Micro-shipment-managing

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I wonder if the shipping companies all regret the invention or tracking number web sites? Micro-managing customers (like almost but not quite me) must drive them batty.

For example, the large hardware order I made on Tuesday has already shipped (yay!) in three separate boxes, with three separate tracking numbers. So I can see where each component is. And Purolator provides such detail that I can see when each boc was picked up, when it left Vancouver, and when it became "In Transit." As a ground order, I'm not sure what else I'll see before it gets local.

The problem is this:
- Box #1 became "In Transit" four minutes after leaving Vancouver.
- Box #2 became "In Transit" four minutes after leaving Vancouver.
- Box #3 has left Vancouver, but is not yet "In Transit."

Follow the excitement here.

What does it all mean?!?

Comments

[ex-halfwitte432.livejournal.com]

It means the companies eventually outsource the people who answer the phones when the customers call, and people like me get more jobs.