I bought some antique prints from Germany and they took forever but eventually got here. The last one had tracking going to Hamburg or someplace on November 2 and then no activity at all until it shows up at my house a week ago. Go figure.

I’m kinda curious while all my bills arrive thru the mail right on time like nothing happened . But if I’m expecting something I really want it takes the equivalent of twice the normal time and three additional days ? Don’t get me wrong I want my bills on time and paid on time just saying !!!!!

Latest purchase on it's way from Mississippi, 2 day priority mail, now on the fifth day!

I ordered an item yesterday and it should arrive today..... Amazon Prime.

I don't doubt it in the least.

If it was coming USPS, even if it was supposed to arrive the next day - I wouldn't hold my breath.





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It arrived at about 3:30 pm yesterday.






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I mailed a gun to VT. I went to the Post Office Tuesday morning and asked that it get there by Friday. The postman looked and told me I would have to use 2 day express mail and guaranteed it would be there by Thursday. The gun arrived on time from CO to VT.

Ken

Mr. Bishop did letter for me Dec.15 2020. Post mark Jan. 08 2021. Received 1 27 2021.

They all have delivery problems, but I am afraid that soon we will not be able to send guns by any means! ammo being on the top of the cannot ship, gary

How does Registered Mail compare with other services for delivery time?

My Amazon orders, generally small stuff, are arriving much faster now and pretty much when they say they will. I have to go in today to pick up three orders. A friend in Idaho sent a very nice and very old railroad lantern to someone here in southeast Alaska, using two boxes, one for the lantern body, the other for the more fragile glass globe. One box arrived empty, having clearly been cut open and resealed. That was a surprise.

just to keep it interesting -

I ordered some photographic film late in the day last Tuesday, a box of B&W and I meant to order some color film for landscapes, but clicked the wrong button and accidentally ordered one better suited for portraits -

I noticed the mistake as soon as I got the almost instant order confirmation email

no big deal, and no need to cancel, I was almost out of that film anyway and would still use it, so I went right back on and ordered the one I really wanted.

the company I ordered from is in NYC - I'm in upstate

the first order - the one with two boxes was here on Friday via UPS. The shipping email for the second order (one box) said it would be here Monday.

Monday I checked the tracking and UPS said they had, on Monday, handed the package off to their delivery partner-- USPS :shock: - giving it to the local sorting station - where it sat for three days. the tracking for those three days said there was no guarantee on delivery timing. Even after arriving, the tracking still said it was at the sorting station

so - four days longer for a short transit distance just because USPS was in the mix

Photographic film? Real film? I have a 50? ft roll of Kodak B&W(lowest ASA) that's been in my freezer unopened for over 40yrs, and gobs of Kodak Kodachrome and print film. You have any use for any of it?

:cool:


yes real film - the order was for 4x5 sheet film

but i do still shoot 35 and 120 roll film, i need to find my Watson bulk film loader :rotf:

:rotf::rotf::rotf:

i just now got a shipping notice with a USPS tracking number

I was confused because I had not ordered a second one of that item - since I got one months ago

so - I click on the tracking number -

it said - delivered Nov 13 2020

:rolleyes:

The tracking info does not mean too much.

In January we had to pay 4 bills electronically as our checks were delayed a couple weeks. I just bought something from a member here which he mailed from Michigan 2 day priority mail. It got here February 1 which was the due date! I asked him if my check had made it to him and, thusfar, no answer. So, it looks like the letter delivery must still be compromised.

crazy ...knock on wood I have heard all these horror stories I have yet to have any myself and I have been amazoning... buying ammo etc and no problems..I just ordered some reloading supplies from a small operation in Wi. Tuesday and it showed up today here on the eastern shore.... RST sent me a email today saying my order was shipped today should be here by the 8th...so I'll see

I have only had problems once with USPS. This past season I cut and wrapped a hindquarter for a friend in Tennesee. I sent it overnight express. The package never got there yet they stated it was delivered. It showed up two weeks later stinking like hell. It must have been in the post office all that time. I don't know why they delivered a rancid smelling package but they did.

I cut up another hind quarter for this friend but sent it UPS. This package showed up on time.

it can work

a member sent me a package - mailed from Fairbanks Alaska on the 3rd, the label says expected delivery date was the 8th

it arrived in upstate NY on the 6th

somebody screwed up :rotf::rotf::rotf:

hopefully, the check traveling the reverse route will not be the rule the package was the exception to :corn:

There are a few of us who still shoot black and white, large and small format, develop, and print our own photographs. The fine print quality of paper is still better than ink jet and laser printing, although I had some Adirondack landscapes printed with a large format Epson, very impressive quality. Tradition dies hard.

