USPS weirdness lately

[gzb]

A lot of delays are pretty simply explained by taking into consideration the weather.

Many times packages are rerouted to a city not necessarily on the usual route for like shipments, just to get it out of and/or around winter storms.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.
Delays with airlines are cumulative. When the NE for instance gets pounded by winter weather, flights all over the US are affected. As is Ground shipping as storms move across the US.

The Postal Service doesn't delay your knife delivery just to piss you off. There's a reason...

 

[KELAMA]

A lot of delays are pretty simply explained by taking into consideration the weather.

Many times packages are rerouted to a city not necessarily on the usual route for like shipments, just to get it out of and/or around winter storms.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.
Delays with airlines are cumulative. When the NE for instance gets pounded by winter weather, flights all over the US are affected. As is Ground shipping as storms move across the US.

The Postal Service doesn't delay your knife delivery just to piss you off. There's a reason...

^ Spot on gzb! :thumbup: And great job over on the other Forum! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Naturally one should expect delays due to the weather, and certain holidays...

Patience is a virtue.

 

[blanco112]

As mentioned, weather is most often the reason for strange routes and a day or two delay. I've been fortunate the pretty much every package I've received no matter where it is in the country has been 2 days. I even had one ship from Canada on Sunday, not get to the US until Thursday (SF), then get to me in PA by Saturday. Another from LA and another from TX. All two days. It's really kind of remarkable get packages that cheap in two days most times, especially since they are the small flat rate boxes that cost like $5 before insurance.

 

[AVigil]

I had a package from Alpha Knife Supply go from Utah to California, back to Utah the same day and then back to California the same day. All that back and fourth and the package still got to me in 3 days.