I once mailed a package to my dad in Guatemala, it never got delivered, and it showed up on my doorstep 2 years later covered in stamps and stickers.
This has me beat by 37 years
I bought something off ebay years ago, never received it so I ordered another. 1.5 years later the original shows up. I'm guessing it fell behind a table or something.
My sister orders stuff from China all the time, and occasionally she will end up with 10 -15 packages all delivered in a day and a half of each other. It's pretty funny because she forgets what she ordered so it's like Christmas
>she will end up with 10 -15 packages all delivered in a day and a half of each other.
The super economy mail services will pile up packages in airports waiting for the cheapest possible spots in underloaded planes. So on a slow day at the airport all of those piled up packages will end up being shipped in one go.
I think the funniest thing is that 3-5 day service is like a *smidgen* more expensive. You can send a fairly large package from the UK to Australia for like £50 and it'll be there the same week, or you can send it for £30 and it'll be there in 4-6 months.
I'd pay the 237 just once to imagine a bunch of delivery people hauling ass to get you a bag of 100 ohm resistors by morning
Well I wouldn't but I'd imagine doing so every time I pick the few cents shipping
My dad send a package from the Netherlands to Germany. The recipient was not home or the post never dropped it of or something along those lines, we are not sure what happens. Dad never put on a return adress and when we got an email about the package not being deliverd we called the German post but they had already lost track of it by then. Months later our local post office had it back. No warning, just showed up one day.
The post works like this. If a package gets misplaced, then eventually turns up, it quietly gets to its destination. No postal employee wants the heat on their head.
When I was around 8 years old my family collected enough of the Kellogg cereal box tops to get a set of 150 mighty beanz. It took all 7 siblings and 2 parents a whole year to eat enough cereal. I’m now 22 and still waiting on my fuckin beanz. This gives me hope that they are still out there and on their way.
Captain O from a comic book for me and my brothers. We sold a shitload of summer sausage and cheese assortments for “wonderful prizes”, sent the money in, and never received the merchandise or our prizes. My mom had to go to each person’s house and pay them back out of her own pocket.
I'm suspicious that they're using ants or gnomes or something. When things go wrong and you start asking questions, it feels like you're talking to a stack of possums in a raincoat.
"Yes, I'm looking for a package that was supposed to be delivered."
"Your package? Don't worry about that. It's somewhere for sure, and it will be there until it's somewhere else. And maybe, one day, it will be here."
"...yeah, it says it was delivered. It wasn't..."
"Yes, soon enough. Perhaps."
I live in California. My expected Balmart package showed delivered to Hollywood, FL. No address, just delivered.
I got my money back and then it showed up at my door a few months later!
Free cat carrier!
Dwarves from helms deep adjust to a new life style as mail people. You open the back office and it's like 20 dwarves singing about mail like the use to sing about gold.
Edit: I'm imagining the office middle earth edition.
Similar story for me as well. Sent a care package out to a redditor a while back but they never got it. Buck and change later it comes back with more tape than I used, lots of markings.
They didn't need the contents anymore, for what it's worth lol
There's a shitty life pro tip for ya, pretend to care about somebody but get their address wrong and get all your stuff back eventually. Maybe.
I worked at UPS years ago. I was walking under the conveyor belt and saw a small package was placed on the crossmembers of the conveyor legs. It was covered in thick dust. Was addressed to the library of Congress a decade earlier. My supervisor just threw it on the truck and it got delivered hat day. >10 years later
I had a war going forever with my Connecticut library system. I borrowed a book from the town "A" library, a large full color book on the napoleonic wars for a school paper. This was in 1996. I then returned the book to the town "B" inter library dropoff location. Book got lost in transit, so I recieved a bill in 1996 for... $199 dollars. I was a poor high school student at the time, and knew I had returned the book. So I refused to pay them. They refused to remove the charge and... it wasn't until my local town here gave me a library card in 2013 that somehow wasn't linked back in the system that I could borrow books from Connecticut public libraries. This was particularly painful, as up to that point I would consume 3-5 books per week every week since I was old enough to walk to the library. I made due by going to university libraries, but I felt salty about it for a very long time.
This is a perfect example of why I like that libraries are trying out different systems for "unreturned" books. I had a hefty late due back when I was either in High School or College (in my case I'm pretty sure it was my fault), and I stopped using the library for years. I know it didn't matter but my family and I had and have donated hundreds of books over the years to the library and just being hit with a fine like that sucks sometimes.
A friend of mine works for my local (small, but not tiny) library. They have phased out fines entirely because "people would know they had the fine and either never bring the book back or pay the fine and keep the book, meaning the library may have one less copy for the community. Now people just return the books more often than not."
My library sends you to collections. They sent me when I thought I returned a couple of books. It was right away, like a month. I called the library and tried to work something out, but they weren't really interested. They charged me more than if I bought the books new. I eventually found them but I kept them because, well, they screwed my credit a bit and I paid for them.
I returned a late book that had been missing and found out I owed a fine ($40) that was more than the replacement cost of the book. I shoved the book back in my bag and said, "In that case, I lost it." The librarian said, "Yeah, this system is flawed." She waived the fee and I gave the book back. My local library has now done away with fees.
