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UPS Mis-Routing - Has Anyone Else Had This Happen?

Vince Klortho

Vince Klortho

Jan 8, 2013
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Squierville, California
#1
I live in California, about 400 miles north of San Diego, and a package I ordered was mis-routed to Las Vegas. I have ordered tons of stuff that was shipped and this is the first time this kind of thing has happened to me. Actually, I think it's rather funny. Has it happened to anyone else?

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FWIW, this is a new amp from Carvin that I'm going to give a try. The last one I ordered from them was forty years ago, in 1976, and it still works. Sort of.
 
#2
Delivering my packages to various and sundry addresses around town that didn't even remotely resemble mine, and a surly rep on the phone informing me their drivers were not obligated to call me for directions was the reason i no longer use their service.
 
#3
I use UPS all the time, because their depot is right near me. That said, I don't trust them to deliver to my door. I just witnessed them do a knock & run on my neighbor's door yesterday.
They knocked on her door, yelled UPS & then briskly walked back to the truck. The package was there on the doorstep about 6 hours.

I only had one of these weird re-directs. It was an amp I ordered late last year. It only cost an extra business day, but meant I couldn't get the item until the next week.
 
#5
It's up to the shipper to decide if UPS can leave the pkg on the doorstep without getting a signature or something. Amazon is a prime example of a shipper that doesn't require a signature. The driver sets the package down, rings the doorbell, and is back in the truck before you can get to the door, if you're even home.

See what I did there? ;)
 
#7
Killed_by_Death said:
I use UPS all the time, because their depot is right near me. That said, I don't trust them to deliver to my door. I just witnessed them do a knock & run on my neighbor's door yesterday.
They knocked on her door, yelled UPS & then briskly walked back to the truck. The package was there on the doorstep about 6 hours.

I only had one of these weird re-directs. It was an amp I ordered late last year. It only cost an extra business day, but meant I couldn't get the item until the next week.
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I tried to get them to let me come and pick up at the depot and they said no. I put my number on the shipping label and they won't call. I lost 2 packages in a row and the third was recovered only because some nice old lady called me and told me I had a package on her back porch stairs. The bottom was blown out of the box from ill handling when I got there and I doubt the kindly old grandma who called me, tore it up.
In fairness though it's as much my fault as it is theirs. They use the USPS database for delivery and my house is not in it. We had no mail delivery when I got it so we've always had a PO box for all our mail, billing, etc. My driveway is not marked and looks like a cow path up into the woods, you can't see the house from the road. The drivers that do figure it out just toss our stuff out at the gate by the road. If I'm in town it's open and I'm always here on delivery day, but UPS won't come up the drive. I have a supplier who ships FEDEX and they send an E250 right up to the end of the walk out front, honk the horn and wait for me to come out to get my stuff from them. Not shipping and receiving near as much as I used to, and most of it leaving my end has been VIA USPS Priority for some time now. So far so good.
 
#12
About the time UPS was on their big We Love Logistics ad campaign, they routed a package of mine right straight into a blizzard that was hitting Chicago and had it stuck there for several days. The package was coming from San Diego to my place an hour outside of Atlanta. Logistically, one would think a direct flight from San Diego to ATL would be more efficient, but I guess I don't love logistics like they do.
 

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