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the post office has a very nice looking web tracking page that is utterly useless.

If you look closely, it's not actually for tracking....it's for delivery confirmation. They scan your package when it's accepted, and scan it when it's being delivered so you know that it's arrived safely....that's all. If you want better tracking you'll have to go with UPS....of course, for comparable service you'll have to go with 2 day which will cost you roughly $34 more :thumbup: it rarely actually gets there in 2 days either. I've used it 4 times...ONCE it got there in 2 days, once in 5, and twice in three days. Not the most expediant service if you ask me.
 
Tony G had sent me several knives to check out. When I returned them, I used a Flat Rate box, insured for $1500. The clerk at the PO suggested I send it registered, as the most secure method; cost $22. I added delivery confirmation, just so I could track it. That turned out to be a waste, as even weeks after Tony got his knives back, the USPS web site still showed the package only as attempted delivery/notice left. Go figure.


Haha, I've had similar exp. with delivery confirmation....sometimes they never even scan it right at the window and it says "Package is not currently in system" until it's already been delivered. You don't have to be a genious to work for the Postal Service....I'm a prime example :p
 
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