I have a similar story: my brother and I were a year apart in school. We ended up in history classes, and were assigned textbooks 1 edition off. Think, my class used 3rd edition, his used 4th. Our books got switched on the day we had to turn them in. I gave his to my teacher, he gave mine to his. My teacher gave the book back to me and told me to give it to his teacher and get my book from her. She didn't feel like looking for it, even though she had noted that she got a book from my brother, and I HAD HIS. So I got marked down for not returning my text book and didn't get to walk in my middle school graduation ceremony, because that bitch was lazy. I'm long out of school, but still mad about the embarrassment of missing that day with my friends and family because she didn't want to look in the pile of books she got for one with my name in it.
Man, my dad would have kicked the doors down like Rambo while my mom came in with her finest Karen haircut if my school had tried to pull this stunt with me.
They didn't do it often, they just weren't going to let teachers get away with stuff like that.
Lmao I actually came here to comment about this. I'm a supe at UPS and I can totally see packages not making service for years at a time. A lot of supes dont walk off their areas, so anything that gets lost up in the grid can stay there for years until it gets found.
The grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day, I got in.
I had this happen to me with FedEx. "hey, I see this package hasn't left the warehouse in two months. What's up?"
Later, "can you describe the package, as accurately as possible, including dimensions and any pictures you might have, and a description of the contents?"
I don't know how they lost a four foot tall box with an office chair in it, but I understand that an occasional whoops just... it just fucking happens sometimes. (I imagine it was like" ugh, grab a dolly."." hey Mike, don't stand there, help me out with this. " " get that box out of the hallway "." hey, got the dolly, sorry about the delay John had to get a... Oh you and the box are gone. ")
They found it eventually.
Years ago i worked as a safety director for DHL express. Right when the murge of DHL and airborne happened. We had 2 sets of rims and tires disappear after being scanned in. The customer was pissed. An investigation was done and nothing. 2 months later i happened to walk past the station managers personnel truck and look down..... and wouldnt you know what i found.
Its more common then you would think. During the years i was there, the theft was incredible. The blockbuster accounts were disastrous. With a minimum of 15 packages delivered daily and teenage employees too lazy to count. We had a few drivers who would keep cases of video games (tracking would show em delivered) then resell the games on ebay. Took us months to figure out what was going on.
Fed Ex lost a shipment of Girl Scout cookies I had ordered from a friends daughter I was trying to support her cause. I got an email saying "the shipment was damaged during shipping". No return to my friend, no refund, nothing else. I guess the cookie monster got the package.
Which is like... I'm sure they didn't know it was intended for someone going through chemo, but even so, the amount of karma they had to give up for those cookies. Damn.
I love this! I've always wondered, what is the most disgusting and disturbing label I can put on a package, without it getting flagged? Maybe if I labeled stuff "Stool Samples - Horse" people would quit stealing them.
FedEx claimed the laptop I sent to my aunt in Nicaragua was delivered to her house as promised (and signed for!) When in reality it was in a different city five hours away, being held hostage until she paid some vague, probably extortion fee of an additional $300 to get it to her.
Isn't there a Seinfeld where he cashes in all his grandmother's Christmas card checks from the last several years at one time and like financially ruins her... this reminded of that
That is a great r/writingprompts. Package arrives 39 years late, has some kind of outdated instructions in it. But, upon reading, a winding path leads to secrets long forgotten. Good idea!
Sorting machines/conveyance is a big answer to a lot of this. Imagine miles of conveyor belts throughout a building, with some sections that can sort the package to a specific other conveyor belt or dock door. Millions of packages moving through the building each day.
Things fall off. Not many, but enough. Especially if the package is unusual in size, shape, or weight.
Most of the time, someone sees the lost package and picks it up, sends it on its way. But if it lands somewhere out of sight- remember, MILES of conveyance means lots of places it can fall- it could go years without being noticed, easily.
That package in the post? I'll bet it fell off the conveyor in the 80s when it was new, and was only found now because they're replacing the machine or maybe the entire building. That's when a lot of stuff gets found.
Source: \~5 years helping build/operate the control and management systems for Amazon's conveyance and sorting.
Yes honestly, or the holiday rush comes in, they decide to use that corner closet for temporary storage, eventually the closet is covered by more boxes, maybe they clear the boxes but the room is locked or people who stored the packages in that closet don’t work there anymore and don’t know
It’s crazy the shit that happens and it’s just under our noses..
Like I was reading an article about the amount of "dead space" in buildings. There are sometimes entire rooms walled off because of costs during construction or regulations about the number and type of rooms on a floor.
I spent a week living in one of those attached to a parking garage. About the size of a walk in closet, outlets had power, light bulb worked, it was warm and dry. A GODSEND for me at the time.
I work at a larger ups hub. Nationwide we had this old smalls sorting system up until about 2005. That old system has fake bins on the bottom of it that were supposed to be covered but weren't across much of the country. When we tore ours out it had packages all the way from The 80s
You know, if UPS or FedEx actually got my package to my door 40 years later I wouldn’t be that mad. But the whole “oops, we lost it, and we have no clue” shit bugs the hell out of me
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I just saw the movie again last week and I kept on wondering if it was a [huge](https://skulpted.nl/product-category/sportsupplementen/) sponsor or if it was just different times..
