why is pitney bowes shipping so slow

I think Meh should know when their customers arent happy and that their Customer Support (which is always great) might be receiving an influx of messages due to their partnership with this company. Electronic Shipping Info Received Think you have a pretty sympathetic long term base, but, maybe share what is going wrong and why. The last is the one Ive mentioned before that was grapevine from the 21st, and finally got to bloomington yesterday. If you are waiting for your package from Pitney Bowes, how long have you been waiting? But USPS end up deliver it but never received packages because address labels are not legible so they end up somewhere else and I couldn't get refunds due to it said delivered. I had this problem in July. @Barney, thats good enough for me. Its just been sitting there for more than a week without an update. Fortunately the USPS daily digest is pretty good about showing packages. 12:45pm ET My PastaDrop order is taking FOREVER to arrive! But that could just be me noticing what relates to me. WHY ARE YOU TAKING IT TO TEXAS ??? Im thinking the carriers listed as agents by PB are subcontractees like independent drivers and small businesses. @scfd0766 Ive had orders hang around long enough to pick up an MBA while in College park, Ga. One hour and 3 minutes later @juststephen same here, my fun putty supposedly made it to my city and then teleported back to Royal Oak. Departed Pitney Bowes Facility Originally this was a Mothers Day gift, ordered mid-April. However, it seems most packages arrive in a reasonable time frame. It made it to a PB facility just outside of town, then disappeared for almost a month before showing up back in Texas. OK, just saying, finally got all of my mehathon orders, but weirdly deleted weird destinations, and showing shipments not moving for days in some locations and then moving within minutes to improbable locations and moving into my small town and then out of state, so, again, just saying, is this really accurate tracking? @Barney @Ignorant @narfcake @RiotDemon @sammydog01 speak of the echo chamber. Because the shipper didnt pay for it, even if UPS already did it. College Park, GA, April 26, 2020 In Transit Picked up and Processed by Agent /giphy delivered. Finally the country will be unified by universal loathing. But in recent years it has shifted to digital shipping services, including customer information . I left Meh a couple of years ago and recently decided to come back. PB does not seem to be reasonable about anything. How is that 24hours? Im a mod because I like being here. Scan delivered toss in pile @OnionSoup Its soooooo frustrating! How odd my shipping information has now been radically cleaned up. my package from the last meh-rathon still hasnt arrived! Id like to add I ordered this package on the 1st of March. Have some knowledge of how they operate? Some of the scans are automated by the computer because that is what should be happening instead of the package actually being scanned. I got 2 more of the May mehrathon orders yesterday, 2 still in limbo. hey, if we cant travel, at least our packages can. @Kidsandliz Ive now learned to check USPS for the actual tracking information. The only reason I can come up with if that you enjoy being argumentative. Arrived at Pitney Bowes Facility When I called to informed them I told them enough time has been wasted and we just need a functioning Pitney Bowes machine as our company mail is piling up. Is it really taking a month for $100 vacuums to arrive? Theyd go out of business. Mine been sitting at their facility for more than 3 weeks now in between commerce CA and Grapevine TX. Delivered to Pitney Bowes Facility 9 Reply Rhaybies 2 yr. ago I have. If you dont share the opinion of countless individuals that have had to deal with Pitney Bowes and have no skin in the game, why even comment? After the umteenth time they double charged a $5k mailing then insisted it didnt happen, and basically told me prove it, I fired them and never looked back. received meh and morningsave orders placed after pastadrop #1. i understand covid causing delays. After receiving the item in mid-May, it arrived at their Commerce, CA facility three days out of four. Newgistics gave up displaying a delivery date because PB is already past the expected date. Has anyone had any tracking updates this week? Would I pay more a month for better shipping, maybe? Come on @meh. USPS Longest transit time was 5 days after receipt by USPS (parcel shipping). (Yeah I know. Greenwood, IN @GBrunner321 @Marksvillemama hopefully you get it! On 9/29/22 I contacted Bath & Body Works, they said I have to wait until 10/4/22 before they can open up a ticket. @jbean3398 Good news of sortspackage arrive on the 27th. May 15, 2020 But have it for the convenience as not having to go to the PO and always using the correct postage saves a lot of time and grief. I placed a Morningsave order on May 28th. I have 7 packages Im waiting on from meh. I must