Priority mail issues the past week?

DrBuster

Anybody else having 'slow' issues with priority mail or the usps tracking website? I haven't had an update since the 5th on a sig/insured package....too soon to worry? Seems kind of odd with no update since the 5th, or no?

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Expected Delivery Date: January 7, 2011
Class: Priority Mail®
Service(s): Insured
Signature Confirmation™
Status: Processed through Sort Facility

Your item was processed through and left our INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46241 facility on January 05, 2011. The item is currently in transit to the destination. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later.
Detailed Results:

Processed through Sort Facility, January 05, 2011, 9:23 pm, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46241
Acceptance, January 05, 2011, 8:13 am, SHELBYVILLE, IN 46176

goingbroke

Yes it does! I have sent out 6 orders this week and tracking was updated every 2 days or less all the way to the delivery. all orders even the ones going clear to the other end of the country have been arriving by 3 days. Now I know they are having weather problems in the south interstates are closed as I write this. Perhaps that's why your shipment is running slow.

DrBuster

This is coming to Atlanta, but we didn't get any of the snow until sunday night, this was mailed on Wed and the above has been the only update.

goingbroke

Well, at least you insured it! you can at least sleep at night knowing your money is safe!.

DrBuster

True on the insurance, I just want my metal, don't want to have to go through getting a deal from here undone and the time/hassle that would take though.

I'm going to call the customer service and see what they say.

gsa1fan

Sent package last week up north took 5 days. Weather I'm sure

Get on phone call your postmaster they should be able tell you something.

DrBuster

The last one I got from apmex took forever (usually 3 days tops), but I at least had more update info on the tracking. This is private party, not that that has anything to do with it though.

Just called, nobody had any different info than the above tracking info "we're showing on the way and that's all we have". Maybe if the POs here in Georgia open up today I might get a scan upate hopefully, especially if it's been sitting in a truck since Sat/Sun waiting to be touched. Hope anyway.

gsa1fan

I will say the scanning & tracking online has gotten lax for some reason lately

DrBuster

Holiday blues I bet.

PerryHall

I've never had a problem with the U.S. Postal Service. I guess I've been lucky and maybe I'm overdue.

gsa1fan

I have NEVER had a problem either! I'm 100% USPS biggest supporter!

CaptHenway

USPS service nationwide is stressed by reduced manpower levels. There are no backups. If two people call in sick, a local P.O. can be paralyzed. If a Priority or Registered Mail handler is missing, the stuff will be stored until that person returns.

A station on my former dealer-to-dealer network didn't get any Registered Mail for 10 days. When he complained, he found out that his regular carrier was on vacation and the fill-ins refused to take the responsibility for Registered.

TD

derryb

In process tracking on anything except express is a courtesy. Sometimes you get an update while in transit, sometimes you don't. On-line viewing's main purpose is to see completion of delivery. Anything in between is icing on the cake. Lack of in-transit updates should not be taken as an indication of problems with the shipment.

The one that really keeps me on pins and needles is when a seller prints his own postage and the usps website says nothing more than "Electronic Shipping Info Received." I like to at least see confirmation that post office received the package from the shipper. Whenever I print my own postage on a high dollar item I always take it to the postal counter and have it scanned into the system. This way I have proof it was put into the hands of the post office.

tee135

I feel the same way as most who have posted re package aneplies... My customers often gets the package before the tracking has caught up with the delivery...priority mail use to be just that..PRIORITY..makes you wonder if in fact it is PRIORITY or just tossed in with 1st class or worse. The problems of the post office will get worse before it gets better...email etc has done the post office in...just think about this...when did you last email, and when was the last time you sent a letter to update a friend or family member of important news...The fact that we are all using our computers to complain about the post office...speaks for itself...
tee135

goingbroke

I live in a small town and as such you know everyone! The post master in our town is a friend of the family. I talked to him today about the latest delays reported here. He said most of the delays this week are weather related especially in the south east U.S. . He also confirmed what the prior forum member stated about Priority mail being slow. He said that 1st class and Priority mail arrive at their destination mostly at the same time, and often travel together.

goingbroke

Lets hope no Board member had a gold shipment on this truck this week! Mail scattered along 65 miles of St. Louis-area interstates after falling off truck
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports mail and boxes were found along southbound lanes of Interstates 270 and 55 Sunday morning