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I have a package that's been stuck at the Springfield, MA distro center for the past 6 days with no movement. Be careful what you wish for..

A stock I bought from a member here has been in Shreveport for the past 5 days.

Not quite, First Class does not sit. Priority and Fist Class are both at the front of the line for delivery and not allowed to be delayed under normal conditions. And both of them actually travel on the same planes/trucks. Anyone that delayed any First Class got their ass in a wringer, it's the volume of everything that is clogging up the system. And the people that waited to buy or mail anything in December this year really don't have anyone to blame but themselves, Ray Charles could have seen this coming. And there is no "special" phone number to call to bitch about it as claimed here.

I sold bullets to a member in MT. Took 4 days for the package to move from our local PO to regional distribution center in Cincinnati, 40 miles away. The contract mail truck makes a "milk run" between our PO and Cincinnati twice a day, every day. No clue why it took round 8 round trips to show up in Cincy after it left our local PO. THEN, it took another 6 days to go from Cincinnati to MT... <smh>

Put a deliver note in tracking that said they couldn't locate the destination.
It was raining and they didn't want to get out of the truck to put package on porch.
Socialism.

The amount of freight/packages being moved right now is higher than any time in history. Last year the index was at 10169 basis points - now it's at 14759 basis points and that's the lowest it's been since August.

Holiday spending is up 19% y/y - much of that ending up into the parcel final mile. Amazon actually delivers about 2/3's of their own packages on Amazon trucks - while areas that aren't service internally are serviced via FedEx and USPS. Amazon will deliver more packages on their own this year than FedEx will deliver this year of any type.

Los Angeles container count for November was up 22% y/y and at the end of the month with another 16 ships off the port waiting for space to unload (100k containers). Right now there are 15 ships dockside with another 23 anchored in the bay - waiting for space between LA and Long Beach. Forecasts show January to be up 5% over 2020. It's going to be tight like this for a while.

Add that now you have the COVID vaccines into the pipe line which will take priority over all else - it's going to be messy. I'm not blaming COVID - I AM saying that there's finite capacity and we're seeing demand well beyond that even without COVID reducing the # of available workers to move it or the added stress of a vaccine in the pipeline.

You have first, middle and final mile. Where the parcel industry will struggle is middle mile - DC to FC/Final mile delivery. Stuff will sit in those DC's until they can move them.

And the Postmaster General never saw this coming!

My packages were sent 2 day priority 15 days ago and they are still not here...so much for priority mail.

My Priority Mail pkg. shipping from Indy to Gulfport, MS took nearly three weeks.

So, according to a or some members here, anyone or quite frankly everyone here purchasing something in December is an idiot? I'll never understand why some people have to be such asses, dicks or what ever term you want to put to them. So what is a person to do when they NEED to order something they want or need something like a part to fix something in the month of December, make believe they don't need it so they don't appear to be an IDIOT. What about someone posting something up for sale in December, not purchase it? WTH is up with people anymore? The thread seemed to be about expressing frustration in delays of items shipped and yet others need to turn it in to insulting members, not at all why the majority of us are here. I could call the driver who left our package 6 miles away at the wrong address, wrong town, wrong road, wrong house number, an idiot, but I don't, I don't know the circumstances, mistake or intentional? But certainly not a reason to call the person an idiot without knowing the circumstances. Just Saying. What about the 85 year old man who took the time to find an old phone book and start calling people with the same last name till one of them knew me and passed his phone number on to me to contact him for my package. He was frustrated as he couldn't get anyone from Fedex to talk on the phone, he was more frustrated than I was for not getting my package. Is he an idiot as well, I mean he could have had a nice Christmas present for free, but he wasn't calling the driver or Fedex idiots. Life happens, end of rant. Hope everyone receives their packages and has a nice Christmas, to include the haters and name callers.

My package that was shipped on 12/5 from MI arrived in the Philly "regional destination facility" last night. Now lets see how long it takes to get delivered.

I'm happy at least its close!

FWIW:

I’ve had a package from a state away, shipped 1DEC, sitting at the distro ctr, 60mi from my house, ever since the 3rd. Had another from farther away that shipped at the same time, that made it here Sunday. Postal worker ‘hinted’ that I should disinfect it and all other packages, before handling anything that came through either state and my local post office.

I got several packages today through the postal service and they arrived 1 day ahead of schedule. maybe they were trying to beat the blizzard coming in.

It's called the Ignore function. Give it a whirl sometime.

Yes big apologetic delays.

I have 8 out right now somewhere in space. All at least a week late

Had a member send me some brass 12/3, just got here today. It's taking a long time, be patent.

Ya, especially the 10 million fake ones for China Joe.

I have a package shipped from Kansas 4 WEEKS ago. First it sat in Kansas City for a week and now it’s been in Memphis for the last 10days. I filed a lost mail tracker today. Meanwhile I have a package mailed from AK that arrived in 3 days.

I tracked a non - holiday related package, a couple days ago.

No delivery time given now.

Just says “arriving late, still on the way”. 😂

Good thing it isn’t me-maws fruitcake.


Sign at Post office yesterday said the 18th is last day for priority Christmas delivery.

I’m doubting that.