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owsf2000 ([personal profile] owsf2000) wrote in [personal profile] kane_magus 2021-01-04 07:49 pm (UTC)

The website will only reflect things they electronically scan, when they scan it, most likely. So there's technically a chance it might show up before it gets an actual update on the website - and then your signing off on it ends up updating it as delivered.

Not sure how swamped couriers and the like are these days with the pandemic technically still on the go. I know in Canada, particularly back in the spring/early summer people were ordering shit online a lot. In some cases simply because of lockdowns making it the only way to order from some companies. That caused delays to the tune of 2-3 extra weeks. For instance, the shipments I talk about below would normally have taken just 3-4 days to arrive, but instead took closer to a month. In one split-shipment case, one half of it wasn't updating in location at all until right before it was delivered.

Regarding split shipments, large companies often have warehouses at different places in the country with different parts of their inventory. Odds are the converter was only available at a separate location so it got sent on it's own. (Or vice versa - perhaps the SD drives were only available from a second warehouse that's further away.)

Same kind of deal happened when I ordered some manga from Chapter's online site indigo earlier this year. Some of the older volumes were apparently only in their BC store while the rest was available still in their ontario location. So to save costs they shipped whatever they could from the closest locations first rather than just filling the order entirely from the much farther location even if it had everything I requested.




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