USPS sucks!
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Yep. USPS sucks.
Although preparation may solve personal issues like running out of juice or cartos/attys, doesn't change the fact that USPS sucks.
Although preparation may solve personal issues like running out of juice or cartos/attys, doesn't change the fact that USPS sucks.
Do they ever actualy update tracking info ? According to there site my Buzzpro has been sitting in LA for five days now at this rate it should be here by August.
Sure they update...once it's delivered to you. I've had that happen several times. Unfortunately, USPS could care less about the mail system...just do the job for a paycheck...and they wonder why we hate them.
Don't know if you have them there or not, but around here CVS and Walgreens carry disposible ecigs these days. You might check there if you have them in Colorado. Hang in there!! I'm feelin and pullin for ya!!
I hate to defend the Post Office, since I've been dissing them for years, but I've been pleasantly surprised by their service since I've started vaping. I've been spoiled by Amazon Prime's shipping for the last 3 or so years (which is why I dissed the Post Office), so I was not looking forward to having to use USPS for vaping supplies. But they've been fast and accurate. The problems I've had were definitely with the shipper, or my own overblown expectations.
As was mentioned about them losing money for several years, there's a very bad and specific reason for that. In 2005, the presidential administration made a:
"requirement that the Postal Service put 80 percent of its retiree health benefits for the next 75 years into a newly created Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund. The payments are to be made at a highly accelerated rate that amounts to a total cost to the USPS of more than $5 billion each year through 2016. According to Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the Postal Service is essentially being asked to pay the future health benefits of employees that don’t even work for it yet.
By contrast, most private sector companies pre-fund just 30 percent of future retiree health care costs, if they do so at all"
So, they were making $1.5bil/yr in 2005 to losing money the next. They've had several rounds of layoffs, and they cancelled things like scanner systems for package tracking to some areas. Considering all of that, my postal lady is very nice and works long hours. I see her delivering to the other side of my street after 6pm sometimes when I get home. I get my stuff roughly when I expect it, and my shipping costs are like $2 for a whole sampler pack of juice. After learning about how they are run, I find myself giving them a lot more leeway. Just my $.02.
As was mentioned about them losing money for several years, there's a very bad and specific reason for that. In 2005, the presidential administration made a:
"requirement that the Postal Service put 80 percent of its retiree health benefits for the next 75 years into a newly created Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund. The payments are to be made at a highly accelerated rate that amounts to a total cost to the USPS of more than $5 billion each year through 2016. According to Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the Postal Service is essentially being asked to pay the future health benefits of employees that don’t even work for it yet.
By contrast, most private sector companies pre-fund just 30 percent of future retiree health care costs, if they do so at all"
So, they were making $1.5bil/yr in 2005 to losing money the next. They've had several rounds of layoffs, and they cancelled things like scanner systems for package tracking to some areas. Considering all of that, my postal lady is very nice and works long hours. I see her delivering to the other side of my street after 6pm sometimes when I get home. I get my stuff roughly when I expect it, and my shipping costs are like $2 for a whole sampler pack of juice. After learning about how they are run, I find myself giving them a lot more leeway. Just my $.02.
I've been pretty lucky. I seem to get my packages from shops even way across the country on either coast within a day or two. Maybe because I'm near such a big city? I don't know. I'm just happy that the mail lady that carries (and I mean carries, not drives) my deliveries has a good sense of humor, and smiles when she unloads 4 or 5 packages in a single day at my doorstep. Granted, most of them aren't very heavy, but they have to make that bag of hers extra bulky. haha.
As for the tracking info, that can be pretty aggravating, but they only really 'TRACK' it in two places, point of origin and destination location, so it may look like it is sitting in one place (where it started) for a couple days when it is really on route to your local post office. When it gets there it is usually scanned. You can't really tell exactly when it will be delivered like with UPS or FedEx (although FedEx online tracking sucks too, their phone tracking works very well). What I do is just check the usps tracking site every morning. If it shows up as being delivered to the local sorting area at least two hours before when I normally get my mail, I know it will be here that day (three packages coming today!). One time was really aggravating. A very anticipated juice order got into my local hub at 10:30 am, (cut off time seems to be 8:30 am at my place for delivery that day) so even though it was at the local post office, only about 8 blocks away, it didn't come until the next day. aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol, but still it was only really 2 days since it had been shipped, so 3 in total. Not really bad.
Take a look at the main page on ECF. Click on Forum and go to the bottom of the page and then back up into the list of suppliers. Find a few that are close to your home and order from them, especially when it's critical that you get it quick. I order from a supplier in Georgia. If I get my order input in time to make the day's mail, my shipment is in my mailbox the next day using USPS standard shipping.
