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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2025, 07:49:36 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on April 26, 2025, 09:48:39 AM
The sad part is when you have no choice.
Last week I ordered items from two places. Both had no other shipping option than USPS.
One item (thankfully it was the time-sensitive one) arrived on time and intact. The other was due to arrive the same day, but took an extra seven days due to being re-routed to different hubs multiple times.....and all it had to do was go fro SC to GA.


its even worse if your address is a po box as you are way out in the country.  only USPS


they all suck, but it really does seem like some hubs are just trash, if it has to go thru one of the bad ones, its just bad.


I just recently had a next day air delivery that only had to go about 160 miles take 4 days.  It was from seattle to portland.  so not exactly small hubs.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2025, 01:09:58 PM »
If "next day air" takes 4 days, do you still have to pay for it? They should at least refund all except what the cheapest ground shipping would have cost. My package that arrived in Indy 13 days ago is still on it's way to the next facility, but they haven't updated it in 10 days. It's lost. I think it's time for a replacement. It already took 2 weeks to get from Virginia to wherever it is now.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2025, 02:27:51 PM »
They ate it.   Luckily  the live things in it survived.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2025, 08:40:04 PM »
so i just got a package from MO to ID  thru USPS.   I ordered it very late in the day on 4/24  shipped  late on the 25th, got here a little after 2 today the 28th.   


just standard value shipping, nothing crazy.   mean while the item i order on the 22 and shipped on the 23 from KS to ID shipped UPS ground is still 3 days out.  both were relatively small, and light.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #24 on: April 30, 2025, 07:01:19 AM »
Fed ex... from sf bay area to me just out side boise.

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« Reply #25 on: April 30, 2025, 01:56:42 PM »
Quote from: TAB on April 30, 2025, 07:01:19 AM
Fed ex... from sf bay area to me just out side boise.



I wonder how many states it's going to visit on its tour?

I messaged Olight Monday night about my missing package. They reshipped it Tuesday and it's expected to be here Friday. I got a box full of Thermold clips from Arizona today. It was Priority Mail and only took 2 days instead of all week. If they treated every package like Priority Mail, maybe they would all get here.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #26 on: May 01, 2025, 06:28:16 AM »
It was actually delivered the next day.  Makes me wonder if it got on the wrong plane some where or if thr Memphis was wrong.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #27 on: May 01, 2025, 11:46:58 AM »
I was behind a guy in the post office once and he was wanting to send some documents via USPS Overnight/Next Day.
The lady at the counter literally said "We can't guarantee they'll get there when you need them there.....maybe you should go to UPS since they guarantee they'll be there at 10:00 AM."
And, at the time, UPS was cheaper for overnight documents.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #28 on: May 01, 2025, 10:20:39 PM »
If you're shipping books or other media, I think USPS still has a "media" rate that's really cheap, but slow. If you sent CDs and books by media rate it could be quite a bit cheaper than UPS, but I prefer UPS for most things. I don't recall ever overnight shipping anything.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #29 on: May 02, 2025, 12:44:32 PM »
Back in the days before you just zip a file electronically, we shipped documents, blueprints, and some small parts via UPS overnight to our sister plant in Louisiana. Always got there on time.
I bet it's a gamble now even for UPS.
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For the Patriots of this country, the Constitution is second only to the Bible for most. For those who love this country, but do not share my personal beliefs, it is their Bible. To them nothing comes before the Constitution of these United States of America. For this we are all labeled potential terrorists. ~ Dean Garrison

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