PO sucks period.
A gentleman sent me a money order for something he was buying and it took 8 days to reach me; just an envelope, not even a package.

It's a crap shoot. I ordered some nylon bore brushes from Brownells Friday and they shipped Saturday and will be here tommorrow. That is with ground advantage, $1 and some change cheaper than priority. Small packages do better than barrells and stock sets for sure. Flight cancelations has an impact on mail also. Overall, the service here is not to bad in mid-America. Seems there are more problems that are more specific to the region. Just my experiance with only 15 or so shipments a year. 1 or 2 items a year may take an extera 2-3 days but always makes it here. Had an inbound barrel that got stuck at the local distrubution center for 3 days but upon reciept, the end of the shipping tube had got knocked off and was retaped apparently. Big stuff seems to be an issue more often . Packaging that doesn't fit the automated process.

YMMV
HG

I was mistaken.  Here is the status of the second check.

My semi-recent experiences have been trying. Tough on blood pressure. One check arrived some weeks after the second one I sent (because the first had not arrived) in a small Priority Mail box. 

Bought a Hiwall that was shipped from western Missouri to me in SW Virginia. It was very nicely packaged with the wood separate from the barreled action. Miscellaneous accessories were in a third package. The barreled action and wood was shipped first and the next day the miscellaneous box shipped. All Priority. Miscellaneous arrived first in good order. Then I followed the path of the other two. Was encouraged when they reached Indianapolis, but then they went to Chicago for a few days. That’s not on the way to SW Virginia and I just don’t think of good things happening in Chicago. For three more days the report was “Departed Chicago Distribution Facility.” I wondered if they knew in which direction the parcels headed. The first finally arrived and the second two days later all in good shape due to excellent packaging. Guess I should be thankful the USPS didn’t charge for mileage or storage.

I think your local post office up there is problematic and run by incompetent people.   

Not to say that this probably the common case anymore with USPS.

Also I have noticed it’s very difficult getting an item from the west coast to the east coast through ANY carrier with theft or damage!😡

yamoon wrote on Apr 6^th, 2026 at 6:40pm:

You are correct, packages go to KC to die. I’m 40 miles from KC. My most recent package took almost 3 weeks to get from Arizona to me, with over a week of that being stalled in KC.

Jonathan wrote on Apr 6^th, 2026 at 10:56pm:


Then you shouldn't have wasted your time responding