This is the current status of all my packages that have allegedly been shipped since December 4th.:
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It is 'Their' season.....bah humbug!!
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This is the current status of all my packages that have allegedly been shipped since December 4th.:
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As someone who works in the mailing industry (not for USPS or anything, I work in the mail marketing industry) I can confirm that mail works in mysterious ways.
Some towns have post offices that don't actually handle any mail, the mail gets sent to a different neighboring post office, and THEN, once sorted, gets sent to the actual small-town post offices (to be picked up and delivered by the appropriate postmen).
The mailmen get a "CRRT" or carrier route, which is a # that dictates what houses they go to at what point. It's literally a sequence that goes 1-2-3-4.. down the street, telling the mailman where to go.. Only, more often than not, it's not "1-2-3-4", it's like.. 1-4-5-6-2-3-7-40-50-41-42..
Some companies, in order to save money on postage, wait till they get a certain number of items going to a specific zip code or general area before they ship 'em all out. In the end, the discount is only noticeable if you're sending 10,000+ pieces, but small companies do it too.
When you give your address to a company or something, try and include the ZIP+4. Those 4 digits at the end of your ZIP code (if you're a US resident) can make the difference between a mailing that makes it to your door and a mailing that sits in the post office for a few days before actually getting picked up/taken to you. Believe it or not, the 4 digits at the end can dictate SPECIFICALLY where you are. If you live in a multi-family home, it can dictate floor 1 or floor 2, if you live in an apartment, it can dictate whether your apt number is even or odd, whether that's on the left or right side of the hall, etc..
That was a bit of a rant, but just stopping in to confirm: It makes no .......n sense.
Some towns have post offices that don't actually handle any mail, the mail gets sent to a different neighboring post office, and THEN, once sorted, gets sent to the actual small-town post offices (to be picked up and delivered by the appropriate postmen).
The mailmen get a "CRRT" or carrier route, which is a # that dictates what houses they go to at what point. It's literally a sequence that goes 1-2-3-4.. down the street, telling the mailman where to go.. Only, more often than not, it's not "1-2-3-4", it's like.. 1-4-5-6-2-3-7-40-50-41-42..
Some companies, in order to save money on postage, wait till they get a certain number of items going to a specific zip code or general area before they ship 'em all out. In the end, the discount is only noticeable if you're sending 10,000+ pieces, but small companies do it too.
When you give your address to a company or something, try and include the ZIP+4. Those 4 digits at the end of your ZIP code (if you're a US resident) can make the difference between a mailing that makes it to your door and a mailing that sits in the post office for a few days before actually getting picked up/taken to you. Believe it or not, the 4 digits at the end can dictate SPECIFICALLY where you are. If you live in a multi-family home, it can dictate floor 1 or floor 2, if you live in an apartment, it can dictate whether your apt number is even or odd, whether that's on the left or right side of the hall, etc..
That was a bit of a rant, but just stopping in to confirm: It makes no .......n sense.
USPS has been good to me for the most part. Usually tracking is accurate and on time or a lot of times earlier than the expected delivery date. I have an IPV mini and some RTAs from angelcigs. Angelcigs should have arrived yesterday, and the ipv mini is supposed to arrive today. Last update was them leaving California last week. The tracking is usually up to date all the time, but this time of year I can expect to have some slight delays.
I have way better experiences with USPS than FedEx and generally better experiences with USPS than UPS.
I have noticed that mail coming to me from the Seattle area gets here faster than mail coming from anywhere else on either coast. Being in the middle of the US, I am pretty much equidistant to everything.
In regards to the very first post. They were shipping from City of Industry. That place is a totally mental wreck and always has been, I was born and raised in Southern California and it is basically a city without people. It is also the city that was essentially trying to kick out the sriracha plant a couple months back.
I have noticed that mail coming to me from the Seattle area gets here faster than mail coming from anywhere else on either coast. Being in the middle of the US, I am pretty much equidistant to everything.
In regards to the very first post. They were shipping from City of Industry. That place is a totally mental wreck and always has been, I was born and raised in Southern California and it is basically a city without people. It is also the city that was essentially trying to kick out the sriracha plant a couple months back.
Everything I have ordered from UK being shipped Royal Mail has hit the Customs office here in the US in under 4 days.
It can take anywhere from 5 days to 23 days for it to get from Customs in my own country to my mail box.
On the other side of that if I send something international it is never less than 5 days before it leaves this country.
Royal Mail > USPS
Ah, I see we're both in Omaha lol. My shipments, or at least one of them, is coming from City of Industry, CA. As long as I get them before the end of the week
I hate when that happens. I always get worried that they delivered something to the wrong address and I'll never get it if the person doesn't take it to the right address. I've had it to where it's "Out for Delivery" but then it says "status not updated" and I get it the next day. I wonder if they just say f it and finish delivering packages the next day.
That's how it is where I live. Oakfield, TN is a SMALL ruralish suburb of Jackson, TN (which isn't all that big either) and we have our own post office. The building is maybe 20'x20' and postmen use their personal vehicles with a magnetic strobe on the roof.
Yep.
