BlackCoffeeBlues
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posted on November 28, 2000 10:47:45 PM
Sorry if this has been recently discussed. I thought there was a thread on this but tried to do a site search and got a "fatal error"!!!
Anyway, has anyone noticed slow Priority mail recently? I'm asking because I'm still waiting on a package from a seller that was mailed out over 5 (business) days ago. I know five days is "nothing", really, but I have NEVER had a Priority package take more than 4 days, (almost ALWAYS 2-3 days), in all my years buying and selling on eBay!!!
Have I just been extremely lucky?
I don't doubt the seller's claim that she mailed it. She's extremely communicative, good FB, extra nice (even threw in an extra item and is hunting for some related stuff to sell me for my son)... so I really don't think it's a case of the slow seller. I haven't said anything yet because I don't want to put her on the defensive when it hasn't been THAT long, really.
Mainly I was just wondering if the holidays are slowing things down, so *I* can tell *MY* sellers that they shouldnt' necessarily expect the usual speedy service right now.
Anyone else??
Sheri
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mouseslayer
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posted on November 29, 2000 12:21:51 AM
So far, knock on wood, I haven't seen any problems form either a receiving or sending point of view. I'm sure it's a matter of time though...
~~MouseSlayer is not a cat =^..^= ~~
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newattitudellc
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posted on November 29, 2000 12:28:48 AM
Yes there is a big slow down with using priority mail right now. I am a seller and have had about 5 complaints regarding their shipment arrival. Luckily when they received them they checked the date sent and emailed me apologies and left positive feedback because indeed I had shipped them when I said I had. It took one lady 2 1/2 weeks to receive it. She just got it yesterday.
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jada
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posted on November 29, 2000 12:32:42 AM
Hi Sheri - Usually priority mail takes at least 4 - 5 days to get to my house, and doesn't include weekends.
Remember, every business uses holidays as an excuse when they mess up. Our boss even advised us to use that excuse in the law office, (wanted us to say the person who messed up was "off the holidays" . 
With the Postal Service, it might be true. People who are sending gifts overseas to those in the military have to mail them pretty early to be sure they are received by December 25.
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london4
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posted on November 29, 2000 06:40:31 AM
I just received a priority package that took 10 days to get from NC to CA. About a 12x12 box. I think the problem was that a priority box in the right size wasn't available and the seller just put one priority sticker on it and didn't use the priority tape.
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sideslam
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posted on November 29, 2000 07:06:42 AM
I had a package delivered to me that was in Florida enroute to Mich. Was sent on this last Saturday. I had it on Monday. How it got that quick to me I will never know. Unless they work on Sunday. I do know that at one time I had sent a package out on, well I don't remember the day. But when I checked delivery confrimation it said it had been delivered on a Sunday. Don't know how that is possible, but that it what it said.
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jlb444
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posted on November 29, 2000 07:11:36 AM
I sent a package from Maryland to Hawaii over 10 days ago and it hasn't gotten there yet had to refund the money. First item lost in 3 years. Then I got positive feedback with a little note on it saying my delivery was a bit slow when I mail things as soon as the payment gets here priority. People are cruel sometimes!
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Pocono
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posted on November 29, 2000 07:18:09 AM
Priority seems brutally slow right now.
It'll only get worse the next month too.
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Empires
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posted on November 29, 2000 08:13:11 AM
It seems to be moving fast from NY out, but we ship every Tues. & Thurs. 3-4 day turnaround noticed in our feedbacks.
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stusi
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posted on November 29, 2000 08:32:20 AM
if you take an average of 100 national priority shipments i believe you will find 3-5 days during the year and 4-7 days around the holidays. it has been this way for years and the post office actually once acknowledged this a few years ago. it got better for a while, but i can't believe they get away with what is essentially false advertising and/or violating an implied contract of 2-3 day delivery.
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mzalez
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posted on November 29, 2000 08:52:05 AM
Priority has slowed down here in Louisiana. Must be the Christmas crush is in full swing.
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sylswa
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posted on November 29, 2000 11:16:57 AM
I don't know if this will help anyone but, we ship all of our shipments from our main postal sectional center right at the airport--makes it nice 7 days a week 6am to 12midnight,everyday including holidays,they are only closed on Christmas & New Year. They informed us the other day for faster delivery to our customers to please ask our customers to use/give us the full 10 digit zip code. Packages will travel much faster and especially with the holidays. If a package does not have the 10 digit zip, it has to go through a different process to have it added at the postal end, if it has
the 10 digits it scans through and moves right on--no hold up.
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ExecutiveGirl
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posted on November 29, 2000 11:32:47 AM
Hi Sheri,
I mail all of my packages through the USPS. So far, nothing has been lost or damaged in over 2 years - but slow delivery IS something I'm beginning to see a lot of. In the past few months I've had 2 packages that took over 30 days to be delivered to my customers - and they were both here in the states. I've had several more packages take 7+ days to be delivered. My international packages show up before packages are being delivered here in the U.S.!
I'm just glad they all showed up because I think customers were starting to wonder if I really mailed out the packages - they didn't think it was possible to take so long. Luckily they saw the date the packages were postmarked and knew I was telling the truth!
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busterblues96
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posted on November 29, 2000 11:53:06 AM
A local college professor conducted an experiment where he sent two equal sized pacakages to friends and colleagues in various parts of the country. He had them to mail the packages, one priority and one regular mail, to the same address. In most cases, the first class package arrived the same day or before the priority package.
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batsnbeans
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posted on November 29, 2000 12:56:27 PM
Arrival for items that I have shipped out has been no more than 4 days. Usually takes 2-3 days and I'm in Illinois.
Leslie
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RainyBear
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posted on November 29, 2000 01:01:36 PM
I guess I'm lucky... I got a package today which was mailed on Monday, book rate! Only one state away, though.
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digitalman
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posted on November 29, 2000 01:16:10 PM
If you want your package delivered by Christmas here are the USPS mailing deadlines:
Parcel Post - Up to December 10
Priority Mail - Up to December 18
Express Mail - Week of Christmas
For International and APO/FPO dates and other Information click below
http://www.framed.usps.com/news/holiday2000/
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janusaries
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posted on November 29, 2000 03:34:45 PM
I just had one buyer receive his Priority package after 9 business days. And another Priority package hasn't gotten there after 8 business days--I'm praying it's not missing in action. You'd think the USPS could give us better service if they intend to up the rates!
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ohandrea
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posted on November 29, 2000 07:07:33 PM
We don't have a post office close by so I take all my Ebay stuff to a rural post office near my regular job. The packages always seem to arrive promptly.
A couple of weeks ago, I had to send a package to a relative (how weird is that?)so I decided to spring for the extra $1.25 and took it to our local Mail Post (a commercial mailing center). This was at 2:30 pm on a Tuesday. It was in a priority box and I paid the priority rate plus their extra fee. The package didn't arrive until the following Monday.
Then I found out that if you take your packages to a commercial outlet, your package leaves there as regular mail, goes to your local post office, and only then (the next day) does it become priority. At least that's how it is in our neck of the woods.
The only good thing about priority mail is the free packaging. So there ya go.
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Shoshanah
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posted on November 29, 2000 07:20:06 PM
My purchases are arriving very fast ...but my payments leaving from on 22nd and 24th are slow in getting there, and checks from my sales, also from that time frame also have not yet shown up; but they will..
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