I went to ups because usps was a joke
UPS on 3 of the last 10 things ive shipped end up in other zones states away from delivery location and are delayed as they have to send them back to the correct zone. At least the show up,but dang!

Are you shipping Priority Mail or Ground Advantage? I haven't had any problems with Priority but Ground is awful. I ship daily.

December 18, 2024 I sent Christmas Gifts from Springtown, Texas (outside of Fort Worth) to Chandler, AZ (Metro Phoenix) Priority to my young granddaughter. They arrived on Valentines Day. I tracked them from Texas to Memphis, then Chicago to Los Angles and finally to Chandler. The Post Office told me when you pay for Priority Shipping arrival is only estimated date.

PS: the good news nothing was broken!!!

I've had horrible results with USPS, but wont bore everyone with how many times they've broken, stolen, or taken a month to finally deliver something.
UPS has been far better, but they screw up too. Once to our benefit when I got a knock on the door one day and a big box sitting on the porch. It had my wife's name on it, so I brought it in and helped her open it. She said she hadn't ordered anything, but the box was full of garden tools! All fiberglass handles, and 8 different tools that included hoes, rakes, shovels, etc., etc. It all came from a Tractor Supply store, so I called their 800 number and gave them the shipping info number. They said the tools were ordered by a woman in Virginia with the same name, and somehow UPS sent it to my wife instead.
I asked the person on the phone if they wanted to arrange for UPS to come pick them up and he told me to "just take them to your local Tractor Supply store". I told him the local store was 45 miles north of me and I didn't work for Tractor Supply, so he better arrange pickup. He told me to just keep them, and they'd send another set too the right person. So we've got a lot of use out of these high quality garden tools!

RDBallard wrote yesterday at 2:12am:


Similar to my experience with recent priority.

Since Priority isn't a guaranteed time frame, there's always a chance it can take many times the estimated time. I've had 3 day Priority take a couple weeks occasionally with no explanation why.