USPS should i be worried ?

afishhunter said:
It might just be stuck in traffic between Jamaica, NY (AKA: JFK International Airport) and your post office. :(
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Worse. It’s been in my state up the road for days - “in route” to me for 2+ days. The first part from NY to GA took 3+ days. It went out of GB and across the pond quicker than it’s whole time in the US...or even parts of its US tour.

Our P.O. is in shambles up the road. 4/5th of the employees clearly hate their job. Their demeanor is well inferred and, this year, I’ve had to file two complaints with the P.O. General. I’m over paying for mediocrity and poor service. I have no other solutions besides be at the USPS’s whim. It’s very irritating...
 
USPS has been terrible with their tracking lately. I have had 1 package that took 3 days to get an origin scan, one package that got no origin scan at all then mysteriously showed up at my local hub 4 days later, and an international package that took 4 days to get from the ISC in NYC to western PA.
 
Two of our theft cases were local. Caught the guy, front page picture in our little local paper, seating him handcuffed in the patrol car. Never got our stuff back on that one. Jack Black Jack Black In the cowboy world nothing worse than a thief. Get a rope.

Some years ago sent two wild rags, scarves, that my wife makes to Italy through USPS. After a month and a half I get an email from the customer that he hasn't seen them yet. We decide to replace the wildrags and I tell him to buy some other things that makes the hundred dollar bill UPS wanted a little more reasonable. He agrees and buys a couple of knives too. UPS picks the package up Friday morning and Monday morning I have an email from the customer telling me how much he likes all his stuff. To Italy from California, through customs and to the customer over the weekend. Worth the $100 shipping? Yep. Two months later I get the two original wildrags package back. Its covered in Italian writing, has had a 747 land on it, been run over by a couple of three trucks but lo and behold, both wildrags are inside. Guess couldn't blame that one all on USPS.
 
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For me it usually takes a month or 5 weeks to get a knife from the US (to actually hold it in my hands). It gets here in about 3 weeks but then customs has to send me a letter, I have to email them and then they take their time. This process with Slovene customs rarely takes less than 2 weeks. Stuff from Germany gets here way more quickly and I don't have to pay customs but the postage and initial price are so much higher that the end cost for, say, a GEC knife is the same as if I ordered it from the US ... Now go figure why shipping from Germany is twice as expensive. I must say that so far I never had a bad experience with USPS, but I don't want to jynx my luck, espexially since I'm waiting for 2 new additions as we speak. I'm quite patient though. I've been told the Italian post is rather unreliable - time wise. Supposedly it's a gamble, you never can tell how long it will take. Luckily our postal service is very reliable. If only customs was a bit faster. :mad::D
 
It took 11 days for my #78 single blade to go maybe 400mi. thats unacceptable i think.
 
I have had very good experiences with USPS. I know my local guy, and he jokes about my deliveries, and how I wait by the door. He has seen some of my collection when I am taking photos in the yard.
I will keep my fingers crossed for the OP.
 
hopefully it gets there soon, ive had some mess ups but i know the usual usps guy. we had a balisong float around for 2 weeks in the neighborhood, gets sent back and then I filed a return on paypal before seller set it right. Had a coin get sent out for delivery in the wrong neighborhood once, one zip code over by mistake as well. for the most part they get it right.
 
It happens. When you get 2 or 3 "In transits" in a row, it usually just means it went to the wrong place.
 
I recently did a trade with a member on here who lives in GA, I’m in FL. The knife made it to within 15 miles of my house....and went back to GA! It looks like it might be making its way south again but no updates since yesterday. 6 days so far to get a knife shipped from one state away!
 
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I guess I've just been lucky.Knife from Israel 6 or 7 days,Germany the same,1st package sent to Ohio 10,2nd package sent to Ohio 4days and that was close to Christmas.
Some times I've had to wait up to 3 weeks for a package from Florida but generaly it's pretty quick.
 
USPS has ben a mess lately. I dropped something off last week and it took 5 days to move from "expecting package" to received package and I saw the guy throw it in the outgoing box. 1 more day from GA to CA.
 
If you have a flat piece of paper with a stamp on it, USPS is acceptable. If it's box shaped, forget it and pay the premium for UPS or FedEx and build it into your price, if acceptable. Cheap prices yield poor quality.

Maybe Amazon will buy the operation and some accountability will occur.

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Keep the politics out of the discussion, please.
 
Normally I am on the side of the USPS, who generally does a good job. However, since Thanksgiving last year they have been terrible! Everything I have ordered or bought that has shipped via the post office has been incredibly slow, including a 2 day priority package that took 9 days to get to me:mad:
 
I recently had similar issue with USPS.Item mailed from Indiana on the 15th of Jan.
Bounced from depot to depot until the22nd & then no updates for 8 days.
Arrived on the 31st with no movement showing on the website after the 22nd.
I think the problem is with their computer system as from the postings by most here seem similar.
 
Mind you, postal delivery problems are not just a 'Traditional' problem....;)
 
I've been buying all sorts of stuff in the USA for more than 15 years and had only two losses, the first long time ago with tee-shirts inside that vanished (no tracking then) and the other more recently, a small parcel probably stuck somewhere.
Paid duties only twice, motorcycle pants and pair of waterproof shoes. And Fedex. Fedex has spent a lot of money for hubs. Now they need to make these hubs profitable. So they charge for the hub and pass the parcel through customs to justify the amount...
This does not happen with USPS, they have a direct link with LaPoste, if by unluck you have to pay for import duties, LaPoste collects them, no further charge.
It takes about 10 days for a knife from USA to France. :thumbsup::)
 
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