How many hops does your package take to route?

[billski]

I like to track my packages via the (Fedex, UPS, etc.)web. I'd be interested in hearing what the most number of hops it takes to get it to you.

Here is my most uninteresting route:

Distributor

1. Baldwin Park, CA
2. Ontario CA
3. Dallas/Ft Worth TX
4. Philly PA
5. East Boston MA
6. Windsor Locks CT (huh?)
7. Chelmsford MA

Me

Time: 36 hours

Also, I''m finding that the couriers are beating their time estimates. So why pay more?
I paid for 2-3 day delivery, it came in 1.5 days. Why pay for 2-day delivery?

 

[Warp Daddy]

Geez Billy i got a tad worried by the headline : How many hops does YOUR PKG take en route ?

i thought mebbe it was gonna get all "kinky n'weird" here on the ole AZ

 

[drjeff]

My favorite one that i've seen was posted by a friend of mine on Facebook a few weeks ago for some shoes he had ordered.

It started off as usual: Received notification, departure scan, etc. And then a day or 2 into the journey from the midwest to VT, there was a tracking update something like "11:08AM - Train Derailment" :lol:

He received the shoes a day later than expected, but with the box and shoes intact!

 

[ScottySkis]

I like to track my packages via the (Fedex, UPS, etc.)web. I'd be interested in hearing what the most number of hops it takes to get it to you.

Here is my most uninteresting route:

Distributor

1. Baldwin Park, CA
2. Ontario CA
3. Dallas/Ft Worth TX
4. Philly PA
5. East Boston MA
6. Windsor Locks CT (huh?)
7. Chelmsford MA

Me

Time: 36 hours

Also, I''m finding that the couriers are beating their time estimates. So why pay more?
I paid for 2-3 day delivery, it came in 1.5 days. Why pay for 2-day delivery?

Yes my job we use ups all the time and our company makes boxes always get to delivered next day if your like with in 100 miles of us so we change them from 2 day to ground, and customers still get there stuff on time.

 

[billski]

One Christmas before the economy tanked, Fedex was shipping everything overnight, regardless of what you paid for. It was pretty awesome. Must have been an experiment on operational efficiency. That only lasted one season!

Train Wreck is a much better excuse than "my dog ate it".

 

[Nick]

Good timing as I just read this:

http://gizmodo.com/5905096/the-post...ackage-across-the-country-twice-for-no-reason

The Postal Service Shipped This Guy’s Package Across the Country Twice for No Reason
This fellow wanted to have something shipped to his house in LA. It started off in Union City, California. Should have only taken a few days, right? Try two weeks—because USPS sent it across the entire continent. Twice.

 

[bvibert]

Good timing as I just read this:

http://gizmodo.com/5905096/the-post...ackage-across-the-country-twice-for-no-reason

Awesome!

 

[Glenn]

That's yet another reason why the postal service operates at a loss.

I personally "love" tracking updates that tell me a package has been delivered...24 hours after it gets delivered. Why even bother?

 

[billski]

Nick, LMFAO at that link!

From a consumer point of view, I have not had any problems. I probably place ~25 orders per year. I find the routing information entertaining and it gives me some confidence that it's moving.

 

[Nick]

FWIW I use USPS fairly often for shipping crap on ebay. Out of the 350+ packages I have sent, I have probably have had 2 that got legitimately "lost" in the mail and took over a month to arrive at their destination. That's still not that great of a track record, approaching 1% just for me.

 

[marcski]

When I first saw this thread title, I thought it was a play on words and was actually about beer, hops and package stores. . One track mind, huh?