No wonder the delivery cost $250
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I was notified this morning that my furniture delivery, scheduled for today, was next in the queue, and they will be right here! Then I clicked the tracking link and the truck is in Dallas, four hours away. This is from a national company, I'm surprised they don't have a closer warehouse. I get to watch a truck icon slowly move down a map for the next four hours though. It's a private link, so don't ask to see it - you're not allowed.
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Ten thousand miles, clear across Texas.
It's a big place. I've driven over quite a bit of the eastern half of the state plus the panhandle a couple times - Amarillo, Abilene, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi. Unless you're in the cities there isn't much traffic to get in your way.
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Many years ago I drove from Dallas to Houston to see NASA Mission Control. It was still configured for Apollo at the time.
There were so few cars that I actually leaned the seat back and drove for maybe an hour or so with both feet out the window and the cruise control on, enjoying a comfortable ride.
There are few other places I have been able to drive like that.
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@89th said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
Did you throw in a GPS tag in your furniture like we discussed?
Yep but this was a different delivery, for new stuff. The air tag in the moving container sort of worked, but between the small metal box it was in and the larger moving container around it, it was almost never picked up by passing iPhones. The tag I put in the car we shipped worked much better. The original estimate for the car delivery was before we would have arrived in Houston and we were scrambling to arrange for it to be received by someone, but as it turns out we beat the car there by several days, and I always knew exactly where it was. That was cool.
Education is extremely important.
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@89th said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
Did you throw in a GPS tag in your furniture like we discussed?
Yep but this was a different delivery, for new stuff. The air tag in the moving container sort of worked, but between the small metal box it was in and the larger moving container around it, it was almost never picked up by passing iPhones. The tag I put in the car we shipped worked much better. The original estimate for the car delivery was before we would have arrived in Houston and we were scrambling to arrange for it to be received by someone, but as it turns out we beat the car there by several days, and I always knew exactly where it was. That was cool.
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@Horace Did your furniture truck ever show up?
@taiwan_girl said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
@Horace Did your furniture truck ever show up?
Yes, we got our West Elm furniture exactly on time. The tracking app was remarkable, it updated continuously (several times a second) and I could zoom in on the truck icon and watch it attempt to navigate my neighborhood. They missed my house the first time and had to throw it in reverse. But they eventually got everything installed. I asked them not to use the anti-tip hardware because I like to live dangerously. If I ever stop posting for a few days in a row, I'm probably trapped under a nightstand that tipped over on me while I was climbing on it.
Education is extremely important.
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Where I used to live in Foxborough, there was this place that the UPS truck used to park up for hours, and do God alone knows what - I'd pass him while walking the dog.
The tracker used to tell me he was less than a mile from my house, but I knew it would frequently be the next day before the thing would be delivered.
Now I live in Rhode Island, pretty much the entire State is within walking distance, so it shouldn't be an issue.
I was only joking
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@89th said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
Did you throw in a GPS tag in your furniture like we discussed?
Yep but this was a different delivery, for new stuff. The air tag in the moving container sort of worked, but between the small metal box it was in and the larger moving container around it, it was almost never picked up by passing iPhones. The tag I put in the car we shipped worked much better. The original estimate for the car delivery was before we would have arrived in Houston and we were scrambling to arrange for it to be received by someone, but as it turns out we beat the car there by several days, and I always knew exactly where it was. That was cool.
@Horace said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
@89th said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
Did you throw in a GPS tag in your furniture like we discussed?
Yep but this was a different delivery, for new stuff. The air tag in the moving container sort of worked, but between the small metal box it was in and the larger moving container around it, it was almost never picked up by passing iPhones. The tag I put in the car we shipped worked much better. The original estimate for the car delivery was before we would have arrived in Houston and we were scrambling to arrange for it to be received by someone, but as it turns out we beat the car there by several days, and I always knew exactly where it was. That was cool.
Glad it worked, I really wish we had known about that trick when we were waiting on our furniture and my wife kept implying it was my fault that we could potentially lose all of our items. Eventually, they showed up, and eventually my wife decided not to kill me.
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Where I used to live in Foxborough, there was this place that the UPS truck used to park up for hours, and do God alone knows what - I'd pass him while walking the dog.
The tracker used to tell me he was less than a mile from my house, but I knew it would frequently be the next day before the thing would be delivered.
Now I live in Rhode Island, pretty much the entire State is within walking distance, so it shouldn't be an issue.
@Doctor-Phibes said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
Now I live in Rhode Island, pretty much the entire State is within walking distance, so it shouldn't be an issue.
Should be called Sidewalk Island, amirite
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@taiwan_girl said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
@Horace Did your furniture truck ever show up?
Yes, we got our West Elm furniture exactly on time. The tracking app was remarkable, it updated continuously (several times a second) and I could zoom in on the truck icon and watch it attempt to navigate my neighborhood. They missed my house the first time and had to throw it in reverse. But they eventually got everything installed. I asked them not to use the anti-tip hardware because I like to live dangerously. If I ever stop posting for a few days in a row, I'm probably trapped under a nightstand that tipped over on me while I was climbing on it.
@Horace said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
@taiwan_girl said in No wonder the delivery cost $250:
@Horace Did your furniture truck ever show up?
Yes, we got our West Elm furniture exactly on time. The tracking app was remarkable, it updated continuously (several times a second) and I could zoom in on the truck icon and watch it attempt to navigate my neighborhood. They missed my house the first time and had to throw it in reverse. But they eventually got everything installed. I asked them not to use the anti-tip hardware because I like to live dangerously. If I ever stop posting for a few days in a row, I'm probably trapped under a nightstand that tipped over on me while I was climbing on it.
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