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ajaanajaan Posts: 17,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Has anyone else noticed that the Post Office is getting very slow? I mailed a coin out on July 22nd to CA and it was delivered Aug 1. It was Registered that takes a day or so longer, but c'mon, 10 days to get to CA? It used to take 3 days.

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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    my PCGS orders are taking 2 weeks from NB to Chicago...
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  • PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    My last shipment to NGC took 6 days (FL to FL) image but I just received a coin from Germany that was delivered in 3 days image

    Regular First Class mail to/from a friend in KY usually takes 3 days, but Priority Mail takes 4 days image I don't get it. - Preussen
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mail usually takes 3 or 4 days to get from Europe to Buffalo. FL to Buffalo is usually 6-7 days for regular mail.

    As a side note, I received two letters from CA on the same day a few years ago. Looking at the post mark I saw they were both sent out the same day. One was mailed 1st class, the other Priority mail. One cost 37c the other $3.95 or whatever it was at that time.

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  • wildjagwildjag Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭
    I got your package yesterday, but it might have been sitting in the box since I didnt check it on Tuesday, so that is pretty fast. image
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Darkhorse sent me a package Monday and I got it Today. (CA to CT)
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  • BailathaclBailathacl Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭
    I think it might be a seasonal delay. My mail always slows down during the summer. I suspect it's some combination of postal worker vacations and related delays in the routing process. Still annoying though....
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  • gxseriesgxseries Posts: 423
    I personally don't think it is just USPS. I am quite sure that if you sent it via registered, the Post Office usually loves to take its time tracking all the registered package details, apperently after terror scare.

    But yes, this is just my speculation, I noticed slower mails worldwide except for postcards and normal airmail... image
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    As a side note, I received two letters from CA on the same day a few years ago. Looking at the post mark I saw they were both sent out the same day. One was mailed 1st class, the other Priority mail. One cost 37c the other $3.95 or whatever it was at that time.

    The little secret the USPS doesn't want you to know: priority mail and regular mail frequently take the same amount of time.

    I think it might be a seasonal delay.
    Must be the Christmas rush!! image
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am not even going there....image

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,449 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The little secret the USPS doesn't want you to know: priority mail and regular mail frequently take the same amount of time. >>


    I know this. Whenever the Postal clerk asks me: 'do you want to send it by priority mail? It's only 20c more' or the like I always tell them no. Priority mail is best used when sending something heavier and using the POs $3.85 envelope or $7.70 box.

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,449 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I am not even going there.... >>


    'kat, you work for the Post Office?

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess I should have sent a PM to Ajaan. I am sure there are those that wished I worked at the post office and those that wished I did not work at all... I don't work at the Post Office..image

    I had an experience recently with a situation that was not what I had hoped... and I will give credit to the US Postal Service, the item did not get lost

    edited to add: And for the record, there is someone here that can share this story but I am not asking that they do so.

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