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Anyone every have anything shipped parcel post?

||Does the tracking on that not like to update on the website? How long is a rough estimate from texas to illinois on that?

I really want my new camera but tracking still just says notified for shipping..
 
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USPS tracking is hit or miss until actual delivery and not 100% accurate then. I've had packages delivered which indicate "Notified by shipper...." a week or more after delivery. Texas to Illinois should not take more than 3 days but I had a recent priority mail item take 2 weeks to get from Indiana to Oklahoma (address was accurate, no damage and no indication where it went for 2 weeks!).
 
JimMc7 said:
USPS tracking is hit or miss until actual delivery and not 100% accurate then. I've had packages delivered which indicate "Notified by shipper...." a week or more after delivery. Texas to Illinois should not take more than 3 days but I had a recent priority mail item take 2 weeks to get from Indiana to Oklahoma (address was accurate, no damage and no indication where it went for 2 weeks!).
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Thats about what i thought, Maybe i'll get lucky and will get a nice box tomorrow with new camera in it!
 
Friday update.

Still nothing, realling wishing it was sent priorty or even UPS so I could at least track it.

Took three afternoons off work so far and no package. Bad week. What I saved on the camera i have now lost..

WOW USPS just said parcel post 3-10 days from texas, My god, for the cost would have been 6 dollars cheaper UPS ground and would have had it in 3 days...
 
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I get everything parcel post and personally I think usps is GREAT, till it gets to the boarder and thats where it sits. Oh yeh and another thing doesn't matter what boarder everything from the us goes to Ottawa and I live in BC that's another 6 days or more away. As far as UPS they are bloody CRAP. I once and only once used them from CSUSA, the order was $45.00 UPS was $55.00, so guess what? I did not accept the order and a few other members in our guild have had the samething happen to them. Postage is crap in Canada by it's self, takes at least 8 days from east coast to west coast. Also forgot mention I have never had any problems with usps tracking, and no I don't have shares in usps.

Lin.
 
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Just because the shipper paid for the postage and you received a notice doesn't mean they actually got the package into the system. Some shippers may take several days before the actually give the package to the post office.
 
what happens to me it says
electronic shipment information received for a week, then i get it and i look and it says delivered but it magically traveled 2000 miles in a day... hmmm
 
Well day 5 now and still no camera! This is starting now to really get me. It will have cost me close to 650.00 now when it is all said and done and for that price I could have went with a d90 kit new! Or a d40x kit and 55-200 vr af-s lens to go with it.

Little ticked now at the moment at the whole thing..
 
Usps

I don't have anything mailed by USPS anymore because the service is so terrible. FedX now has a thing called SmartPost which is them and USPS combined. FedX delivers the package to your local post office, on their own schedule, and then the local USPS delivers it to your home when it is convenient for them. I recently had a package arrive in Dallas (75 miles away) on a Tuesday (by FedX), get to my local post office on Friday, and finally to me the following Tuesday. This only emphasizes how the USPS can even mess up FedX.

Stu
 
Dennis, I would not get worried about PArcel Post for anouther week, and even then only mildly concerned. Parcel Post is the lowest rate service USPS has other than book rate. and there is a reason for it. it only gets on a truck if there is room etc. it is slower than slow.
 
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Dennis, I would not get worried about Parcel Post for another week, and even then only mildly concerned. Parcel Post is the lowest rate service USPS has other than book rate. and there is a reason for it. it only gets on a truck if there is room etc. it is slower than slow.
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Great so basically truck filler? Will have to inpest the box really good for damage..
 
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DennisM said:
Also when would one get worried? I have now sent two messages to the sender and an email, and yet I have received no response what so ever. I know that there is nothing that can be done at this point to do anything, but a response of some sort like sorry, or duh ya should have shipped it priority would be nice.

I know he has seen the messages as well.

In our original talks he stated he shipped it with trac














Concerned in Conroe,
John
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Sounds real good to me. We are both bummed and the only ones not harmed or concerned are the delivery people. Thank you for your response, a nice way to start a new step forward on a positive note. I liked your wood that you sent me and appreciated the extra. I think you will like the extra I threw in the camera box. (if you ever get it).
 
Like I said, no hard feelings, just frustration here.

and I am sure the mail guys are getting enough carp out there to cover this one as well.. :)
 
JimMc7 said:
USPS tracking is hit or miss until actual delivery and not 100% accurate then. I've had packages delivered which indicate "Notified by shipper...." a week or more after delivery. Texas to Illinois should not take more than 3 days but I had a recent priority mail item take 2 weeks to get from Indiana to Oklahoma (address was accurate, no damage and no indication where it went for 2 weeks!).
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Probably went to Alaska via way of Hawaii :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
DennisM said:
Great so basically truck filler? Will have to inpest the box really good for damage..
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Back in the days when I worked for an airlines, we would get carts of green mail - mail in green bags - which was first class mail... the airmail arrived in orange bags and was loaded first, then if room the green mail... I've seen carts of green mail sit on the ramp for up to 3 and 4 days until we had room on a flight..... have also seen 40' semi's loaded with orange bags being trucked from west coast to east coast...the mail service moves lots of mail and as quickly as their contractors can move it along... most of the delays are more likely the contractors, rather than the post office it self.... the system is very very complicated..... and logistics nightmare...
the green mail not loaded on a plane was supposed to be returned to the post office for re-routing to another carrier/contractor, but the carrier kept it because to return it would have had it deducted from their weight allocation and reduced their income.

We had a contract to fly 75,000 lbs of mail daily to Vietnam during Christmas back when the war was going on.... we got paid for 75,000 regardless of what we put on the plane, up to 75,000 lbs... after that we got premium for additional weights... maximum weight the acft could carry was about 100,000 lbs .... I think we rarely had over 45,000 on the plane.
 
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45,000 pounds is a LOT of mail!
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13 - 88 x 125 inch aircraft pallets.. all dedicated just to military Christmas mail...

Green mail was heavy.. mostly letters and magazines, stuffed in about 24x24x24 bags.. about 40 lbs each.... the airmail bags were lighter.. somewhat larger but still about 25-30 lbs each.... the military mail was in red bags.. usually about 20-25 lbs each bag.. it arrived in 40 or 45 ft trailers and we just threw it on the pallets or into the igloos until it stopped falling out, the tied them down with cargo nets... even weighed some of them, but I sorta developed an average weight by sight of the pallets and often we loaded the planes by sight rather than by weight... the trucks were usually late and sometimes we would only get an hour or so to load the pallets, tie down and load the plane...

When we flew the Pacific, we also loaded mail in the cabin of the passenger planes... usually in the last 10-12 rows of seats, we stacked mail then covered it with special tarps... I never flew the flight but would have hated getting stuck in row 13 from the rear...
 
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13 - 88 x 125 inch aircraft pallets.. all dedicated just to military Christmas mail...

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I never flew the flight but would have hated getting stuck in row 13 from the rear...
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Chuck,

There is a crying baby behind ME on every flight, I'll take the nice, quiet mail!!!
 
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