COVID-19 and shipping times

[yixness]

Recently a postal worker in a distribution center near where I live tested positive for COVID (postal center in Federal Way, WA.)  I am also seeing that all my un-delivered items are set to "arriving late."  I imagine as postal centers shut down for cleaning and postal workers have to self-quarantine, we are going to see more late packages.  I am getting my packages out on time, so I'm not overly worried, but I am wondering if ebay has a policy about such things.  

Note that I am not sick and have been taking all the recommended precautions (washing hands, not going to crowded locations, etc.)  Plus, the CDC says that the virus can't live on packages for the time it will take to get anywhere.  So I'm continuing to sell things until things change.  But I am not as confident about the postal service working at peak efficiency.  

[chitswood]

I'm shipping nearly 100 media items a day and I can tell you I've never seen so many lost packages, delayed packages, rerouted packages in the 20 years I've been doing this. I've talked 20+ different postal people and still feel no one knows what's going on, but piecing the talks together the pandemic has most definitely affected media shipping. Either that or the post office has now reached an all time low for shipping success.