be one of the lucky ones. 11 Supposed to be coming via Newgistics. Delivered to Pitney Bowes Facility Unfortunately Meh refunded me after 3 weeks of it being stuck in NJ. Oddly there seems to be two different website for Pitney Bowes tracking. But about the points you made: Can you explain the services at which they dont suck? You call PB and the automated answering machine will only give you the option to speak to a live person if you are calling to make a purchase. Ill take one bag of pasta per new customer who gets a membership please. The other two changed their delivery date to August-September. @RiotDemon Wait until the PastaDerps shipping fail is as bad as trying to enter the ship-to address on the website, for start-to-finish fuckery. Im sure if they use Pitney Bowes Ill never get it! @Kidsandliz I have, Im sure theyre sick of hearing from me by now. Gotta get its exercise after all the sitting around in Greenwood. They have shipped my stuff back and forth from jersey to Atlanta then down to my post office only to go back to Atlanta. 4:22pm ET Resolution If you have print issues with your red ink meter stamp, try the solutions in order. That will make 40 days from order date to delivery to an address less than 20 miles from Meh HQ. Duplicate round trips removed, etc. Plugged it in and it did not work once again, tech support walked us through changing inks, pinheads, cleaning and again not working. We contacted Pitney Bowes 5 times and spoke with various different reps. None of which could help us resolve the issue. MAY I agree that shipping for something over $50 should be better than that. I ordered 5 things on May 15, have not received even one thing yet, somethings were in NJ for over 8 days, just checked one thing hasnt even made it out of Texas yet. This will sounds like the epitome of privilege whining but it looks like my IRK from May 15 may arrive before my IRK from April 15! Finally down to 1 May mehrathon item still in transit. They just took a nap at their FDR facilities. Me? / Shipping is horrendous recently. The USPS tracking will list Arrived Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item at the same time. @mcc36 @speediedelivery @f00l @OnionSoup @RiotDemon If the container barcode doesnt get removed when it is emptied or it gets the wrong scan all the packages get incorrect updates. College Park, GA The April 15 has been in transit, or stored in Pitney Bowes storage, for more than a month now. Somewhere in Indiana, a Pitney Bowes employee is probably sleeping easy on my Meh pillows. Is hoping they improve naive? The names that keep popping up in support of one another are the same people that do it in countless other threads. @f00l they got notably worse once most of the world went into quarantine and more and more packages needed to be delivered. 2020 In my opinion the recent spate of personal attacks, some out of the blue, on multiple threads is inappropriate, works to destroy the sense of community that meh tried to develop early on and if our kids did this kind of thing wed educate them and if it continued discipline them. @mossygreen My package that traveled back to March a couple of posts above is screen cleaner too. But I do like the post office and hope it doesnt go out of business. To: . Obetz, OH Then after being drop kicked a bunch the package will limp into your neighborhood and eventually show up on your porch. I just got a shipment notice for my towelsfrom fedex. What I know for sure the claim on one of those tracking pages that it will be delivered today June 20th is not true as USPS mail has already come and USPS doesnt have it yet. @GBrunner321 @mike808 idk, Ive gotten plenty of things from ups earlier than expected. Positive reviews (last 12 months): 0%. I was hoping I wasnt the only person dealing with this. No deal is worth it if you cant get your order. Pretty pitiful if their core business of postage machines is also providing poor CS, as @ruouttaurmind informed us. The other big issue this year is voting. He gave me the number to directory assistance. @dave @OnionSoup @RiotDemon My Spaghettini was delivered undamaged lots of bubble wrap to protect it. By the time it arrives how much of if will be smashed to smitherines by the PB brutes? The customer service is completely worthless. The doors open and what do we see? May 12, 2020 @bmf @Kidsandliz @mike808 Even then, backgammon was such a confrontational game, the bane of a civilized society. MAY Aint what it used to be, shipping was never an issue. And sometimes these people deeply hate dealing with P-B; The package took 3 days to get into United States/California from china but the nightmare started as soon as Pitney Bowes got the item, in CA warehouse the package froze froze 2 days and to Indiana warehouse took 4 days!! Or from someone at Meh who deals with them. 3:03pm ET More like Pitney Blowes!! Googling Pitney Bowes news I find several recent articles indicating that theyve been hacked repeatedly. Delivered to Pitney Bowes