Getting things shipped. Who has the wildest stories....

[lynn]

I got notice  a backordered item was being shipped.  Then a notice that it was still back ordered,  but I got tracking info.  I can pick it up quicker than it can it be delivered.  Wait for it.....not it's checked in at my local post office since Monday and finally after 3 weeks it got delivered.  I'm guessing short staffed.  I'm ordering Christmas gifts now, just in case....

[Spryte]

Yikes! Time to start Christmas  shopping!

[Acadie]

This may not be exactly what you mean but we ordered a couch in March that was scheduled to arrive Oct 1, and just received a letter saying it will be mid-December.

Between empty shelves, long shipping times and high prices it's definitely time to start Christmas shopping!

I just took dd16 to DSW to find heels and most of them were in the $70-$120 range. Couldn't believe it. 

[Melissa in Australia]

Try shipping from a different country

when my older guys were little, my mil mailed them a package from Canada. Well over six months later it turned up

[kiwik]

I ordered something from Memoria press last year. It took 2 months to transfer from domestic in to international out at the same airport.

[lewelma]

We ordered a latex bed from Australia (we are in NZ), but they were sourcing the Latex from Indonesia. The container with the latex didn't catch the ship due to the chaos of shipping in the region, so it sat on the dock in the tropical heat for a month. When it finally got to Australia, it got there the day before the lockdown happened, so it got delayed 4 weeks.  This was just enough time that by the time it got to Auckland, it hit the Auckland lockdown, and got stuck for 3 more weeks. But we have finally gotten the bed!!!!

[TheReader]

Oh, gosh, I have so many. 

In the recent-ish past, we mailed a box (last year, around October) to our friends in Brazil. One had just had a new baby, so we bought the next size up clothes, put in gifts for the other kids, etc, and shipped it off. It took 3 weeks to leave the US (going first from Houston to either Memphis or Chicago, I forget which...), finally made it to Brazil, sat in Customs for an unknown amount of time, and then the tracking info changed to "lost in transit/undeliverable" or something like that. We had, thankfully, never even told the friends it was coming, so we just wrote it off as lost. 

Early this year (April? May? 7 or 8 months after we shipped it), this package arrived back on our doorstep, much to our surprise. 

Now, the freaky/cool/"what a weird coincidence" thing is this:  we offered the baby items free to anyone in need. A neighbor claimed them and told me that a coworker of hers was having a baby shower that week -- she had not known she was pregnant, had some symptoms, found out she was roughly 8 months or so along and due within the next month. They were trying to squeeze in a work shower before the year ended/baby arrived. The timing of it was such that we had purchased those items right at the time she would have actually become pregnant, almost like all those shipping oddities meant that these items were meant for her in the first place or something. That made it all seem better somehow, for me. 

[HomeAgain]

I had a package take a detour to the American Embassy in Russia.  I got a very nice note tucked inside when I finally received it 6 months later. 😄

Most recently I have learned how much my little town's post office knows me.  My postal lady refused to deliver a letter last year that I addressed to the postmaster on the island next door because she knew the issue and was taking care of it - mostly that the really long tube I ordered had been misdirected due to a covered up sticker, and they were able to get it sent over and into my hands once they knew of the issue.

These past few weeks I had a problem with a book I ordered.  I got the first one with no issues, but it turned out that the seller had listed it wrong.  It wasn't the teacher's edition for the program, it was the teacher's edition for the activity book for the program.  So I had to order again in mid-August.  And I watched it bounce through the U.S. and sit in PA for over a week.  Which prompted me to start a 'lost package' investigation through the USPS website.  When I got an email back, there were some other questions, and rather than email me again my town's postmaster called me up to walk me through how the tracking system works and what she could see on her end in the system.  All's well that end's well - the book finally arrived Tuesday and I nearly bowled my postal worker over to get to it. 🙂 Oh, and it also managed to take a detour through Florida, so by the time the package arrived it had "tracking" through most major regions of the U.S.

[Carrie12345]

I want to get Christmas shopping done, but currently have no good place to store gifts, so I’m trying to adapt my gift list to small things. It isn’t going well.  
(Mostly due to my own emotional baggage of wanting to provide maximum excitement for the youngest two. The big kids appreciate cash and trinkets just fine, lol.)
I’m nervous and need to solidify a game plan.

In the past few months, I’ve had multiple large items delivered that were broken or missing pieces after long shipping times, so yeah.

[TheReader]

8 minutes ago, Carrie12345 said:

I want to get Christmas shopping done, but currently have no good place to store gifts, so I’m trying to adapt my gift list to small things. It isn’t going well.  
(Mostly due to my own emotional baggage of wanting to provide maximum excitement for the youngest two. The big kids appreciate cash and trinkets just fine, lol.)
I’m nervous and need to solidify a game plan.

In the past few months, I’ve had multiple large items delivered that were broken or missing pieces after long shipping times, so yeah.

yea, I have no idea what to do for Christmas. :sigh: The kids are all big, but.....oof.