ThayerRags

I hope you get a chuckle out of this. I can’t help but see the humor in some things that happen in our high-tech world of efficiency today.

As you may have noticed in my previous postings, I have mentioned what I call “Traveling Treadles”, as in my MUTT (Multi-Use Traveling Treadle) and my MUTTIN (Multi-Use Traveling Treadle INdustrial) which I’m referring to the “traveling” portion of the name as being something that can travel with me easily. Well, I may be getting a different traveling treadle, as in, “Well Traveled Treadle”.

The 1901 Singer 27K2 treadle stand that I recently got has a broken treadle on it. The foot plate that runs the pitman is broken. I spotted a replacement on eBay and bought it from a fellow in Wisconsin on December 24th, and had it shipped to a business address in Frederick Oklahoma. Knowing that the Holiday Season is a bad time to have machine parts shipped, I figured it would take a while to arrive. Well, here it is January 4th, and while it’s still not here yet, it’s been trying. Here is where it’s been thus far:

Tendered at FedEx location - Dec-26-13, 08:30 PST, APPLETON, WI 54914
Picked up - Dec-26-13, 16:21 PST, OSHKOSH, WI 54901
Arrived at FedEx location - Dec-26-13, 17:13 PST, OSHKOSH, WI 54901
Left FedEx origin facility - Dec-26-13, 18:48 PST, OSHKOSH, WI 54901
Arrived at FedEx location - Dec-26-13, 22:47 PST, CHICAGO, IL 60638
Departed FedEx location - Dec-27-13, 01:52 PST, CHICAGO, IL 60638
Arrived at FedEx location - Dec-27-13, 04:31 PST, FEDEX SMARTPOST NEW BERLIN, WI 53151
Departed FedEx location - Dec-28-13, 04:06 PST, FEDEX SMARTPOST NEW BERLIN, WI 53151
Shipment information sent to U.S. Postal Service - Jan-01-14, 22:00 PST 73542
Arrived at FedEx location - Jan-02-14, 11:49 PST, FEDEX SMARTPOST DALLAS, TX 75211
Departed FedEx location - Jan-02-14, 13:26 PST, FEDEX SMARTPOST DALLAS, TX 75211
Arrived at FedEx location - Jan-02-14, 16:46 PST, HUTCHINS, TX 75141-0000
Departed FedEx location - Jan-02-14, 20:54 PST, HUTCHINS, TX 75141-0000
Arrived at FedEx location - Jan-03-14, 04:21 PST, WICHITA FALLS, TX 76306-0000
Departed FedEx location - Jan-03-14, 04:25 PST, WICHITA FALLS, TX 76306-0000
In transit - Jan-03-14, 07:04 PST, FREDERICK, OK 73542
Arrived at FedEx location - Jan-03-14, 19:47 PST, HUTCHINS, TX 75141-0000

I figure that the U-turn in Chicago may have been due to weather. (or maybe not?)
Where was it those 5 days between New Berlin and Dallas, and why was the USPS notified?
Hutchins Texas is just south of Dallas Texas.
Wichita Falls Texas is just SE of Frederick Oklahoma.
It was in transit in my small town of Frederick, OK yesterday.
The receiving business (our shop) was open, and one of us was there from 0845 until 1715 (5:15 PM).
Twelve hours later, it was back down south of Dallas, 210 miles away.

I wonder if it has to go make another U-turn in Chicago before I get it? LOL

CD in Oklahoma

Monroe

Hopefully it doesn't have a passport or who knows where it would go! If I was a frozen piece of metal I'd sneak onto a plane bound for warmer climes.

amcatanzaro

mmmmmmmmm. Smartpost. My least favorite shipping method ever. As long as it's in motion it should get to you eventually.
How's February look for you?

mighty

Holly cow, poor thing!!!!

barny

Maybe it just likes to travel.

ThayerRags

If it’s like my broken one, it came from Brittan. I hope it doesn’t decide to go visit relatives on this traveling extravaganza that it’s on.....

It’s got work that needs to be done. No time for frittering around the countryside....LOL


CD in Oklahoma

Rodney

That's at least explains part of why Fed Ex is so expensive. That looks like a lot of extra miles that they could have been hauling something else instead.
Rodney

ThayerRags

Update on the “Well Traveled Treadle”:

We don’t have our little shop open on most Saturdays, and we were gone all day (to Wichita Falls, TX ironically), but our little treadle peddle was peddling its way back toward our place, or at least, that’s what the tracker says.

Here’s its continued travels:

Departed FedEx location - Jan-04-14, 01:38 PST, HUTCHINS, TX 75141-0000
Arrived at local Post Office - Allow one to two additional days for delivery - Jan-04-14, 04:54 PST, FREDERICK, OK 73542
Arrived at FedEx location - Jan-04-14, 05:38 PST, WICHITA FALLS, TX 76306-0000
Departed FedEx location - Jan-04-14, 05:42 PST, WICHITA FALLS, TX 76306-0000
Package delivered by U.S. Postal Service to addressee - Jan-04-14, 06:16 PST, FREDERICK, OK 73542

It’s probably a good thing that it was handed off to the USPS.

But, can someone ‘splain to me how it got to the Local Post Office before it went through the Wichita Falls location? Wichita Falls is between here and Hutchins Texas. About 60 miles away. Did it come here to the Post Office, then go back to the Wichita Falls FedEx location, and then come back here to the Post Office? About 110 miles in about an hour and 10 minutes, including two scans at WF and a delivery of 2 blocks with scan? And to think that my wife and I were on that road where all of this was happening today!

We have Saturday delivery here, but after 8 years, they know that the shop isn’t open on most Saturdays, so the carrier holds it until Monday. The treadle is not here at the house (small town, everybody knows everybody and where they live), so we still don’t actually have it. We’ll have to wait until Monday to see if it’s actually even here in town.

The Seller will look at the tracking (I gave him and eBay a heads-up about the problem, so they’re watching it) and figure that I’ve got the item, no matter what I say.

And....I think that.....on the count of something....we should all synchronize our clocks.........LOL

CD in Oklahoma

Yooper32

Well, the very least you could have done is to show us a pic of this oh-so-very-well-travelled-machine-part. lol

ThayerRags

Photo? You're missing the point. I don't have it to photograph it yet.....

CD in Oklahoma