I live about 1 & 1/2 hours from New Philly and my packages still take three days to get to me. They are sitting on my packages on purpose to make the 3 - 5 day shipping estimate. I know this because of the tracking times, it does not take all most 24 hours to get to Akron from New Philly, as you can see it took them just over 1.5 hours for your package.
They wonder why the post office is loosing sales and going down hill....
Not to be a shill for USPS, but expecting that being in close proximity to where a package was shipped will mean that you should get your "Priority 2-3 day" package as soon or sooner than the person that spends the extra $$$ on an overnight or express package defies logic just as much as a package from an hour away taking 2 or 3 days to arrive does. I understand the frustration of waiting 2 or 3 days for a package that is shipped from an hour or two away, but that's the service you are buying. It is possible that if you have it shipped First Class rather than Priority that you might get it sooner. Of course, you could always pay the extra for overnight. We all want our vapermail ASAP, but we also need to understand the way that the shipping process works. Yes, the USPS can F up in rare instances, but they are still generally the lowest priced shipping method and are very reliable the vast majority of the time.
As a side note, the reason that the USPS is having financial difficulty has nothing to do with a lack of reliability or shipping times. Yes, there has been a significant reduction in basic first class mail, but that has more to do with widespread electronic communication as opposed to mailing letters. Also, their Priority and Express package business continues to grow at a healthy rate.
They are in the red because we have had elected officials that don't want to see government services to be successful and would rather see all mail service privatized. In the lame duck session of 2006, congress passed and The former President signed an absurd law that required the USPS to fund their employee pensions 75 years in advance over a period of only 10 years. It is a craven effort to cripple the USPS by require them to fund pensions in a way that no government agency or private corporation has ever had to do, causing a deficit of billions of $$$ before even one package is delivered. And even being handcuffed by this nonsense, they manage to pick up a package in AZ and get it to my mailbox in CT in less than 48 hours, usually for no more than $5 or $6. Try that same route with UPS or FedEx ground. It would cost more like $13 and take 4 or 5 days.
I'm not trying to be snippy or anything, and i don't have any connection to USPS, but I also feel the need to dispel some of the misconceptions out there. I just get rubbed the wrong way when someone drops the "No wonder why the post office is in trouble" line, usually because they have been ill-informed. The media does a piss-poor job of looking deeper into a story and reporting the facts, and there are some outlets that go out of their way to report stories in a way to shape conventional wisdom to their point of view.
