Just curious – what’s up with those Amazon orders when the delivery tracker starts reporting that they are bouncing back and forth between a facility near me and a facility hundreds or thousands of miles away? By the time they have bounced half a dozen times, I give up, cancel the order, and order the same item from a different seller on Amazon (if one is available). But I’m curious what keeps going wrong, and why their software doesn’t recognize this condition and flag it for human intervention. This has happened to me a few times, and to my spouse too.
Sometimes a third party seller (Not me. Certainly not me.) will reuse a shipping carton that may have an old shipping label on the opposite side of the box from the new label. Thus, the never ending journey begins. Okay. I did it once…that I know of.
May I ask what it is that you ordered, and if it only happens with those certain orders? It’s never happened to me before.
Is not moving considered an infinite loop? I have twice had products get reported as being in the main warehouse ready to be trucked out to me that never moved.
That’s usually just the label becoming unreadable or detached from the shipment.
I’ve never seen the OP’s thing happen. I’ve seen zig-zag routes that seem to make no sense, but not a closed loop. I average ~5 packages a week from Amazon & other e-vendors and have for about a decade now, so my sample size isn’t huge, but it isn’t just a handful either.
If the OP’s order(s) is being shipped by somebody other than Amazon’s in-house courier service, then the question is better directed to that shipper, UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.
Now why their systems don’t detect a package loop is a separate question. Although if one of your “infinite” loops has ever terminated, then the situation was resolved somehow, even if just because the package finally fell apart from all the abuse in the shipping machinery.
@dogbutler works in a shipping company sorting center. They might be willing to give some insight into just how chaotic and quantity-first, quality-last that industry is.
The item that just did this was a new camera lens, “seller Verymodel, ships from Amazon”. Unfortunately I don’t remember for the earlier ones. The replacement is from the AstrHori store, also ships from Amazon, and it reports “Out for delivery”, which never happens in the loops.
By the way, I live 3 miles from an Amazon warehouse. It’s uncanny when something gets delivered 3 or 4 hours after I order it, not even requesting rapid delivery.
We order a LOT of stuff from Amazon, and this has never happened. But it does happen pretty often with UPS.
Yep.
Amazon ships a bunch of stuff via UPS. Or, perhaps more accurately, the smaller shop operators that sell through Amazon and do their own fulfilment often use UPS as their carrier. The stuff you buy that comes directly from Amazon itself or a 3rd party seller using Amazon for fulfillment has a much greater, and ever increasing, likelihood of going via Amazon’s own delivery system.
True. But I dont consider that “Amazon Shipping” , which is their own shipping service.
Now that you’ve posted that, I wonder if the issue is rather than finding the shortest route (distance, time, cost; whatever the metric) at the beginning they do it as it is being shipped like what is the shortest distance to the next depot closer to the endpoint. Obviously not as simple as that but an algorithm that for edge cases results in an endless loop or a package unable to move.
I quite agree. Amazon shipping is not necessarily used when you’re Amazon shopping. This bit just below suggested to me that you thought a purchase made on Amazon would never travel by UPS; It seemed you were saying those were mutually exclusive.
Seems I misunderstood. All good.
I could have been more clear, for sure. Worst thing with AMAZON in-house shipping is when both my neighbor and I have a delivery and he got my stuff and I got his- easily fixed. UPS has delivered to not only a different town, but a different county.
I have a few items that get delivered that way. Freaky!