USPS Expected Delivery Dates Are A Joke

I should have known better than to rely upon the USPS and their Priority Mail service.

I had some postcards printed up for my campaign for the NRA Board of Directors. As I have chosen to attend the Safari Club International Convention this coming week instead of the SHOT show, I asked a couple of friends who were going to the SHOT Show if they would distribute a handful of these postcards for me there. Being wonderful people they agreed.

Thus, I sent a handful of postcards to each of these friends by USPS Priority Mail on Wednesday, January 15th. The Postal Service says Priority Mail has a 1-3 business day delivery time. They even offer tracking on stuff sent by Priority Mail for no extra charge. One package was supposed to be delivered on Friday and the other on Saturday. I should have been covered even if one didn’t arrive on time.

I should have used something more reliable such a UPS, FedEx, or even the old Pony Express.

Neither package has been delivered to either of my friends and they both are now winging their way to Las Vegas. The kicker is that both packages arrived at the respective USPS regional facilities on Friday afternoon. Both regional facilities are less than 40 miles away from the final destination.

Monday is a Federal holiday for MLK Day so the earliest these will arrive now is Tuesday.

USPS delivery dates rank right up there with “I’ll respect you in the morning” and “I’m from the IRS and I’m here to help.”


4 thoughts on “USPS Expected Delivery Dates Are A Joke”

  1. I gave up on USPS back in the early 2000s when Matt Lauer interviewed the postmaster general standing in the lobby of the post office across from Union Station. After being introduced by Lauer the postmaster general proudly made this statement, “I am proud to report today that the US Postal Service is delivering 80% of its TWO DAY mail within SEVEN DAYS.”

  2. A couple of years ago I ordered a small plastic trim part for my car from an outfit in Tuscon, AZ. It ended up in Nashua, NH, I live in NC. NH, NC, close enough for government work. When someone figured it out, instead of forwarding it to to me ( at a suburb of Charlotte), they sent it back to Tucson to start all over again. I still have a copy of the routing info, 10 days and 14 postal facilities.

  3. I ordered a Christmas tree topper on December 2. Promised delivery some time before Christmas. Then they changed it to January. Then they changed it back to December 24th. Then they were silent. Then on January 2 I was told it had shipped. So why did USPS send me all those notes about when it would be delivered? Don’t know. Then on January 3 I discovered that it had shipped from Oklahoma City to Nashville Tennessee. Why? Don’t know. Must be a hub there or something. What was the weather forecast on or around January 3 for the next week in Tennessee? Yeah, you guessed it. Giant snowstorm. So they told me my package had been delayed due to “unforeseen weather event”. I guess it is unforeseen if you don’t make the effort to foresee it.

    Second story, ordered a small gun part. A couple pins. USPS said “delivered” but it wasn’t in my (locked) mailbox. I filed a dispute and they told me shipper had to dispute. Shipper filed a dispute and they told him it had been delivered. End of story. Except for the part where I didn’t get my parts.

    I only use USPS if that’s what the shipper uses and I have no other choice. Or I don’t care when it arrives.

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