Hazmat shipping from Midway

[Koda]

Sometimes it can be fun to watch the tracking as the package gets put on the wrong truck or such and goes on a long ride.

Fun story, back in the great covid TP shortage we were running dangerously low and no end in sight on the empty local store shelves. A friend suggested I try ordering TP off Amazon, so I did.
I wasn't careful to even care where it came from as there was only one store left with some available. Turns out it was coming from China. The tracking updates were hilarious. My package of TP went all over the place and back again before it even hit Oregon. Ended up arriving about 3 months later way overdue.
Luckily we had found more TP....
those rolls of TP made in China are not as wide as what we buy here.

 

[gmerkt]

Around here UPS doesn't deliver on Saturday.

I was outside in the late afternoon, glimpsed the BBT coming up the road, didn't stop. A few minutes later, he came back down the road and didn't stop. I took that as a sign. I don't know when UPS started Sat. delivery around here, but we haven't always had it. Several years, maybe?

 

[oremike]

I was outside in the late afternoon, glimpsed the BBT coming up the road, didn't stop. A few minutes later, he came back down the road and didn't stop. I took that as a sign. I don't know when UPS started Sat. delivery around here, but we haven't always had it. Several years, maybe?

Might be next day air or something but here we'll get fedex and USPS but no chocolate Santa on Saturday

 

[gmerkt]

Update. I got a message from UPS on 9-5 that they had picked up the shipment, it was in Lenexa, KS, and it was scheduled for delivery today, 9-7 between 1:15 and 5:15 PM. That never happened. Since then, tracking shows that it made it to Tacoma 9-7 at 1:20 AM. When I saw that, I knew it wouldn't be here on 9-7. Maybe Monday.

Nothing doing today. On their tracking website information, my missed scheduled delivery date disappeared. Which was replaced by a message that said when they had new information, they would post it. Package stalled in Tacoma.

 

[Alexx1401]

Nothing doing today. On their tracking website information, my missed scheduled delivery date disappeared. Which was replaced by a message that said when they had new information, they would post it. Package stalled in Tacoma.

You are still lucky its not coming FedEx
Friday they showed my package would be here today. Then they tried to deliver it yesterday to the Office which was closed and I did not see them or I could have stopped him. Said they would try again Wednesday
Then today tracking showed today between 6:00 and 10M. I thought great will have to try putting a sign on the damn gate when I lockup. Then I see truck roll in at 8am this morning to office and sure enough he has the package. I HATE seeing FedEx on anything getting delivered.

 

[gmerkt]

Update:

The package arrived this afternoon. I don't know why it had to sit around in Tacoma for 3-4 days. The package had all kinds of stickers on it, looked like a Samsonite grip that had been around the world a couple of times on a steamship. The six bottles of N135 are about enough to load +/- 1,000 rounds of 30 caliber ammo.

I'm happy to get the N135. Which is most like the long ago discontinued Reloder 12 from Alliant. Both Midway and Powder Valley have N135 for $46-$47 the pound. yet today I was in Sportsman's Warehouse and they priced it at near $60.

 

[gmerkt]

I'm happy to get the N135.

Maybe I was in a hurry yesterday when I posted #26, above, and left a couple of ideas out. Depending which of the many powder burn rate charts you use, N135 is about the same speed as IMR 4895 or between IMR 4895 and IMR 4064. On the older charts, it's right next to Hercules/Alliant ReLoder 12. Which I used a lot in M1 Rifle loads with 147/150 gr. bullet loads. Until it was discontinued circa 1997. When Alliant moved to Radford, VA, they only made two lots of RL12, then stopped. Demand volume disallowed it as a profitable product.

Sportsman's Warehouse and they priced it at near $60.

I've always viewed Vihta Vuori powders as a bit of a premium product. Because they always seemed to cost a little more than the others. So when I recently saw that the prices for VV at both Midway and Powder Valley were lower than the others, I was surprised. But the $60 price at Sportsman's Warehouse doesn't line up with that. I looked online, VV has a new national distribution warehouse in Missouri. Midway is in Missouri, Powder Valley is in Kansas. Maybe those two firms drive to the VV warehouse on their own and pick up. Which may result in lower costs to them?