See, Amazon is so good that they create unmatched expectations from all other suppliers, including the poor old Lolo from Evenos!
It's kind of unfair. But I know exactly what you mean. With Az, I can almost see the parcel arriving. They let me know when the delivery man is getting close! And I can tack his/her position almost in real-time! That's insane.
That's how they play us getting us all addicted to the quality of service that no competition can match.
La Poste even changed their delivery status from precise to vague!
They are particularly bad for the last stretch to you home, as far as I can tell. So now from a certain point they just tell you they are doing their best to get it to you as quickly as possible...
I feel for you
@Jazz Is All
This was so true I was laughing while feeling like crying. That's exactly what their message said for 5 whole days since the last entry last Thursday....I translated the French with Google and it informs me quite reassuringly that,
Your package is in transit on our logistics platforms to be delivered to you as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately that gibberish is not reassuring at all but perhaps the translation is at fault and not the original text. I mean, WTH does "in transit on our logistics platforms" mean in a real sense.I know what a platform is as in a construction platform and a diving platform and according to the dictionary in transportation a platform is generally:
a raised structure along the side of a railway track where passengers get on and off trains at a station. So what the hell is a logistics platform? Well I looked it up and here is the technical definition that will elucidate me:
The best known definition of logistic platform is probably that provided by the European Association of Freight Villages EUROPLATFORMS, as “a defined area within which all activities relating to transport, logistics and the distribution of goods, both for national and international transit, are carried out by various operators. It is run by a single body, either public or private, and is equipped with all the public facilities to carry out the above mentioned operations”.
In simpler terms, a logistic platform can be defined as a specialised area with the infrastructure and services required for co-modal transportation and added value services, where different agents coordinate their activities to benefit the competitiveness of the products making use of the infrastructure. Based on the above definition, it is important to distinguish between different types of logistic platform, according to their operative complexity and operational integration:
Get That? I love the second paragraph that starts "in simpler terms" and then proceeds to repeat the same b.s. but just with different obfuscating vocabulary. Lovely bit of bureaucratic drivel that elucidates nothing. All it made me think of was a bunch of guys with dollies and trolleys endlessly shunting palettes of cartons and freight around the loading platform at some mail facility in the middle of China, France, G.B., Japan or Buttfck-Wherever USA. In other words stuck there and not going anywhere for days until they have enough other freight going to the same location to gang-ship it with. Until then, it's Bob Dylan singing You Ain't Going Nowhere. And of course this is what you get unless you pay the top price for Special Express delivery, which naturally this is not.
I may not work in shipping but I know that even for the lowest class of tracked freight anytime a piece is moved from one place on its trajectory to the next, it is automatically scanned and registered as being there. That is how the tracking page is generated in the first place. In the case of this French System those entries are labelled as Étapes, i.e. steps, as in steps from Évenos to Barcelona, and hEven only nos how many that will be.
| DATES | | ÉTAPES |
|---|
| jeudi 26 novembre | | Votre colis est en transit sur nos plateformes logistiques pour vous être livré le plus rapidement possible. |
| jeudi 26 novembre | | Votre colis est en transit dans notre réseau pour vous être livré le plus rapidement possible. |
| mercredi 25 novembre | | Votre colis est en transit sur nos plateformes logistiques pour vous être livré le plus rapidement possible. |
| mercredi 25 novembre | | Votre colis a été déposé dans un point postal. |
| mercredi 25 novembre | | Votre Colissimo va bientôt nous être confié ! Il est en cours de préparation chez votre expéditeur. |
Reading this record of the movement (sic) of my saxy box, it is important to keep in mind that prepositions are very important syntactical objects because they give you information about the directional and locational motion of an action or inaction. So I have put them in Bold because as you shall see, they are about the only thing different in all but one of the entries so far.
Looking at Wednesday, November 25 when the seller sent it off it was deposited IN a postal station and then it was in transit ON their logistic platform to be delivered to me as quickly as possible. This is why the next day Thursday, Nov 26 it was now IN their network to be delivered bla bla bla etc etc. Later that same day it was now ON their logistic platform (once again I assume) to be delivered to me bla bla bal and so on. From IN to ON does not to me denote much movement, if any, TOWARDS Barcelona.
Okay, I wasn't born yesterday and while I am not a computer geek or a freight transit controller you can't piss down my back and make me believe it's raining. When packages like this are logged in and have a tracking number they are automatically scanned every Étape of the way. So if there is nothing on this page since Thursday, it can only mean that the package is still in that facility and as yet has gone nowhere. I know this from dealing with packages sent to me by a couple of sellers on Amazon that I didn't know were shipping from Guangdong China. (They had addresses in England to fool you.) Every step the camels took from there to Barcelona, someone shouted Marco and the tracking device printed out Polo, and lemme tell you it was a very slow train coming, 6 weeks slow, which is so slow even Bob Dylan would have cried "Mama get my guns outta the ground, I'm not waiting anymore."
So it seems to have stayed IN transit ON their wonderful Logistic Platform in Évenos to be sent as rapidly as possible TO me. However, again, they never promised me a rose garden, just delivery within 2 weeks. Considering that it's all of 563 Km (a six hour drive) from there to here that makes for many days of sitting around going nowhere, McQuinn. I mean you wouldn't expect for them to move it only 40 Km a day just to keep that schedule when they can do it in jumps. Évenos to Marseille, Marseille to Montpelier, Montpelier to Perpignan, Perpignan to Gerona, Gerona to Barcelona, which is more efficient because it goes only when the vehicle is available. Perhaps tomorrow the Tracking Meister will show that it has finally arrived in Marseille. By boat no doubt.
