oshyPOV: You made the mistake of trying to track a package in 2024
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@ocean the best part is that in the end you'll just notice another line appear in the transit log that says "recipient couldn't be reached, package diverted to pick-up point" and nobody's been to your door all day
sahqon@shi @ocean That's not even bad, last week or week before, mum told me that she saw the car arrive from the window, but it went past, so she went outside thinking it will be coming backwards from the neighbors and she went outside to wait for it, then tried to flag it down and it almost ran her over in its haste to escape. Turned out they left the package with the neighbors, probably got embarrassed when they saw her and made a hasty enough retreat to endanger random passersby and other commuters.
Good thing we are on good terms with the neighbors but wtf. No call, drops off everything in the same street at a (randomly picked?) single house.
@shi @ocean Ours are normally very good. No official porch delivery, most stuff comes with pin codes now, so you need the code to pick it up. Which can be turned into porch delivery if you can talk the driver into it: you say the code and they drop it wherever you want (since they got the confirmation of delivery by code), otherwise they won't. Most routes have set drivers so if you order a lot of stuff, you'll know them all (we have personal phone numbers for a few of them). They often offer to take larger items inside though that's not in their job description. One always comes in to pet the dog. But then every once in a while they get a new guy and shit can go either hilariously or annoyingly south.
Corvid Crone@shi @sahqon @ocean when I lived in NY, I tried to have a package delivered to my Harlem address and the sender sent it via FedEx.
"Missed delivery" - I was at home and no delivery attempt was made
"Missed delivery" - same story, this time, I'm sitting at the window overlooking the door. No FedEx person even came into the courtyard.
"Missed delivery final notice" - same story, this time, I'm sitting outside
I call FedEx, and ask them wtf. They tell me I can go pick up from the warehouse. Great, where's the warehouse? In the middle of a godforsaken island where no public transit goes because no one lives there and it's only warehouses. I tell them no, I will not be swimming or taking a taxi to this middle of nowhere warehouse. Long hold. "Well, we can try one more time". And I'm like, "you never tried the first time, no FedEx truck even came to the building". Long hold. "He's coming back". Bro peaks head into the courtyard, shakes head, and starts to leave. I'm running towards him, "you got my package, man??"
"Uhhhh..." Finally get my package. Took over a month
Andreas K@shi @sahqon @ocean
I hate modern GIS systems with a passion.
I live in an apt complex with 1000s of flats in it. No apt no, no delivery.
30 years back, every one knew that the street name was a bit on the long side, and one abbreviated it.
Today, the IT knows all streets by their official name. Guess what gets cut off with a surprising regularity?
Which means, no matter how fast the delivery is supposed to be, the parcel stays a day longer with "address incomplete".
@shi @sahqon @ocean Did I mention how much fun it is to try to spell out to a voice recognition system a 12-15 character long parcel ID on the phone? Because there seems literally no chance to reach a human operator before identifying yourself with your business transaction. And the parcel number alone was not enough to change the delivery address online, ...
One of the moments when one realizes, this is it, why we had to read Kafka in school, to prepare us for these existential phone calls.
Darwin Woodka