Art,
My guess is for $4 you are using first class parcel from USPS. For the 8
years I ran my RC website USPS Priority mail had very few problems
compared to USPS first class parcels. Eventually I stopped offering
first class parcel and went to Priority Mail only. Just passing my
experience along.
Don Slusarczyk
On 6/20/2018 10:51 AM, upwind120_at_gmail.com [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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Don Slusarczyk
Received on Thu Jun 21 2018 - 02:22:58 CEST