Facility People are finding this topic by searching Google about how horrible Pitney Bowes is lately, so they might not all be speaking about purchases from Meh or the related sites. I wish I could go to the Pitney Bowes place in New Jersey and ask for it already. Press J to jump to the feed. If I am not mistaken, PayPal dumped Pitney Bowes at the same time that eBay picked them up. 1996-2023 Pitney Bowes Inc. All rights reserved. CTY OF CMMRCE, CA This is one of the reasons why Pitney Bowes packages arrive on time to their destinations. Since the USPS increase in June to dimensional pricing for priority, the Pitney Bowes software has also applied that to online parcel ground shipping. @kevinrs Took 29 days to get to the right city and then they decided to move it back westward by one full MSA later that same day (yesterday). They said they should habe delivered to me long ago. I bought an item that said delivery by June 21st. I mean, its been 54 days since I placed the order. after a 40 min. I recall tales of packages being transferred back and forth between two depots because the Wooter lived right in between the two and each depot treated the other one as the closer one before last mile. Ship farther, faster and cheaper with the USPS. I never minded the 7-10 days but 5 weeks for destroyed/missing, wait up to 2 weeks for CS reply, wait for refund and then still end up purchasing the item elsewhere 2 months down the road from original order date for more money because its something you wanted and didnt getits a recipe for business disaster. Looking at tracking info for orders shipped before any pandemic imposed employment sanctions had taken effect, there is a carrier listed as Agent according to the Pitney Bowes info. MAY 21 2020 There is only so much that can be done when there is a pandemic that is slowing down shipping. 3:28pm ET Actually it seems like PB may leave the package on the truck if the warehouse is full, and the truck goes back across the country and fills back up. Both orders showed delivered to the dreaded Greenwood, IN depot on June 9th with no further activity. I was asking in the hope of hearing from someone connected to the logistics industry. @Raider Congrats! So where are they located?! All my pastas live in Texas, Grapevine, TX! @hisgrossness Because WineDavid (Wine Country Connect and Casemates) care about delivering a perishable product. Ive come to expect hilariously bad shipping from meh, yet I still shop here. Ill show you how long it took for a package that Im currently waiting for to arrive: Arrived Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item. PITNEY BOWES HAPPENED! WTF are they doing in freight ??? point of view of the original poster; other people chimed in with @narfcake @Willijs3 Most of the complaints I see about shipping are for five dollar crap and cheap drones. Shit in one hand, hope in the other? Interesting note: the tracking info shows the post office operating 24 hours a day with early a.m. timestamps, but all the Pitney Bowes updates are from between 6 a.m and 6 p.m. @carl669 Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarl!!! Ill just file a complaint with PayPal and try to get my money back. August 5, 2020 It took 8 days, but yesterday my IRK changed status to Delivered to Pitney Bowes Facility, whatever that is supposed to mean considering it was already at the regional SoCal PB facility. My more recent orders appear to be getting to California in just a few days, so thats hopeful. @wineplus PB is a minimum cost shipper, and as such, I think they had minimum margins to absorb the recent issues. /giphy agents are gone. @Bingo Well hopefully eventually meh (and etc.) At some point it would be nice to get what I actually ordered instead of a refund. Martin of Lawndale, CA Verified Reviewer. @sammydog01 I usually only buy the cheap stuff, so I cant speak to the shipping time on high dollar items. Come on people. @membrr Yeah, but which time was it picked up in Texas? One of the nice things that Pitney Bowes seems to be doing for Meh is physically shipping the delivery confirmation back to the sender through the delivery network. As I looked through the numerous reviews online, I didnt find a single thing people were happy with. When and if you finally do, it's clear that it has been farmed out to some third world country and they are just reading from a script. Ive complained way too many times to no avail. Pitney Bowes is an awful company. In Transit Mine says it was delivered to a Pitney Bowes location in my town on April 30never got itand I have two things coming pitney bowesdont have high hopes of getting themIll cry if my irk is sent that way. After a buyout Meh inherited PB. In Transit Fed Ex Ground, anticipate 5 days transit, arrived on 6th day. All Rights Reserved. Each day since, in the afternoon I get a notice that its delayed to the next day. If you dont mind answering, which state do you live in? They changed mine retroactively to take out most of the wandering around, round trips If it is accurate they sure could save a lot of money not sending them on round trips multiple times. One appears to have arrived at USPS Studio City by mistake today, after being at Bloomington since the 30th As for opinions for the apparently uninformed (which includes me) those opinions are just our individual opinions. Ordering supplies 28 Are you enjoying your time here? When your phone charger manufactured in 2012 is ordered in 2020 on meh expect to receive it in 2035. I have zero official knowledge. 