenn property of pam]

Re: Admiral laughing at me....

i check mine as ups is normally after 6pm and over the holidays it runs as late as 11.30pm. My biggest complaint is that ups will except payment for a saturday delivery yet they do not deliver in my area on weekends. Still fells like christmas when something new comes so its all good

 

[Eric 3.7LX Alpha 1]

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I've had a few times when I've cursed the driver "where is that package" .... gone online and updated the tracking and it has been delivered , go outside and sure enough there it is waiting for me!! :joyous:

 

[Brent S]

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You are NOT alone I blame it on the fact that I worked for UPS as a sorter for 4 yrs while in school. I look at the package going through a hub and remember my days (nights really) and laugh thinking, "yay! it's not me anymore!" Am I a bad person?

 

[bruceb58]

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She's not the only one that laughs at you!

 

[Outsider]

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LOL...like she isn't constantly checking UPS for that latest romance novel to arrive

Romance novel? Really? If only her stuff was that inexpensive ... :facepalm:

 

[littlerayray]

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i am soooo glad my wife doesnt shop online or i would be bankrupt :facepalm:
its hard to stop her from going out
at least the malls around here are small

 

[Alwhite00]

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I Track anything shipped via UPS, Fed-Ex or DHL but has anyone ever "tracked" anything via USPS? I have never been more frustrated - The only tracking it does is when it is scanned in and again once it's delivered. Why the hell even have it? Arghhhh!!!

LK

 

[bruceb58]

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True, fools often make that mistake. :laugh:

I am sure the Admiral(yours) has felt that about herself at times :laugh:

 

[veritas honus]

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My wife is a blogger. The Gerber Babies Blog Product Reviews and Giveaways and Away We Go! She receives UPS, Fed Ex, and USPS packages daily for reviews. She's checking tracking information all the time. No worries here.

 

[Pghpens]

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The last package I tracked said the item was on truck awaiting delivery, but the delivery date was still two days away. Being that they always deliver within a certain window, I waited expecting it to be delivered. When the truck passed my house I called my buddy in management at FedEx to see if he could figure it out. He said that because it wasn't scheduled to be delivered THAT day, the driver took the package off the manifest. Wouldn't you want to get tomorrows work done today if you were able?

 

[littlerayray]

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. Wouldn't you want to get tomorrows work done today if you were able?

a certain quote comes to mine
also known as the husbands prayer
why do today that which can be done tomorrow, next week, next month. for as long as the hockey game is on and i have beer nothing else matters.

 

[bassman284]

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The last package I tracked said the item was on truck awaiting delivery, but the delivery date was still two days away. Being that they always deliver within a certain window, I waited expecting it to be delivered. When the truck passed my house I called my buddy in management at FedEx to see if he could figure it out. He said that because it wasn't scheduled to be delivered THAT day, the driver took the package off the manifest. Wouldn't you want to get tomorrows work done today if you were able?

There's quite a bit of price difference for the quicker delivery times so they don't want to give you faster service than you paid for. A few years ago our company was trying to cut costs wherever possible and asked us to use 2nd day air if overnight wasn't absolutely necessary. So we started using 2nd day for a lot of stuff and noticed that almost everything we sent to our Detroit offices via 2nd day was getting there the next morning. So we started using 2nd day on pretty much everything. Apparently a lot of other shippers were doing the same thing. So FedEx and UPS decided you paid for 2nd day (you cheapskate) so 2nd day is what you'll get. They even separated out next day morning from next day afternoon.