I've had similar issues with packages. One actually made it all the way to my town, then took off again hundreds of miles away before finally coming back.

On another track, my doctors tend to send me a plethora of reminders for my appointments, requesting confirmations. I might get a text, email and phone call about the same appointment. It makes me wonder if they have a LOT of trouble with people just not showing up.

Hahaha here’s the latest….apparently it’s just too much for the USPS system to ship a gallon of oil from Southern Michigan to Northern Michigan. It made it to the next town over and was damaged so it was returned to sender as undeliverable. I guess I’m just going to have to drive across town and get some myself. Delivered to a retailer from a distributor by a private company. ;)
It is now just too much for the system to deliver a 5 pound package 200 miles. Enjoy the Decline. ROFLMGDAO!

PS……and now we know how secure the Mail in ballot process is as well.

And here I thought you were addressing the numerous train wrecks and plane crashes over the past few months...

Who is John Galt?

What I see is the slow eschewing of the meritocracy driven side of society. Ayn Rand illustrated the phenomenon quite well.

"...competent ones are indeed Going Galt. Even if they don’t know there’s a name for it." Well stated and seems to be happening all over.

Yes of course. I see all around me idiots walking, driving, can't get any help from them in a store. Someone texting in their car, stationary, at a Stop sign in the middle of heavy traffic. A kid walks into the street staring at his phone, stops under the green traffic light that I am fast approaching, he looks up, looks back down at his phone, keeps walking...We are distracted, on drugs, depressed, the PSYOPS are working very well. All that "social media" software is hurting the children and many of the adults.

America and much of the world is asleep at the wheel and we are at the mercy of the level of thievery that the thieves decide they deserve. So long as the liars and looters take their unfair share without slaughtering the whole pig, we can keep on keeping on.

Soon the Republicans and the Democrats will be fighting over whether or not to spend 20 trillion dollars. Dems-30$ trillion, Reps-10$ trillion. What a compromise! A bipartisan deal.

Bipartisan = We the People are Getting Screwed and we're also Paying the Politicians for the Privilege.

yes

look at the mess in NYC we all just saw
imagine what happens if that were over food or water that was not shipped for a few days

things are breaking
and it is not an accident

It is the orchestrated ascendancy of mediocrity and incompetence. I think that we are at the high water mark in terms of having the luxury to carry all the misfits, loafers and malcontents. The next few years will be interesting. Get your house in order. Enjoy the decline.

I ordered three fruit trees from a reputable firm and it was supposed to be delivered by a large shipping company. One went to my neighbors house even though we both have clearly marked addresses, the other two went to a different state, town of the same name, different zip codes, and by the time they made it here they were dead.
I have tracked some orders that 'pause' at a mid transfer point for several days before moving again.
Never had this problem before.

I’ll add that store bought produce not being anything like it used to be. Once you get it home you better consume it in 2 days or it’s rotten. Transportation or getting it out of the fields is definitely malfunctioning.

So in this era of Climate Change despite their inconsolable fear and demanding everyone pitch in they’ve somehow managed to make “the system” LESS efficient.

And we haven’t even felt the IMPACT of the EV Big Rigs yet! That’s going to be a shit show. Can’t wait.
I hope they don’t lose my popcorn.
XD

Just a PS….my father had a 1979 Pontiac Sunbird. Four cylinder, manual transmission, rear wheel drive. Carburetor. No A/C. I used to calculate the fuel mileage for him. That thing got 49MPG once. And regularly broke 40mpg. We KNOW how to get vehicles to be fuel efficient. Or KNEW rather. But THEY Effed it all up. I don’t care how much “emissions” devices they put on a vehicle. Less fuel burned is less pollutants in the air……period. It’s not about the environment to THEM. Never was. It’s all about the money and control. My point is everytime THEY don’t let the free market drive change THEY make the very thing they’re allegedly concerned about worse.
OK rant off.

Just recently, I had a packaged delayed for about a week. It was forwarded to several different carriers before its eventual delivery. Senseless!

I have to wonder how much of this is incompetence and how much is intentional/sabotage. Remember, just in the past year there have been a massive and unprecedented number of food production facilities which have mysteriously caught fire and either burnt to the ground or are now inoperable. Then just this morning my wife came across an article saying that countries all over the world are halting their food exports.

Buckle up. There's turbulence ahead...

I always thought since FedX, UPS and Amazon can track all those packages from purchase to delivery and be pretty accurate, maybe they should track all the ballots and count the votes. Not so much any more.

Watching the incompetence of fast food workers who can't make change without counting on their fingers, let alone make the machines run properly is just one small sign of AS happening right before our very believing eyes. Like many of your shipped orders, mine have traveled almost as far as I have, through twists and turns that make absolutely no sense. Produce is a crap shoot, unless I shop very locally, no guarantees that what I need will be on any shelf. Some have gone Galt, others just don't care, and like the book, it's impossible to tell which is which. Roads are coming apart, bridges are collapsing, derailments occur so often now that the msm don't even report most of them, or the increasing numbers of food production plants destroyed. We are in those final chapters. Take cover and go gray Galt.

Yeah. The wheels are coming off the cart...

This was started in the early 90s and now products are beginning to fail due to under educated engineering.
There is also the problem of companies letting the general work force put forth ideas on engineering.
This is why I'm slowly checking out of society for my safety by evaluating every product that is needed to live a comfortable life.
I understand no circumstances that one should buy from China.

I really like Automobile engineering, probably because my father and brother both were engineers. I’ve long thought that automobile engineering hit its zenith sometime in the 1990s. The quality was there, reliability was there styling was maybe….meh… but that could have been improved. Then 2000s hit and I truly believe they began designing for planned obsolescence. My dad used to tell me about arguments they would have in meetings regarding cheapening components. Dad would say “If we make it out of this it will never be the part that fails.” He said the bean counters were obsessed with saving 5cents per part. Funny how the supposed “savings” never resulted in cheaper vehicles. I’m sure now when that part wears out a mechanic has to be paid $90 and hour to tear down and change the part. Again an example of how they end up making the whole system less efficient when they pursue other things besides simple excellence.

Everything is turning to crap, and that is why, every day I produce/create a little extra, No Charge, for my Customers, they'll always come back because everywhere else, they'd get a raw deal.

They deserve a break today and every day. They are normal everyday Elites on the Street ignoring the Great Unwashed.

I haven't had any problems with Amazon orders on their recent Prime Day. I ordered disc brake components, jack stands, and a caliper compression tool to do the front brakes on my 2017 Nissan Sentra which I received all items in two days.
When my wife does online orders the items go from one terminal to another. She will receive the merchandise three weeks later.