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Old 09-17-2009, 11:16 PM
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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?

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

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Old 09-18-2009, 03:54 AM
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I would NEVER!!1!

Well mebbe...

K - so I too stalk UPS/FedEx


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Old 09-20-2009, 12:05 PM
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I check it but I am a bit forgetful. I mostly check it once, and then again if its late.
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Old 09-20-2009, 08:43 PM
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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.
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Old 09-20-2009, 09:52 PM
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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.
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Old 09-20-2009, 10:08 PM
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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!
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Old 09-21-2009, 02:24 AM
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I check on a shipment at least once a day.
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Old 09-21-2009, 04:54 AM
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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.
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Old 09-21-2009, 10:49 AM
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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.
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Old 09-21-2009, 11:15 AM
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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
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