Good Experience with USPS

notwilight

I just checked and I have shipped approximately 850 packages this year with USPS and only one has been lost. One was stolen from a mailbox after delivery by a neighbor. This buyer should have warned me to send signature confirmation...anyway I call this a good success rate (99.88%). Most are uninsured with no signature confirmation as they are less than $100. Above $250 I use Signature confirmation and somewhere above that depending on how well I know the buyer I switch to Registered Mail. --Jerry

RYK

Jerry, you should know by now that positive threads, especially in reference to the post office (!), are forbidden. Your experience mirrors what I would expect for package delivery. 99.5+% of the time, everything goes well, and some of the shipping snafus that do occur cannot be blamed on the post office.

WTCG

I guess the USPS sounds pretty good right now although I don't want to jinx anything since I have two USPS items still to be sent out today.

Just for comparison purposes, yesterday I sent four FedEx packages on Standard Overnight service. As of right now three packages have not yet arrived at their respective destinations (Mountain View, CA to Austin, TX, Sarasota, FL and Irvine, CA). One package (Mountain View, CA to Santa Ana, CA) arrived, abeit a few hours later than usual.

notwilight

<< <i>I guess the USPS sounds pretty good right now although I don't want to jinx anything since I have two USPS items still to be sent out today. Just for comparison purposes, yesterday I sent four FedEx packages on Standard Overnight service. As of right now three packages have not yet arrived at their respective destinations (Mountain View, CA to Austin, TX, Sarasota, FL and Irvine, CA). One package (Mountain View, CA to Santa Ana, CA) arrived, abeit a few hours later than usual. >>



I too was worried about jinxing myself. I hope my experience with Fedex is better than yours as I just sent a pair of gold coins via Fedex to Singapore yesterday!!!

--Jerry

jayboxx

We use USPS Priority Mail at least 1/3 of the time in my business, we love it, never an issue and usually very fast.

droopyd

I'm at 90.5% with USPS this year -- 2 of 21 packages went "missing."

ksteelheader

<< <i>Jerry, you should know by now that positive threads, especially in reference to the post office (!), are forbidden. Your experience mirrors what I would expect for package delivery. 99.5+% of the time, everything goes well, and some of the shipping snafus that do occur cannot be blamed on the post office. >>



Exactly. Some people, though, will continue to live in a world of paranoia not realizing that it is a treatable disease.

YaHa

I have had no problems with the USPS, I mailed a birthday card to myself and it was delivered. Way to go USPS. 100%

itsnotjustme

Here's a package I am waiting on. I was sure it was stolen or something, then the seller sent me the tracking number. Only one month from Nevada to New Jersey. Now how many more days to reach my Europe APO address?

Processed, December 19, 2007, 9:17 pm, KEARNY, NJ 07099
Acceptance, November 19, 2007, 4:51 pm, CARSON CITY, NV 89706