Canterbury Tales?

[jar]

So I have a small order coming from Midway via UPS but the tracking information seems somewhat confusing.

Granted, I'm old and so likely not as bright or quick witted as I once thought I was but still this has been more difficult for me than reading the Canterbury Tales in Middle English.

10/22/2022
5:10 A.M. Departed UPS Facility
Kansas City, MO, United States

10/22/2022
4:37 A.M. Package received for processing
Fontana, CA, United States

10/22/2022
3:17 A.M. Package processed
Kansas City, MO, United States

10/22/2022
12:51 A.M. Package received for processing
Kansas City, MO, United States

10/22/2022
12:50 A.M. Shipment tendered to UPS Mail Innovations
Kansas City, MO, United States

10/22/2022
12:00 A.M. Shipment tendered to UPS Mail Innovations
Long Beach, CA, United States

10/10/2022
11:49 P.M. Package received for processing
Kansas City, MO, United States

10/10/2022
7:00 P.M. Shipment tendered to UPS Mail Innovations
Columbia, MO, United States​

Is UPS actually using teleportation and does Scotty really have the system under control?

Can hider bæ callede ain progressfōre-dēde?

 

[Smaug]

Seems like in KC, they think the quickest way from KC to TX is via CA, but when it gets to CA, they disagree.

I hope it gets sorted for you soon!

 

[Chevelle SS]

I sold a reloading press to a member here from SE Michigan to ND. Took 20 some days and traveled all over the Midwest and Appalachia before finally arriving.

 

[Buzznrose]

I think the OP’s point was there are two different states (and a lot of actions) for the same date (22 Oct)

 

[unclenunzie]

It's all very clear to me now... You must leave... In two days...

https://www.ups.com/us/en/supplychain/solutions/mail-innovations.page

 

[jar]

I think the OP’s point was there are two different states (and a lot of actions) for the same date (22 Oct)

And they moved the package from Kansas City all the way to Long Beach in just 11 minutes.

That's about as expedited as shipping can get.

 

[Speedo66]

Taking into consideration different time zones, but still...

 

[Riomouse911]

Yeeesh! You may have single handedly uncovered Bidens “supply chain issues” excuses for his 10% inflation numbers with this!

But seriously, in this case it looks like a computer snafu, maybe a misread bar code or similar blip confused their system and made it look like the box was teleporting from time zone to time zone.

Hopefully it gets to you soon.

Stay safe.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

To err is human but to really screw things up requires a computer...

 

[jdc1244]

the Canterbury Tales in Middle English.

It’s actually computer-speak in the 21st Century.

 

[Outlaw75]

Yeeesh! You may have single handedly uncovered Bidens “supply chain issues” excuses for his 10% inflation numbers with this!

But seriously, in this case it looks like a computer snafu, maybe a misread bar code or similar blip confused their system and made it look like the box was teleporting from time zone to time zone.

Hopefully it gets to you soon.

Stay safe.

Yep, I've worked the bulk of my career in IT supporting various distribution operations and done plenty of shipping via UPS. This is most likely a situation where UPS's tracking software has a bug and is displaying the tracking entries for two different packages.

 

[bannockburn]

jar

Granted, I'm old and so likely not as bright or quick witted as I once thought I was but still this has been more difficult for me than reading the Canterbury Tales in Middle English.

Thanks for dredging up all those long suppressed memories I had of Tenth Grade English class.

Just when I was starting to make some progress with my therapy too!

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

I had some packages bounce around. It does get a little confusing.

 

[.455_Hunter]

I am not surprised. I have seen posts of tracking histories showing CONUS-to-CONUS packages having detours to Guam just for fun.

 

[jar]

jar


Thanks for dredging up all those long suppressed memories I had of Tenth Grade English class.

Just when I was starting to make some progress with my therapy too!

It was ninth grade for me. But still incomprehensible.

 

[Frank Ettin]

Here you go:

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,...

 

[CapnMac]

Like as not, the repeat entries are the local inventory systems "cleaning up" records, but no one told the person who set up the reporting software to bother identifying what the entries actually "are."

So, That could be :
Tracing number assigned.
Flight shipment inventory number created.
Flight receiving inventory number created.
Inbound scanner triggered.
Truck to airport GPS activated
Scanner read off delivery truck.
Scanner read into plane.
Plane GPS movement activation.
Receiving air terminal entry created
Flight offload scanner activated
And so on . . .

Like as not, there are long binary number sequences for all this. But, the tracking program code monkey was only paid to used a limited number of text assignments per actions. So, the text language repeats nonsensically. Why? Nobody paid to have the tracking "read" in actual English.

This is pretty common in computerized systems. When you put your card in the Point-of-sale machine, and it flashes "thank you" at the end, that "thank you" costs the POS designer about $250 to add to the process.

 

[CapnMac]

Whane thar that Jar wite package soothe
Sought tae sende saghm forsoothe
Strangu incantaations warre mayed
Tae roote tae pacage hathe mayked
Dismayed, Jar wroughte ian dare angst
Ere weal define parchanst
De wyndes perced thrugh ta roote
As answere founde war sore moote.

 

[J-Bar]

I would contact Midway and alert them to the problem. Keep a record of your contact so that when the shipment gets lost you will have some additional leverage. I had a package from another company (not Midway) delivered to someone else. Once the company got the “delivered” notice they were no longer interested in talking to me.

 

[Ignition Override]

Use an abacus for better figuring, ie Canterbury Tales etc.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Are you sure that there is only one package?
It's possible that you have a split shipment with only one tracing number.

It's also possible that they are screwing up and are using duplicate numbers... .

 

[Robert]

None of this is really on topic for THR.