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Ding ding ding! We have a winner!USPS priority mail
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!USPS priority mail
Worst invention ever; Real Time Package Tracking Software. I drive myself beyond insane checking tracking numbers and packages. I absolutely hate being told something has shipped, when in fact they have only generated a label with a number on it. Even worse is the package sits for 3 days before it actually ships.
What I can't figure out is that Amazon will use their private service to deliver my package from Wisconsin to Lancaster NY then to my local post office for delivery. Why don't they just drop it right at my house? Or just put it in the mail in Wisconsin? The postage cost is the same whether they send it 1000miles or 1000yards. Logistically, it just doesn't make sense.I gotta say I kind of like it when Amazon delivers stuff with their own delivery service, which is often the case with same day or next day delivery. Their tracking is kind of new age awesome, something we'll totally take for granted in a few months. Once the package is out for delivery, their tracking page shows where the driver is on the map and how many stops until they get to you. When I see no more stops and the car/truck shows right in front of our condo complex, I'll walk downstairs and tell my wife a package should be arriving momentarily, which it does. Kind of freaked her out the first couple of times. Most recently I saw there were still five deliveries before me, but I could see the driver was stopped in front of the apartment building across the street from us, so I walked over and got there just as he was coming out of the building, saved him a trip and got the package a bit faster, which in this particular case was a pretty time sensitive situation so it worked out for both of us. Rarely getting guitar stuff from Amazon, but occasionally a cheap Chinese pedal or some strings or something come from them. Actually, got a little Blackstart Fly amp from them recently (mostly use it as my speaker for playing backing tracks and/or video lessons from my laptop) for about $6-8 less than anywhere else. Not a big deal, but it was also here the next day with free shipping.
I do not often ship multi-thousand dollar guitars, but when I do, I've settled into a routine that seems to work for me.
* Put guitar in hard shell case and roll up old (clean) socks that I was just going to throw away anyhow to place under the neck and headstock along the parts which do not make contact with the case in order to support the neck better.
* Put guitar case inside guitar shipping box with some non-static packing noodles. Leave end of box un-taped.
* Put guitar box inside another, bigger guitar shipping box with more packing noodles. Leave that end of box un-taped also.
* Prepare UPS shipping label on home computer, declare the actual multi-thousand dollar value of the guitar.
* Print out a few copies of the paperwork which will need to be signed by a UPS supervisor after they physically inspect the guitar in person.
* Take paperwork, guitar, shipping tape and extra packing noodles to the main UPS depot near Dulles International Airport.
* Slide the case out from the doubled shipping boxes through the un-taped ends, allow the UPS supervisor to see the guitar, sign both copies of the paperwork and keep one copy for yourself.
* Encase the guitar in the HSC, reinsert it back into the doubled up boxes, add noodles as needed and tape up everything, apply the shipping label.
* Commit the package to the custody of the UPS supervisor, dig deep for the inner strength needed to avert your eyes, turn around, and walk away.
All good, but may I add take photos with each packing step? I have had damage incidents with both carriers. They always initially decline responsibility with this response, “shipper’s negligence.” That’s when I reply, “What about the photos?” After a pause they say, “Ahhhh, what photos?” And, I say, “The ones I took that prove I packaged this more securely than the original manufacturer, which you should have looked at before you sent me your automatic form denial.”
So, far I’ve been indemnified every time.
You’re chumming the waters. Might as well say, “SMASH ME”.Oh yea, I also did start using a roll of tape which said FRAGILE that I used only to label the box from every angle after the heavy duty shipping tape had been applied.
I also do the pics. I am a fan of the shock sensor labels you can get to slap on the outside of the box too.
I do not often ship multi-thousand dollar guitars, but when I do, I've settled into a routine that seems to work for me.
* Put guitar in hard shell case and roll up old (clean) socks that I was just going to throw away anyhow to place under the neck and headstock along the parts which do not make contact with the case in order to support the neck better.
See, I couldn’t do that. Socks are a precious commodity around here, because they disappear in the laundry, one sock at a time.
While there’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, I’m pretty well convinced that leprechauns have billions of clean socks, stockpiled and ready to sell to the next invading army of one-footed aliens.
“What do you mean, ‘next’?”
“Bwahahahahahaha!”
Do the sensors generally detect trauma? I’d be surprised if a package made it without.
What I can't figure out is that Amazon will use their private service to deliver my package from Wisconsin to Lancaster NY then to my local post office for delivery. Why don't they just drop it right at my house? Or just put it in the mail in Wisconsin? The postage cost is the same whether they send it 1000miles or 1000yards. Logistically, it just doesn't make sense.
What I can't figure out is that Amazon will use their private service to deliver my package from Wisconsin to Lancaster NY then to my local post office for delivery. Why don't they just drop it right at my house? Or just put it in the mail in Wisconsin? The postage cost is the same whether they send it 1000miles or 1000yards. Logistically, it just doesn't make sense.
But if it costs the same to ship via USPS from their local postal facility as it does mine, why pay labor, mileage, maintenance, tolls etc., on top of the postage?Sure it does. They make one delivery to your post office. If you're the only order, then yeah, it's basically the same as dropping at your house. But if they have 100 packages, that's 99 more stops.
But if it costs the same to ship via USPS from their local postal facility as it does mine, why pay labor, mileage, maintenance, tolls etc., on top of the postage?