Next time I'll just pay for faster shipping.

CHLChris · Jul 12, 2017

I've been sucked in by Amazon's FREE shipping too many times. That company doesn't even pack it up and send the items for a week or two after you put in the order. FREE means...you gonna wait for A. Long. Time!

Flymph · Jul 12, 2017

SKrueger said:
I'm not sure why you guys even look at the tracking. IMHO 98% of the time it shows up on the delivery date or the day before. On the 2% I have the tracking number and a way to chase it down if needed.

Watching the thing will just make you go stark raving mad!!

My girlfriend does it, I buy things in person. That may change soon tho.

Quartermaster · Jul 12, 2017

Argh! Why does it keep going NORTH?!

Flymph · Jul 13, 2017

And the winner is the guy who said Tacoma is next!

Mikej · Jul 13, 2017

Oregon Quartermaster said:
Argh! Why does it keep going NORTH?!

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AH YES, you are dealing with the wonderful "Smart Post"! FEDX works it across the country. Sometimes it even gets to the FEDX facility out in Troutdale. After that they ship it North to Kent Washington. And then three days, or so, later they get it to Portland where you can expect to get it a couple of days after that. It's almost home man!

None of my packages have ever seen "Puyallup" that I recall though.

UserNameInUse · Jul 13, 2017

If you really want to have fun, UPS has this new app where you can pull up a map and see in real time where your package is. I just saw it come within a half mile of my house, then go a half mile in the opposite direction.

Tully Mars · Jul 13, 2017

etrain16 said:
It must be FedEx. I've never had shipping issues with UPS and USPS like I have with FedEx - and everyone is using them now! I don't know what's going on with FedEx, but it seems the packages make a lot of unnecessary stops and trips along the way. This order from earlier this year left Wisconsin, went through North Dakota, Montana, then arrived in Spokane, on to Seattle, then Tukwilla, Kent, Troutdale and finally Portland before being sent out for delivery. Seems like a very inefficient way to do things if you ask me, but I guess they know what they're doing.

Another shipment I had sat in the same place for 4 days, kind of like your shipment, before it finally moved on.

All I know is that I would never use FedEx to ship anything. USPS has actually done the best of any of them.

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Down here it's just the opposite UPS can't seem to find the house to save their life, and FedEx is always Johnny on the spot. Sometimes even getting stuff here a day or two earlier than the original est. delivery date.

Quartermaster · Jul 25, 2017

Here we go again!

Alex V · Jul 25, 2017

Afrer all that, I had to order one last thing. A tool for the proprietary barrel nut that Seekins doesn't provide from Amazon before i was able to finish my rifle. I paid for 1 day shipping and it arrived soon enough, albeit with a hole in the packaging and nothing else inside. It wasn't super expensive so I was able to get Amazon to refund it and then ship me another one for free.