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PADemD

(4,482 posts) Tue May 26, 2015, 10:09 AM May 2015

Package Delivery [View all]

Just got off the phone with UPS Customer Service.

My package went from the Pittston, PA Distribution Center to the Bethlehem, PA Distribution Center to the Horsham, PA Distribution Center and back to the Bethlehem, PA Distribution Center for delivery.

That's an extra unnecessary 75.5 shipping miles and four days. I could have had my package in one day.

Who devises these systems?

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Package Delivery [View all] PADemD May 2015 OP

I can beat that: ret5hd May 2015 #1

DUzy sarge43 May 2015 #5

hell, my luggage has done better than that! ProdigalJunkMail May 2015 #13

I had a package come from Indianapolis to my town in Kentucky... Tom_Foolery May 2015 #2

My USPS does that. frogmarch May 2015 #3

There are a couple reasons for this. A HERETIC I AM May 2015 #8

in St Pete here onethatcares May 2015 #10

No mistaking whatsoever and I take the critisicms I read here with a grain of salt! A HERETIC I AM May 2015 #11

I love being able to track packages NV Whino May 2015 #4

It's so entertaining. PADemD May 2015 #6

I forgot to add "and frustrating" NV Whino May 2015 #9

It's just part of that new math they started teaching me in the 60s discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2015 #7

and here I thought it was bad when LiberalElite May 2015 #12

Better than having a package re-routed through the NSA. MicaelS May 2015 #14

it's based on the economics of delivering a lot of packages, not just one Skittles May 2015 #15

I ordered something on ebay that never showed up and tracking showed it in limbo somewhere in CA progressoid May 2015 #16