{"id":54,"date":"2005-02-16T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:08:58","slug":"things-that-piss-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/things-that-piss-me-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that piss me off – crappy shipping companies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every other day it seems, I have to suffer an assault of stupidity in one form or another. This time around, I am suffering the foolishness of shipping companies.<\/p>\n

I send and receive packages on a regular basis … you’d figure that this common task would (and should) be a trivial thing by now … <\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Stupid shipping company #1: Canpar.<\/p>\n

When receiving packages, it is rare that I can choose the shipper. But when I do have the choice, I ask for anyone but Canpar.<\/p>\n

Why does Canpar suck?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. They only make two deliver attempts (all the others make 3) and then they’ll ship your package back.<\/li>\n
  2. They cannot give you a time of delivery during the day – they can’t even give you a ball park time!<\/li>\n
  3. They have no easy to access pickup location to get packages – unlike the post office.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    My story:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I get a delivery notice on Monday saying they missed me and that they will back Tuesday in the afternoon. So I wait all day Tuesday because if I miss this 2nd attempt, the package gets shipped back.<\/p>\n

    Tuesday comes and goes with not so much as a phone call. I call them and make arrangements for the package to come Friday. Friday comes and I wait all morning and into the afternoon, with still no word when the package will arrive, so I give them a call.<\/p>\n

    I figure that in the age of cell phones, they could call the driver and we could coordinate … nope: Canpar tells me that they can’t reach the driver! That high-tech capability (of calling drivers via cell phone,) seems is only for the local pizza delivery guy. <\/p>\n

    So I sit here waiting, wondering, if Canpar will stiff me yet again!?<\/p>\n

    The Post Office Rocks<\/strong><\/p>\n

    It’s sad to see when a government entity (the post office,) is able to provide a far superior service than a commercial entity. We all know that government is insanely wasteful and inefficient. But let me tell you, the local post office kicks most private \/commercial shipping companies asses:<\/p>\n

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    • The post office has easy to find (they give you an address on the slips) locations to pick up packages. <\/li>\n
    • Pick up locations are always close by.<\/li>\n
    • Shipping via the post office is much cheaper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      –<\/p>\n

      I wonder if I will get my package today?<\/p>\n

      Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Commercial shipping companies suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}