Shipping and Murphys Law

**LANCER1562** · 12th August 09, 02:54 PM

I've actually seen USPS package handlers throw packages marked "FRAGILE" accross the shop area into a sorting bin as if they were playing frisbee or basketball.

**MacKay71** · 12th August 09, 03:01 PM

We see mail strewn along the tarmac at the airport all the time!

**GMan** · 12th August 09, 04:56 PM

Follow the bouncing Kilt.

**SoulFyre777** · 12th August 09, 05:22 PM

Reminds me of an Eddie Izzard classic quote from "Dressed to Kilt".... I mean "Kill":

"...This is from Poland! And if you don’t know the geography, it goes Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Venezuela, Africa, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon… and then Switzerland..."

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 13th August 09, 05:44 AM

I had a customer call once to complain that a kilt had not been delivered. It was one that I knew had already been shipped (FedEx Home Delivery) so I went on line to track it. FedEx said it was delivered to the address 11 days prior. So I called the customer back to let him know and he said no, it was not delivered. So I got on the phone with our FedEx account representative to try to see what could be sorted out. Worse comes to worse I figure we'd have to file a claim on the lost package and remake the customer's kilt. First step is to get FedEx to do a search for the package.

FedEx is supposed to get back with me in approximately 24 hours. If they can't find it I'll file the claim and replace the customer's kilt.

Later that day, however, the customer calls again. "Oops, nevermind!" he says. He found the kilt. It was sitting on his porch by the front door. Had been for 11 days, it seems. Customer says he always goes in and out by his back door and never thought to check the front porch for the package.

You ship enough things to enough people and you get all kinds of stories like this.... there was the guy whose neighbor signed for a package for him... then neglected to ever tell him. The only way we figured that one out was when he called to say he had not received the package and we tracked it for him. "Seems like it was delevered last week, sir, and signed for by a Mrs. _____." "Oh!, that's my neighbor, she sometimes collects packages for me, I'l' go ask her." Turns out she just forgot to let him know it had arrived.

About the worst I saw was a Christmas present that a wife had ordered to be delivered to her husband's work address. We shipped it to his company, and the company mailroom delivered it -- to the wrong person. Turns out there was another man who worked on the same floor with a very similar name. It took a lot of investigation to figure out what happened in that case, but what floored me was that the guy who mistakenly recieved the package had it for about two weeks and never once thought to walk down the hall and give it to the right guy.

**Kilted-Marine** · 13th August 09, 09:41 AM

We once sent a package out UPS 2 day delivery for a wedding. I received a call that the package did not arrive. When I checked the tracking number in the system. It said that it was sitting in colorado on a rail car that was out of service....

**The Wizard of BC** · 13th August 09, 12:56 PM

Does anyone remember the story from about three years ago about the Kilt package that was found in a large company mailroom?

I've tried to do a search for it but can't find it.

It seems a guy was expecting a Kilt that was supposed to be delivered to him at his work address in a large company. After calls to the Kiltmaker, USPS, and inquires with the mailroom clerk, to no avail. Then some months later he was approached by a janitor who told him about a box with his name on it sitting in a storage room. He found the box, empty.

Any one know the rest of the story? Did the guy ever get his Kilt?

**Kilted-Marine** · 13th August 09, 01:21 PM

We have had:-(

UPS deliver package to house next door - and the neighbor took 3 weeks mention there was a package for his nieghbor

Fedex fail to deliver on saturday for a Broadway show in NY City

I once rushed a package to a UPS center had them wrap the package and at the same time I purchased some supplies. they missed charging me for the package (even though it was sitting on the counter and they had just wrapped it) - 6 weeks later i get a call that we had a package sitting there..i thought it was for us....not from us.... They had held the package for 6 weeks waiting for me to return to pay...they had all my contact info but never called.

Temp (regular guy was on vacation) Postal guy fail to show for 3 days because nobody told him to stop and ask if we had packages

overnight stuff is always the worse - It scares me everytime I do you for a special event... Because once I hand it to ups.usps.fedex.. i no longer had control

In the big picture.. we shipped about 3700 packages last year and the percentage of BAD things was very very small...

**Ian.MacAllan** · 13th August 09, 02:37 PM

A few years ago a reel of magnetic tape was mailed to me---Special Handling. It took 54 days to travel the approximately 15 miles from Bladensburg MD to Silver Spring MD.

A few months later I discovered on a Sunday evening that my car registration would expire the following Saturday & I couldn't go stand in line at the DMV because I had to travel out of state the whole week. I filled out the application and put it and a personal check in the mail that night. The registration certificate and tags were in Saturday's mail.

Sometimes you really don't know whom to hate.

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**1oldsarge** · 13th August 09, 02:57 PM

My best one was a gift a relative sent to me VIA UPS. English muffins. It was raining, so the delivery guy put it in the front seat of a broke-down car we had in the driveway, no note left. We happened to glance in the car and see it some time later - pretty much a science project by then...