/giphy Top. May 20, 2020 Id imagine people with the long waits and crazily routed shipments are in rural or less densely populated areas. Seven days later this seems bad, regardless of the value of the order. Not sure how that could ever have been considered accurate! meh at least refunded me. Picked Up Also seen similar with getting smartpost to USPS, where UPS says it was delivered to USPS for a couple of days in a row. Arrived at Pitney Bowes Facility forums, and therefore these topics are not topics limited to only the (I can only see a small part of it though). Seems the FAQ got changed to something much more generic recently. Start shipping easily and quickly. USPS had put a received damaged sticker on it and taped it shut. But in recent years it has shifted to digital shipping services, including customer information . The Cancel Shipment API allows you to cancel the shipment and refund the money spent on the shipment. Another place on their site gives two packages with the same tracking number - and get this - they have conflicting information!!! Googling Pitney Bowes news I find several recent articles indicating that theyve been hacked repeatedly. Post purchase experience Create a better post-purchase experience with Pitney Bowes and the USPS. My mediocre socks were the best. In the past I was told it would be delivered to me (I think is was these two dates) June 16th and June 17th. They have shipped my stuff back and forth from jersey to Atlanta then down to my post office only to go back to Atlanta. There are more worthy charities I can donate to. I have had items I ordered May 15th that have not been delivered as of June 30th. I just got a package today that only took a week and a half. PASTA!!! @bmjones7514 I have a package stuck there too, whats funny is a couple things shipped after that one have also gone through Grapevine without issue and didnt bing the other one with them. meh. 1 jhp0210 2 yr. ago Thanks for clarifying. From what I can tell of the pastadrop box looking at it through the doorbell can, it looks in one piece and undamaged. They just pushed the delivery date 4 more days. To: Little Rock, AR but now it looks a lot like @kevinrs image above. 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. @stcsmi231 What happens is that you are told to contact the sender and then it hangs up on you. 2020-08-10 22:30 I live in a metropolitan area, so that probably has a lot to do with fast shipping. PB is not the only shipper Ive had issues with lately. That one day I got 5 of my 9 orders, the rest have been sitting in transit somewhere all this time. Then it will go on vacation in various other parts of the country. Carrollton, TX. But I do like the post office and hope it doesnt go out of business. @mike808 @sammydog01 no. For years I chased that dragon, trying to find something closer to home that compared, with no success. Thank the lord and lady, Maybe someone in the know ( @snapster ) can come speak of this issue. Meh packages arrive when they arrive. I called Pitney Bowes trying to locate the package and they told me I have to contact Bath & Body Works to inquire about it. It was some phone company I had never heard of that either you press one to sign up for service or stay on the line and get transferred to an automated directory assistance system. Or of they were audited for SOX compliance? I am also having issues with Pitney bowes. hey @snapster - can I walk over there and pick it up. If it doesnt arrive soon, Im going to reject it and make USPS return it to Meh, hopefully charging Meh for the service. I hear ya Then the best part was they went back and sanitized the shipping record. And fun. Then he tried to tell me they only provide shipping software they dont actually move packages then 2 sentences later he said they delivered it to USPS which is it you do or dont ship? They closed the restaurant and opened a damn cafeteria. Clever Pitney Bowes. Something that wasn ' t perfect but it wasn ' t broken USPS would still associate with. One place to track my package says no package with that tracking number. Oddly, the one above, was signed in twice to the same city, but how the city is displayed appears different, Departed Pitney Bowes Facility CA, COMMERCE, 90040-3416, Departed Pitney Bowes Facility, 2020-08-07 07:02 Grapevine, TX I think for $4.99 a month we are getting a pretty good deal here and on the other Mercatalyst sites. And, also agree, the shipping information keeps changing. Arrived AND Departed PB facility Greenwood, IN on September 20. Today I received a long awaited MorningSave order. By comparison, a set of $39 Morningsave sheets ordered on the 19th somehow went out FedEx on the 22nd and is scheduled to arrive on the 29th, which is pretty routine for these shipments. In Transit The BEST part is when I try to complain about Pitney Bowes shipping Im redirected to the UK Pitney Bowes website - Really? On June 24th, it was Picked up and Processed by Agent with my town location. @kcface No way to contact them. Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI), a global shipping and mailing company that provides technology, logistics, and financial services, today announced the Pitney Bowes Launches PitneyShip Pro 3:03pm ET And USPS still says waiting for PB. I do have to say that in the past Ive occasionally seen weirdness from UPS. @Bingo Sitting in a PB facility for several weeks or more is pretty normal at this point. I just got a shipment notice for my towelsfrom fedex. OK, I sent a message to customer service about the worst one: that hasnt been scanned in 17 days. The USPS tracking will list Arrived Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item at the same time. @irishdragonles So China bought Carrolton, TX? One appears on meh to have bounced from Texas to Indiana and back, and wow, I check tracking on pitney bowes directly and. That is who sold the sausages. @mcc36 Pitney Bowes is the one that uploads the tracking, not meh. Then all the packages in and waiting to get in that facility are stuck and may sit and eventually get rerouted even back where they came from. I read it back. Ship Confidently via the USPS | Pitney Bowes. 