Waiting for delivery

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I have read several threads lately or posts within a thread about people who are anxious for their products to arrive.

I urge all to be a bit more patient.

Most people start complaining in 3-5 days from the order date.

Unless you paid for 2nd day delivery, next day air delivery, or 3 day delivery from FedEx or UPS, you simply have to wait a reasonable amount of time til it arrives.

If you chose regular shipping, even at 3-5 BUSINESS days, it can arrive in 6 or 7, as it is “usually ships in 3-5 business days”, then allow a day or two for delivery.

Even THEN, and IF they have it in immediate stock, it can take them a day or so to process/pack and ship your order depending on what time of day/day of the week your order was placed. If the item is one they have to order because it is physically not in their presence but they order then deliver to you it is a few more days…

Many of us are old enough to remember when “allow 4-6 WEEKS for delivery” meant waiting 4-6 actual weeks for delivery!!!

Now everybody wants it on their door step the day after they place the order or they start calling or emailing, and wondering if it was a good business outfit they dealt with. Most are good outfits!

I urge all to Be a little more patient.

I was recently a bit impatient myself with a shipment from Hawaii that took the slow boat over then ground from CA to NY, it took 3.5 weeks of the “4-6 weeks for delivery”. That is about as far and as slow as you can get while ordering in the USA and shipping in the USA.

With xmas shopping season starting, there are bound to be more delays, no matter what anyone promises…

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Good post.

Although, when I order from Trainworld, I have gotten accustomed to having my trains on my doorstep the next day, even with the lowest cost shipping. Sometimes, the truck schedules just work in your favor. Of course, for every case where that happens, there are probably a dozen others where they work against you.

A while back, I ordered some items from Musket Miniatures. A couple of days later, I got an e-mail from them advising me that I had fat-fingered the Zip Code, but they didn’t notice the error until they got the paperwork back from the Post Office. Instead of Bedford, MA, I had typed in the Zip Code for Rancho Cucamunga, CA. Now, if you had asked me, I would have said that Rancho Cucamunga was a fictitious city made up by Mad Magazine. As it turns out, it’s a place where the Post Office promptly corrects such errors and sends them on to their rightful recipients. So, thanks to the USPS and Jim at Musket Miniatures, my story had a happy ending.

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It took BLI four months to get my Q2 repaired and returned to me. I had other things to keep me busy in the meantime. I almost forgot about the engine until it showed up one day. I can’t imagine fretting hourly from the second week on. [:^)]

Most of my purchases, when they happen, come from the USA. They take a minimum of 8 days.

Crandell

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Immediately I hit the “Send” button on my email to my online distributor I immediately repair to the front porch and wait for the next UPS truck to drive past my domicile.

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I have the same experience with wholesaletrains.com. If they have it listed as “next day” for shipping out an item and I order it one day, it is usually on my doorstep the next. If the item is listed as “available” for shipping then they have to order it in, but often I still get it in 3-5 business days cheapest regular shipping.

ONce I ordered in the very A of M and it was on my doorstep that evening!!! I can’t complain on that one !!!

[8-|]

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Oh, BTW,

I recieved a virus warnign about UPS/FEDEX shipping emails:

AND I GOT ONE TODAY- I opened it thinking nothing of it BUT I DIDN"T CLICK THE LINK THEY WANTED ME TO AND CERTAINLY DIDN’T PRINT ANYTHING so I don’t know if I got infected or not we’ll find out!

The newest virus circulating is the UPS/Fed Ex Delivery Failure.

WARNING

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Galaxy - thanks for the heads-up!

One place which I ordered from had a link within the shipper’s delivery notice that let me track my package from their door (in Memphis) to mine - so the location of my parcel was never in doubt. It moved right along, following a route I had used at close to the speed I could cover it in my pickup. Still, it took several days - and that was without any delays or problems.

Unfortunately, too many people forget that there are a lot of miles between hither and yon, and that ground transportation has to obey traffic laws. Unless you specify (and pay for) quick delivery, you won’t get it. First class mail travels by air. Parcels usually don’t.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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If you are waiting on anything from ‘Historical Rail’… 3-4 months would be a good guess as how long it would take to receive anything…

I have found them to be horribly s-l-o-w