FedUP with Fedex!!!
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Just went to Home Depot on Kenai, Alaska, about 170 road miles from Anchorage. All of the kitchen stoves were display only. They can order from Anchorage, and if ANC has them, expect 2 to 3 weeks (from a warehouse 170 miles away, they make weekly trips! 3 weeks??? 3 weeks!!!).
If Anchorage doesn't have stock (and that's what happened to us), the wait from the lower 48 is 3 to 6 MONTHS.
Our oven died. Naturally, the one we wanted was on sale, but: We're stuck with a more expensive one (because the cheaper one isn't stock in ANC), and not the model we wanted, although still in the Consumer Reports top 14.
So that's just one more illustration of the shipping mess!
Yikes!
If Anchorage doesn't have stock (and that's what happened to us), the wait from the lower 48 is 3 to 6 MONTHS.
Our oven died. Naturally, the one we wanted was on sale, but: We're stuck with a more expensive one (because the cheaper one isn't stock in ANC), and not the model we wanted, although still in the Consumer Reports top 14.
So that's just one more illustration of the shipping mess!
Yikes!
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I live in the middle of no were in PA. My cousin works at our post office. Last week when I was in getting stamps she said that the whole post office in PA. is running 14 days behind.
There are just not enough people and my town is so small (620people)but only about 150 live within the town limits so, not a lot of push from the county to keep us going as we should.
Heck, I am related to everyone in town so yea. I need a DNA test from anyone I think about dating within 20 miles of me.
I live in the middle of no were in PA. My cousin works at our post office. Last week when I was in getting stamps she said that the whole post office in PA. is running 14 days behind.
There are just not enough people and my town is so small (620people)but only about 150 live within the town limits so, not a lot of push from the county to keep us going as we should.
Heck, I am related to everyone in town so yea. I need a DNA test from anyone I think about dating within 20 miles of me.
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Stuart: I think the article was supplied with suspect information. A lot of us probably order something on line, then get e-mails:
Your order is confirmed
Your order has shipped- use this link to watch it's progress.
Your order has been delivered.
Huh? It ain't at my house.
I have been getting warning from more and more brick-and-mortar businesses:
We have been experiencing delays in shipping. Expect delays up to ___ (fill in the blank) days/weeks/months.
In the stores: Sorry, we are out of that. But we get our weekly shipping container next Tuesday, and maybe it will be on there, but it takes us a day or two to get it onto the shelves.
Next Tuesday: Well, we got some but they were all sold out by noon.
Today at the US Post office, I wanted a couple of sheets of "forever" stamps (Quick, before DeVois raises the cost, yet again) and was told: We sold out the last shipment of 2000 in 3 days. All the other local POs are the same. We have found a Post Office in Arkansas with about 5000 and we are supposed to get 2000 of them, but get here early in the day.
This in not a big city post office, or even a small town. There might be a few thousand customers, add another 1000 in summer when the snowbirds & recreational property owners come back for a few months or a few weeks. Our mail boxes are full of junk, not mail, anyway.
Our USPS people better be wearing diapers, the mail (including scams & political) has been heavy. The local newspaper has stopped local delivery and sends it by mail. Yikes. And they are too short-handed to have time to pee....
Your order is confirmed
Your order has shipped- use this link to watch it's progress.
Your order has been delivered.
Huh? It ain't at my house.
I have been getting warning from more and more brick-and-mortar businesses:
We have been experiencing delays in shipping. Expect delays up to ___ (fill in the blank) days/weeks/months.
In the stores: Sorry, we are out of that. But we get our weekly shipping container next Tuesday, and maybe it will be on there, but it takes us a day or two to get it onto the shelves.
Next Tuesday: Well, we got some but they were all sold out by noon.
Today at the US Post office, I wanted a couple of sheets of "forever" stamps (Quick, before DeVois raises the cost, yet again) and was told: We sold out the last shipment of 2000 in 3 days. All the other local POs are the same. We have found a Post Office in Arkansas with about 5000 and we are supposed to get 2000 of them, but get here early in the day.
This in not a big city post office, or even a small town. There might be a few thousand customers, add another 1000 in summer when the snowbirds & recreational property owners come back for a few months or a few weeks. Our mail boxes are full of junk, not mail, anyway.
Our USPS people better be wearing diapers, the mail (including scams & political) has been heavy. The local newspaper has stopped local delivery and sends it by mail. Yikes. And they are too short-handed to have time to pee....
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Well, my town is so small that we do not even have a police force. The state police take care of our town but the closest station is a 15-minute drive any way from town and the state police are never around.
I am my own 911. Now we do have a good volunteer fire company but they do not and will not respond to domestic stuff.
The other thing is that our town floods so when it does our post office is shut down and then we do not get mail because there is no way to get it here.
Yea. One red light just lost, our subway, and only three stores in town. We do still have a CVS because it is required by some law.
Yeah, Small towns are nice, but it sucks to have to drive half an hour in any direction to get anything. Heck, Walmart is 45 minutes.
I am my own 911. Now we do have a good volunteer fire company but they do not and will not respond to domestic stuff.
The other thing is that our town floods so when it does our post office is shut down and then we do not get mail because there is no way to get it here.
Yea. One red light just lost, our subway, and only three stores in town. We do still have a CVS because it is required by some law.
Yeah, Small towns are nice, but it sucks to have to drive half an hour in any direction to get anything. Heck, Walmart is 45 minutes.
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FedEx isn't one of those "below Minimum Wage" employers, far as I know, so surely they didn't have people quitting in droves - like the fast food places? Or was it fear of Covid, with that much contact?
Our little P.O. ran out of stamps, so for every outgoing, you stood in line for the Postmaster to stamp it with Machine. He finally found a PO in Montana with 5,000 they could send. They got 'em and put up a sign; "Get your stamps b4 they are gone!" That's nuts! More did come in, after.
FLGuy: Aaah, small towns (and small farm communities). I've known kids leave just for that reason, in my old Illinois town. (Hey. NW Illinois is hilly, small farms, lots of Appalachians moved there during depression. I really like coon hounds - they are smart & friendly.) The other reason was they were 3rd child - and not going to inherit the farm, so what choice was that? No farm, no wife or husband, no stick around. Tough choice, indeed.
The grocery shelves are beginning to get back more incontinence supplies, here, anyway. FedEx is a bit slower - but mostly because it takes longer to packages to get here. Same for UPS.
Our little P.O. ran out of stamps, so for every outgoing, you stood in line for the Postmaster to stamp it with Machine. He finally found a PO in Montana with 5,000 they could send. They got 'em and put up a sign; "Get your stamps b4 they are gone!" That's nuts! More did come in, after.
FLGuy: Aaah, small towns (and small farm communities). I've known kids leave just for that reason, in my old Illinois town. (Hey. NW Illinois is hilly, small farms, lots of Appalachians moved there during depression. I really like coon hounds - they are smart & friendly.) The other reason was they were 3rd child - and not going to inherit the farm, so what choice was that? No farm, no wife or husband, no stick around. Tough choice, indeed.
The grocery shelves are beginning to get back more incontinence supplies, here, anyway. FedEx is a bit slower - but mostly because it takes longer to packages to get here. Same for UPS.
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