Amazing Job by USPS

LorenzoL

LorenzoL

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I think it is OK to complain when bad things happen, but I also believe it is right to say when things exceed your best expectations.
Here is my short story: I traded a knife for another knife last Friday evening with a gentleman from California (I am in Florida), and we agreed to ship the knives the next morning. So I go to the P.O. on Saturday morning and spend around 9$ to have the knife shipped with Priority Mail (+insurance & tracking) to the other Sunshine State. I am told that it should arrive the next Tuesday, which I found a very optimistic estimate.
Guess what: this Monday morning at 10.30 the mailman brings my new knife to my home, and a couple of hours later my counterpart receives his knife too.
Not only do I find it amazing that USPS actually beat their estimated delivery time by a day, but that they did it for two packages going in opposite directions.
I'll never criticize the Postal Service again (at least, not until the next time they screw up).
 
I trust the postal service more than anyone else. I've always thought they were the fastest, cheapest and more reliable.

My other hobby is baseball cards, and I do a lot ot through the mail trading. Last Sunday I arranged a trade with a guy in Las Vegas. We both sent out on Monday. Wednesday when I got home, there was a small box of cards in my mailbox, and an email saying that the cards I sent had also arrived.

I've shipped and had shipped to me everything from knives, to books and DVDs to glassware and have never had anything lost/stolen or damaged. I collect old books and first editions and they have to be shipped carefully. My pride and joy is a first edition of the Grapes of Wrath from 1939 that I had shipped to me through USPS and it arrived in perfect condition.

UPS I trust. But I will not use FedEx.
 
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I think USPS does an excellent job. With the amount of packages they handle there is bound to be some things that go wrong, but they have never lost or damaged anything that was being delivered to me.
 
Despite my PITA local experiences with the USPS I have to concur. I bought a knife from Puerto Rico and it took two days, including a Saturday for it to get from San Juan to the Chicago west burbs.

Their tracking sucks, their lost mail/ parcel policy is appalling and Congressionally mandated, but they handle a sheerly incomprehensible volume of mail daily and the overwhelming and vast majority of it gets where it is supposed to in what most of us would consider a reasonable timeframe.

Now if they could get the asshats behind the counter to learn and comprehend their own regulations, I'd be giving them a solid A instead of A-.
 
i just had a knife arrive today that was mailed friday from irvine california. i was told it would make it to me tuesday also.
 
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