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[tdubel]

See example Man what a album.

Man, what an Album, actually getting ready to give it a spin. Just finishing up Iron Maiden - Live After Death. Greatest thing I bought for my home office was one of those record players that looks like an antique one, too freaking cool and I love. Ok, spinning Diary shortly. I think that was the first Ozzy album I got, I got it before Blizzard b/c it was came out second which is when I started.

Awesome memories.

TD

 

[tdubel]

The postal delays are really starting to get on my nerves. In addition to the 3 book orders that are MIA (all by over 3 weeks now), my wife's Christmas gift is now MIA. It was due a week ago, and in fact was tracked to the Hyattsville, Md. Distribution Center (about a 40 minute drive from me) last Thursday. Since then, nothing, just the kiss of death 'in transit, arriving late'. The USPS has never failed me anywhere near this badly before, which I can somewhat understand given the situation this year. Still... -- Al

Al,
I am sorry to hear it and I have the same issue. It is just maddening. I have 2 gift cards (letter mail) that are mia, should have been here 10 days ago.

TD

 

[lancer]

Al,
I am sorry to hear it and I have the same issue. It is just maddening. I have 2 gift cards (letter mail) that are mia, should have been here 10 days ago.

TD

Tom, hope your cards show up. I will live if the books are late/lost, but my wife's gift is a different matter, being quite a bit more expensive than my books.:rolleyes2: -- Al

 

[zblang]

I had a commission made by a Greek artist (one of a kind miniature). Left Greece and was moving fine. Cleared customs in ny and didn’t move for over three weeks! I was terrified it was lost and if not that by the time I got it it’s be destroyed. It finally arrived yesterday! Box was a mess, but thankfully it was packed very well.

There’s still hope for these packages

 

[Terp152]

The postal delays are really starting to get on my nerves. In addition to the 3 book orders that are MIA (all by over 3 weeks now), my wife's Christmas gift is now MIA. It was due a week ago, and in fact was tracked to the Hyattsville, Md. Distribution Center (about a 40 minute drive from me) last Thursday. Since then, nothing, just the kiss of death 'in transit, arriving late'. The USPS has never failed me anywhere near this badly before, which I can somewhat understand given the situation this year. Still... -- Al

Sorry to hear this Al. I am also waiting for two missing book deliveries, one the Arlington edition of Lee's Lieutenants (already read the books, just wanted this as a collector's edition). My wife sent a pkg via UPS to her sister. Twice the cost of USPS but arrived in four days. Hopefully pkgs will start to trickle in as people have finished Christmas mailing and the post office can catch up. Though not much help for your wife's gift. Chris

 

[lancer]

Sorry to hear this Al. I am also waiting for two missing book deliveries, one the Arlington edition of Lee's Lieutenants (already read the books, just wanted this as a collector's edition). My wife sent a pkg via UPS to her sister. Twice the cost of USPS but arrived in four days. Hopefully pkgs will start to trickle in as people have finished Christmas mailing and the post office can catch up. Though not much help for your wife's gift. Chris

Geez, I hope your Freeman shows up ok. That is a nice set. The USPS came through with a Christmas miracle this AM for me as my wife's MIA gift showed up about 30 minutes ago, just as I was checking to see if there were any new info on it's progress. The tracking went from 'in transit, arriving late', to 'out for delivery', to 'delivered', all within 5 minutes as I watched it update. What a system. Well, it got here, in one piece, in time for Christmas, so all is well that ends well. Santa delivered. Now, as to my missing books...? Merry Christmas, Chris, to you and your family. -- Al

 

[Terp152]

Geez, I hope your Freeman shows up ok. That is a nice set. The USPS came through with a Christmas miracle this AM for me as my wife's MIA gift showed up about 30 minutes ago, just as I was checking to see if there were any new info on it's progress. The tracking went from 'in transit, arriving late', to 'out for delivery', to 'delivered', all within 5 minutes as I watched it update. What a system. Well, it got here, in one piece, in time for Christmas, so all is well that ends well. Santa delivered. Now, as to my missing books...? Merry Christmas, Chris, to you and your family. -- Al

Well, there you go, a nice "Christmas Miracle" story to end 2020. :smile2: Chris

 

[jazzeum]

Sorry to hear this Al. I am also waiting for two missing book deliveries, one the Arlington edition of Lee's Lieutenants (already read the books, just wanted this as a collector's edition). My wife sent a pkg via UPS to her sister. Twice the cost of USPS but arrived in four days. Hopefully pkgs will start to trickle in as people have finished Christmas mailing and the post office can catch up. Though not much help for your wife's gift. Chris

Chris, was it sent media mail. If so, it may be awhile. Back in March/April when things were bad around here, deliveries of cds and records were taking forever. For example, I purchased a set from somebody in NY (about an hour from here). It took me two months to get it. At one point it wound up in Florida; don’t ask me how that happened. After that I asked sellers to use priority. A little more expensive but at least they got here quickly. It looks like I may need go back to priority. I purchased several records that weren’t cheap and the merchant (an audiophile label) sent them media mail. Bad choice. Hopefully they will show up in a couple of weeks. If not, I will have to contact them.

For the foreseeable future, everything will have to be priority.