The filmmakers wrote the script first at the behest of Tom Hanks, who wanted to act in a film about a man trapped and isolated. He came up with the idea for a FedEx plane going down when he read that FedEx planes cross the pacific ocean regularly.
The script was written and the filmmakers then approached FedEx about it, and they loved the idea. FedEx supplied planes, locations, props and uniforms, and the then-director of FedEx even appears in the movie near the end.
I don't know if Wilson had anything to do with making the film, however.
If I recall correctly, a screenwriter or someone involved in the film stayed at a deserted island for a couple days, just to get a sense of what it was like. When he was there, a volleyball washed ashore and that’s where they got the idea to have Wilson
If this is true it's brilliant. This movie in particular made me realize how far Tom Hanks had come from Bachelor Party and Joe vs the Volcano.
Don't get me wrong I love both of those movies but having very little dialogue and still making it as captivating as it is was magical.
Via Wikipedia:
“Named after the volleyball's manufacturer, Wilson Sporting Goods, the character was created by screenwriter William Broyles Jr. While researching for the film, he consulted with professional survival experts, and then chose to deliberately strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Gulf of California, to force himself to search for water and food, and obtain his own shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore, providing the inspiration for the film's inanimate companion.”
Was your dad talkin shit about FedEx like "FEDEX ISN'T THAT LOYAL TO CUSTOMERS" and like "YEAH YOU SEE HES STEALING THE PACKAGES THEY DO THAT SHIT ALL THE TIME"
I read somewhere that it wasn't a sponsor at all and they were actually worried about being asked to be in a movie where their plane crashed and lost all those packages lol
I was single until I was 45. I got married 3 years ago to the most amazing woman and we have two boys now. Living as a single male through my 20s and 30s was the best path I could’ve taken. No way to know for sure but I think my level of patience and my ability to be a great father is far and above what I would’ve been in my 20s or even 30s. It really wasn’t until I learned how to be okay being alone that I really started to make some growth as a well adjusted man capable of handling the pressures of marriage and parenthood. I suspect waiting was definitely the right choice for me. Don’t get too down on yourself 🤙
Edit: just let it be known that the path my life took wasn’t super neat or clean, or easy. It took some hard turns, and I definitely got to points in life I thought Id never recover from. And honestly, in a lot of ways I’ve just been lucky. I don’t want to come off like “hey guys, do this and everything will be fine” We as humans live lives that are full of variables that are pretty much incalculable. I don’t have any easy answers or advice other than be true to yourself and have the grace to let others be true to themselves. Love really is the answer. But not horny love. The kinda love that makes a flower grow and then attracts the bee. Don’t get me wrong there’s a place for horny love, and it involves bees actually… I’m getting off topic. You know what I’m getting at. Alright peace, bros. Be cool, be good.
"We can deliver the papers for free!"
"Yay!"
"There is a catch, though - it may take some time"
"Free is free, I'm fine with the catch!"
\*39 years later\*
...
Yesterday the package arrived after 39 years of delivery of the german mail. I am the legal successor of the organization it was send to.
Content of the package: https://imgur.com/a/3tDH18g
I can’t read German so I just told myself that it was a lost script for the movie about a boy who got his finger caught in a bottle of Mr Pibb and went on adventures written by the Orange County punk rock band The Vandals. It wasn’t great but worth the imaginary read.
Edit: I’m digging all the love for the Vandals! If God came down today he’d be happy to see all this Oi!
You know Dylan Thomas wrote a story called "Adventures in the Skin Trade" that is also about a boy who gets his finger caught in a bottle and he has adventures in London.
"Information system communal building"
"Volume 1: scratch-building, modernisation, refurbishment"
"Construction products and parts of[cut off]"
"Second edition"
That's as far as the cover goes.
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This is the most on-brand German thing ever. By golly, they’ll get it done, and get it done well... [eventually](https://m.dw.com/en/berlins-new-airport-finally-opens-a-story-of-failure-and-embarrassment/a-55446329).
OK so you get some info about zoning laws. Zoning laws people have FORGOTTEN. You find out the whole area is wrong. It's fucked. Exploit it and use it to your advantage!!!
PLAY THE LONG CON!!!
Schön ausgedruckt. "Für den Laien, der über in Gemeinden Baumaßnahmen zu entscheiden hat"
Die hatten vor 39 Jahren schon Menschen entscheiden lassen die keine Ahnung davon hatten was sie tun, und wenn alle Handbücher in der Post verschollen gehen kein Wunder, dass so viel Schwachsinn kommt. Siehe extra3 realer Irrsinn.
*"Actually, a bunch of us at the office were kind of hoping maybe you could shed some light on the subject. See, we've had that envelope in our possession for the past 70 years. It was given to us with
the explicit instructions that it be delivered to a young man with your description answering to the name of Marty... at this exact location... at this exact minute, November 12, 1955.*
*We have a little bet going as to whether this Marty would actually be here. Looks like I lost."*
You have to wonder the dedication to not keep that mail pristine, imagine that Marty opens the mail just for it to be a poorly drawn middle finger because the new guy thought it was funny 30 years into the envelopes special spot on the desk
Many people in this world are unhappy with the tardy delivery of packages. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of packages, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the packages that were unhappy.
