The Miss Babs package still has not arrived. The way things seem to work, or are supposed to work, is our mail goes to Kansas City, KS, then to our town. This package has taken the scenic route:
- Once it got to KC, I thought it would be here the next day but instead, it went to MA.
- From there, it went to NH. Sat there a day or so.
- Ended up back in KC so I expected it to be out for delivery today.
- Nope, it ended up in Springfield, MO.
Good grief. There’s a test knit waiting on this package and I think we’re getting to the date where there’s no physical way it can be done on time. Can’t knit without yarn!
The project has to be knit using Miss Babs’ yarn. I have maybe three totes of yarn I can get to and none of them are Miss Babs’ yarn so . . I wait!
Tee says
I had a package go back and forth from the recipients post office back to mine about 7 times. Our mail clerk said it looked like the machines couldn’t read the zip code, so it kept getting returned to sender, then someone in our mail facility would intercept it then send it back to the recipient. It finally took our post master to get it taken out of the machine sorting system and have it hand sorted to the recipient. That was a 20 day ordeal.
Judy Laquidara says
That is so crazy. I can’t even imagine how they get all the packages delivered as well as they do but when something happens like this, you have to wonder how it happens.
Dot says
When we lived in a small mountain town 30 miles from Fresno, CA, I sent a Palm Pilot in for repair. It was under warranty, so they sent a replacement overnight via Airborne Express. Airborne didn’t deliver to the mountains; they just took packages to a local Fresno copy shop, who reshipped them to the final destination via UPS. But UPS sent my package to somewhere like Chicago, where they eventually discovered the error, and sent it back. Since it had been shipped UPS Ground by the copy shop, that’s the way it came back across the country – on a freight train! That last 30 miles took about two weeks. Palm refused to use any other shipper, so I learned that I had to tell them to send Airborne packages to be held at Airborne’s airport distribution center for me to pick them up.
Don’t you wish your Miss Babs package could tell you what happened – if it ever arrives?
Chris says
Yup, I had a package like that from King Arthur. It left Virginia and went to Maryland, then to West Virginia, and Ohio. From there it made it further west to Indiana, and then what?? It went to Pennsylvania, then back to Indiana and then to New York! What, what, what?? Then to New Jersey where it stayed for four days. I live in Idaho! At this point I called King Arthur. Was I ever going to see my silicone rolling? They said they’d send me another two day air. To cut a long story short, both arrived on the same day two weeks later. Arrggghh! At least they told me to gift the second one and not to bother sending it back.