worried about fish shipment

cellodaisy

cellodaisy

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I ordered some fish and they were to be mailed out yesterday via Express Mail for arrival today. The tracking number the seller gave me doesn't work online and when I called USPS (and finally got through to a real live person) they weren't able to find it either. I'm assuming there's just a typo in the number, but I haven't heard back from the seller to confirm the number or the ship-out date. I know not everyone checks their email a bajillion times a day and I'm probably worrying over nothing, but I've been obsessively checking the mailbox all day and I really wish I could find out SOMETHING from SOMEBODY. :nilly:
 
Who did you order it from?
 
Opps sry I didn't realize u ordered it from here. I was thinking that it was an ebay seller or another site. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't from the people that I got ripped off by.
 
yeah.. usps tracing is not very accurate due to update times.

many times you won't see any tracking info till the package is delivered. and the tracking numbers are.. large.
 
lorindaleigh said:
Opps sry I didn't realize u ordered it from here. I was thinking that it was an ebay seller or another site. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't from the people that I got ripped off by.
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Not an AC member (at least, I haven't seen them around), but a reputable and respected seller and I have no reason to associate anything negative with them. Just need to do something with this nervous energy. I'm pretty sure I remember your thread and no, it's not the same folks.

star_rider said:
yeah.. usps tracing is not very accurate due to update times.

many times you won't see any tracking info till the package is delivered. and the tracking numbers are.. large.
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Yes, I keep reminding myself of that. I'm just so anxious to get these little guys into their quarantine tank, safe and sound. I seriously need to find a way to chill out. Not getting anything done at work today. Gagh!
 
Tracking numbers are only reliable to confirm delivery time and date, not always useful to check progress in transit. If the seller used paypal shipping to print the label the package may not have been sent out yet, or simply may not have been scanned properly at some point in the process.
 
Don't be worried - it's sometimes a day before the info gets put into the USPS computer. Even when you go to the USPS website to track it has some kind of statement to that effect. I wouldn't worry yet.
 
Still no fish and I'm getting cranky.

Sunday night (2/15): Sent payment (PayPal) with instructions to ship to my work address, not the address associated with my PayPal account, so that they wouldn't have to sit out in the cold.

Monday (2/16): Got an email saying they would ship out Wednesday because Monday was a holiday---I'm thinking "what's wrong with Tuesday?" but whatever.

Wednesday (2/18): No tracking info available. Sent an email asking for confirmation of ship-out date and address shipped to. No response.

Thursday (2/19): No tracking info available. Called USPS and waded through phone system to talk to a real person. They couldn't find the package either. Sent email in the early afternoon asking again for confirmation of ship-out date and address shipped to. Still no response.

Thursday night (late) (2/19): Finally saw tracking info indicating ship-out on Thursday, not Wednesday as promised. Sent another email asking yet again for confirmation of ship-out date and address shipped to. Finally got a response very late Thursday night saying "Can you relax... They should be there tomorrow.." Still has not answered my question of when they shipped out or what address they were shipped to.

These fish were not cheap (compared to other sources of the same species) and the communication has been, how you say, "lacking." They better be some pretty frickin' awesome fish. :mad2:

Grrrrrr.
 
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