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UPS Delayed Packages and a Fake Train Derailment?

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One commenter on a post I wrote a few weeks ago had this to say when they received information that a package due to arrive today was delayed due to a train derailment in Vernon, Ca.

“This is all BS, I just got notice that my package due to arrive on 3-19-08 has been rescheduled due to a derailment in Vernon, CA also, how many derailments could there be, this is a ploy to excuse UPS of their wrong doings and screw ups….no doubht.”

Certainly this couldn’t be the same train derailment from March 6th that delayed my package, could it? http://johndball.blaize.net/2008/03/06/worse-case-scenario-the-train-derails-but-thats-unlikely/

Can anybody find any news article about these mysterious train derailments, or is UPS just covering for their ineptness to deliver packages on time?

~ by johndball on March 19, 2008.

10 Responses to “UPS Delayed Packages and a Fake Train Derailment?”

  1. 03/19/2008 6:00 P.M. TRAIN DERAILMENT
    me too

  2. mine says 3/19/2008 San Pueblo, CA TRAIN DERAILMENT

  3. Same here

  4. Same here

  5. this is the tracking information i got this morning!

    SHREWSBURY,
    MA, US 04/05/2008 1:33 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
    SHREWSBURY,
    MA, US 04/04/2008 2:20 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
    SHREWSBURY,
    MA, US 04/03/2008 12:00 P.M. LATE TRAIN
    04/03/2008 12:00 P.M. LATE TRAIN
    04/03/2008 12:00 P.M. TRAIN DERAILMENT
    PALATINE,
    IL, US 04/01/2008 11:19 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
    04/01/2008 8:00 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
    US 04/01/2008 6:29 P.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED
    did a train really derail? or is that just ups “code” for your package is gonna be late due to driver larry’s 4 years old daughter’s ballet recital?

  6. CHELMSFORD,
    MA, US 04/05/2008 3:41 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
    CHELMSFORD,
    MA, US 04/03/2008 6:00 P.M. LATE TRAIN
    04/03/2008 6:00 P.M. LATE TRAIN
    04/03/2008 6:00 P.M. TRAIN DERAILMENT
    HODGKINS,
    IL, US 04/02/2008 3:29 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
    04/02/2008 12:17 A.M. ORIGIN SCAN
    US 04/02/2008 8:51 A.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

    hmm same damn train?

  7. Package Progress
    Location Date Local Time Description
    SECAUCUS,
    NJ, US 04/04/2008 11:51 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
    04/04/2008 1:38 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
    SECAUCUS,
    NJ, US 04/03/2008 4:00 P.M. LATE TRAIN
    04/03/2008 4:00 P.M. LATE TRAIN
    04/03/2008 4:00 P.M. TRAIN DERAILMENT
    EARTH CITY,
    MO, US 04/01/2008 9:16 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
    04/01/2008 3:01 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
    LITTLE ROCK,
    AR, US 04/01/2008 7:21 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
    LITTLE ROCK,
    AR, US 03/31/2008 11:25 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
    JONESBORO,
    AR, US 03/31/2008 8:49 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
    03/31/2008 8:03 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
    03/31/2008 4:05 P.M. PICKUP SCAN
    US 03/29/2008 10:35 A.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

    Tracking results provided by UPS: 04/06/2008 11:14 A.M. ET

  8. I got the same message when I tracked my package that left Houston TX. My package was to be delived on 4/4/2008.

  9. Like many of you, when I saw the UPS train derailment notice, I think of all the UPS packages that were probably damaged or destroyed during this accident. Apparently there was a train derailment on April 3rd. But it was not the UPS train with all the packages on it. A coal train derailed, causing the rails in that area to be shut down affecting all trains using that railway. So while indeed there was a train derailment affecting the on-time UPS deliveries, as UPS claims, what they don’t tell you is that is was not their train. So this “train derailment” was nothing more then a traffic jam as far as UPS is concerned. Leave it to UPS to make it sound worse then it really is.

  10. UPS is at it again and has stated that a Train Derailment near Atlanta is at fault for delayed packages. How many times will they go to this excuse before people switch everything to Fed X?

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