My order is taking awhile

[jesjes_godvy]

I ordered a Christmas present for my mom on the 7th and then it said that the estimated delivery was the 14th and has been at the same place since the 12th? And I am still waiting on it and hasn’t left the place since the 12th. I am getting very impatient. 

[fined31]

Keep your patiency. It is very important

[fined31]

Yeah. It is true

[lightlily_arts]

Unfortunately USPS hasn't been updating their  scans either.  I had a Priority Mail package that I shipped on December 7th that didn't have any scans after Dec 14th which was the estimated delivery date.  I started a missing package search on Dec 21st which USPS closed immediately stating it was still in transit.  It finally got delivered today.  Give it more time as it will arrive.

[reallynicestamps]

I'm taking some packages to the PO today -- business not holiday related-- along with chocolates for the three clerks and the truck driver who I last saw filling a second truck with last Monday's 3pm pickup.

Those four women have been working hard and were still smiling.

[vorskl]

I've had no issues with USPS - they deliver within a week or faster. 

But overseas (China) orders were one big disappointment - not a single arrived since August (!) No more non-US shipments for me. 

[oneblindcat]

Well... Something that I paid for on the 20th arrived today, the 24th. From Sacramento, CA to Savannah, GA in four days. Priority mail.

But the package that I mailed to San Antonio, TX on Nov 23 is still "In Transit". Also Priority mail.

Go figure.

[oneblindcat]

Is this the Seattle distribution center? I think I see my package in the third photo.

The package that's "In Transit" from Savannah, GA to San Antonio, TX...

[reallynicestamps]

The pictures are a mixture of USPS and Canada Post terminals.

And with one exception, those are not Christmas Rush illustrations, that's what terminals look like on an ordinary day --- pre-COVID.

Now add masked workers, two metres apart, with absences for illness or family duty, a surge in online buying which is after all just mail order, and the normal holiday rush...