Crabby Blogging Lady

*palm in face*

people, people, people.

This is just INSANE. HOW can this BE?!?!?!

Yesterday I told you about my package, currently enroute to my door. Well, *KIND OF.* I ordered my product from a company in New York State (where I live)– and the warehouse is actually only about 150 miles from my doorstep.

I ordered the product online, and on March 14th it was finally shipped out.

I’m still waiting for the product.

You know why?

THIS IS WHY! Can you understand this insane logic????

This is a map of the shipping truck that is currently carrying my little product. The package has traveled through THREE STATES, over 1,500 miles for several days. Can you understand that mess? Ah, let me try to explain it.

#1. Package origin: Edgewood, NY. Follow the red arrows to….

#2. Groveport, Ohio. huh?? Follow the green arrows to….

#3. Buffalo, NY. Ah! The package will soon be here, right?? Uh, no. Follow the pink arrows to….

#4 Erie, Pennsylvania. NO IDEA why they turned the whole kit and kaboodle 360 to backtrack. Keep following the pink arrows to…

#5. Warrendale, Pennsylvania. I’m getting carsick…. Follow the yellow arrows to….

#6. Buffalo, NY. AGAIN. Idjits. Follow the rest of the yellow arrows to….

Well, nowhere. I still haven’t received the package.

In case you’re wondering, the package is a calculator. Yep, a handheld scientific calculator. I thought about going to the local Wally World to get one for my son, but I didn’t have a car that day, and— heck– I kinda figured the thing wouldn’t go ’round the world in 80 days if I ordered it online. My son needed the calculator for a math test. A math test he finished last Wednesday.

I’m just… beyond disgusted. This is almost funny. I just may need help from a medical assistance program by the time I get my package. Or maybe the delivery man will, I tell you what….

I don’t get it.

Several days ago, I ordered something online.

I LOVE shopping online, by the way. No crowds of people sneezing and coughing their germs into my sterile space, no crazy traffic threatening my safety and raising my blood pressure, no outta-this-world sales tax that bankrolls the powerful NY special interests… nuttin. Online shopping is da BOMMB, I tell you! ANd the sky is the limit– you can buy car parts, heated mattress pads, beds, even CARS online! Very cool.

But the logic of the shipping companies elude me. I’ve been following one particular shipment. The item I purchased was from somewhere in New York State– Edgewood, NY, to be exact. Only about 480 miles from me. I could DRIVE out to Edgewood to pick up the package, and be back for dinner. But I’m still waiting for my package, 4, 5 days later.

The shipping company sent it to Colombus, Ohio.

HUH?

Look, I made a visual representation for those of us who went to public school and need some help with geography. Here:

The shipping company (who will remain unnamed because I don’t want to get sued for “slander” even though ALL I’m doing is taking note of some facts) took my little package out of state, over 1,000 miles away, and then back up again.

WHY don’t they just make a beeline directly to ME?!?!

OK OK I KNOW that the shipping company isn’t going to directly and personally run my little package to me straight from the store warehouse. But HOLY COW, 1,000 miles?! Come on!

Really, WHY did they do this? Did my package perhaps get accidentally rerouted out of the way? Mistakes happen, I can understand that, sure. But I estimate that 1/4 of all packages I order online go through these super-loopy shipping lanes.

What do you think?

What’s happened to Amazon.com, huh? Used to be, I could order something, and BAM my book would be here in a week, sometimes 5 days later. Not too shabby!
But HOLY COW, I’ve been waiting in the wings for over two weeks, and my books are not even in my state yet!

It seems to take FOREVER– a WHOLE WEEK, almost!– to even get the product out of Amazon’s warehouse anymore!

I ordered my books on November 13th, so you can’t blame “the holidays” for the shipping delay. Unless, of course, Amazon was just swamped with orders over Halloween. :-p

But look! My books weren’t even shipped out of the warehouse until November 18th– and even then, I wonder if they were really shipped out, because the Postal Service doesn’t even mention receiving anything until November 24th!

So it took Amazon a whopping TWELVE DAYS to get my three paperback books (which Amazon said were in stock!) OUT of their warehouse to the local post office?!
The estimated time of delivery is November 28th– over two weeks from my order. And guess what? It’s November 28th today, and books still aren’t here!

Yeah, I opted for “free shipping.” I shouldn’t have been such a cheapskate. Because Thanksgiving has come and gone, and my books haven’t come in yet… *sigh*