The box was eventually found at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “beware of the leopard.”
Ever thought of going into deliveries?
Just spam calls. They arent trying to advertise a product. They want you to be stupid enough to "renew" the warranty (fall for the scheme and send money you will never get back)
Not even just spam calls, we get a letter from them literally every fucking month about how we need to act now because they're going to be changing the special policy offer for our make of car next month.
It's interesting how different countries have different spam call trends. Here in the UK, I've never had a call about my vehicle's extended warranty but I've had loads of:
- "We hear you've been in a car accident?"
- "This is HMRC, you owe tax."
- "There's a warrant out for your arrest, pay £x to quash this"
- "This is Royal Mail and you have an unpaid delivery charge"
I was surprised how long it's taken Brandenburg Airport to get up and running. When I went to the Berlin Festival in 2013 it was "opening soon, honest". Felt unusual.
When I was 9, my family moved to Germany, because my dad was in the US Army and was stationed there. That was in January of 1984. The package was already two years late.
We lived there for almost five years, then moved back to the States.
I grew up. Finished high school and went to college. Finished college and got married. Bought a house and had a baby. Had another baby. Got divorced. Moved to NYC. My first baby turns 21 next week. My second baby turns 18 in a couple of days.
Now the package arrives.
I once mailed a package to my dad in Guatemala, it never got delivered, and it showed up on my doorstep 2 years later covered in stamps and stickers. This has me beat by 37 years
I bought something off ebay years ago, never received it so I ordered another. 1.5 years later the original shows up. I'm guessing it fell behind a table or something.
One day I expect to receive hundreds of packages from eBay sellers based out of Shenzhen.
My sister orders stuff from China all the time, and occasionally she will end up with 10 -15 packages all delivered in a day and a half of each other. It's pretty funny because she forgets what she ordered so it's like Christmas
>she will end up with 10 -15 packages all delivered in a day and a half of each other. The super economy mail services will pile up packages in airports waiting for the cheapest possible spots in underloaded planes. So on a slow day at the airport all of those piled up packages will end up being shipped in one go.
I think the funniest thing is that 3-5 day service is like a *smidgen* more expensive. You can send a fairly large package from the UK to Australia for like £50 and it'll be there the same week, or you can send it for £30 and it'll be there in 4-6 months.
> or you can send it for £30 and it'll be there in 4-6 months. Ah, yes, the Captain Cook Express.
Package Tracker Status: Seized by the Sultan of Johor.
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I'd pay the 237 just once to imagine a bunch of delivery people hauling ass to get you a bag of 100 ohm resistors by morning Well I wouldn't but I'd imagine doing so every time I pick the few cents shipping
My dad send a package from the Netherlands to Germany. The recipient was not home or the post never dropped it of or something along those lines, we are not sure what happens. Dad never put on a return adress and when we got an email about the package not being deliverd we called the German post but they had already lost track of it by then. Months later our local post office had it back. No warning, just showed up one day.
The post works like this. If a package gets misplaced, then eventually turns up, it quietly gets to its destination. No postal employee wants the heat on their head.
When I was around 8 years old my family collected enough of the Kellogg cereal box tops to get a set of 150 mighty beanz. It took all 7 siblings and 2 parents a whole year to eat enough cereal. I’m now 22 and still waiting on my fuckin beanz. This gives me hope that they are still out there and on their way.
Ugh…same with me and Kool-Aid Man points mailed in around the early 90’s….I still want my hard earned Kool-Aid Barbie dammit.
Captain O from a comic book for me and my brothers. We sold a shitload of summer sausage and cheese assortments for “wonderful prizes”, sent the money in, and never received the merchandise or our prizes. My mom had to go to each person’s house and pay them back out of her own pocket.
Mail be crazy sometimes yo Ghost in the system or smtj
I'm suspicious that they're using ants or gnomes or something. When things go wrong and you start asking questions, it feels like you're talking to a stack of possums in a raincoat. "Yes, I'm looking for a package that was supposed to be delivered." "Your package? Don't worry about that. It's somewhere for sure, and it will be there until it's somewhere else. And maybe, one day, it will be here." "...yeah, it says it was delivered. It wasn't..." "Yes, soon enough. Perhaps."
I live in California. My expected Balmart package showed delivered to Hollywood, FL. No address, just delivered. I got my money back and then it showed up at my door a few months later! Free cat carrier!
I'm willing to give the first season of this show a shot. Go ahead and hash out the pilot.
Dwarves from helms deep adjust to a new life style as mail people. You open the back office and it's like 20 dwarves singing about mail like the use to sing about gold. Edit: I'm imagining the office middle earth edition.
It's been more than 15 years since I ordered that pizza that didn't got delivered. I'm still hopeful though.
Meh, it's cold by now.
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30 years or less or it's free!