OTOH, if I order from a supplier in NC, it takes several days to make it through several post office locations. Proximity is everything. Ordering ahead is also a good thing. At any time, I have 200ml of juice sitting in my storage box at home. I always have enough juice to last me a month or two in case of national emergency.
OTOH, if I order from a supplier in NC, it takes several days to make it through several post office locations. Proximity is everything. Ordering ahead is also a good thing. At any time, I have 200ml of juice sitting in my storage box at home. I always have enough juice to last me a month or two in case of national emergency.
To go a bit against the grain, I believe USPS does a good job considering the cost / and huge delivery area in the USA .. rural routes and what not as well ..
The word tracking is really incorrect .. USPS offers a Delivery Confirmation Number .. essentially designed to confirm the package has been delivered .. not really designed to watch a shipment move .. it was never designed as a true tracking number, such as what UPS / FedEx has .. but of course, UPS / FedEx rates are substantially higher than USPS as well ..
And no, I don't, nor ever have, worked for USPS ..
My beef with them is why do they run expensive TV ads when everyone knows who they are .. ?? Why not save some of that money that they apparently don't have ..
The word tracking is really incorrect .. USPS offers a Delivery Confirmation Number .. essentially designed to confirm the package has been delivered .. not really designed to watch a shipment move .. it was never designed as a true tracking number, such as what UPS / FedEx has .. but of course, UPS / FedEx rates are substantially higher than USPS as well ..
And no, I don't, nor ever have, worked for USPS ..
My beef with them is why do they run expensive TV ads when everyone knows who they are .. ?? Why not save some of that money that they apparently don't have ..
I know what you mean uncle willy, it would seem that money could be used for other things, but at the same time, they're fighting a very difficult war against email/internet communications, UPS and FEDEX, so they have to keep reminding folks that they have the cheapest shipping methods around I suppose.
USPS is a cheap and reliable method for obtaining vaping supplies. You just have to find the suppliers with the least number of stops to get to you. I get extremely fast service from Liberty Flights in California. My shipment travels across the country by air to Atlanta and I get it the next day after that. If you order from a supplier where the package goes through multiple podunk stops to get to a major hub, then it will take a while.
I get 3 day service from CA (0ver 2000 miles away) and next day service from North Ga (100 miles away). You also have to take into account that some suppliers don't get the order processed the same day you submit it. That, and once they put it into the USPS system it might take more than a day for pickup.
I get 3 day service from CA (0ver 2000 miles away) and next day service from North Ga (100 miles away). You also have to take into account that some suppliers don't get the order processed the same day you submit it. That, and once they put it into the USPS system it might take more than a day for pickup.
Liberty Flights has always sent any order I have made Priority Mail .. which makes a pretty good speed difference .. and they do not charge the full Priority Mail price either ..
It's really not the podunk stops .. once a package ships, it always goes thru a hub .. it's the type of postage paid for that makes the difference .. parcel post / 1st Class / or Priority .. and I'm sure if you wanted to pay for it, some vendors would upgrade you to Express for next day delivery ..
It's really not the podunk stops .. once a package ships, it always goes thru a hub .. it's the type of postage paid for that makes the difference .. parcel post / 1st Class / or Priority .. and I'm sure if you wanted to pay for it, some vendors would upgrade you to Express for next day delivery ..
I don't have too many issues with USPS but being from Minnesota... dead center of the US everything arrives within 3 days i made an order on 01.31.2012 from madvapes in NC and it shipped on 02.01.2012 and it will be on my door step today when i get home from work... the only thing that sucks is that the mail man doesn't come until 4:30 PM so I cant pickup the stuff on my lunch at Noon
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Despite the fact that I have several friends who work for USPS who brag about walking around several hours a day doing nothing because lack of work and because of the unions cant be fired. I generally ship what evers cheapest and receive it 2-3 days
I think Mn is a little far north to be dead center maybe Missouri or Ks
My order from Litecig in Pa order 1-30 should be here today
My order from Vaporbeastes Chicago ordered today should be here tomorrow or Sat.
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Yeah I noticed a significant change in routing for me, since Christmas! Not liking it. What used to take 2-3 days to get to me is now 5-6 and even sometimes 7, and this is priority. I am getting regular parcel post in the same amount of time.
Our mail person changes from week to week in some kind of odd rotation. I guess that is due to holidays, off days, sick days, floater swaps, and vacations. When the regular person isn't there, we sometimes have to swap mail with the neighbors. Luckily, when I get a package from a vendor, it always goes into the right mail box.
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