5:47pm ET Not as mad as Id be if I bought it from amazon. shipping. Its ridiculous. I bought 4 things during the last mehrathon. Packages from meh are usually, in my experience, too small to just throw in the back of a trailer, so Im guessing theyre probably put into crates which are then put into the trailer. mediocre was fun. Arrived at Pitney Bowes Facility Anybody ever ordered cheap stuff on Wish? I also have a package stuck sitting still at the pitney bowes facility in grapevine texas I dont understand!! Im not getting my Ray Bans before my mid-July vacation, am I? May 15, 2020 Youre the smartest person here and everyone that doesnt agree with you is dumb - we get it. As a result there likely were/are some changes from even a year ago. One place I can see where money might be saved whatever shipper is used is consolidating shipments when possible. Smyrna, TN, April 27, 2020 Normally it will say Out for Delivery once USPS has had it a day or 2 but Nothing. 2020 May 20, 2020 4:46pm ET But if you have tried some of the competition, you might wind up coming back to P-B. - horrible customer service I do have to say that in the past Ive occasionally seen weirdness from UPS. UPS and I guess most shippers dropped their on time guarantees back in March, and none of them seem to have in place processes to put already delayed packages at the front of the line. Most places could not handle the volume if home delivery stopped. @thewynner no one is trying to drown out anyone, otherwise this whole topic wouldve just been deletedand that would be inept. Where is arrives in and then is received at days apart Then it arrives in the same city a week later and bounces between those two statuses Then it magically jumps across the country and back in the space of thirty minutes. I said I bought two and one will get an item and the other wont. You want the one that asks for tracking number not package number. No movement in the past 18 days. I called the company I ordered the gift from, theyre shipping me another one, should be here the 20th. but sometimes work with them. @kjts It looks like you wont get yours since your profile history doesnt show that youve order anything. Only place safe to order is casemates. Signing out of the PitneyShip Mobile App. See quotes from top insurers on Simply Business. I forgot to post last Friday but wanted to give my weekly update! After thinking about why Im not mad I think I figured out why: where else can you openly bitch about the hilariously bad shipping and not have it taken down/have e company go all PC on you? I have had 1 order refunded and my second order has been stuck for a week. Regarding P-B postal machines: We allow for some delays in shipping, but this is unacceptable! My shirt spent about 3 days in actual transit. Could you use the shattered pasta pieces in. Mine is still exactly the same as when I made my original complaint Been sitting at the Pitney Bowes facility since 5:30am EST on May 15th the Pitney Bowes facility is less than a mile from my house. My pasta is going to be completely dry by the time it reaches me at this rate. Ill ignore the top of your post since the whole, sigh. thing is just another example of the way the Meh message board frequent fliers like to treat other people. The suspense is (not) killing me. DON'T. How does a company survive operating in this manner? Not the worlds biggest problem, but no, never ordering again until Pitney-Bowes is dumped. 4:33pm ET So by my experience. Grapevine, TX I ordered two packages of clothing- one order was made 28 days ago. Verified purchase: Yes . I also have a package stuck at the same facility. Now it Says: Estimated delivery Mon, Jul 8 Why is GSP so slow? just give me my fing money back or get my thing that i paid for here already. Greenwood, IN In the event that eBay or Pitney Bowes conclude that any such information that you specify is inaccurate upon processing the Parcel at the U.S. I literally could have hand-delivered it faster. