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Email received today. As Jack said at the beginning of this thread, much of this is by design. The plan is working perfectly.

I dunno about all that. Can't control that. Political crap aside, I was just giving folks a heads up if they were buying and selling here so they could expect delays using USPS.

The Priority Mail pkg. I referenced going to Balto took 10 days, 3 of which were spent sitting in the city's Balto regional facility before being delivered to the Baltimore street address.

Another personal Priority mail pkg. from Amazon was handed off to USPS took 8 days from Akron. I guess they have added help because it arrived early yesterday morn. way before the regular mail run that came later in the day.

I stopped worrying about the expedited shipping, just glad they got there.

My concerns were with the pkg. backup, my stuff might be beat up or lost under the pile.

I've been shipping about 12 packages per week this month, USPS priority, and I've only had one delay so far. One customer has been waiting two weeks for a package that was expected to be delivered in three days. USPS Tracking says it's "in transit" and will arrive late. So all-in-all things are going okay. Like I said above, the delays are by design... cuts put in place to slow down and discredit the post office in an attempt to privatize it. The plan is working as intended.

Doug Beaumier wrote:I've been shipping about 12 packages per week this month, USPS priority, and I've only had one delay so far. One customer has been waiting two weeks for a package that was expected to be delivered in three days. USPS Tracking says it's "in transit" and will arrive late. So all-in-all things are going okay. Like I said above, the delays are by design... cuts put in place to slow down and discredit the post office in an attempt to privatize it. The plan is working as intended.

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SH

Doug Beaumier wrote:I've been shipping about 12 packages per week this month, USPS priority, and I've only had one delay so far. One customer has been waiting two weeks for a package that was expected to be delivered in three days. USPS Tracking says it's "in transit" and will arrive late. So all-in-all things are going okay. Like I said above, the delays are by design... cuts put in place to slow down and discredit the post office in an attempt to privatize it. The plan is working as intended.

BS

My outgoing volume is a bit higher than Doug's. I haven't had any complaints yet of slow delivery, but it wouldn't surprise me. The postal system is operating at a very high capacity now - historic, actually - and it can barely keep pace. The Post Office here in Cloverdale is the busiest place in town.

Don't expect fast delivery on anything, that's my advice. Weather is another factor coming into play this week in the northeast. Give postal workers a break when you can. It's a hard job.

b0b wrote:My outgoing volume is a bit higher than Doug's. I haven't had any complaints yet of slow delivery, but it wouldn't surprise me. The postal system is operating at a very high capacity now - historic, actually - and it can barely keep pace. The Post Office here in Cloverdale is the busiest place in town.

Don't expect fast delivery on anything, that's my advice. Weather is another factor coming into play this week in the northeast. Give postal workers a break when you can. It's a hard job.

I won't call this a complaint yet, but the strings I ordered from the Forum Store shipped on November 30 and I still don't have them. I've had 2 bills fail to reach their destination in the last 30 days. That has literally NEVER happened to me before now, ever.

I've been going to my local post office (or the one in the next town) about four days a week lately and every time I go, the line is out the door! A lot of people are shipping Christmas gifts this year because they won't be gathering with family. And most of those people are not frequent post office users and they aren't prepared... don't have the right box, the right address, don't know which class of shipping to use. That really slows the line down.

Closed per OP's request.