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My car has auto braking. It likes to apply the brakes when the light has turned green and I'm 1/4-1/2 way through an empty intersection. no cross traffic, pedestrians, animals, signs, or anything.ALso with on coming trafic when the road curves and I'm in my lane and they are in theirs. I so need to get my brake job done on my '93 and let her drive the '18

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Fed Ex. They were supposed to pick up a pre-paid Fed-Ex package from us yesterday morning but didn't show up. Wife called at noon and they said they'd be here in 2 hours. 5pm and still no pick up so wife calls and they have the address and confirmation # all wrong. Said they'd pick it up today. It's some stuff the wife had to do to be sent to a lab and can't do it on the weekend so supposedly they'll show up Monday. Fed-Ex sucks!!!

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15 hours ago, TonyK said:

Fed Ex. They were supposed to pick up a pre-paid Fed-Ex package from us yesterday morning but didn't show up. Wife called at noon and they said they'd be here in 2 hours. 5pm and still no pick up so wife calls and they have the address and confirmation # all wrong. Said they'd pick it up today. It's some stuff the wife had to do to be sent to a lab and can't do it on the weekend so supposedly they'll show up Monday. Fed-Ex sucks!!!

Time for the auto ship on dog meds, so not a new request.  Watching the FedEx tracker, the meds made three depot stops (each one farther from me house) over the course of four days.  Chewy said I would have it two days.  Just give me the address as the starting point on the tracker, I could have made a 90 minute round trip and picked them up!

 

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20 minutes ago, HomerS said:

...I could have made a 90 minute round trip and picked them up!

Bbbbbbbuttt...LOGISTICS !!!!!!!!!!!

Top 5 biggest logistical failures | EasyCargo

Photos: Gov. Newsom bags trash along railroad tracks littered with pilfered  e-commerce - Los Angeles Times

                Why 76% of $94 billion in Logistics Transformation Projects Fail (and what  we can learn across

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8 hours ago, HomerS said:

Time for the auto ship on dog meds, so not a new request.  Watching the FedEx tracker, the meds made three depot stops (each one farther from me house) over the course of four days.  Chewy said I would have it two days.  Just give me the address as the starting point on the tracker, I could have made a 90 minute round trip and picked them up!

Had a similar situation years ago (not meds) where FedEx wouldn't deliver a Chewy order because of the weather. I told them I've been out driving around the streets and I could drive to the FedEx place and pick it up myself! It was about half hour from me.

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The shower broke when I got home from work, and naturally the orange big box store did not have the cartridge to repair the issue. Pulled it apart and flipped the cartridge upside down, shower works now,  I can live without the tub spout till the weekend. Plumbing work in winter. Yay. 

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On 1/25/2025 at 9:17 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Bbbbbbbuttt...LOGISTICS !!!!!!!!!!!

Top 5 biggest logistical failures | EasyCargo

Photos: Gov. Newsom bags trash along railroad tracks littered with pilfered  e-commerce - Los Angeles Times

                Why 76% of $94 billion in Logistics Transformation Projects Fail (and what  we can learn across

There needs to be like a "Holy Shat" emoji for stuff like that.  Any history on the fed ex accident?  Here in Montana you always know who the truck is that spun out, twisted up, jack knifed or anything else stupid on snowy hills or mountains = Fed Ex every time !  And people think Swift drivers are bad...

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6 minutes ago, johnyrotten said:

The shower broke when I got home from work, and naturally the orange big box store did not have the cartridge to repair the issue. Pulled it apart and flipped the cartridge upside down, shower works now,  I can live without the tub spout till the weekend. Plumbing work in winter. Yay. 

I was getting pretty smelly a few weeks back when my point-of-use propane-fired shower water heater quit, I ordered a new unit from Home Despot, and UPS repeatedly told me my address didn't exist (though they'd delivered to this address repeatedly in the past), or that delivery had been attempted and nobody was home (though I made a point to be home every day the thing was posted as "out for delivery" on their website).

Eventually, delivery from the warehouse one state away, that had been estimated to take two days, took over a week (and had I not gone to a UPS store that could do NOTHING but give me a "direct" customer service number that rang in India, I'd still be waiting).

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1 hour ago, Old Buckaroo said:

And people think Swift drivers are bad...

I have a few trucker friends, and one swears that Swift is actually an acronym for Sure Wish I Finished Training.

