Post Office Shipping is SLOW!

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charliedwsr
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Post Office Shipping is SLOW!

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I sent a package from Port Orange to Ocala yesterday, approx 90 miles. It arrives there Saturday!
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It might show up sooner.

For me anyways, USPS stuff shows up a day or so earlier than expected more often than not.
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Post by 45caldan »

It has been pretty slow ever since the whole Covid thing....
When it first began in March here, I won a gun on GB and it took 4 WEEKS to get here from OR after it shipped!
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Surprisingly I got a First Class Mail package today that was shipped on Monday from the midwest. Usually it was 3-4 days before Corona.

A month ago, I got two FCM packages hung up for almost two weeks though. So.
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I sent something to a guy in Va, & at first the tracking showed 4 days to get there. But experience told me that’s a 2 day ride. It got there in the 2 days. It’s like they estimate the arrival longer than it will actually take, so when it gets there early, we all say “boy, the P.O. is doing a great job”. GARY
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I had a part for my miter saw shipped from SLC on the 18th and was scheduled to be delivered on the 25th but didn’t get to my door until the 4th a couple days ago. USPS per tracking let it sit in Orlando for 6 days before they decided to move the package towards south Florida.
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I signed up for USPS Informed Delivery. Ordered an item last month and used the tracking number to keep tabs on it. It arrived at the post office in town here about three days before expected delivery. Got notice that it was being delivered on the expected day by noon. At noon the delivery time was changed to 8pm. At 8pm the tracking number lookup said that the package was on its way to Minnesota.

I called the USPS customer service line the next day. After a while, the customer service rep located the package in Minnesota and placed a re-direct order on it. Over the next couple days I tracked it as it made it's way back to Sarasota. A few days later I received a phone call from the supervisor at my local Post Office who gave me her direct phone number and asked me to call her if it didn't arrive that day. It showed up in that day's mail, about a week late.

My point is, the system upgrades that the USPS has implemented are immensely better than the old way they did business. Most packages and letters are photographed & logged many times during their journey to you. If you're missing a delivery, a phone call can help get it back on track.
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I signed up for USPS Informed Delivery as well but when it comes to packages and some mail I see delays big time but it is what is it.
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Post by revelation »

I have to take my mail to the post office box. If I am not getting any mail they wont come up the drive way.
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