Check arrived Rick. Thanks. I could have sent you two bulk loaders - a Lee and a Watson - and a bag of empty canisters, but didn't get an answer on whether you wanted them. I can still send them if you like.

sorry, thought I had, sure I will take them as well

sooooo-

the current issues may be just a test run :rotf:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...il-report-says

Interesting blurb on the local news this morning that back before WW-I postage was cheaper than train tickets and people mailed children under fifty pounds to relatives in other cities rather than spring for a train ticket.

Here's the tracking info for a Priority Mail envelope with a payment check inside, mailed to Steve Barnett LLC in West Point, MS.

Feb 10 - mailed at my local PO here in PA
Feb 11 - arrived and departed Phila PA Dist. Center
Feb 12 - arrived at Jackson MS Dist. Center
Feb 13 - departed Jackson
Feb 20 - arrived at PO in Steens MS
Feb 22 - back in Jackson MS Dist. center
Feb 24 - delivered to West Point PO and then to SB LLC

14 days in transit when Priority Mail used to take 3 days max. :banghead:

USPS now has a service where you get an email every day showing what mail is coming that day. Well, that was a great idea and worked well for a while, but now what is shown as coming and what actually comes are two different things. Something shown as coming Thursday came Saturday. Something that came last week is shown as coming today.

Slow delivery is frustrating, but just as frustrating to me is the lack of tracking updating and information. I'm really tired of the "Your package is arriving later than usual and is in transit to the next destination" message with no updates as to where the darn thing is or what's going on. I checked on two shipments yesterday that were ordered on 2/9, scheduled to arrive on 2/12, still in transit, and the last tracking update was 2/10 :banghead:

Gentlemen ,I have sent a handful of items in the last couple of months and learned to send everything " EXPRESS MAIL INSURED " ,they guarantee it will be delivered by a certain time on a certain day or you get a complete refund of your shipping and Insurance charges ! It costs quite a bit more in most cases but it actually has worked every time ! I have sent items from Pa. to Illinois and they arrived in two days ! As an example 2 Day Priority Insured was 91.00 and some change and the lady said Priority was running three weeks behind ,Express was 161.00 and some change but it arrived four hours early on the correct day ! I mentioned to the lady at the post office that assured me it was Covid related why the mail was so far behind ,I wondered if she found it miraculous that if you were willing to pay more everything worked just fine Covid or no Covid ! She just stared at me like I had Two Heads !!!!!!!! :shock:

I swore by Priority mail and even bragged on their service. After multiple frustrating experiences most recently I switched over to UPS and just package it well. Did send a small package to Phx today by Priority mail. 90 miles away lets see how many weeks it takes to get there.

UPS wanted over 300.00 for the same 2 Day service I paid Express mail $160.00 for and FED EX was even higher ! I told the guy $80.00 for shipping but I knew Priority wasn't getting there for weeks ,so I just bit the bullet !

I am beginning to believe Priority service is substantially affected by gravity. I sent a package to Spencerport NY in late September and it took 14 days. Spencerport is roughly 400 miles North of me. I had a package delivered today, mailed two days ago, from that same town.

well Edgar

the bridge is out over the canal there and the PO is south of the canal-

so the delivery man would have to remember to go a little east or west to another bridge and not sit to wait out the red light at the normal crossing

on the other hand - our friend would already be south of the canal when he entered your package into the system

:cheers:

:vconfused::vconfused::vconfused:

Priority Mail means that they will supply packaging, which isn't free, and deliver your package at there convenience. I don't ever see any U.S. government agencies making guarantees.

My north vs south theory has been busted by a package, shipped Wednesday from Decatur GA arriving here at 1pm

Edgar you did not take into account elevation, you are at 138 feet Decatur is 1,048. It is all down hill to your house and same with Spencerport.

A month ago had what started out as a simple transaction here. One month later, two checks drawn by the buyer and sent to me, and still nothing. What ever happened to "Neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night" ? Guess they should have inserted "Covid19"

I spoke to the USPS guy behind the counter to ask why my check for a transaction I did was in some "black hole" somewhere in the tracking history. He said to me the reason why is if one person in a warehouse or a facility gets a positive COVID test result, all of that person's co-workers get a 14 day stay at home isolation. The Nashua NH facility was down for like a month and all the mail was sent to the Springfield MA location thus increasing workload there causing huge delays. He also said the previous USPS Postmaster changed the logistics that some people are blaming this mess for. Even today, they are still delivering Christmas cards and the guaranteed service will not be honored for sometime. Even the Overnight service. The package / letter will get there but who knows when it will get there. He did say it may improve in March. It is a complete fiasco.

Our governor just moved the vaccine goal posts again & starting March 5th all postal workers will be eligible to get the shots.

This could help with the mail service locally, but I'm wondering how many USPS workers will step-up to the plate & get them, when all it takes is one co-worker to test positive & you get a two week vacation?:shock::rolleyes: