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Reply #15 - yesterday at 11:30am
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Welcome to my world.  I ship about 100 packages a month.  30 day domestic delivery is not uncommon.
  
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Reply #16 - yesterday at 11:52am
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bohemianway wrote yesterday at 9:39am:
Two weeks ago I sent a friend a birthday card. It still hasn't arrived. She lives two miles from my house were I sent it from!


Birthday card and $s sent to my Grandaughter 16 days ago, still MIA. Her place is a 6hr drive from here.
  
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Reply #17 - yesterday at 2:18pm
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As bad as USPS is, they occasionally get things right. I sent Westerner a reamer Friday and it estimated arrival as Monday. Darned if it didn't make it on the day estimated! 
Maybe I should break down and buy a lottery ticket?
  
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Reply #18 - yesterday at 2:39pm
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That is a real surprise since the USPS uses mules to haul mail the last 100 miles to Westerner's town.
  
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Reply #19 - yesterday at 3:13pm
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Give credit where credit is due, a package sent to me Saturday April 4 from San Diego was in my mail box this morning. 
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Reply #20 - yesterday at 3:57pm
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I usually do OK with USPS, but last couple guns I ordered from Wyoming took substantially longer than I thought was appropriate to make it to PA
  
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Reply #21 - yesterday at 4:32pm
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yamoon wrote yesterday at 3:13pm:
Give credit where credit is due, a package sent to me Saturday April 4 from San Diego was in my mail box this morning. 
Mike

Surprisingly enough, here in the Midwest packages from California arrive faster than most states that are much closer. I have no clue why.
  
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Reply #22 - yesterday at 5:02pm
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like kenn i ship a lot of stuff from 10 .00 worth of screws to guns worth thousands of dollars.  shipping is the part of the deal we cannot do anything about.i use usps alot and for expensive stuff fedex air next day to 3 day.postal is unreal how slow and the route it takes, i recommend if you ship much get to know your post master, mine is amazing what she can do about stuff sitting.    tony<><
  
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Reply #23 - yesterday at 10:22pm
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Hmmm, I have had poor service with FedEx and UPS. 

FedEx delivered a set of barrels for a drilling to a golf club with a huge membership even though the shipping label clearly showed my address.  Luckily my gunsmith tracked it down and I was able to retrieve them.

UPS has lost two guns.  One was found after a few days later and the 2nd was found 6 mo later, missing one of its two barrels.   

I have had the USPS take 6 weeks to deliver a rifle.  It seemed to have been lost at my local PO until I started the claim process.   

UPS delivered some steel rods (used for firing pins) to my neighbor (left by their garage) even though the packaging clearly showed my address.  By the time my neighbor found and delivered the rods to me, I had reordered & received new rods.   

I guess that all the above means that each delivery service has problems.
  
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