Brittany N.
What an awful awful service
What an awful awful service. I understand that we’re in a pandemic and that delivery times are longer for a lot of retailers. That said, I want to make clear that the problem here is absolutely not the wait, it is the sheer lack of expectation setting. UPS assigns an expected delivery date once they receive the package. This date is often weeks away from when you actually end up receiving the package, so why give a date at all? Of course, when your delivery date comes and goes with zero update on tracking, the natural inclination is to call UPS. When you do this, they’ll tell you that the package has been handed off to USPS and that they have no additional information. So you call USPS and they tell you that they haven’t actually received the package from UPS at all… You call UPS back with this updated information and they’ll tell you that because you don’t have a 1Z tracking number, there’s nothing they can do, they can’t look up anything, and they don’t have any additional information. So now how could the UPS agent have seen that it was handed off to USPS in the first place if UPS agents can’t actually see info for the package without a 1Z number? In each of my many interactions with this service, UPS tells me to contact the seller for the original 1Z tracking number so that they can actually locate the package by this stage. The problem here is that the seller never has a 1Z number to share. Utterly nonsensical. Now at this point, you’re likely several days past your original delivery date, your package has had zero movement for well over a week, and both USPS and UPS are pointing the fingers at each other. It’s very easy to be frustrated under these conditions. So you just have to wait, with no idea if/when your package will arrive. Anyone can see how this creates a terrible experience for the end user, who often has ZERO say in the use of this service. I’m incredibly disappointed with UPS and while I was once a loyal customer, I now go out of my way to avoid them. Do better UPS.


