Neither rain, nor snow, nor blah blah.

[Ames]

I caution everyone who orders anything from me just how long it may take. Once it's shipped it's out of my control.

 

[jcp161]

15 days for a book to arrive from North Carolina to Ohio. Sat in the Cleveland post office for a week. No real good reason for it. Another part of the new normal.

 

[Old Hawkeye]

Anybody want some cheese with your "Whine". Dry your eyes children, Santa is running late this year but you will get your toys. I promise!!

 

[Carbon 6]

Anybody want some cheese with your "Whine". Dry your eyes children, Santa is running late this year but you will get your toys. I promise!!

I've done the math. based on current wait times, number of people, miles traveled, covid restrictions, top speed of a flying reindeer, head winds, elf labor shortages, etc. I estimate Santa's arrival to be somewhere around 2:45 am on December 25, 2021.

 

[toot]

I ordered a paper back book on the 45/70 TRAPDOOR SPRINGFIELD. AND IT SAT IN THE USPS SHIPPING CENTRE IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. FOR 31 DAYS. figure that. it was shipped on the sellers dime for 2 DAY DELEVERY.?

 

[Ames]

Anybody want some cheese with your "Whine".

At the prices they charge and the FAR LESS than reasonable service I feel I have ever right to complain. And so does the customer waiting weeks for a 24 oz. box!

 

[Whitworth]

Anybody want some cheese with your "Whine". Dry your eyes children, Santa is running late this year but you will get your toys. I promise!!

I respectfully disagree, it's not whine when you pay for a service you don't receive. When you pay for 3 Day Priority Mail you expect some "Priority". UPS and FedEx seem to manage their packages OK during this season. My question is where are these mountains of undelivered packages being stored, in dumpsters somewhere perhaps?

 

[Carbon 6]

I still blame DeJoy, but Saturday and Sunday deliveries are now the norm. Something shipping companies never did when I was younger. So, that must say something about shipping.

 

[EC121]

The PO has a contract with Amazon. Their packages must be delivered when received. They have to work Amazon packages first. If a truck comes in toward the end of the day, the carriers have to return to the PO and load up Amazon's packages for delivery that day. That volume with pandemic/holiday ordering is really jamming up the system.

 

[Ames]

Well THAT aint right!

 

[SOLANCO]

I’ve got a parcel sitting at the originating post office in Ontario that was mailed on the 9th. Has not yet left to start its journey.
Walk

 

[rickystl]

My brother use to drive over the road for a private contractor for USPS until he retired 2/3 years ago. He mentioned that USPS had some advantages over UPS and FED-X in that their trucks would move around the Country 7 days a week, including holidays. (Just not loaded on Mondays). Plus they had more locations (all post office locations) that made it easy to just go to your local post office to ship. And they delivered daily (with the regular mail) to all addresses. That's why you would occasionally get a UPS or FED-X small package going to a residential address handed off to the Post Office for final delivery.
So he was talking to an old acquaintance that still drives for USPS. He mentioned that the combination of the COVID restrictions and the DeJoy affect mentioned above, resulted in less trucks on the road and longer routes for your packages. Some states restrictions are worse than others. California is especially difficult to get a shipment from. Shipment time from LA to St. Louis used to be a fast 2-days to the St. Louis distribution center since the truck on that route never made a stop till it arrived in St. Louis. I recently ordered a light, small package from a seller in southern CA. After sitting for days in the LA distribution center, tracking showed it went to Kansas City, then Little Rock, and finally to St. Louis. Took one month to finally arrive.
You take this situation, and add the Amazon deal, and the general increase with one-line ordering, and now the Christmas rush. Looks like this is going to be the new shipping normal for at least the next few months, sad to say.

And if you order something from outside the USA you will need lots of patience. A short while back I won two gun locks from a German auction and another lock from an auction in Italy. Both took 8 weeks to arrive at my doorstep. Sat in European customs for days, then waiting for the next available flights to the USA, then sitting for days in the USA customs in Chicago before finally moving on to me. So, just a warning.

Rick

 

[SOLANCO]

I’ve got a parcel sitting at the originating post office in Ontario that was mailed on the 9th. Has not yet left to start its journey.
Walk

Ontario California, Canada, or Oregon? Was hoping Canada was in better shape than us.

 

[SOLANCO]

Ordered an old fashioned smoked ham, some smoked bacon, and a few pounds of ham steaks in late November and requested delivery the week of 14 December. They shipped from Kentucky to Pennsylvania and the product arrived on 17 December via Fedex in good condition.

You can get a warm day in December. Don't think I'd order perishable for August delivery.

 

[Robby]

I usually have very satisfactory results with USPS. However I did order something the size of a fat envelope from an outfit in eastern Ohio, I'm in western NY, and so far, according to their tracking data, it has gone to Texas and back to Pittsburg where it apparently sat for two days and is now about thirty miles from here and will probably sit for another two days before being sent out for delivery, not to me, but my local post office. This has to be a testimony to government efficiency by golly!
I actually could have made a day trip, picked it up myself, and stopped for a couple leisurely meals to boot. HAH!
Robby

 

[Musketeer]

I've done the math. based on current wait times, number of people, miles traveled, covid restrictions, top speed of a flying reindeer, head winds, elf labor shortages, etc. I estimate Santa's arrival to be somewhere around 2:45 am on December 25, 2021.

Damn elves. I never did fully trust those little so-and-sos...

 

[Whitworth]

Next year may have to place a few orders for stinky food shipped in dry ice just for fun. Let that lay in a shipping facility for a week or two

 

[Carbon 6]

Damn elves. I never did fully trust those little so-and-sos...

I heard Santa was outsourcing toy production to China, and using robots. I also heard he was prototyping an electric plasma drive for his sleigh so he could cut reindeer from the herd. Those reindeer have terrible emissions, especially when you are right behind them.

 

[Carbon 6]

Next year may have to place a few orders for stinky food shipped in dry ice just for fun. Let that lay in a shipping facility for a week or two

Ship your package marked "live chickens".

 

[Walkingeagle]

Ontario California, Canada, or Oregon? Was hoping Canada was in better shape than us.

Canada. Funny thing is that I had a parcel shipped from the same vendor, same PO on the 15th, which arrived on the 21st, the parcel shipped on the 9th still has not left the original PO. Second parcel was a mold, first was a Pedersoli .45 Kentucky. I wonder if it became a Christmas gift for someone else??
Walk