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23/08/2016 5:25 pm
Expedite Shipping. Have you noticed a change?
I bought a medium sized tool off EBAY and I received a notice from USPS that my package had been shipped this morning. Here is the message I received. I guess Priority Mail is no longer being shipped in a couple of days. It is now being shipped over a span of days!
USPS Priority Mail Medium Flat Rate Box
Estimated delivery Thursday, Aug 25, 2016 - Monday, Aug 29, 2016
24/08/2016 12:47 am
We have a small home based craft business and mostly sell on the Internet. Shipping is the bane of merchants. If you check the definition of Priority Mail at the USPS web site you will see that delivery is not guaranteed in two days. We mostly ship through Amazon and, most of the time, two day shipping is just that - two days. But it's no longer inexpensive. In some cases the shipping is as almost as much as the item itself.
24/08/2016 6:09 am
I sell (small time) and buy on the 'bay, have for quite a few years, and I like the USPS.
While I largely switched to Priority Mail for most sales, more recently I have returned to first class with its added tracking number. In the majority of my sales, small packages have gone quickly and safely. Both in sales and purchases, I make use of the tracking system and get some fun out of watching the progress. Of course there are hitches. I watched one package (to me!) get stalled at our regional mail center for three days, and then it showed up on my front porch just about the time the tracking system showed it passing through the local post office. Again according to the system, it left the regional center about the same time. Go figure! But, all in all, I am a happy customer of the USPS.
24/08/2016 8:24 am
Two weeks ago, I paid $22.00 for overnight delivery. It was scheduled to be delivered...
... the next morning at its destination. It arrived 3 days later. Apparently, overnight delivery for the USPS is 3 days. :((