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This is just a general rant and if someone has an explanation that makes sense I'll happily listen. I ordered some new bar levers for my T-Bird Storm from Revtuning.EU, (a company in the Netherlands) back on November 10. I got a shipping notice from them that said it was on it's way on the 13th and provided a tracking number. The package arrived in Chicago customs on November 20th and left there via USPS on the 22nd to Dallas, TX. It arrived in Dallas on the 23rd of November. It has, since then, been scanned 4 times: on the 25th, 28th, then on the 3rd of December and latest is the 5th of December, but has not arrived in Keller, TX (about a 30 minute drive from Dallas) as yet. I realize it's an International shipment but it appears to me as though once near the destination city USPS puts the package on an ox cart and beats the poor animal once a week urging it toward the general direction of the next available facility. By now it's had time to visit Flower Mound, Watauga, Haslet, Roanoke, West Lake, Southlake, North Lake, East Lake, Trophy Club, Ft. Worth, Grapevine, and Irving. Yesterday I went to my local USPS facility (3 blocks from my house, I can see it from my front yard) and asked what the progress was on my Netherland's package. They showed it was scanned and is in the network and would be delivered..........eventually. I'm thinking of starting a pool on whether it will be in 2024 or 2025.
 
It really is amazing how packages make it to Texas and then take months to travel the last 50 miles. One of our relatives sent us a holiday package that should have arrived well before Christmas one year. It was March or April when we received a package that was beat up, obviously suffered water damage and looked like it had been stepped on by a horse or mule. Must be the same critter carrying your package now! My condolences!
 
I know what you mean as well. A recent purchase was shipped via Purolator, as our Postal service is out on strike for the last couple of weeks. The package arrived in Dieppe, NB. About 1.5 hrs away at their sort facility. Delivery was expected today. Then I checked it this morning to see if it had moved. Yup, it did. 5 hours farther away in, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia to their other sort facility. There was a delay getting there due to weather(and I am guessing, a possible accident) and now they don't have a estimated date at all.
 
Qship said:
I know what you mean as well. A recent purchase was shipped via Purolator, as our Postal service is out on strike for the last couple of weeks. The package arrived in Dieppe, NB. About 1.5 hrs away at their sort facility. Delivery was expected today. Then I checked it this morning to see if it had moved. Yup, it did. 5 hours farther away in, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia to their other sort facility. There was a delay getting there due to weather(and I am guessing, a possible accident) and now they don't have an estimated date at all.
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This seems to be a present day problem. We can track packages now, but when I was kid in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s we didn’t know a package was sent and couldn’t know when it might arrive. Now we can follow and stress out! LoL.
 
Some months ago, I ordered an item from a company in Florida that was shipped via FedEx.
I tracked the package as it went from city to city in the US. I suppose the plane was picking up a load or dropping one off as it went.
After several days of this the package finally arrived in Canada and was processed and delivered fairly quickly.
No real complaints but it was interesting to follow the zig zag route it took to get here.
 
Rocky said:
Some months ago, I ordered an item from a company in Florida that was shipped via FedEx.
I tracked the package as it went from city to city in the US. I suppose the plane was picking up a load or dropping one off as it went.
After several days of this the package finally arrived in Canada and was processed and delivered fairly quickly.
No real complaints but it was interesting to follow the zig zag route it took to get here.
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It’s interesting as long as it seems like progress. I had one package that got bounced back and forth between the north Houston distribution center and various “final” delivery stations until they finally gave it to my final delivery station. Wish they had a way for a person to let them know, just deliver it to location “x”.
 
The original delivery 'estimated' date was November 19th. As of this morning it has again been scanned and again is in transit to another facility. I might start a pool on how many stations it hits before being delivered. The number so far has to above 6. I might get my levers in time for the late Spring riding season, fingers crossed.
 
There really should be a way to tell the post office that you see your package bouncing from one post office to another. Obviously we can get notification, so why can’t we go to a post office to intercept the package. Obviously something is either coded wrong or the item part it reads for location is somehow damaged or something.
 
On a happy note, I received my wayward package yesterday. Skid plate for the new bike. Wasn't in any rush due to it being winter here. I do have another package being held up by our striking postal service, so it's anyone's guess when that will arrive.
 
brooke said:
Great ! You got a new bike ?
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I'm lighting a candle today to celebrate the first MONTH's journey of my bar levers from the Netherlands. It remains "In Transit" from Dallas to Keller from the 23rd of Novemeber. The last package scan took place on the 8th. Anyone want to wager if I get them before Christmas?
 

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