I ordered something yesterday afternoon and it arrived at 9:30 this morning.

[LiberalFighter]

I only paid for ground service (3 to 7 days).

This is the first time in my memory that I have received a package that wasn't in the late afternoon. I wonder if it means fewer customers are ordering goods online?

The economy is on a roll isn't it?

[DrDan]

1. it was probably ordered from the other side of town

wasn't it.

[LiberalFighter]

11. If it was across town I would had gone to the store and check it out first.

And then taken it home with me.

Normally, purchases that are at least in a neighboring state takes the following day in the late afternoon. Meaning that my drop-off was most likely the end of the delivery cycle. It is probably still the end of the delivery cycle but probably means fewer buying online.

[DrDan]

12. I only said that tongue-in-cheek. I had a FEDEX delivery at my home

around 7:30 am yesterday. I never get morning, much less early morning deliveries. Always mid-to-late afternoon also.

[high density]

2. Did it come via the USPS?

They do miracles sometimes. FedEx and UPS will easily do ground in 1 day, though usually not that early, if the shipper's stuff goes to the same hub that services you.

[KittyWampus]

3. When I send packages from Ebay sales, they sometimes arrive next day. But I live

in a town that has a great PO and mail goes to a sorting center right near the airport mail flies out of.

[RollWithIt]

4. If it was UPS or Fedex ground, its like the shipment came from your state...

Its all based on a zone map.

[tularetom]

5. Only time that happened for me was when I ordered wine.

Came via UPS and they called me to make sure there would be somebody 21 or older available to sign for it.

[Occam Bandage]

6. Check the tracker. Most likely it was only shipped across town, or at least

either you or the origin are very close to a hub.

[pipi_k]

7. Things have gotten so bad that

the FedEx driver who usually delivers our packages doesn't ride around with them on his truck for weeks at a time.

Mainly because he's probably afraid he'll lose his job.

I live in a very rural location, on a dirt road that is suitable for being a ski trail (i.e. very steep). It's bad enough in summer, but in winter it's a horror show.

Anyway, December of '07 I ordered some stuff online the beginning of the month...Xmas gifts for the grandkids. And then waited. And waited. And waited. Our usual FedEx guy has pulled similar stunts before..not delivering (even in summer) and then when we call the terminal, we're told that we "were not home". Bullshit. We're both retired and I'm disabled. And we make a POINT of being home when we know there's going to be a delivery, but anyway, we told the terminal to tell the FedEx guy to leave the packages at a neighbor's house out on the main road and we'd get them there. OK..they'll tell the driver, they said.

This was Xmas Eve of '07. So on our way to my son's house, we stop by figuring we'll pick up the packages and I can just get some nice gift bags and that will take care of wrapping problems. Only the FedEx guy never showed up there. Nor on Xmas Day (not that I expected him to).

Nope....December 26th is when he dropped those packages off.

I was LIVID.

checking records, I discovered that the stupid fucking driver had been driving around with those packages on his truck for nearly three weeks.

I wrote to the terminal AND Corporate HQ and told them what happened and didn't the stupidass driver stop to think they might be Christmas Gifts for kids (they were from a store for kids)...

I said that from then on, if given a choice, I would not choose FedEx to ship anything I ordered (was not given a choice on those packages) AND...I would write to the place I ordered from and tell them that unless they gave another shipping option, I would not order from them again.

This isn't the first time FedEx has screwed up. Mr Pip gets insulin shipped to him, and quite a few times the driver has not delivered, and then falsely written that he could not deliver because nobody was home. One time he threw a package out the window at the top of the hill in our neighbor's driveway so he wouldn't have to come down the hill. The ice packs they put in the foam containers only keep the insulin good for a limited time, then the insulin is no good. Mr Pip has had to reorder because the quality was compromised when it was left on the FedEx truck.

Our UPS driver will call beforehand, and we will either meet him at the top, or tell him to leave it at the Post Office, or at the town business place of a neighbor who lives on our road.

Anyway, the FedEx driver has been better about delivering stuff, and I think it's probably because he knows there are probably plenty of unemployed people who would gladly take his job...

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. If that frightens you, send it back and order it again.

Help keep the economy afloat by slowing things down.

[ensho]

9. that recently happened to a friend, ordered one day and got it the next

AND we live 140 miles from the mainland where packages always take 1 day longer then usual.

makes you wonder.

[Ioo]

10. Board... had nothing better to do..

[Generator]

13. Makes me think of magazine subscriptions

So they all go to some central office in Iowa I think for payment. It used to be if I sent a check it would take up to a couple months before it was cashed. I noticed this last fall-oh that check cashed in a week!

[SoCalDem]

14. I ordered a bowling ball from Indiana, and they called me

the next day to tell me that the weight I had ordered was not available, but they had 3 or 4 similar ones, and if I let them switch the order, they would waive shipping costs...that's how eager they were to not lose the business..

normally I would have gotten an email telling me they were out of stock.

The credit for the cancelled order showed up in a few hours time via email..