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USPS delays

concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
edited February 2002 in General Discussion
I read a post the other day regarding the SLOW shipping people are experiencing with USPS, but I can't find that post. I'm wondering if you guys are still having this problem?I bought two pistols in the last few weeks and neither of them have arrived at my FFL yet. The first was shipped via USPS on 02/02 and the second on 02/04. I'm beginning to get worried, what the heck is taking so long??????????? (Mind you, it only took 2 days for my payment to get to the seller(s) via USPS).
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    Since 9-11, the USPS has been usung FEDEX planes to ship it's express and priority mail. Fedex has been quite slow.
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah, alltheway, I have the tracking number and every day I visit the USPS website and go to "tracking" I get the same old data. All I see is the day that the package was accepted at the sender's post office. No updates....?
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Howdy Concealed, right after the attack it was quite slow but in the past month my shipping seems to be pretty much back to normal. Most of the stuff I'm shipping USPS Priority seems to go in 2-3 days.Something else I've noticed. UPS must have had a rate increase. Of late I've had some 6 to 10 lbs packages that were cheaper USPS than UPS. This is non handgun of course. Handguns I only ship USPS.
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks fellas. I called USPS and they said that there wasn't anything they could do....they said that this was not an unusual delay for shipping.I guess this is why sometimes buying a firearm over the Internet is not as good as going to your local store. Dang!
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  • blazeblaze Member Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would say it just matters how your luck is going, I bought some mags from a guy over at ar15, they were mailed saturday from anchorage, alaska arrived safe at my mailbox today in alabama.
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  • PupPup Member Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As a member of the USPS I can tell you delays in shipping can be caused by several things. Since 9-11, coupled with a sluggish economy, there's been a very dramatic decrease in overall mail volume which has led to many offices reducing man-hours to help offset the revenue losses. I don't know the particulars of the agreement with FedEx, but I can tell things are arriving later than before. And along with the decrease in volume, there's a decrease in man-hours being allowed in offices. In many cases the workload of clerks, mail handlers, and postmasters alike has actually increased quite a bit. I can honestly tell you that as far as everyone I've worked with goes, we do make every effort to get the mail out ASAP. Sometimes delays can be attributed to sheduling problems, or mechanical troubles somewhere along the line, but the most common delay is caused by improper addresses being used. In our small office we see 20 to 30 pieces of mail that have to go through fowarding more than once because of bad addresses. I can't imagine the number in a given day nation-wide.
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  • jastrjastr Member Posts: 463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just recieved my knife yesterday.... but the payment was recieved 3 weeks ago...
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've not experienced any obvious slowdowns, but a severe drop in reliability. Three payments gone missing from highly reliable (i.e., trusted) customers - one of them highly regarded on this board and another that was sent Priority w/ delivery confirmation that ended up in limbo land. I ship FedEx - says a lot that they only lost one shipment in this time vs. 3 pieces of first class or better mail.
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    I just learned that Fedex's contract with USPS states that their packages are processed and delivered before USPS mail. If Fedex has a large amount of mail that can't be delivered in one or two days it puts USPS mail on the backburner.
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  • bhayes420bhayes420 Member Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I worked for FedEx for 15 years before 3 back surgeries forced me into an early exit. We would always accept shipment of other companies parcels, but they were always put on the back burner. Had to get our stuff out first. That is just good business for FedEx. I covered the flights going into Kansas City and Omaha, and if we had free space on the plane, fine, other stuff went. If not, it sat. If it stayed in our system for 3 days or more, then we MIGHT call up a truck and ship it that way. No guarantees.
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I sent an overnight letter to an attorney 150 miles away. Later that day I accepted a load of mail that took me to the terminal where overnight and second day mail was sent. Got on the phone and tracked my letter. It didn't make it overnight, but after seeing what I saw, I am just glad it got there. Seems it also was delayed due to the "extra space" Fedex was supposed to have, but didn't. Customer service did call me several times as they tracked my letter. I raised quite a stink, as I paid for the letter to get there, and If it didn't, the $8500.00 cashiers check would not be any good to me or them.(takes 90 days to stop payment on a cashiers check, at which time the bank would own the housee, not me.)or at least my credit would be messed up.
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    BOY YOU GUYS SURE KNOW HOW TO CHEER UP A GUY.I JUST HAD A PISTOL SHIPPED USPS,THAT I WON ON THE AUCTION.
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  • BoomerangBoomerang Member Posts: 4,513
    edited November -1
    I guess I must be very lucky. I have never had a problem with either UPS or USPS. The only negative comment I have is that the USPS tracking service sucks.Boomer
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