When the post office is the smaller than most airport bathrooms, it's not very likely they're handling/sorting the mail there. They just get the bundles sort of ready-to-go. Once it's in the hands of your local mailman, it shouldn't be too bad, but if it gets stuck sorting at the larger post office, that's when you get screwed and it'll sometimes say "out for delivery" when it's actually not.
if i buy from a vendor say, 200 miles away, it takes 4-8 days to get to me. if i want something quick i order from a vendor in Boise, Idaho. it gets to me in 2-3 days. must be a direct line to Nashville. go figure.
I and some others have started suspecting that WholeCig does this, or maybe just saves up to X number of pkgs before they ship anything -- sometimes they've shipped my orders the same or next day, sometimes they take up to a week before they even take it to the PO -- it's maddening, when you consider their only shipping option is 2 day priority -- I realize that rate is only for the actual mailing, but when you pay that much for shipping, you'd like to see a bit more alacrity on the part of the vendor.
Andria
I think some states just have much better postal service that other states -- if I order from CT or AZ or NM, it gets to me here in GA in just a couple days -- if I order something from FL, it takes a week. They must be out working on their tans.
Of course, Washington state has the same problem, but I know EXACTLY what THEY are doing -- 
-- and that ain't tobacco! Andria
Of course, Washington state has the same problem, but I know EXACTLY what THEY are doing --
Andria
The hula??????
Day 8 still waiting on a package mailed on the 2nd, has been sitting in Dallas for two days now about 6 hours away from me. Was on the phone with their so called "CS" which was absolutely no help at all. I politely remarked that I would just hope it would be here by the weekend and you know what (exact words) in the other and see which filled up first. They laughed heartily and then asked if there was something else they could help me with. I sure wish more vape companies would offer other shipping options than these goofballs, all of my Amazon stuff shipped via UPS or FedEx arrives on time or early. And I am sure they would claim it's the weather impacting delivery except it has been in the 60-70's near here and Dallas the last few days.
That's why I love ordering from Nickoticket, because they're only a couple miles away from me, so I order and I get it the next day xD
Grr….I ordered two more isticks from eCiggity on the 10th. They shipped on the 11th, and I paid the extra 5.75 to get "two to three day priority" shipping…so the delivery estimate was Saturday or Monday. According to the USPS tracking website on Saturday, my delivery estimate was today, Monday the 15th. The package arrived from Hawaii to my local sorting center (otherwise known as The Magical Place Where Any Idiot Can Apparently Find A Job Making 18 Bucks An Hour) on Sunday morning. Then, according to USPS.com, it was sent from there to my local post office, due to be delivered this morning.
Except, I get there, and there is no package. I give them my tracking information, and am told that my package has been "mis-sorted" to the wrong post office. And no, I can't go there and pick it up, I have to wait till tomorrow to see if the precious darlings can manage to send it back to the "hub" where it will then supposedly be sent to the CORRECT post office this time. Might be a couple of days, according to the clerk, because "they are super busy this time of year." No s---.
She assured me that it would be redelivered, and not returned to eCiggity, but who the heck knows? I run two businesses that involve shipping items to customers. Do you know how often I have to give refunds because of this crap? Way too often. You'd think that the post office, whose job is delivering the mail, could actually deliver the mail, but in many cases you would be wrong. And then they can't imagine why everyone thinks they are incompetent, why the post office is hemorrhaging money, and why so many people are in favor of doing away with the USPS altogether. 9 times out of 10, the clerks that I deal with at my local branch, who have worked there at least the 10 years I have lived here, are so brain-dead that I have to watch what they are doing when they are ringing up my packages to be mailed, because if I didn't catch them doing something stupid like putting the wrong barcode on the wrong package I would have even more unhappy customers whose items ended up 300 miles away from where they were supposed to be, never to be seen again.
Except, I get there, and there is no package. I give them my tracking information, and am told that my package has been "mis-sorted" to the wrong post office. And no, I can't go there and pick it up, I have to wait till tomorrow to see if the precious darlings can manage to send it back to the "hub" where it will then supposedly be sent to the CORRECT post office this time. Might be a couple of days, according to the clerk, because "they are super busy this time of year." No s---.
She assured me that it would be redelivered, and not returned to eCiggity, but who the heck knows? I run two businesses that involve shipping items to customers. Do you know how often I have to give refunds because of this crap? Way too often. You'd think that the post office, whose job is delivering the mail, could actually deliver the mail, but in many cases you would be wrong. And then they can't imagine why everyone thinks they are incompetent, why the post office is hemorrhaging money, and why so many people are in favor of doing away with the USPS altogether. 9 times out of 10, the clerks that I deal with at my local branch, who have worked there at least the 10 years I have lived here, are so brain-dead that I have to watch what they are doing when they are ringing up my packages to be mailed, because if I didn't catch them doing something stupid like putting the wrong barcode on the wrong package I would have even more unhappy customers whose items ended up 300 miles away from where they were supposed to be, never to be seen again.
Nearly 3 days with no update. Scheduled to be delivered by tomorrow. If it isn't I'm calling to PO. I'm usually not to anxious/worried but its a rather expensive purchase at a hectic time of year and I've never had something that shipped across the entire country without a single update for 3 consecutive days.
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