Lysander Spooner was right
I’ve often tracked packages online via FedEx and UPS and was amazed at the accuracy. Once, at the office, I checked and it said it wasn’t there. I hit refresh a minute or two later and it said it was delivered. Sure enough, I walked out to receiving and there was the UPS guy pulling away.
The US Postal Service has online tracking too. It’s just like UPS and FedEx, only it sucks. I ordered some gun parts that were shipped via USPS last week. They came from Colorado. All the USPS site ever said was the package was received in Colorado (where the package originated from). Yesterday, they arrived at my home but the site still says that they’ve only been checked in Colorado. I wonder if the USPS system thinks it’s not delivered?
January 28th, 2005 at 11:43 am
I forget if it was Fedex or UPS, but I was tracking a package once, and I checked their site and it said it was delivered.
Well, I had been home for quite a while, and had heard no doorbell or knock. I hunted around outside my house, thinking maybe they had left it at the back door. Nothing.
Turns out they had delivered it to my neighbor’s house.
January 28th, 2005 at 3:45 pm
Online tracking has been very profitable for the delivery services. It used to be that if they had to send a person digging thru records they actually lost money on the shipment whereas now the cost is microscopic. The USPS probably won’t do as well in this regard either.