sideslam
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posted on November 11, 2000 04:48:26 PM new
I sent priority mail out on Tuesday. Today is Saturday and it still has not been recieved. I am a little worried. Has anyone had this experience before?
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vargas
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posted on November 11, 2000 05:03:03 PM new
The fact that there's no mail service today due to Veterans Day observance might be slowing it down. Priority can take more than three days. It's not unusual for a priority package to arrive a week later.
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Shoshanah
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posted on November 11, 2000 06:24:29 PM new
We may be hitting the
"holiday Traffic Jam" early...On Monday 6, in the morning, I mailed 2 payments by Priority Mail, anticipating slow mail due to elections and I did not want sellers to have to wait. They received their payment respectively on the 9th and the 10th...Wonder how long if I had sent them regular mail...
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yisgood
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posted on November 11, 2000 06:44:39 PM new
I sent something priority to an APO address. The first package I sent in early Oct arrived in about 4 days. The one I sent Oct 26 has still not arrived. There is no DC to an APO address so I sent it insured. Is there any way to track it? The PO usually makes me wait 30 days.
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Shoshanah
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posted on November 11, 2000 06:49:35 PM new
yisgood...here is the URL
http://www.framed.usps.com/cgi-bin/cttgate/ontrack.cgi...
On your blue Insurance slip, sideways, is a long number starting with V V XXXXXX and ending with US. Key it in to see what it has to report. Good luck
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[ edited by Shoshanah on Nov 11, 2000 06:50 PM ]
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eventer
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posted on November 11, 2000 06:57:37 PM new
Darn, I sure feel lucky. I've been reading about the supposed slow down but my stuff has been getting there fast.
Even my book rate stuff has been getting there in 2-3 days.
Maybe those Krispy Kreme donuts I bring the clerks from time to time is paying off.
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yisgood
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posted on November 11, 2000 07:30:51 PM new
Shoshana: Thanks, but I've already been there. The site does not mention tracking insurance forms, only those DC slips and you cant have both DC and insurance. I did enter the number just to try but it said there was no info. It was shipped on 10/26.
http://www.ygoodman.com
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cassiescloset
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posted on November 11, 2000 09:10:15 PM new
I send emails with shipping dates to my bidders. When there is a holiday, I add something about allowing extra time. I find a legal holiday slows the mail down more than just that day.
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 11, 2000 09:40:56 PM new
Yisgood: It's not unusual for a Priority package to take more than 2 weeks to get to an APO address. I don't start wondering until 4 weeks go by. I'm amazed whenever any package gets to us in a week simply because that's not the norm.
It also depends on where the APO is. When we lived in the Azores, stuff was shipped to Germany first, and then to us. If the weather was bad, the plane didn't land. The longest it took a Priority package to reach us was four weeks. Three was the norm.
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trkirk
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posted on November 12, 2000 06:51:17 AM new
I thought I would jump in with a postal employee's view. You must remember the weather makes a big difference. If the plane is late taking off or landing because of bad weather, not just snow, but heavy rains or high local winds. A delay of an hour could delay delivery by a day because the trucks that pick up the mail also run on a schedule and do not wait. Also some east coast cities, Washington D.C. and some others have some problems with slow delivery that I cannot remember the details. So when you wonder about slow delivery look at the weather there and in between that could be causing delay. (besides disgrunted employees)
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Buffaloguy
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posted on November 12, 2000 12:25:57 PM new
Not only slow delivery , better get your orders in for your boxes,tape,labels, ect.
Seems like every year they run short of boxes before Xmas.
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sunderdown1
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posted on November 12, 2000 12:48:02 PM new
Most of my priority mail packages are still arriving in 2-3 days. But just last week, a package took 5 days to get from Nevada to California.
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yisgood
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posted on November 12, 2000 01:29:58 PM new
Thanks Shadowcat. Maybe this one will actually turn up. Knowing how long the PO takes to track something, I hope it does. I hate telling the customer he's going to have to wait a few months while the PO is checking but at the same time, I cant just ship out another digital camera.
http://www.ygoodman.com
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kidsfeet
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posted on November 12, 2000 01:36:51 PM new
You can track the blue insurance slips the same as DC. Enter the number in the same place as you would put the DC number. If the information is not available, they must not have scanned it. Postal Error.
Just FYI, I have placed DC and the blue insurance forms on my packages, before I knew the blue was traceable, and no one ever said anything.
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 12, 2000 04:38:59 PM new
Yisgood: If your bidder has been stationed wherever it is, he/she is probably aware how long it takes. Plus, if they're deployed, the mail will take even longer, especially if it has to go through the customs' censors of the country.
I had one item take six weeks. The day after I contacted the seller to begin the tracking promise, the box showed up. It wasn't damaged, it hadn't been misrouted, there was no indication why it had taken so long. Still, it got here and both the seller and I were relieved.
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yisgood
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posted on November 13, 2000 09:09:01 AM new
What is a little mystefying is that the first item I shipped to him took 3 days. Now this second one is over two weeks. Both were sent in an official priority box with insurance. As far as tracking the insurance, entering the number on the blue slip shows no information for either one, even the one he already received. When I enter the number from a green confirmation sticker, I always get something, even if it is only a confirmation of my delivery to the local PO. I know the insurance was scanned because I saw them do it. So I guess you can't always use the insurance number to scan. If anyone knows otherwise, the number is VA 227 616 383 US. The PO is making me wait 30 days before I can even start the tracing process.
http://www.ygoodman.com
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mballai
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posted on November 13, 2000 09:16:35 AM new
Priority Mail is automated and so if something goes astray it can easily double the time it takes to get to where it should be. Most of the time it works just fine.
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LKC19
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posted on November 13, 2000 09:32:53 AM new
So, am I understanding this correctly? If you insure a package, you don't need DC?
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yisgood
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posted on November 13, 2000 09:37:04 AM new
LKC19: People have told me that you can track a package via the insurance number. I havent found that to work. If you insure a package and the customer claims not to have received it, you have to wait 30 days, then get a form from the PO, fill it out, mail it to the client for their input, get it back, take it back to the PO and wait another 6-8 weeks for an answer. This is not helpful if a charge back is made and in general, takes too long. DC can usually be tracked instantly on line. My PO insists that a package can have DC or insurance but not both. Other folks have told me they use both. You can't put DC on packages going outside the US and that includes APO addresses.
http://www.ygoodman.com
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sun818
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posted on November 13, 2000 11:28:48 AM new
I believe you can track insurance, but you need to spend at least $1.80 for the blue form. This is for insurance over $50.
The green form, $0.85, does not provide tracking information.
Thanks,
Sun
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yisgood
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posted on November 13, 2000 11:40:10 AM new
The form I have IS the blue form. I have two of them and both show no information even though one has already been delivered and the other was shipped on 10/26.
http://www.ygoodman.com
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heygrape
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posted on November 13, 2000 11:47:38 AM new
Can you use the blue insurance slips on stuff that is insured UNDER $50? If so, WOW! This would be great! A way to trace without buying DC. Whatcha think?
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yisgood
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posted on November 13, 2000 11:49:31 AM new
As I keep telling you, it doesnt work. I have posted the number on my blue insurance slip. The PO website shows no information even though it was shipped over 2 weeks ago. There is also no information on another one that was already delivered. I dont know who said you can use blue insurance slips for tracking, but it appears to be incorrect.
http://www.ygoodman.com
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heygrape
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posted on November 13, 2000 11:50:28 AM new
oh......ok......
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