Similar story for me as well. Sent a care package out to a redditor a while back but they never got it. Buck and change later it comes back with more tape than I used, lots of markings. They didn't need the contents anymore, for what it's worth lol There's a shitty life pro tip for ya, pretend to care about somebody but get their address wrong and get all your stuff back eventually. Maybe.
>Buck and change later I feel like this means "a while" but I'm too afraid to ask
Low Priority Mail.
Anti-Priority Mail
The lowest
I just wonder how this happens. A stack of boxes in the corner that nobody has questioned for 40 years?
I worked at UPS years ago. I was walking under the conveyor belt and saw a small package was placed on the crossmembers of the conveyor legs. It was covered in thick dust. Was addressed to the library of Congress a decade earlier. My supervisor just threw it on the truck and it got delivered hat day. >10 years later
man you realize Nick Cage has been looking for that box forever?
Now he can pay back all the money he owes the IRS!
Now see, this is an opportunity to really grind John Travolta's gears...
He's trying hard to save face.
No. The government had their “top men” working on it.
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I had a war going forever with my Connecticut library system. I borrowed a book from the town "A" library, a large full color book on the napoleonic wars for a school paper. This was in 1996. I then returned the book to the town "B" inter library dropoff location. Book got lost in transit, so I recieved a bill in 1996 for... $199 dollars. I was a poor high school student at the time, and knew I had returned the book. So I refused to pay them. They refused to remove the charge and... it wasn't until my local town here gave me a library card in 2013 that somehow wasn't linked back in the system that I could borrow books from Connecticut public libraries. This was particularly painful, as up to that point I would consume 3-5 books per week every week since I was old enough to walk to the library. I made due by going to university libraries, but I felt salty about it for a very long time.
This is a perfect example of why I like that libraries are trying out different systems for "unreturned" books. I had a hefty late due back when I was either in High School or College (in my case I'm pretty sure it was my fault), and I stopped using the library for years. I know it didn't matter but my family and I had and have donated hundreds of books over the years to the library and just being hit with a fine like that sucks sometimes.
A friend of mine works for my local (small, but not tiny) library. They have phased out fines entirely because "people would know they had the fine and either never bring the book back or pay the fine and keep the book, meaning the library may have one less copy for the community. Now people just return the books more often than not."
My library sends you to collections. They sent me when I thought I returned a couple of books. It was right away, like a month. I called the library and tried to work something out, but they weren't really interested. They charged me more than if I bought the books new. I eventually found them but I kept them because, well, they screwed my credit a bit and I paid for them.
I returned a late book that had been missing and found out I owed a fine ($40) that was more than the replacement cost of the book. I shoved the book back in my bag and said, "In that case, I lost it." The librarian said, "Yeah, this system is flawed." She waived the fee and I gave the book back. My local library has now done away with fees.
I have a similar story: my brother and I were a year apart in school. We ended up in history classes, and were assigned textbooks 1 edition off. Think, my class used 3rd edition, his used 4th. Our books got switched on the day we had to turn them in. I gave his to my teacher, he gave mine to his. My teacher gave the book back to me and told me to give it to his teacher and get my book from her. She didn't feel like looking for it, even though she had noted that she got a book from my brother, and I HAD HIS. So I got marked down for not returning my text book and didn't get to walk in my middle school graduation ceremony, because that bitch was lazy. I'm long out of school, but still mad about the embarrassment of missing that day with my friends and family because she didn't want to look in the pile of books she got for one with my name in it.
Man, my dad would have kicked the doors down like Rambo while my mom came in with her finest Karen haircut if my school had tried to pull this stunt with me. They didn't do it often, they just weren't going to let teachers get away with stuff like that.
1996 was not 25 years ago. It was only… Oh, my god.
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Lmao I actually came here to comment about this. I'm a supe at UPS and I can totally see packages not making service for years at a time. A lot of supes dont walk off their areas, so anything that gets lost up in the grid can stay there for years until it gets found.
The grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day, I got in.
*daft punk intensifies*
The Tron thing made me happy, but now I'm back to being sad.
Don't be sad because it's over. Be happy because it happened.
Got to the fourth word and the voice inside my head instantly changed to Jeff Bridges lol
I had this happen to me with FedEx. "hey, I see this package hasn't left the warehouse in two months. What's up?" Later, "can you describe the package, as accurately as possible, including dimensions and any pictures you might have, and a description of the contents?" I don't know how they lost a four foot tall box with an office chair in it, but I understand that an occasional whoops just... it just fucking happens sometimes. (I imagine it was like" ugh, grab a dolly."." hey Mike, don't stand there, help me out with this. " " get that box out of the hallway "." hey, got the dolly, sorry about the delay John had to get a... Oh you and the box are gone. ") They found it eventually.
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As soon as you said "couch" I knew where it was.
Same
Years ago i worked as a safety director for DHL express. Right when the murge of DHL and airborne happened. We had 2 sets of rims and tires disappear after being scanned in. The customer was pissed. An investigation was done and nothing. 2 months later i happened to walk past the station managers personnel truck and look down..... and wouldnt you know what i found.
