ACK!!! Hope y'all ain't trackin' VapeMail today...

[stols001]

Overall, I've had far less hassles with USPS that I have any right to expect. I do get the odd dreaded "come pick up your package at the post office" type of orange card, but at my local office, the workers are nice. Usually, given that where we live is fairly rural our USPS van drives right up into our yard in front of the house to make delivery of a package, rather than honking at the driveway for 10 seconds, then driving away.... Of course, the pace of life around here is slower than Baltimore. This can be great or awful depending on the speed at which *I* am running.

Fedex has been a bugbear for me from time to time. Luck of the draw?

Anna

 

[Goose Girl]

I won't order anything that ships Fedex anymore, Anna. They don't deliver to my house, and I have to drive 40 miles round trip to pick up a package. Thank goodness for USPS!

Cindy

 

[OlderNDirt]

We have no postal delivery in the town I reside in. I have to drive clear across town to the post office to get my mail. Thank goodness "clear across town" is only 8 blocks!

 

[gofishtx]

Well I had a new rta due yesterday that did not arrive. Vendor did not provide me tracking info so I was still going to wait a couple more days. The vendor emailed me last night to say the post office informed him the package was lost and that he was out of the color I wanted. I just cancelled the order and ordered from somewhere else. It may be the Eclipse, it may be USPS, or could be the Vendor, but I got my refund and tank is on the way

 

[gofishtx]

Overall, I've had far less hassles with USPS that I have any right to expect. I do get the odd dreaded "come pick up your package at the post office" type of orange card, but at my local office, the workers are nice. Usually, given that where we live is fairly rural our USPS van drives right up into our yard in front of the house to make delivery of a package, rather than honking at the driveway for 10 seconds, then driving away.... Of course, the pace of life around here is slower than Baltimore. This can be great or awful depending on the speed at which *I* am running.

Fedex has been a bugbear for me from time to time. Luck of the draw?

Anna

My USPS is pretty good where I live now, but my brothers is terrible and out of the same post office. When I was staying at my brothers house while building my new house I ordered a book as a gift for someone. Postal person pulled up at the end of the drive and just threw the package out on the ground and left. It was raining that day so the package got soaked before I was able to retrieve it. Luckily the book was only slightly damp

 

[OlderNDirt]

Interesting the timing of an e-mail I just received from one of the vendors I use, even though I have no current orders. Something about due to a USPS system error causing shipping charges incorrectly calculating and tracking numbers not being given. Said it has now been corrected and tracking numbers should be available soon. May be some bugs got into the USPS system?

 

[SteveS45]

Since the Network Issue on USPS yesterday tracking International shipments is also messed up now. Or at least according to the message I received this morning.

 

[stols001]

I was surprised to get vape mail early this morning on my way out, our postman arrives later in the day. I figured since schools were out some places, maybe they were making it an Extra Special Federal Holiday.... I mean....

Nothing supremely exciting but coils, though I do have some temp control coils now that will fit in my Kabuki only the one that came preinstalled refuses to die and I even shoved some coco in there yesterday.... Since that's kind of a positive, I can stay patient.

Anna

 

[Goose Girl]

Interesting the timing of an e-mail I just received from one of the vendors I use, even though I have no current orders. Something about due to a USPS system error causing shipping charges incorrectly calculating and tracking numbers not being given. Said it has now been corrected and tracking numbers should be available soon. May be some bugs got into the USPS system?

You must really live in the boonies OlderNDirt. There aren't many places that don't even have USPS.

I think their bug has affected the entire system. My priority package was supposed to arrive yesterday, until they had the system problem, and now it doesn't even have a delivery date. I am concerned as I went on a buying spree last week. Thank goodness it was only e-juice, and not something living.

 

[SteveS45]

I have found that tracking information and how the actual shipment is moving can be two totally different things. I have had things say they were delivered but came an hour later and had things delivered that still said it was in another state. Even have gotten things that tracking site did not update for days.

 

[stols001]

Yeah, USPS tracking isn't the best thing ever. I mainly try to use it with international shipments and not worry.

Goosegirl, you send living things through the mail? Seeds? Grandkids? I'm intrigued. I see my son later, and sure, he's a heavyweight, but maybe it would be cheapest to dispatch him elsewhere for a little vacation via the postal service instead of airplane?

Anna

 

[JCinFLA]

Interesting the timing of an e-mail I just received from one of the vendors I use, even though I have no current orders. Something about due to a USPS system error causing shipping charges incorrectly calculating and tracking numbers not being given. Said it has now been corrected and tracking numbers should be available soon.

I got the exact same email earlier today. So, sounds like some USPS employee was just goofing around by posting that "Because of the Solar Eclipse, ya'll" message. At least someone at the USPS has a sense of humor!

 

[Goose Girl]

Yeah, USPS tracking isn't the best thing ever. I mainly try to use it with international shipments and not worry.

Goosegirl, you send living things through the mail? Seeds? Grandkids? I'm intrigued. I see my son later, and sure, he's a heavyweight, but maybe it would be cheapest to dispatch him elsewhere for a little vacation via the postal service instead of airplane?

Anna

LOL, If he wants to go to Disney World, I have a Florida address.

Believe it or not, people who raise poultry frequently send birds through the mail. The hatcheries send huge boxes of chicks, and breeders send older birds to other breeders to improve their line. I have friends who raise snakes and lizards who also receive new critters in the mail. I wonder what happens when one of those boxes accidentally get opened.

 

[JCinFLA]

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[JustWondering1]

There is a bad moon on the rise, or something.

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I had a package arrive at the regional center in Dallas yesterday morning at 6:03 a.m. Normally, it would have arrived at my neighborhood post office around 8 a.m. and been delivered the same day. It had an expected delivery date of 8/21, but no package was delivered. Tracking became available again today, but there are no updates, it's still stuck at the regional p.o. according to tracking. I'm not sure where that sucker is now, but I'm hoping the USPS will get this figured out soon and bring me my package.

 

[Vapefiend]

It's happened to me yesterday my package stopped updating then the site went out. They came later on and said I "missed" them. Well I would have been waiting for their knock if tracking said it was in my state! I had to pick the package up this morning at my local post office.

 

[Goose Girl]

My package finally updated, and it is in Memphis. It was sent priority from Dallas last Thurs, so they must have held packages until they got the system fixed.

 

[b.m.]

My package finally updated, and it is in Memphis. It was sent priority from Dallas last Thurs, so they must have held packages until they got the system fixed.

That sounds like a possibility.I had 2 packages that once the tracking started working again,both said they were delivered that day,but i didn't get them until yesterday.

 

[stols001]

I have friends who raise snakes and lizards who also receive new critters in the mail. I wonder what happens when one of those boxes accidentally get opened.

I'm feeling sorry for USPS now.... If I opened a package to check it and found an exotic lizard or snake inside, I would Just. Die. I mean, not die like opening an anthrax package, but of fright and being startled. Do you "declare" it on the "explanation of package" I wonder, and I'm also wondering if the get shipped ground, or what?

Sorry to be OT, Goosegirl, I find your profession fascinating, and I can tell you are excellent at it from your first posts in this forum.... You are super organized when it comes to vaping, and it's so great you're here

Anna

 

[SteveS45]

Tracked my package this morning and the USPS site looks like it was reset and 17 track shows much more.