Matt Karolian wonders what happened in East Boston to delay his package.
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Nitpicking
By dMc
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 10:26am
Not sure if this is UPS or Fedex, but this is what we call a mis-scan. It's very common during the busiest shipping week of the year, where temporary delivery drivers are using scanners they are not completely familiar with. You can see that within an hour and a half the package was correctly scanned as Out For Delivery, so this is some serious nitpicking.. I find it incredibly annoying how demanding people are around this time of year. There are literally millions of packages being delivered today, have some patience.
You Funny
By anon
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 10:38am
Taking this way too seriously, no?
You can explain how this can happen without being a nitwit.
Given the mild weather, it is damn funny if a starched collar ain't irritating you.
Foghorn Leghorn Says...
By R Hookup
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 1:11pm
"That's a joke, I say, that's a joke, son."
I got the same alert
By scottso
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 3:52pm
I got the same weather alert on a package coming my way in Cambridge. Given the awesome weather today, it gave me a chuckle too.
website?
By John-W
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 10:29am
Clicking on that link gets a PornDaddy registration page indicating that Mr. Karolian has not paid up his domain fees. Was he hit by a tsunami?
Easy to fix
By adamg
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:31pm
Well, at this end! I changed the link to his Twitter feed.
Parcel Panic
By massmarrier
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 11:22am
In HP, we've had three fake UPS deliveries recently. The Brown folk claimed to have tried when they didn't.
Tracking packages from two different sellers, I saw that an expected package was marked as attempted delivery and twice as left a note on the front door. In all three cases, at least one person was in the living room next to the front door and there was never an attempted delivery or note left.
None of the packages required a signature.
The times were all around 5:30 PM. I'm betting that the UPS driver had more than he could handle and BS'ed his way out of admitting it.
Two of the packages were from Amazon and UPS apparently has a deal to let the USPS deliver some of these after "failed attempt." So we got them in a day or two from the letter carrier.
Honest to God, if they get more packages than they can handle in a shift, UPS needs to be sane about what's possible. Harrumph.
Fed Ex Failures
By BlackKat
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 2:19pm
This morning when I was to receive a Fed Ex shipment. Two boxes left the same location at the same time and followed the same path up to the very last stop, one going to Wilmington, MA and the other to North Billerica, MA. That seems inefficient...
Then when the two separate drivers delivered to Allston within a half hour of each other one delivered and the other fake door slipped it (never buzzed or called).
Seriously?
By Jay Levitt
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 7:43pm
A former "professional" courier is complaining about inefficient logistics by FedEx? You were paid and trained to inefficiently deliver documents individually - but to trade off that inefficiency for the ability to deliver them very, very, quickly.
Meanwhile, FedEx has hundreds of people who do nothing but research the mathematical *models* behind the most efficient way to deliver packages - efficiency measured not by how many different drivers came to your house on Thursday, but by how much they spent on fuel, vehicle wear and tear, unnecessary left turns, truck packing, gate fees, and countless other factors.
They fail at many things, but efficiency is not one of them.
fed ex always delivers
By bostnkid
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 1:05pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUDTPbDhnA&feature...