I am just having the worst of luck with couriers lately. Not just one single courier, but two of them. UPS and DHL. Let's make a list since lists are so much easier than putting together complete sentences to form paragraphs.
1. I ordered shocks from Shox.com and have them delivered to my parents' house. They called me and said they must ship to the billing address. Okay, no biggie. They'll be shipped to my office. This one is my fault - I forgot that I didn't put a suite number when I filled in the billing address; it's usually never needed. The package should've arrived on 10/12 but instead UPS holds it and waits for someone to contact them. I call them on 10/12 and give them the suite number, gal says they will redeliver on 10/13. 10/13 rolls around, daily UPS drop off comes, but no shocks. Humph. I call UPS and ask what's up. Guy assures me the package is on the truck and will be delivered before 6pm. Okaaaayyy. 6pm, no shocks. Just as I suspected. I call UPS again and ask what's up, again. Went through the whole thing again, confirming the suite number and company name. She says now that we have the required info, they will schedule a delivery for 10/14. Huh... didn't I already do this? Whatever, no biggie cuz I don't need them until Friday anyway. 10/14, shocks arrive. Good.
2. I ordered key blanks from a euro parts place to have new car keys made. They were supposed to be delivered by 10/8 but that never happened. It's a good thing it wasn't important and I had even forgotten about them. I get a postcard from UPS saying they have an incomplete address so they couldn't deliver. Huh? So how the fuck did you send me this post card? Anyway, I look at the delivery address they had and the parts place totally butchered the spelling and transposed the suite number. I called the number on the card and had UPS redeliver to the correct address. Got them the next day, good.
3. I ordered springs from another vendor, this time using my debit card which uses my apartment as the billing address. Same dealio, they can only ship to my billing address. Fine, fine. They ship DHL and expected delivery date is 10/15. This is REALLY cutting it close, because I needed to take the springs down to San Diego with me, along with the shocks, so that I could install them this weekend. I get to work at 7am so that I could leave by 2pm. I then convinced my boss to let me go at 1pm so I could wait for the package. I even had the office's DHL delivery guy track down my package and tell me when I should be expecting it. After 1:30pm he said. Cool. So I got home and waited. And waited. And waited... and waited... finally it was 5:30 and I said wtf man. I tracked the package online and it said they tried to deliver at 5:16pm, and will redeliver the next business day. NO FUCKIN WAY. No fucking way someone tried to deliver. Well, I guess it depends on what their definition of attempting delivery is, because if it means going up to the door and ringing the door bell, then nobody fucking tried to deliver shit. I. Was. Pissed. But to make a long story short... I called DHL, they said it would be available for pickup at their facility the next day and that someone would call me. Someone did call me on Saturday, but I was in San Diego so I had them hold the package for me and I would pick it up on Monday. The lady said OK. So now it's Monday. I was just about to leave and go by the DHL facility but something told me I should call them first. I was right. I tracked the package and there was a note saying they were holding it for me, but then the latest status said that it was with the delivery courier. WHAT?!? I called them, and sure enough my package was not in their hold room. The motherfucker took it for delivery. I have to pick it up tonight after work, which is fine, but seriously, wtf!! How many times can you fuck up on one single package?? There's a lot more to the story, but for the sake of time I'll spare you.
4. I ordered very corny but neat euro plates. Turnaround time was fast; I ordered on Thursday, they shipped out Friday, I got them today. But wait... the box is bent, and the euro plate is also bent. Greeeeaaaaaaaattt. My luck just keeps getting better and better.
5. I bought a new digital camera from Dell and had them deliver it to my office. Again, turnaround time was fast and the shipment was to be delivered today by none other than DHL. I noticed it was already 3:30 and I hadn't seen the package yet. So I tracked it, and some mothafucker named "E. FREEDMAN" signed for my package. Who the fuck is that?!? And why the fuck are they delivering it elsewhere when I know for a fact the address and suite number were correct?? We're in the office all fucking day, there's no way we could've missed it. FUCK. Now I have to track down the fucking package through the management office; hopefully this person isn't a prick and brings it to our suite.
Seriously, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THESE COMPANIES?! Do they hate me?? Am I on their shit list!?? I'm not even mad anymore, I'm just straight up confused. |
