Dylan Reichstadt
oshyPOV: You made the mistake of trying to track a package in 2024
Baa 🐑@ocean Send them feedback and just attach this image.
Lawrence@ocean Kill Me Please
Jorkin MahJongus@ocean wait, before you navigate away, do you want to sign up for our newsletter?!
Aaron
Andreas K@hosford42 @cozymel @ocean
Just so we know whom to spam via 3rd party ad spammers instead of in-house spam.
Just so we know whom to spam via 3rd party ad spammers instead of in-house spam.
Blogjackets 🇨🇦@ocean Yesterday UPS pages kept refreshing after five seconds. Parcel FTW.
Simon MacDonald@Blogjackets @ocean Yes, this is why I am happy to pay for my yearly Parcel subscription.
Bex B. Sc.@ocean not much better clicking a random reddit link in the search engine. Before I let that bloatware load to completion, I move my mouse to the address bar and change the hostname from reddit to a libreddit instance I trust. Unfortunately, that won't work with parcel tracking.
millions 
Aurora - NOW celestiallavendar@icedoatmilk@coffee@ocean Ooo you got lucky though. 99% of the time when I get a tracking link from a corporation I only a error page that there is no associated package.
@ocean the package tracks you
Thomas Frans 🇺🇦@amazing_ptrace I nominate this for "Reply of the Month".
@amazing_ptrace @ocean In Mother Russia?
Alan@ocean What about the other browser tab with the merchant shop that is showing shipping info that is in it's own parallel universe 😅
Darwin Woodka*six email notifications while trying to track package*
YOUR PACKAGE IS ON ITS WAY
YOUR PACKAGE IS NOT YET IN THE SYSTEM
YOUR PACKAGE IS DELAYED
YOUR PACKAGE HAS SHIPPED!
LABEL PRINTED
YOUR PACKAGE HAS BEEN DELIVERED
@darwinwoodka @ocean Please give me all the label updates.
* label was created
* label was sent to the printer
* label is sitting on the output tray
* label was peeled from the backing
* label corner got stuck too early
* label mostly stuck to box - except for that one corner- that’s a little loose now
🇸🇭🇮
@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
@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.
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crispy branzino ☭ (sold out forever)@ocean the bonzi buddy of websites.
Sophie 🏳️⚧️ 🌜@ocean This is giving me anxiety.
Mike Hanley@ocean aarrrrgh
(moved to @@ocean heh, UPS are the worst of them too. My favourite from them was: compulsory account signup ("UPS My Choice®" 🙄) to track a parcel, and at the end of signup being told I'd need a code sent to me by letter to sign in. The letter arrived the day after the package
@ocean why tf is their page reddit coded
Eric Lawton
Martijn van Dijk@EricLawton @ocean @blogdiva well, it is a policy about how they’re going to violate your privacy. Technically the subject is still privacy 🫠
I also hate the phrase “we value your privacy” with a passion. Yes, they value your privacy so much they’re willing to sell it to the highest bidder!
👹RAAAH👹
(Sorry had to let that one out)
unsponsor@ocean package tracks you
★ Amy Star ★@ocean @gardevoir i have to pay for a separate app to track my packages as i refuse to deal with this shit anymore
Tim WIcinski@ocean Wow is like the "updated" UPS App like 100x worse than the old one?
Willow Brook 💜
TobiWanKenobiWell, at least they didn't call you...
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...right?
Luna Lactea@ocean scary :(
kiseki 2: it's cho-ho-ho-roin' time@ocean rookie mistake
Kevin Karhan 
@ocean Just use https://www.aftership.com/track instead.
Joe Ortiz@joeo10 @ocean well, #AfterShip just works and I use them all the time since I don't want to remember which damn courier any ShutExpress vendor uses...
felface@ocean or when you get an email saying it’s using something called ‘shop’ and you can only do it by downloading an app
Aaron Kulbe@ocean This uhhhh…. tracks. 😂
I get the we'll-get-you-a-delivery-date-ASAP message, every time I try, and then it just shows up.
Joel Housman@ocean @Meyerweb I cannot recommend this app enough: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/parcel/id375589283
Use it constantly. Though, I'm an IT Director and am constantly shipping tech things to staff.
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@joelhousman @ocean @Meyerweb More and more carriers are cracking down hard on third parties over the past year to encourage lock in. I know several third party apps are having issues seeing them.
I know that DHL, FedEx, and UPS are locking down their products.
Tom Walker@ocean I have never seen any good implementation on any website ever of those stupid "do a survey about our site" overlays
CyberPunkBarMaid@ocean
Get tracked fool
Get tracked fool
Levvvy@ocean its crazy. They are shipping from mars nowadays
Ben Stokman@ocean tbf you did get the actual information immediately.
blhue (has moved)@ocean Ick! I can’t stand that crap!
I use Hush for Safari on Mac. It removes a lot of crap (most all Cookie messages at least). Have a pi-hole on my network so I see no ads while browsing the web. These 2 things make browsing around great.
When I have to use our work VPN (which negates my pi-hole), I get slammed with ads. I then realize how truly bad browsing without these things is.
ShutterBugged
JacobRPG❌👑@ocean hellscape
I TRIED TO TELL YOU@ocean in fascist America, package tracks you!
www.bloodoutofstone.com@ocean overloading