UPS/USPS Shenanigans

[JollyRogers]

Hey All,

So had a recent screw up by UPS that made me laugh and figured other people had some good ones to share.

My recent cigar bid order, I live in Metairie...
http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/zz33/hydroslyder/CigarBum/73b064da-8202-4d62-b6a0-8b1bf45e27cb_zpsrrulsxha.jpg

Apparently UPS decided to take my cigars on a tour of south Louisiana. Down to within 5 minutes of my house, out to Baton Rouge about an hour and 15 away and then back to the post office in my neighborhood...where it will take another day to get to me...

[TreySC]

Gotta love it, just be glad they know where it is. We had a package get lost once it kept bouncing up and down the east coast, but never got delivered.

[Horseshoe]

When I ship stuff 15 miles away, it is sometimes routed to a hub 2 hours away in a different direction then to destination. One of my last items received it was delivered to my PO then shipped 3 hours then shipped back. It makes me laugh.

[allusred]

Hey All,

So had a recent screw up by UPS that made me laugh and figured other people had some good ones to share.

My recent cigar bid order, I live in Metairie...
http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/zz33/hydroslyder/CigarBum/73b064da-8202-4d62-b6a0-8b1bf45e27cb_zpsrrulsxha.jpg

Apparently UPS decided to take my cigars on a tour of south Louisiana. Down to within 5 minutes of my house, out to Baton Rouge about an hour and 15 away and then back to the post office in my neighborhood...where it will take another day to get to me...
This should have one of the mandated Elf&Safety warnings attached.
There is one helluva risk involved in trying to out how these things are routed, re routed,etc.
Some of the these errors may cause packages caught up in these C.J. to be ground down to dust by the wear and tear they get.
Sometimes the code gets misread and that package will do the Bermuda Triangle holiday tour for all the time this planet has left.
Play it safe..... assign blame to Horseshoe, pour a drink, light up a cigar, repeat as often as required until all traces of this(and with luck of you know who) have been scrubbed from your memory.
Then have at least one more drink...and hie on over to the PWI thread.

[droy1958]

Hey All,

So had a recent screw up by UPS that made me laugh and figured other people had some good ones to share.

My recent cigar bid order, I live in Metairie...
http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/zz33/hydroslyder/CigarBum/73b064da-8202-4d62-b6a0-8b1bf45e27cb_zpsrrulsxha.jpg

Apparently UPS decided to take my cigars on a tour of south Louisiana. Down to within 5 minutes of my house, out to Baton Rouge about an hour and 15 away and then back to the post office in my neighborhood...where it will take another day to get to me...

You're bringing back old memories as I lived in Metairie on Gillen Street, and went to Saint Phillip Neri Catholic school. It was close to the intersection of Power Blvd. and West Esplanade....

[JollyRogers]

You're bringing back old memories as I lived in Metairie on Gillen Street, and went to Saint Phillip Neri Catholic school. It was close to the intersection of Power Blvd. and West Esplanade....

I moved here a little over a year ago, I grew up in Pass Christian, MS, about an hour away. My dad moved there from New Orleans to start a family...It's funny how things work out!

[droy1958]

I moved here a little over a year ago, I grew up in Pass Christian, MS, about an hour away. My dad moved there from New Orleans to start a family...It's funny how things work out!

Yep. I'm still trying to figure out how a Cajun Asian from NOLA ended up in Oklahoma....

[Billb1960]

Ask DogRockets about our trade

[JollyRogers]

Ask DogRockets about our trade

1. Is he the most trustworthy source to explain why something bad happened?
2. Are we sure it wasn't his fault?
3. Are we going to need another poll?

[jhedrick83]

1. Is he the most trustworthy source to explain why something bad happened?
2. Are we sure it wasn't his fault?
3. Are we going to need another poll?

Why did you have to go and give him 3 new poll ideas?!? ;)

[bluenoser]

I've seen alot of things like this with cross border shipping. had 1 order go from Miami, to Toronto Ontario, bounced to somewhere in LA only to cross the border in British Columbia :confused:. Good thing CP packs well with water pillows

[Billb1960]

1. Is he the most trustworthy source to explain why something bad happened?
2. Are we sure it wasn't his fault?
3. Are we going to need another poll?

Nope this was all on the USPS. I ended up with a check for $50 and the cigars showed up a month after I shipped them.

[JollyRogers]

Why did you have to go and give him 3 new poll ideas?!? ;)

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[DogRockets]

Ask DogRockets about our trade


1. Is he the most trustworthy source to explain why something bad happened?
2. Are we sure it wasn't his fault?
3. Are we going to need another poll?

Billb1960 and I were trading some sticks a while back. We both send ours out on the same day. The sticks I sent made it to Oregon in 2 or 3 days. After 5 or so days I let Bill know I hadn't received so he contacts the USPS. They admit to him they have no idea what happened to them. They scanned them in at the USPS station in Oregon but then they never moved. Bill files a claim with the USPS to get the insured value of the sticks, which they at first deny. Bill keeps fighting the man and ultimately gets his insured money. In the meantime he has sent me a substitute package of cigars in trade. Well over a month goes by and a flat rate box shows up in my mailbox - it was the first package that the USPS originally lost!

To the questions of JollyRogers:
1. Absolutely
2. Absolutely
3. You'll know when it's time for another poll - now is not the time