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Snow/ice. Went to check the mailbox and ended up on my backside. Was down before I realized what happened. Sore wrist, arm and hip. At least once every winter. I sooooo HATE this weather.

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1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I was getting pretty smelly a few weeks back when my point-of-use propane-fired shower water heater quit, I ordered a new unit from Home Despot, and UPS repeatedly told me my address didn't exist (though they'd delivered to this address repeatedly in the past), or that delivery had been attempted and nobody was home (though I made a point to be home every day the thing was posted as "out for delivery" on their website).

Eventually, delivery from the warehouse one state away, that had been estimated to take two days, took over a week (and had I not gone to a UPS store that could do NOTHING but give me a "direct" customer service number that rang in India, I'd still be waiting).

Seems like you can't count on anyplace having what you need , let alone a shipping company actually getting it to you. And IF it shows up, it's junk out of the box. I'm my case, this is a cheap 3 handle set up, I'd be better off changing the whole unit,  but of course,  old house, water shut off doesn't work so I have to kill the water at the well and that's not happening on a Tuesday in winter. Funny thing is we planned renovating the bathroom this spring. Murphy's law. 

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30 minutes ago, Engine 51 said:

Snow/ice. Went to check the mailbox and ended up on my backside. Was down before I realized what happened. Sore wrist, arm and hip. At least once every winter. I sooooo HATE this weather.

I hate falling. I'm in the same boat, at least 1 time a year, no matter the season,  it happens. 

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Have to agree. If you get what you ordered it is either junk or does not fit. I bought brand new everything (drums, shoes, hardware, and bearings_ to rebuild the all original rear brakes on my Ford Festiva. Compressed the cylinder all of the way and still can't get the drum on. I guess it's modification time.

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16 hours ago, rattle can man said:

Have to agree. If you get what you ordered it is either junk or does not fit. I bought brand new everything (drums, shoes, hardware, and bearings_ to rebuild the all original rear brakes on my Ford Festiva. Compressed the cylinder all of the way and still can't get the drum on. I guess it's modification time.

Stupid question,  maybe too late, but there is a leading shoe, and a trailing. Did you reverse them by mistake?

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Aside from being somewhat out of focus, what's wrong with this picture?

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That envelope plainly says "Do Not Bend". Normally, our post man is great about this. Magazine along with the rest of our mail is on the doorstep. I'm assuming that someone else was doing his route yesterday. Fortunately the mag isn't heavily damaged.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Dave Ambrose said:

Aside from being somewhat out of focus, what's wrong with this picture?

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That envelope plainly says "Do Not Bend". Normally, our post man is great about this. Magazine along with the rest of our mail is on the doorstep. I'm assuming that someone else was doing his route yesterday. Fortunately the mag isn't heavily damaged.

 

 

Postal carrier  no hablo ingles. Shame on the shipper for not anticipating that. 🤪

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Egg prices. I couldn't make myself buy a dozen at the store but I'll have to eventually.

I wonder how restaurants are dealing with this on their menu prices. Got to be a nightmare.

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Cell Phone troubles.

Charging Port is broken. I've tried different Charger cords. Not the Cord.

 Something broken in the port itself. Off to get a new phone (maybe)

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5 hours ago, Dave Ambrose said:

That envelope plainly says "Do Not Bend".

I changed the delivery address on my "The Rodder's Journal" subscription to my wife's work address where they have a huge commercial mail box for this very reason...

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2 hours ago, TonyK said:

Egg prices. I wonder how restaurants are dealing with this on their menu prices.

I got my wife an order of Heuvos Rancheros with an extra egg the other day, a meal she orders from the same restaurant pretty frequently. The extra egg used to be $1.25, this time it was $4.00.

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3 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

I got my wife an order of Heuvos Rancheros with an extra egg the other day, a meal she orders from the same restaurant pretty frequently. The extra egg used to be $1.25, this time it was $4.00.

And that, sir, is why my neighbors out west keep chickens.  B)🐔

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4 hours ago, stavanzer said:

Cell Phone troubles.

Charging Port is broken. I've tried different Charger cords. Not the Cord.

 Something broken in the port itself. Off to get a new phone (maybe)

Had the same issue a few months ago,  wife has one of those wireless chargers, held me over till the parts showed up from amazon. 20 bucks,  20 minutes one youtube video and I fixed it. Might be worth a shot?

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