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Jgrden

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After completing ten antler pens, boxing them and including the spare parts, as my friend wished, we went to the post office and mailed them. Not priority, but regular mail. After three weeks they still have not arrived. Looks like I will need to dig into my own supply of antler and replace those pens I owe the friend. Should have known but we thought the service would have improved since I sent Dennis M. his camera. It is not the Christmas rush. :mad:
 
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Depending on where you sent it three weeks isn't totally out of line and could still get there yet.
 
about 15 years ago I mailed a gift to my then girlfriend. Her birthday was in August and I sent it in plenty of time to make it too her. I was stationed in California and she was in DC at the time. She received it the same day she picked me up at the airport for Christmas leave.:eek:
 
John, how did you mail it? First class, parcel post or media mail.
Most of the time my Post Office tells me that first class is delivered in the same amount of time as Priority. If I'm not mistaken media mail takes the longest with parcel post somewhere in between.
All that said, three weeks is a bit much for any of them. Did you happen to get delivery confirmation or insurance....anything that would have generated a tracking number?
 
Jgrden said:
After completing ten antler pens, boxing them and including the spare parts, as my friend wished, we went to the post office and mailed them. Not priority, but regular mail. After three weeks they still have not arrived. Looks like I will need to dig into my own supply of antler and replace those pens I owe the friend. Should have known but we thought the service would have improved since I sent Dennis M. his camera. It is not the Christmas rush. :mad:
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You should have known you get what you pay for.

Priority Mail with delivery confirmation and insurance is the best way to go.
Sure ... you might save a few dollars going regular mail ... but as you see it just aint worth it.
For 10 pens I would have used the USPS online service called Click and Ship, printed out the label, and dropped it off at the post office.
A flat rate box with three day shipping with insurance goes for about $7
 
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USPS is OK

I ship between 50 and 100 packages per month (more is some months) all via USPS. I ship anything under 13 ounces first class mail and a bubble mailer insured if over $25.00 value. Over 13 ounces Priority mail...flat rate box or flat rate envelope. Occasionally packages weighing about 1 to 2 pounds will go a little cheaper in zoned priority mail but not often.

Loses - no lost packages shipped to the USA in about 3 years. Maybe half a dozen have taken long enough that the buyer contacted me and 2 have taken three weeks or longer to be delivered .

3 lost packages in international mail (one not lost, buyer wouldn't pay the import duty) one of which I suspect the buyer snookered me....Two packages mailed to Canada took a month to be delivered, I suspect they spent most of that time in Canadian customs but I can't swear to that.

One domestic package was badly damaged and the shipment had to be replaced.

No international packages have been damaged.

Packages I have received .... DHL treats them badly. UPS and TNT are better but international packages tend to get beat up.

Packages delivered by UPS are usually in good shape as long as they are pretty regular shaped packages but I do get some that are somewhat beat up.

USPS delivered packages are usually also in pretty good shape but do get a bit beat up at times.

All in all I think that USPS is about as good as anyone. But, insure. If you ship a lot of packages you might want to go with one of the USPS approve postage providers, their insurance is about half the usps rate. I use Endicia.
 
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