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[Blahblahvampemer]

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@willdob3 wrote:

IMHO it is all to keep USPS from going out of business. I say let them go out of business already!

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We have one of the cheapest mail services in the world, and they're more affordable for smaller packages than Fed Ex, UPS or anyone else.  

[Blahblahvampemer]

If UPS is already coming to your house, they'll deliver the package , and if they're not, you can sign up to pay an extra cost for them to do so.  It usually adds an extra day for UPS, but Fed Ex drives me nuts because it adds 2-3 days.  It usually takes them a full day just to get it from the regular Fed Ex facility to the Smartpost part, and it's in the same area.  

[hckynut]

@Shorty2U 

I really do not know. They could be busy, just the same as UPS. What I know for sure is the USPS needs all the help it can get. I am presuming these carriers pay USPS to deliver.

With USPS seemingly always financially in the RED, maybe this will help keep postage stamps under $1 for a few more years?

hckynut(john)

[CLEM]

I have posted about this right after Thanksgiving regarding an order from Cheryl's cookies.  Where I live, we usually get deliveries 2 times a day from UPS, 3 times a day from FedEX, and several times a day from USPS.  There never is a delay, except when SurePost is involved.

Well, I eventually received my order from Cheryl's after it sat around SurePost for 11 days.  At the time, QVC ordered another shipment as a replacement and guess what?  The cookies made it from Ohio to Philadelphia via Westchester in less than 2 days; arriving in Philadelphia on December 7.  However to date, 12/17, they are still sitting somewhere.

I have received all  other items this week within 2 days of ordering.

[Pqfan]

It takes me 1-2 days extra to get my packages when they do this.

I hate it!

Grrr!

[Kindaglitzy]

Sure am glad I decided NOT to order Cheryl's cookies this year! That must be a change they made this year with shipping.

[SahmIam]

CLEM, I am RIGHT THERE WITH YOU. My previous orders of Cheryls cookies took 2 days for UPS shipping. I am currently waiting for my Christmas cookies which shipped 10 DAYS ago and went beyond my house via USPS to the other side of the state and are now... well...we don't know where. Meanwhile, UPS has been by my house daily every day this week. So WHY did this order go USPS instead?! As per QVC, the vendor said to. UPS started the trail but handed them off to USPS somewhere early on. What a mess.

I'm not buying that in ANY way.

[Moonchilde]

@SahmIam, just FYI it's not just QVC. About a year ago I ordered an inexpensive cookie deal with free shipping directly from Cheryl's website. The cookies were made on a Friday and shipped on the Monday. I received them on the following Friday as they went Ground shipping from East Coast to West - so much for "fresh." They weren't. I could have gotten them faster (but I wonder how much faster) for 2-Day shipping - which would have almost  equalled the cost of the cookies. And IMO they're just not worth it anyway.  I ate about 40% of them and froze the rest. After thawing, about 3 weeks later, they were dry and tasteless.

I can buy Lofthouse cookies in any supermarket if I want Cheryl's - which I don't even like, now that I've tried them.

[Shorty2U]

Thanks for the replies and I guess it is to save cash, but here is what is funny.

Yesterday after 6 PM, UPS brought a package I ordered from QVC (for the house not for Christmas).

BUT UPS handed off my Amazon order to the post office yesterday too! (as well as the Fed ex order I originally typed about here)..lol..

So I don't get while UPS was coming here last night w the QVC package, why did the Amazon one go to USPS to deliver? lol.

At any rate, today I received the packages from Amazon (originally with UPS) and the package of my husbands electronic gift (originally with Fed Ex) because I did NOT go out anyway due to ice here today.

So all packages were here today via USPS before DH got home from work, so he didn't see the box with his gift in! YAY!. Score for the USPS!

[Sooner]

I don't have a problem with this.  It saves money, saves pollution, wear and tear on vehicles and seems to make sense.  If you need something right now, you have to pay for upgraded shipping. 

I think in the long run it is one of the few things I see happening that seems to be a good solution all around.