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Items purchased not to arrive till the 28th of January?

I just ordered a vitamin supplement (its Dec.31) and after checking out, said  arrives Jan. 28?   Anyone else wondering what happened to a week to 10 day delivery?  Is Covid still causing a delay on a small vitamin bottle?  Its shipping from NY and I'm in FL.

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Items purchased not to arrive till the 28th of January?

It should have shown the estimated delivery date in the listing. Are you saying it changed after you bought it?


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Items purchased not to arrive till the 28th of January?

The seller may be excessively cautious.

Which would you prefer: being told it will arrive in 10 days and having it arrive in 30 days? Or being told it will arrive in 30 days and having it arrive in 10 days?

 

The USPS is jammed in part due to incredibly high numbers of online sales , in part due to the removal of sorting machines, and in part due to leaves taken by workers who were sick or had to take care of dependents.

 

Or the seller may actually be dropshipping from overseas.

 

This is what a postal terminal looked like in 2019.  Just double or triple the number of parcels and remove a third of the workers.

POSTAL TERMINAL USPS.jpg

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Items purchased not to arrive till the 28th of January?

@good2buy,

 

Open the listing in your purchase history and just under the price what does it say the estimated delivery date is if you bought today?

 

If this is a product from the last seller you received feedback from. It would appear that the seller is a drop shipper.  They have 98K items listed in 20 categories.

  Drop shippers often have much longer delivery time frames because products ship from a supplier's warehouse, so orders are sent to the supplier then packed and shipped by them.  The supplier's warehouses could be anywhere, but the seller uses their address in the state they registered in. 

 

This seller also specifies Parcel Select Ground as the shipping method, which in normal times has a 9-13 day delivery time frame, and with the P.O. already bogged down by record online holiday buying and Covid issues, they are now facing record return package volumes and a possible post holiday Covid resurgence.

 

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