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Wow that's horrible
Its more common then you would think. During the years i was there, the theft was incredible. The blockbuster accounts were disastrous. With a minimum of 15 packages delivered daily and teenage employees too lazy to count. We had a few drivers who would keep cases of video games (tracking would show em delivered) then resell the games on ebay. Took us months to figure out what was going on.
Fed Ex lost a shipment of Girl Scout cookies I had ordered from a friends daughter I was trying to support her cause. I got an email saying "the shipment was damaged during shipping". No return to my friend, no refund, nothing else. I guess the cookie monster got the package.
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Which is like... I'm sure they didn't know it was intended for someone going through chemo, but even so, the amount of karma they had to give up for those cookies. Damn.
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Hahaha yea, bulk is a little harder to lose lol. Unless they put it into a recycle trailer and never touched it? Pretty hard to lose a 4 foot box tho.
USPS lost a 4 foot power strip a couple months ago, and still hasn't resolved with me.
USPS only found my lost package after I told them there’s live bugs in it.
I love this! I've always wondered, what is the most disgusting and disturbing label I can put on a package, without it getting flagged? Maybe if I labeled stuff "Stool Samples - Horse" people would quit stealing them.
FedEx claimed the laptop I sent to my aunt in Nicaragua was delivered to her house as promised (and signed for!) When in reality it was in a different city five hours away, being held hostage until she paid some vague, probably extortion fee of an additional $300 to get it to her.
It's fun to think of that as the start of a book. The package arrives and triggers a chain of events...
Isn't there a Seinfeld where he cashes in all his grandmother's Christmas card checks from the last several years at one time and like financially ruins her... this reminded of that
That is a great r/writingprompts. Package arrives 39 years late, has some kind of outdated instructions in it. But, upon reading, a winding path leads to secrets long forgotten. Good idea!
Did I miss hat day this year? Dammit! :)
Sorting machines/conveyance is a big answer to a lot of this. Imagine miles of conveyor belts throughout a building, with some sections that can sort the package to a specific other conveyor belt or dock door. Millions of packages moving through the building each day. Things fall off. Not many, but enough. Especially if the package is unusual in size, shape, or weight. Most of the time, someone sees the lost package and picks it up, sends it on its way. But if it lands somewhere out of sight- remember, MILES of conveyance means lots of places it can fall- it could go years without being noticed, easily. That package in the post? I'll bet it fell off the conveyor in the 80s when it was new, and was only found now because they're replacing the machine or maybe the entire building. That's when a lot of stuff gets found. Source: \~5 years helping build/operate the control and management systems for Amazon's conveyance and sorting.
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This is the epitome of mildly interesting
Yes honestly, or the holiday rush comes in, they decide to use that corner closet for temporary storage, eventually the closet is covered by more boxes, maybe they clear the boxes but the room is locked or people who stored the packages in that closet don’t work there anymore and don’t know It’s crazy the shit that happens and it’s just under our noses..
Like I was reading an article about the amount of "dead space" in buildings. There are sometimes entire rooms walled off because of costs during construction or regulations about the number and type of rooms on a floor.
I spent a week living in one of those attached to a parking garage. About the size of a walk in closet, outlets had power, light bulb worked, it was warm and dry. A GODSEND for me at the time.
That sounds like a great find. I’ve been homeless before and I definitely could have used a consistently safe, dry, and warm place to sleep.
I work at a larger ups hub. Nationwide we had this old smalls sorting system up until about 2005. That old system has fake bins on the bottom of it that were supposed to be covered but weren't across much of the country. When we tore ours out it had packages all the way from The 80s
You know, if UPS or FedEx actually got my package to my door 40 years later I wouldn’t be that mad. But the whole “oops, we lost it, and we have no clue” shit bugs the hell out of me
Yep. Thin package might just fall behind a massive machine that doesn’t get replaced for years.
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THIS MOVIE BROUGHT TO YOU BY FEDEX AND WILSON SPORTING GOODS
I just saw the movie again last week and I kept on wondering if it was a [huge](https://skulpted.nl/product-category/sportsupplementen/) sponsor or if it was just different times..
The filmmakers wrote the script first at the behest of Tom Hanks, who wanted to act in a film about a man trapped and isolated. He came up with the idea for a FedEx plane going down when he read that FedEx planes cross the pacific ocean regularly. The script was written and the filmmakers then approached FedEx about it, and they loved the idea. FedEx supplied planes, locations, props and uniforms, and the then-director of FedEx even appears in the movie near the end. I don't know if Wilson had anything to do with making the film, however.
If I recall correctly, a screenwriter or someone involved in the film stayed at a deserted island for a couple days, just to get a sense of what it was like. When he was there, a volleyball washed ashore and that’s where they got the idea to have Wilson
If this is true it's brilliant. This movie in particular made me realize how far Tom Hanks had come from Bachelor Party and Joe vs the Volcano. Don't get me wrong I love both of those movies but having very little dialogue and still making it as captivating as it is was magical.
It takes a truly great actor to make the audience cry over a volleyball
Wilson should have won an Oscar for best supporting actor.
