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I bought an item from a fella in Colorado which he mailed Dec. 23rd by US Postal Service.
It showed up today, 14 days later by the UPS truck. I guess the postal service dumps their stuff onto UPS when they get busy and UPS puts it on the back burner???? Should of just sent it by UPS in the first place and it would have been here in two or three days.
Not in any hurry for the item so no big deal. But it does raise an eyebrow about how things are handled at the post office. Something to take note of if you ever do need something in a hurry.
 
It works the other way, as well. I"ve had items shipped UPS or even FedEx show up at the post office.

As long as it gets to me in one piece, I don"t care WHO delivers it!
 
I brought a new generator that has been on the road from Wi.to Mi. 5 hours away from me, for 6 days now. Dayton Frt. picked it up. After working for a Freight Co. for 35 years it doesn't surprise me a bit. Holidays, bad weather, and being a residential delivery are more than likely the cause. I don't care but will be really P.O. if I lose power and have to nurse my old generator through another outage.
 
My son ordered me a book on line afternoon on the 24th Dec. It arrived via US Postal service on the 27th. I was impressed. thought with the holiday it would have been longer. gobble
 
Sometimes with online postage purchasing they will purchase and print the postage, but not actually get it to the P.O. for 4 or 5 days. Have had this happen on several occasions. It is supposed to be mailed the day printed, but doesn't always happen.
 
Ordered a trailer winch out of Floriday on Dec. 23 and it arrived in Iowa on Jan. 2. Apparently UPS had major back ups right before the holidays and many packages didn"t get delivered before Christmas as originally planned.

You can"t expect much by way of speed over the holidays since 80% of America finds it necessary to see if they can order on the 23rd and have it delivered by the 24th.
 
Most small items that we order come fedex to our local post office and then our mail carrier delivers them, seems efficient.
Why would anyone ship anything right before Christmas when the system is so overloaded when there is no hurry?
 
(quoted from post at 05:50:34 01/07/14) I bought an item from a fella in Colorado which he mailed Dec. 23rd by US Postal Service.
It showed up today, 14 days later by the UPS truck. I guess the postal service dumps their stuff onto UPS when they get busy and UPS puts it on the back burner???? Should of just sent it by UPS in the first place and it would have been here in two or three days.
Not in any hurry for the item so no big deal. But it does raise an eyebrow about how things are handled at the post office. Something to take note of if you ever do need something in a hurry.
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Was it shipped priority or parcel post? That can make a big difference.
 
When there is a rush it makes sense that the big, heavy, low priority shipments get delayed and the small, light, high paying, priority items get delivered first. That keeps the highest number of customers happy and produces the highest revenues.

I was impressed by haw fast things were delivered over the holidays, most of my shipments arrived early.
 
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