Oh how I hate USPS

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ducati

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Well I ordered A BK2 and a BK-13 on 6-17, received noticed that the knife shipped on 6-18. It left NY on at 10am and the last scan at 11 pm in Springfield, Ma on 6-18. No activity since then. Was suppose to be here yesterday.:( So how long would you wait before you would notify the seller?
 
That's pretty jacked up, all blades I've had shipped from NY lately have only taken 3-5 days tops from shipping out.
 
If you have the tracking number, and it seems like you do, you might give the ol' USPS a phone call. Light a fire under their..... well, you know!! Good luck with it Bro.
 
I'd give it another day or two. I'm guessing that they used Priority Mail? Sundays don't count in the shipping time frame, I believe.
 
It's not the sellers fault if USPS is slow.
I was not blaming the seller, most of the time when there is a shipping problem, the complaint has to be made by the shipper. At least that was the case the last time I had problems several years ago. I am happy with the seller as it was shipped the next day after my late evening order.
 
Just to clue you all in, I haven't worked for USPS for years, but as far as I know, they still use trucks and aircraft to move mail long distance. Star Trek transporters aren't available yet.

June 18 - Saturday, moved on out
June 19 - Sunday, give it a rest
June 20 - Monday, big backup of mail from late Saturday and all day Sunday
June 21 - Tuesday, today. Two delivery days. If it shows up tomorrow, it's still a good time frame.

Keep in mind that summer is prime vacation time, many senior employees are off for two or three weeks.
 
i'd be surprised if it doesn't show up before friday
 
Could be worse.
You could be waiting for the Canadian Postal Service to deliver a knife to you.
That's where I am at the moment. :p
 
I'd contribute my thoughts but USPS is scheduled to deliver each of my kids a remora tomorrow and I don't want to jinx that :)
 
It's still the fastest and cheapest way to get a package from one coast to the other. I've placed an order form California on Wednesday and had it in South Florida on Saturday with regular Priority mail, try that with any other carrier without paying through the nose.
 
Oh you'll get the package but USPS tracking is the WORST.
You will recieve the package before they update their web site to reflect the tracking, another words they will mark it delivered 8 hrs after you recieve it
 
scarysharp said:
Oh you'll get the package but USPS tracking is the WORST.
You will recieve the package before they update their web site to reflect the tracking, another words they will mark it delivered 8 hrs after you recieve it
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I don't care about the tracking as much as having the package delivered in less time. UPS has great tracking, but it would be 7-10 days (from coast to coast) of aggravation reading every move of the package online.:grumpy:
 
scarysharp said:
Oh you'll get the package but USPS tracking is the WORST.
You will recieve the package before they update their web site to reflect the tracking, another words they will mark it delivered 8 hrs after you recieve it
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Yeah, I ordered a sheath on 6/17, tracking information did not show an ETA and the tracking didn't update until the sheath was actually delivered. Once delivered a 10 line list of tracking had appeared showing all the routing etc...
 
scarysharp said:
Oh you'll get the package but USPS tracking is the WORST.
You will recieve the package before they update their web site to reflect the tracking, another words they will mark it delivered 8 hrs after you recieve it
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UPS sometimes (often?) ESTIMATES where you package is, based on statistics that it SHOULD be there, when in fact, they have NO idea where it is. have had this happen a couple times. ranging from had the package for 2 days while the website caught up (or never did - call them WHERE IS THE PACKAGE? on route!) to "the vendor supplied shipping information, but forgot to send it for many days, so the package hovered at my depot, but was not actually there" to plain "we have NO idea"

interesting, when they DO have information, they know very precisely where it is - their internal data is better than what they show on the web trackers. when they don't, well, sometimes they admit it, sometimes they don't. best: asking for shipping costs back when they screw the quadraped.
 
cccpull said:
I don't care about the tracking as much as having the package delivered in less time. UPS has great tracking, but it would be 7-10 days (from coast to coast) of aggravation reading every move of the package online.:grumpy:
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oh, in that case, pay for next day :)
 
As everyone says just give it another day or two.

I had a package a few weeks ago that came from Utah to Tennessee, then took a joy ride to Florida before coming back to Tennessee. Of course none of that showed up on tracking until it was out for delivery two days later than it should have arrived.

I find Fed. Ex. has great tracking and have always been spot on. UPS is good about 95% of the time and USPS is often a day or two later than I expect.
 
All my USPS shipments have been 2 days. Just an FYI, Priority service is 3-5 days.
 
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