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use, Daily Deals & Community for the Cynical Consumer, Baaaaaaa'd Behavior (March 2023 Scapegoat Blame Thread), Power Practical Luminoodle Under Cabinet Lights (3-Pack or 6-Pack), SideDeal Daily: 2-Pack: Odec 10000mAh Power Bank with Wall Plug & Integrated Cables, http://tracking.smartlabel.com/default.aspx, https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track/YOURTRACKINGNUMBER, 188 comments, But this is where your response returns to my clique is never wrong so it must be the original poster that did something wrong when in fact, one of your little buddies/trolls posted the comment that started this long string on responses. to support that point of view so far so good, Because topics on meh are discussion topics, just like normal Internet June 1st for the irkthe speaker left CT on April 30thI ended up getting a refund on itbut in the meh tracking system it shows delivered to Pitney Bowes location in NH on April 30thwhich it may or may not have been it just never made it here. On my various packages ordered on the 15th, none have arrived, meh is estimating delivery Tuesday May 26-Thursday May 28 on all of them. Tracking says it finally made it to Chicago and pre-shipment info has been sent to USPS but it hasnt moved for over a week now. This is worthy of a Pulitzer prize for tracking- I love how many times it got picked up in Georgia. Considering the pandemic, I dont think thats too bad, but it is much slower than most every order Ive made in the past (usually less than a week ). I can think of several huge national businesses that had lousy CS and then died a slow death, as opposed to companies that have thrived on a rep of good CS, such as Amazon & Meh. JUN Of last 4 items ordered, 2 came smashed and broken, 1 was non-functional and now thisempty. @wineplus My sister had I think a 15 day delay with UPS. Its a shame, especially since I specifically came to morningsave to buy it rather than going through Amazon or some other company. will figure out how to use a better shipper without breaking the bank for everyone. 7:10pm ET - long wait times @Barney @benjaMEHn @Ignorant @narfcake @sammydog01 we dont want to learn anything here. Im not super frustrated at the speed of delivery, I just want to see progress and consistency. Re P-B and the question about whether things might improve. 7:31pm ET @benjaMEHn I expect @Barney meant you could learn something from @narfcake. Wonder if someone will buy pitney bowes and it will flip back to a delivery company instead of a black hole that only eats product, but spits out the cardboard? Carrier pigeon? 6:42pm ET My most recent purchase shows FedEx for tracking - did Meh change carriers? Must be some kind of time travel that got caught in a wrinkle in time. If so how did you reach them? meh. You knowinducted into OnionSoupstopped at stomach for three days returned to esophagusentering lower bowelreturned to stomachexited system with slight damage. @sammydog01 I got something equally convoluted. Google maps says that trip takes 3 hours and 51 minutes. @Cerridwyn at least yours appears to be moving, mines 11 days in transit at grapevine. @admiralpoopants @Raider Ive had them sit in a warehouse for two weeks and then all of a sudden it zipped along to my house passing through other warehouses quickest. Curious if this package took a steam boat up the Mississippi. It even shows its been in my city since April 28th. @Barney Seriously? Pitney Bowes has a consumer rating of 1.14 stars from 142 reviews indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. No way that I could figure out to talk with a human. @Barney @benjaMEHn @f00l @Kidsandliz @mike808 @narfcake @sammydog01 people can disagree here, there is no rule against that. So the good news from this: this might be a temporary glitch. It was inducted on the 13th, and had 5 scans on the 13th, 5 scans on the 15th, and single scans on the 17th, 20th, 21st and 22nd before being handed off to USPS. @chellemonkey @loudersoft It doesnt start with USPS so they wont list as having it until the dead turtle PB uses to ship actually drop it off at the Post Office. I ordered an Item from overseas. waco is 113 miles from the warehouse. See all photos. Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global shipping and mailing company that provides technology, logistics, and financial. Sorry meh. May 20, 2020 My whole point was basically, if you dont have anything nice, dont say it all. In this case, if you dont have a problem with Pitney Bowes, thats completely fine, but why chime in just to say that others are stupid for being disappointed with their service? NM, DEMING, 88030, Picked up and Processed by Agent, 2020-08-07 23:43 Seems like Im not the only one playing the waiting game. @Kidsandliz uh, theyre here. I dialed it the first time and was told I had won $100 Walmart gift card and press any key. Be aware this company is manipulating their customers by changing Delivery ETA consistently, a package from China should get to me in 12 days, means Jan 9th, now 15 days and no sign when it will be delivered. I dont think I saw any complaining. Apparel e-tailer Ezee-Source has found a way to keep its biker customers happy while throttling back costs with a free Pitney Bowes account on the ecomdash ecommerce platform. Picked Up is the lie with USPS or with pitney bowes? Prior to that it is wherever PB hauls it (or not).

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