Does anyone else...

Kevlarr · #1 (**permalink**) 09-18-2009, 12:16 AM

Watch their parts travel across the country by checking out the tracking info a couple of times a day?

Or am I the only impatient one?

:edit:
Dammit! Why has my seat been sitting in Maumee, OH for the past 6 hours? Come on UPS get moving!!!

**BarelyAWake** · #2 (**permalink**) 09-18-2009, 04:54 AM

I would NEVER!!1!

Well mebbe...

K - so I too stalk UPS/FedEx

WHERE ARE MY NEW TIRES

deacon · #3 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 01:05 PM

I check it but I am a bit forgetful. I mostly check it once, and then again if its late.

**2door** · #4 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 09:43 PM

When I see parts not moving I immediately picture a trucker, sleeping at a truckstop, flirting with the little blond waitress at the restaurant and BSing with the fuel guy, all while my parts are languishing in his trailer. I imagine him stopping off in Russell Kansas to visit an old high school friend and deciding to spend the night when he could have driven straight through to Denver...just me, I guess. Yeah, I stay logged on to UPS tracking for days at a time. The longer it takes, the more creative my imagination becomes about why its taking so long. Guess it doesn't help that I have a friend who drives for FedEx.
Tom

Kevlarr · #5 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 10:52 PM

What's fun is when you see your parts arrive at the hub outside of Chicago on a Tuesday morning and sit there until Thursday around 11pm for some unknown reason. Probably being used as a doorstop or something.

robin · #6 (**permalink**) 09-20-2009, 11:08 PM

Our Canadian postal tracking is pathetic !!It just says item entered target country(U.S.)
4 days later the person receiving tells me he got it -still no report from post office!

GearNut · #7 (**permalink**) 09-21-2009, 03:24 AM

I check on a shipment at least once a day.

Charged-Reacter · #8 (**permalink**) 09-21-2009, 05:54 AM

I ordered some parts from Daxs in Colorado. The UPS package stayed in
Colorado for a long time. I was beginning to wonder if they got the wrong
address. The same day I order the plastic float from Daxs because I forgot
that I needed that part with my original order. The plastic float arrived by US
mail service 3 days before UPS.

GearNut · #9 (**permalink**) 09-21-2009, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charged-Reacter

I ordered some parts from Daxs in Colorado. The UPS package stayed in
Colorado for a long time. I was beginning to wonder if they got the wrong
address. The same day I order the plastic float from Daxs because I forgot
that I needed that part with my original order. The plastic float arrived by US
mail service 3 days before UPS.

I had a Fed Ex. package take 5 days to travel from Colorado to California.
I thought that was a bit excessive.

DOC BOLM · #10 (**permalink**) 09-21-2009, 12:15 PM

I was tracking some aircraft parts being sent to our airstrip in another city.They went right by the strip in clevland ms. and ended up in clevland ohio.Passed within 1/2 mile of me and took 2 weeks to find them.HD