Public Service Announcement - Wheel Horse Parts & More

[rmaynard 16,588]

I was told the same thing about the Indianapolis hub when I shipped a brake lining to Racinbob several months ago. It took weeks to get there, while shipments to California got there in 2 days. Go figure. I always give the sender the benefit of the doubt.

[SylvanLakeWH 29,331]

I have never had a delivery problem with UPS - United Parcel Service.

 

Amazon - While not a delivery service outside their sales, they are remarkably reliable... freakishly good and instant information on where your package is...

 

USPS - Consistent delivery problems... first class, parcels... matters not. 

 

I avoid USPS whenever possible. 
 

 

[Racinbob 12,235]

Another vote against the Indy hub. They are terrible. Items can sit there for days. 

Almost every package has a tracking # these days. Be it an Ebay seller or whoever if I see that the post office has received the package in a time manner I know the seller has done their part. It's out of their hands after that and I won't hold them responsible.  

[rmaynard 16,588]

43 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

I have never had a delivery problem with UPS...

I agree. UPS is the least of all delivery evils.

USPS is the worst.

Amazon follows closely behind USPS. They frequently deliver "next day" orders late, and their drivers run over my lawn.

FedEx is nothing like they used to be either.

Not to mention, as all carriers deliveries have gotten worse, their prices have skyrocketed. 

[953 nut 62,166]

1 hour ago, Racinbob said:

vote against the Indy hub. They are terrible.

That isn't the only hub that could use some lubrication to get it moving.  Greenville SC is another rest home for packages that may never go out.  I have seen packages arrive at Greenville (next stop should be Franklin NC then my house), after sitting at Greenville for a couple of days they go to another hub then back to Greenville.

I was selling on  a few years back and had a package that went as far as Greenville and never went any further. When I checked with the local post office the postmaster kinda' rolled her eyes and said she would send an inquire to Greenville but didn't hold out much hope. I contacted the buyer and offered to send another item which was OK with him. I told the postmaster I has a replacement part that I would send to the buyer and wondered if the post office would send it for the postage I had paid for the lost package.  Oh no, we can't do that, the fact that the package hasn't moved from Greenville for a month doesn't mean it won't be delivered.

[rmaynard 16,588]

I sent wheel weights from my post office here in Maryland to Lebanon, PA. I could have driven them there in 2 hours or less. After a month in transit, and a trip to Hawaii, the empty boxes ended up at the buyer's house. The buyer complained to eBay, eBay paid him for his loss, but deducted it from me. After a lot of arguing, eBay told me to make a claim with USPS. They denied me,

saying that the boxes were delivered to the address. Even pictures showing empty, ripped boxes didn't help. So, the buyer never got his weights, I lost $100 (my sale price) and I lost my postage paid, and my weights. That was my worst experience with USPS. 

UPS would have cost twice as much, but in the long run, I would have made out better.

[pfrederi 18,970]

If it is important UPS is the only way...unless it was on the plane that crashed yesterday

[Treepep 840]

 

 

We frequently order UPS for our kitchen needs.  The commissary kitchen we work at is HUGE,  In the same parking is a big roofing company,  an indoor pickle ball(whatever that is?) andindoor golf.  The rest is an enormous UPS hub.  Frequently packages get to the lot and then...sit for days.  Very frustrating.  End up buying retail to make it work and have double when it finally arrives  Exact story with Commercial food vendors.  Ordered on time always, tracking says it is okay till it gets inevitably delayed.  Trip to store and double food

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 08:43 PM by Treepep
I cannot type well

[squonk 44,622]

If it's important, it gets delayed. Ordered parts for a Hobart dish washing machine for a school on a Monday before T giving. I needed them at our door by midday Fri as the school was closed and we needed to take apart most of the machine so we needed a closed kitchen.  Hobart ships UPS and usually it takes 2 days. Fri came and no parts. Monday came and no parts. Following week came and nothing. I finally called. They said they were sent. So I reordered them and got them within the 2 days. We had several buildings on Campus. We check them all for the lost parts. Nothing. 2 month's later I get a call from another school district where we have a behavioral health satellite office. We found a box here and wonder if it's for you. It says Hobart on it.

 

I go get it and the address label is for this office. I peel the label off and the correct address is on it. someone at UPS decided the address was wrong and changed it. 

 

It worked out as within a couple of days I needed those exact same parts for another machine. 

[AlexR 2,227]

44 minutes ago, squonk said:

I go get it and the address label is for this office. I peel the label off and the correct address is on it. someone at UPS decided the address was wrong and changed it.

Wow that kinda sounds like what USPS did to me. 

[adsm08 3,621]

1 hour ago, squonk said:

It worked out as within a couple of days I needed those exact same parts for another machine.

 

Once, about half a life-time ago, when I was much dumber I ordered a PCM for a truck, at the direction of Ford's technical hotline, and then found a broken wire causing the issue. Service manager refused to put the PCM on, because if Ford called the old one and it was good his department would get charged back for it. Parts manager was pissed because he was stuck with a $500 part he didn't want.

 

Two weeks later we actually needed that same unit for another truck, and we were the only Ford location, dealership, warehouse, or distribution center, in the entire country that had one.

[Bar Nuthin 1,485]

Woohoo! Let’s try again!

[AlexR 2,227]

3 hours ago, Bar Nuthin said:

Woohoo! Let’s try again!

Wow!! Well hopefully you end up getting it lol 

[Handy Don 14,655]

On 11/6/2025 at 4:27 PM, Bar Nuthin said:

Woohoo! Let’s try again!

And what’s worse, is that there is no-one accountable for these antics. The audit/analysis staff has been gutted and only direct revenue counts for performance.  

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,093]

Since we're telling USPS and Amazon shipping oddity/horror stories....The decals I got for the C-141 got shipped out USPS. They made it to Pennsylvania, than back out to Ohio, for some reason. then up to my home in Maine. a week and a half trip and it was late from what they stated. Up here we also have problems with the USPS keeping drivers, and have had mail not show up for 3 days too. Not to mention the post office here had too many Amazon packages, at one point this summer. The Postmaster decided that my side of town wouldn't get them for a week or so. On the Amazon side of that, I've had Amazon send me gift cards for Christmas presents last year half in individual boxes half in one box.... 

[adsm08 3,621]

10 hours ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

Up here we also have problems with the USPS keeping drivers

 

I think that's across the board. It used to be a great job, but now they have people working 7 days a week for months at a time, the pay hasn't kept pace with inflation for over 20 years, benefits are getting cut, etc. From what I hear it isn't Cliff Claven's Postal Service anymore.

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,093]

29 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

 

I think that's across the board. It used to be a great job, but now they have people working 7 days a week for months at a time, the pay hasn't kept pace with inflation for over 20 years, benefits are getting cut, etc. From what I hear it isn't Cliff Claven's Postal Service anymore.

Yeah, the added competition from UPS and Fed Ex isn’t helping either.