Post Office Shipping Times

[angelique510]

I have bought, sold, and traded a lot of things on the classifieds here - not to mention countless items on eBay. I have gotten items from across the country in a matter of days, and items from the next state sometimes take a week or more. It doesn't matter if it is first class, priority, or parcel post. There seems to be no consistancy or logic in this.

For example - Someone shipped me a package last Saturday and it is still not here. Someone else shipped me a package Wednesday, and I got it yesterday. What is even crazier is when I did a trade -We both shipped a similar sized package, the same method , the same distance, on the same day. I got his package, and he has yet to get mine. We are all private sellers/ traders, not comercial vendors.

Has anyone deciphered the methods of USPS? At what point in time should I start to get worried and take action? For that matter, what actions do I or should I take? I don't want to nag a seller - if he says he shipped it on a certain day, I will take him at his word. Getting disgruntled with a post office worker does no goood, they have more experience than I do at it.

Is this a common frustration? Does anyone have answers? Should I just take some more Midol and go back to bed? Why does everyone and everything choose this particular week of the month to mess with my head? How do they know? Why has my husband been in his woodshop and the kids at their friends' houses every waking minute for the past three days? Does anyone have an bourbon and chocolate?

~A

 

[maureengill]

I have bought, sold, and traded a lot of things on the classifieds here - not to mention countless items on eBay. I have gotten items from across the country in a matter of days, and items from the next state sometimes take a week or more. It doesn't matter if it is first class, priority, or parcel post. There seems to be no consistancy or logic in this.

For example - Someone shipped me a package last Saturday and it is still not here. Someone else shipped me a package Wednesday, and I got it yesterday. What is even crazier is when I did a trade -We both shipped a similar sized package, the same method , the same distance, on the same day. I got his package, and he has yet to get mine. We are all private sellers/ traders, not comercial vendors.

Has anyone deciphered the methods of USPS? At what point in time should I start to get worried and take action? For that matter, what actions do I or should I take? I don't want to nag a seller - if he says he shipped it on a certain day, I will take him at his word. Getting disgruntled with a post office worker does no goood, they have more experience than I do at it.

Is this a common frustration? Does anyone have answers? Should I just take some more Midol and go back to bed? Why does everyone and everything choose this particular week of the month to mess with my head? How do they know? Why has my husband been in his woodshop and the kids at their friends' houses every waking minute for the past three days? Does anyone have an bourbon and chocolate?

~A

Sorry girlie...sounds like PMS or PMDD to me...sucks to be women doesn't it hope it gets better for you...

P.S. Bourbon and chocolate sounds wonderful...all i have is vanilla vodka and coke

Maureen

 

[Guineahill]

I have no clue what is up with USPS. I wish packages got marked along the way each time they made a stop. I would love to find out where some of them have been!

And I have Chocolate and Bourbon... if you still need it I'd be happy to share.