Shout out to businesses that email tracking information and link to their own systems instead of the package delivery service’s tracking system. These third party tracking site plug-ins often lag behind the information provided to them by the delivery service’s site.
Special shout out to those who hide tracking information behind a required account login when they could simply provide the tracking number in the email.
Most special shout out to sites that do not allow you to know anything about a particular order unless you click through to their site and log in. It makes tracking past orders a nightmare.
Hat-tip to the motherfuckers who mark something as shipped as soon as they generate a tracking number, even though it may not be in the carrier’s hands for days.
I had a package from Loop Ear Protection that did this and didn’t ship for a month. They also don’t have customer service and only an AI chat bot that condescendingly kept telling me that the package was shipped. Isn’t life grand?
I’ve avoided ordering from Loop after reading similar reports. I’d considered getting some of their ear plugs to try, but now I would just try something generic from AliExpress. If it’s not going to show up for a month, it may as well be super cheap.
Probably the same thing with branding on it anyways.
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Fucking hell, yes! These infuriate me. And not mildly, either! I sometimes wish I had a bot net that could ping their stupid systems so much that they’d suffer for routing tracking through their own internal system/service.
Absolutely hate having to log in to a website just to view tracking. Half the time I’m on my phone checking the tracking email and can’t be bothered to log in, just so I can copy and paste the tracking number into USPS or whoever.
USPS at least has informed delivery tho.
Out them, shame them. (Of course they probably don’t have any shame, but still…) Who are you referring to?
Most online stores do not directly link to USPS/UPS/Fed Ex/DHL tracking etc anymore. The list would be too long. You have to log in to get the tracking information and then go to the delivery services site to query the tracking number.
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Nothing else we can do about it except complain here on Mildly Infuriating as god or whatever intended.
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If it were as easy as you prescribe.
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Try that with medicine. In rural areas. Etc.
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Even that is a challenge, with facial-recognition camera systems and wifi position tracking in stores. Time to just stop buying stuff except for what is necessary.
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I had this happen once and I had a hell of a time trying to find a way around their bullshit. I finally just emailed them and asked for a real tracking number not a link and they actually obliged.
