USPS - back to pony express days!

[Cold Spring]

I can understand some delays nowadays but to compound things the USPS isn't scanning Priority Mail envelopes - at least not those that go through Phila - and the tracking shows a vague statement: "your item is on its way". No scans at intermediate stops as in the past. Just two weeks ago my payment and FFL copy for a SxS took 9 days to arrive in So Cal. That was with 3 day Priority mail. And the seller was about to sell the gun to the next highest bidder because he thought my envelope went astray to a far away galaxy and wouldn't be located for many additional days. Icing on the cake on the 9th day was the tracking showed "we attempted to deliver at 9:30 (am) but couldn't access the location", but the seller's agent said they were open and in the office starting at 7:30 and no post office employee came by. Nice.

[Pa SxS]

Of course it's not a long gun but I ordered a MEC super sizer last Friday. According to USPS tracking it was sent priority mail. Arrived at the USPS distribution center in Wisconsin on Saturday, arrived at the local distribution center in Harrisburg on Monday and is out for delivery today. We'll see.