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? Delivered to Pitney Bowes Facility No update since then. Hopefully meh will track problems and think about switching companies if your experience is the common one. FAQ. It did show up the following Tuesday for delivery Wednesday. Optimize your ecommerce operations. Also: 3 Would much rather had the item I paid for than wasting weeks waiting on it. AUG They just took a nap at their FDR facilities. Then in transit to some unknown location. The first one is there is no actual post office with my actual zip code. Im also guessing meh packages dont get their own crates, so theyre probably crammed in there with packages from other businesses. I just wanted some damn regret but this is the least thing from instant. Royal Oak, MI Unsubscribe easily. Well now the site says shipping is delayed 10+ days. I never worry about all this, within my own life re Meh. SAY WHAT??? (and i hate it when you crop and the crop goes away). 9:26pm ET Shipped may 18 and it might be here around June(ish). They cant afford to eat it over and over again. UPS has gotten bad in the past 3 weeks too. @mcc36 I think the weirdness on the tracking is coming purely from the shipping company: Pitney Bowes. How long do you have to wait? @banksnld Picked up and Processed by Agent is literally a nothing update that is false language by PB. Grapevine, TX Heaven help them if they actually had to find where a package really was. A reminder that not all posts here are about orders from Meh. @Barney haha nah I dont think theyd ever find their way here. yeah, they can fuck up horribly. May 23, 2020 Inducted into Pitney Bowes Network According to Meh shipping, it shipped from Carrolton, TX on May 14th and arrived at the partner facility in Little Rock, AR on May 15th. 8:38am ET @lichme liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich! This makes sense - Texas shares a border with Arkansas so the shipment should be relatively quick. After that, so the packages overlords dont eventually find out, they will delete most of the vacation history. Dont want to bother the nice folks at CS but wow. @narfcake I started buying from woot in 2004 and I dont remember anything about the shipping process back then, but starting in 2009 I would track my packages, which would go right past me from Texas to St. Louis, then back to Kansas City, then down to where I live in southwest Missouri. Below are the longest time intervals I have experienced so far from the main shipping services after the product was shipped: Next image. By entering your email, you agree to sign up for consumer news, tips and giveaways from ConsumerAffairs. Although I must admit that the wheel had not yet been invented. Picked up and Processed by Agent 2020 Last sighting was in my own town on June 30th. And if they had said that the t item would be delivered by June 15th (for example) I wouldnt complain. If P-Bs services were a universal clusterfuck all the time, there would be constant shipping probs and I hate P-B topics ever since the switch that happened. It finally arrived in Lansing, MI THIS MORNING, a month later, with an expected delivery date of tomorrow. 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. And per the USPS, the package is still in Indiana. I got 2 more of the May mehrathon orders yesterday, 2 still in limbo. May 12, 2020 Weeks? Once @RiotDemon replied to you, youre in it. 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. Your wait is now 50% over then. Does PB eventually send it? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. On PB site its replaced everything but its arrival in California today, and on USPS there are just 3 lines: Carrolton May 18, Grapevine May 19, Departed Grapevine May 26. I dont recall the URL, I just know I originally went to the wrong one, @ELUNO @OnionSoup https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track/YOURTRACKINGNUMBER. I dont think USPS has received the packages yet. It assumes the scan was missed and fills it in. Pitney Bowes has had my husbands tactical vest in Grapevine, TX since June 20, 2020. 2:10pm ET APR @MrFred Im was hanging out on the Mediocre forum (under a different ID), almost a year before Meh even started. I think I will pass on meh or any of their cos until a different shipping co is used. Delivered to Pitney Bowes Facility We allow for some delays in shipping, but this is unacceptable! mediocre was fun. COVID-19 appears to have ruined the Hertz rental cars business; could Pitney Bowes be another victim, or have they been performing poorly since before the pandemic? By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. 3:54pm ET @benjaMEHn I ordered three things from China within the last month. The tracking number does seem to work with USPS too though It just wont show you anything before the last few days before delivery The first month or so of shipping you have to look at Pitney Bowes website for info. Maybe Ill start searching for knock-offs of the items Im interested in on one of those sites before ordering here. This is also frustrating me to no end. I wouldnt be surprised if some of these low priority crates are loaded at the front end of the trailer and just ride along while higher priority packages are driven between Texas and Indiana just because its easier and quicker to not unload the entire trailer. Enjoy reading our tips and recommendations. Last night suddenly it moved. 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. Its fine with me if some people think that P-B is universally horrible and will never improve. 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. While I dont like Pitney Bowes and do yearn for the good old days of being able to track the FedEx packages, the cost of shipping has gone up and its going to go higher. I was just trying to find some information on Pitney Bowes. Find the order you're interested in. I have three packages that are sitting on Pitney Bowes facility for about two weeks, thats why I asked. I received one on June 7th. Label Created @Marksvillemama hopefully you get it! MAY After a buyout Meh inherited PB. 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