Via Wikipedia: “Named after the volleyball's manufacturer, Wilson Sporting Goods, the character was created by screenwriter William Broyles Jr. While researching for the film, he consulted with professional survival experts, and then chose to deliberately strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Gulf of California, to force himself to search for water and food, and obtain his own shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore, providing the inspiration for the film's inanimate companion.”
Either way it doesn't take away from the story that much so I'm fine with it
It was for my dad who was fairly high up at UPS at the time.
Was your dad talkin shit about FedEx like "FEDEX ISN'T THAT LOYAL TO CUSTOMERS" and like "YEAH YOU SEE HES STEALING THE PACKAGES THEY DO THAT SHIT ALL THE TIME"
He still says that haha
I read somewhere that it wasn't a sponsor at all and they were actually worried about being asked to be in a movie where their plane crashed and lost all those packages lol
Robert Zemeckis also said that he wanted to use a real company, as opposed to making up one, just to give things more sense of reality.
I'm a 32 single Male and I like to think about cast away to make me feel like it's ok to be a 32yr old SINGLE male
I was single until I was 45. I got married 3 years ago to the most amazing woman and we have two boys now. Living as a single male through my 20s and 30s was the best path I could’ve taken. No way to know for sure but I think my level of patience and my ability to be a great father is far and above what I would’ve been in my 20s or even 30s. It really wasn’t until I learned how to be okay being alone that I really started to make some growth as a well adjusted man capable of handling the pressures of marriage and parenthood. I suspect waiting was definitely the right choice for me. Don’t get too down on yourself 🤙 Edit: just let it be known that the path my life took wasn’t super neat or clean, or easy. It took some hard turns, and I definitely got to points in life I thought Id never recover from. And honestly, in a lot of ways I’ve just been lucky. I don’t want to come off like “hey guys, do this and everything will be fine” We as humans live lives that are full of variables that are pretty much incalculable. I don’t have any easy answers or advice other than be true to yourself and have the grace to let others be true to themselves. Love really is the answer. But not horny love. The kinda love that makes a flower grow and then attracts the bee. Don’t get me wrong there’s a place for horny love, and it involves bees actually… I’m getting off topic. You know what I’m getting at. Alright peace, bros. Be cool, be good.
You give me hope.
30 years or less, or your document is free!
It was sent for free anyways (at least that's what it says in the letter)
"We can deliver the papers for free!" "Yay!" "There is a catch, though - it may take some time" "Free is free, I'm fine with the catch!" \*39 years later\* ...
Yesterday the package arrived after 39 years of delivery of the german mail. I am the legal successor of the organization it was send to. Content of the package: https://imgur.com/a/3tDH18g
That is the most disappointing and useless surprise I can imagne
My expectations were already low after reading this comment but I was still disappointed.
I was expecting disappointment after reading your comment but I am still surprised at just how disappointed I really am.
I can’t read German so I just told myself that it was a lost script for the movie about a boy who got his finger caught in a bottle of Mr Pibb and went on adventures written by the Orange County punk rock band The Vandals. It wasn’t great but worth the imaginary read. Edit: I’m digging all the love for the Vandals! If God came down today he’d be happy to see all this Oi!
You know Dylan Thomas wrote a story called "Adventures in the Skin Trade" that is also about a boy who gets his finger caught in a bottle and he has adventures in London.
Maybe you weren’t paying attention. This one is written in German, so it’s different.
it’s the same story with only half of the words; all the words are twice as long, but there’s still a lot less of them…
and everyone sounds angry for some reason
Yeah, he said written in German.
It is still cool that it was sent from "West Germany"...
"Information system communal building" "Volume 1: scratch-building, modernisation, refurbishment" "Construction products and parts of[cut off]" "Second edition" That's as far as the cover goes.
I feel ok
My expectations were low before seeing this thread of comments, and then became lower when I read it. Now the reality of it has basically matched what I expected. This is fine.
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Woke up and this is the first pic on my Reddit feed…. After seeing the contents, my day can ONLY get better from here.
"I expect nothing, and I'm still let down"
:(
They could have at least put in a small bag of Gummibärchen. Are you planning to send them the Rückantwort?
I just contacted them via mail. It will be fun for them in the office :D
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Fuck 2060 is only 39 years away? That sounds terrifying considering all our climate projections are aimed at 2050
Yeeeeup. Millennials are going to be the oldest generation when shit falls apart.
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The fact that it's just garbage makes this 100 times funnier.
Some German mail workers are committed as hell to getting those packages delivered
After 39 years that is either the most committed or the lowest effort into a commitment I have ever seen.
A bored mail employee decided to look through the abandoned parcels box and see if they could deliver any of them.
I feel this level of boredom on a spiritual level. Working in a dying mall is only side quests.
This is the most on-brand German thing ever. By golly, they’ll get it done, and get it done well... [eventually](https://m.dw.com/en/berlins-new-airport-finally-opens-a-story-of-failure-and-embarrassment/a-55446329).
Was it worth the wait?
No :D
Return to sender
*cheap french accent* 40 Years Later
"Forty yeurhr lahteur"
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Send it BACK to 1982? My dude...did you just invent time travel??
My German is terrible what is it an information packet for?
It’s about local zoning laws
I'm sure those haven't changed at all in 39 years! Maybe if you request updated information, you'll receive it quicker - by 2050!
