About 6 or 8 months ago I shipped a winder to the Seattle area. It went overnight from my local P.O. to Opa-Locka, which is the USPS departure airport for Southeast Florida. From Opa-Locka, it went into limbo for about 10 days, totally missing. It finally turned up in San Juan PR, where at the time there was no electricity, no roads, no infrastructure. Despite that, the Puerto Ricans managed to get it onto a plane to Seattle the same day.
Now we have one that went out June 11th to a suburb 30 miles west of central Chicago. It got to Chicago in 3 days and then was "in transit to next facility" on the 15th, 16th & 17th (a one hour drive in traffic). On the 19th it turns up at bldg. 250, JFK Airport NYC, the facility which processes all the mail for the US Armed Services in Europe, Africa and the Mideast. I have their phone number but nobody there will pick up the phone.
So, from now on, no more USPS. I had included the $4 postage in the price of the winder, but now I'll have to add the actual UPS charge, or FedEx if the customer prefers.
Art.
Received on Wed Jun 20 2018 - 14:51:41 CEST
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