USPS

[coolectableone]

Anyone else still having problems with slow or lost PO deliveries ? 
Had two first class packages lost, both shipped from our 

local PO at the same time.  
Should I only be using priority mail ?

[laurifitzherber0]

Yes- I'm an anxiously awaiting buyer. Ordered from 2 sellers in one transaction- both shipped same day. One from west, one from south to ship to NE.  Both sellers shipped the same day.  CA came along lickety split. The one from GA stayed in that state at two locations several days.  Eventually it made it to the NE and then to my state ME, and could have arrived here a few days after the CA one had.  But, no. They put a message alert on it and shipped it south- and are holding it hostage in Harrisburg PA, like it's been there two days without even a scan until late this evening.  Now the message is that the package is in the USPS system and scheduled to be delivered in an estimated three more days--meaning it will have taken 10 days to ship less than a pound box, if it that is true.  I think this has something to do with USPS contract with Amazon and we all are paying the price for the windfall Bozo the clown was given.  He gets rich off OUR US postal service, driving all competition out so he could monopolize on line selling and independent sellers made possible by the internet who stubbornly refused to be put out of business are now being hijacked by the shipping company.  Seems like a good time for Congress to investigate this at every level.

[Anonymous]

Same here.  I have 2 First Class packages in the wind and have tried nudging them by tracking with a USPS email notification which usually works.  NOTHING this time and tracking is showing that they haven't even left my state yet.  One of the packages has TWO tracking numbers that I never added a second on it?!?!  I sure do MISS the pre virus day when I could ship and NOT worry, like I don't have enough to worry about already.

[a_c_green]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Same here.  I have 2 First Class packages in the wind and have tried nudging them by tracking with a USPS email notification which usually works. 

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To be clear, adding email notifications has absolutely no effect on the movement (or lack of movement) of the package. All you are doing is setting a database flag on the tracking record in the USPS system, which will trigger a text or email to you whenever there is an update to the tracking record.

That's not to say that it isn't useful; I track all my packages this way, so that they're reporting to me instead of  forcing me to go look them up manually whenever I want to know how things are going, but you are essentially setting up notification of an event that was going to happen anyway. Notifications do not get a package "un-stuck" in any way.

As for the original question, here in the Chicago area they are definitely letting First Class Packages slide whenever there's a backlog (and in the case of the Elk Grove Village sort facility, that place has gotten so bad that they are now re-routing FCP mail to other facilities). They are still giving Priority packages, um, priority, so I'm bumping up any important or high-priced sales to Priority when I want to be sure that they won't get delayed along the way.

[demarkhix]

Over half of the packages I ship out now take over a week to get delivered!  I wish Ebay would stop telling the customers when to expect the package any more because that just leads to disappointment and sometimes frustration.  I have talked to Ebay CS about this several times over the last 6 months but Ebay really doesn't care.  Sometimes the package also isn't scanned in on the day the post office has it!  Last week they physically had one package for 3 full days before the first scan (it was at the blue drop box and during the week so I took weekends into account).  I am a top rated seller so I got dinged because of this!  We just can't control the USPS and they are slower than they have been in the last 10 years that I have been selling on Ebay!!