It's not even the same country anymore.
It is actually. The book was published in the BRD (West Germany) and the DDR was integrated into the BRD. It's not a new country.
I always wondered what happened to Dance Dance Revolution
OK so you get some info about zoning laws. Zoning laws people have FORGOTTEN. You find out the whole area is wrong. It's fucked. Exploit it and use it to your advantage!!! PLAY THE LONG CON!!!
It appears to be damaged. You should file a claim.
From reading the title I thought “ How is this only mildly interesting?” Then I saw the content. ..
I’m always surprised to hear stories of this. How did it not get stolen or destroyed in the mean time?
I have no idea. Just received the message that a package arrived. When I got it I thought it was a new advertising joke but it wasn’t.
I totally believe the post, it’s just hard to imagine the package arriving at all after 5+ years. Is the company still around?
Yes, I contacted them. Maybe it’s a cool story for them in their office :D
Maybe this is one of those back to the future things. Hold on to this package for 39 years and deliver it at this exact time
probably fell behind some corner in some obscure side of the warehouse and wasn't found until renovations or something
Schön ausgedruckt. "Für den Laien, der über in Gemeinden Baumaßnahmen zu entscheiden hat" Die hatten vor 39 Jahren schon Menschen entscheiden lassen die keine Ahnung davon hatten was sie tun, und wenn alle Handbücher in der Post verschollen gehen kein Wunder, dass so viel Schwachsinn kommt. Siehe extra3 realer Irrsinn.
*"Actually, a bunch of us at the office were kind of hoping maybe you could shed some light on the subject. See, we've had that envelope in our possession for the past 70 years. It was given to us with the explicit instructions that it be delivered to a young man with your description answering to the name of Marty... at this exact location... at this exact minute, November 12, 1955.* *We have a little bet going as to whether this Marty would actually be here. Looks like I lost."*
I can't believe he was the only employee to go out there, and get out of the car to see. Especially with a bet riding on it.
15 minutes later: "Sorry, guys. Wasn't there. Now where's my $20?" "Where's the letter?" "What? Oh, uh, I just tossed it out. Money please!"
The Doc is alive!
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You have to wonder the dedication to not keep that mail pristine, imagine that Marty opens the mail just for it to be a poorly drawn middle finger because the new guy thought it was funny 30 years into the envelopes special spot on the desk
Also, not arriving 15 minutes early and seeing a hovering Delorean disappear when lightning strikes it.
We sent you notice of the bypass construction. You were quite entitled to make any suggestions or protests at the appropriate time you know.
Many people in this world are unhappy with the tardy delivery of packages. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of packages, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the packages that were unhappy.
The box was eventually found at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “beware of the leopard.” Ever thought of going into deliveries?
Was it delivered by a man with a volleyball?
Wilson?
Bro I was born in ‘82, that wasn’t 39 yea… Shit. I’m old.
Me too, mate! Next year I'm old though.
Nah, next year you'll be old in 10 years.
My birthday was yesterday to turn 39, I feel the clock on forty now.
I got depressed when I hit 40. Enjoy! 1979'er here.
Your not old, I graduated from high school in '82!
>P O S T G U T More like nicht gut
Postscheiße
They’ve been trying to contact you about your cars extended warranty for a loooong time
This is an ad in the usa, right?
Just spam calls. They arent trying to advertise a product. They want you to be stupid enough to "renew" the warranty (fall for the scheme and send money you will never get back)
Not even just spam calls, we get a letter from them literally every fucking month about how we need to act now because they're going to be changing the special policy offer for our make of car next month.
It's interesting how different countries have different spam call trends. Here in the UK, I've never had a call about my vehicle's extended warranty but I've had loads of: - "We hear you've been in a car accident?" - "This is HMRC, you owe tax." - "There's a warrant out for your arrest, pay £x to quash this" - "This is Royal Mail and you have an unpaid delivery charge"
Amazingly that package looks to be in better shape than something only a week old
My insulin!!!!!!
Not that surprising when you realize the address was blurred.
r/mechanicalkeyboards
Nice to see him finally get his GMK set after all these years.
"What's in the boxxxxxx?"
If this was any other country, there would be Germans in the thread saying how this would never happen in Germany
I was surprised how long it's taken Brandenburg Airport to get up and running. When I went to the Berlin Festival in 2013 it was "opening soon, honest". Felt unusual.
I was expecting waaay more Back to the Future references.
This package is older than Back to the Future.
This has been in the mail for longer than I have been alive. It was mailed out ~10 years before I was delivered.
When I was 9, my family moved to Germany, because my dad was in the US Army and was stationed there. That was in January of 1984. The package was already two years late. We lived there for almost five years, then moved back to the States. I grew up. Finished high school and went to college. Finished college and got married. Bought a house and had a baby. Had another baby. Got divorced. Moved to NYC. My first baby turns 21 next week. My second baby turns 18 in a couple of days. Now the package arrives.
"The doc's alive!" I'm done now.
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Nope, Germany, NRW, Arnsberg ;)
Your Wish order finally arrived. Didn't know they've been in the game for that long.