Last week I got an email that part my frame order was shipping and it gave me a tracking number. It was coming via Fed Ex so I didn’t pay much attention to it but after a couple of days, I clicked on the tracking number and this is what I found:
I’m not even sure where Custom Frame Solutions is located but I was pretty sure they weren’t located in Brownwood. The package left Brownwood, went to Abilene, followed the normal route from Brownwood to Webb City.
I thought maybe I accidentally put the old address on the order so I looked back at the order. Nope, Missouri address for shipping and billing. I had never ordered a frame from them using the Brownwood address.
The package arrived yesterday and the shipping label was original. Shipped from Custom Frame Solutions, Virginia (I think — it was an eastern state for sure) to my address in Missouri.
Explain that! The tracking info looks like it originated in Brownwood. It doesn’t say it left Virginia, ended up in Brownwood, got re-routed to Missouri. Totally makes no sense at all.
Joyce says
I think a lot of packages tour the country on the way to their destination! LOL It’s probably a matter of where the airplane is headed and if it’s close to where its final destination is supposed to be.
Judy Laquidara says
This one appears to have actually been shipped from Brownwood but I got another box of frames from the same company and it showed it was shipped from somewhere near Dallas so I have no idea. I’m wondering if they don’t get the orders in and then bid them out to be fulfilled.
Nelle Coursey says
There is a Frame Solutions here in Brownwood. It used to belong to the Wall family, but they sold it several years ago. It was TWT molding. They sold frames all over the world. If you go down CC Woodson to the Harlow Overpass (377), there will be a stop sign there. There is a building to the right that is cream colored brick. That is where the warehouse is located. It is right behind Howard Payne. They did not sell to the public. So you do have a frame that was made here!! LOL That is funny!
Judy Laquidara says
Isn’t that funny? I was talking to my friend who told me about the online frame shop and she said one of hers came from Brownwood too so all orders must be placed through a central location and then they bid or something. I have no idea but I’ve received probably a dozen frames and that’s the first one that came from Brownwood.
Nelle Coursey says
I bet they are all one company and if one place doesn’t have the one you ordered, they will check the other places to see if it is in stock there. Or it could be a bid process. We went to Arkansas once and were in North Little Rock. We went to a antique shop and they had feather dusters that were manufactured in BWD. In fact my mom worked there for years. The Carpenters owned it and they sold it. The new owners moved the manufacturing to Mexico and closed down this one. It was the only one in the US. We bought that one because it was made in BWD and it was the good Ostrich feathers. Big fluffy one! When we were kids we would go behind the plant and pick up feathers everywhere. They were all different colors. My mom would come home and she would be a different color every day. She had to take a bath every night!