 

[Warrior]

Geez, I hope your Freeman shows up ok. That is a nice set. The USPS came through with a Christmas miracle this AM for me as my wife's MIA gift showed up about 30 minutes ago, just as I was checking to see if there were any new info on it's progress. The tracking went from 'in transit, arriving late', to 'out for delivery', to 'delivered', all within 5 minutes as I watched it update. What a system. Well, it got here, in one piece, in time for Christmas, so all is well that ends well. Santa delivered. Now, as to my missing books...? Merry Christmas, Chris, to you and your family. -- Al

Too bad you didn't get it yesterday, then it would have been a Festivus miracle................

 

[Warrior]

USPS is bogged down, overloaded, maxed out, whatever term you want to use.

One of the clerks at the office I go to told me the main sorting depot in South Boston has no less than TEN tractor trailers full of packages/letters that still need to be sorted and sent on their way.

He figures it will be mid to late January before they are all caught up.

Packages are not "lost", they are "late"; I know it's frustrating and annoying, but don't worry, they'll get there.

Patience is a virtue.

I should post this on my website too while I'm at it...............:wink2:

 

[Terp152]

Chris, was it sent media mail. If so, it may be awhile. Back in March/April when things were bad around here, deliveries of cds and records were taking forever. For example, I purchased a set from somebody in NY (about an hour from here). It took me two months to get it. At one point it wound up in Florida; don’t ask me how that happened. After that I asked sellers to use priority. A little more expensive but at least they got here quickly. It looks like I may need go back to priority. I purchased several records that weren’t cheap and the merchant (an audiophile label) sent them media mail. Bad choice. Hopefully they will show up in a couple of weeks. If not, I will have to contact them.

For the foreseeable future, everything will have to be priority.

Brad, these were Ebay purchases and I don't know the mail priority used. Both are tracking in USPS system, just stuck somewhere until the storm passes. Figure another 2-3 weeks. Chris

 

[ccdc11]

The wild thing is. I have two different albums stuck in the mail.
the eBay one that has came to Chicago twice and left and another for discogs that has been about a month now. However I ordered one from Sweden. Mailed with no tracking and it got here in 10 days.
I will use priority as Brad has suggested from this point.

 

[Warrior]

The wild thing is. I have two different albums stuck in the mail.
the eBay one that has came to Chicago twice and left and another for discogs that has been about a month now. However I ordered one from Sweden. Mailed with no tracking and it got here in 10 days.
I will use priority as Brad has suggested from this point.

Priority helps, but in situations like this, not really................I was told USPS guarantees overnight delivery if you choose to use that service, but you pay out the wazoo for it...............even that is not guaranteed, so USPS is having to refund peoples money who used that service...............

It's hopefully a one off this year and next year, we'll be in some sort of normalcy and hopefully, we'll be able to travel and get together with families and friends............................we'll see......................

 

[rekp]

All i see are complaints and people moaning on here . I have mailed over 3000 packages since the start of November and despite Royal Mail saying they are overloaded and will disappoint all of the UK ones except those posted 48 hr tracked on Wednesday have reached their destination in time for xmas . So a big Thank you to the Post Office and their employees in the UK . My US parcels all reached destinations in time for shipping to UK and they were with USPS . ( Even the one from George )

 

[jazzeum]

Priority helps, but in situations like this, not really................I was told USPS guarantees overnight delivery if you choose to use that service, but you pay out the wazoo for it...............even that is not guaranteed, so USPS is having to refund peoples money who used that service...............

It's hopefully a one off this year and next year, we'll be in some sort of normalcy and hopefully, we'll be able to travel and get together with families and friends............................we'll see......................

Based on experience with LPs and CDs, I have to disagree. Priority does make a difference and the cost is not extreme because records are relatively light. Once I went to priority, I had no issues. Until fairly recently I had no problems with media mail but perhaps that’s a function of Christmas shipping.

 

[jazzeum]

Brad, these were Ebay purchases and I don't know the mail priority used. Both are tracking in USPS system, just stuck somewhere until the storm passes. Figure another 2-3 weeks. Chris

Chris, I’m betting it was media mail because that’s usually the default position for most sellers. The price for media mail is virtually the same whether you’re shipping locally or coast to coast.

 

[Warrior]

All i see are complaints and people moaning on here . I have mailed over 3000 packages since the start of November and despite Royal Mail saying they are overloaded and will disappoint all of the UK ones except those posted 48 hr tracked on Wednesday have reached their destination in time for xmas . So a big Thank you to the Post Office and their employees in the UK . My US parcels all reached destinations in time for shipping to UK and they were with USPS . ( Even the one from George )

Glad it got to you ok, thanks.................

My Christmas presents from my Dad and my Uncle (they are no longer here, but most of you know the story behind the story), left the UK via FED EX last Saturday, arrived here on Monday, FED EX rocks......................

 

[Warrior]

Based on experience with LPs and CDs, I have to disagree. Priority does make a difference and the cost is not extreme because records are relatively light. Once I went to priority, I had no issues. Until fairly recently I had no problems with media mail but perhaps that’s a function of Christmas shipping.

I'm not talking about in general, I'm talking about now during this mess; I mailed about 30 packages out on Tuesday, they all went priority, I paid for priority, the expected arrival date on all of them is December 29th (the day after my 60th birthday BTW), that's first class speed at priority pricing.

 

[Northgate Woods]

Guys,
Firstly a Happy Christmas and now onto the *****ing about USPS. I have two parcels. The first was posted in Florida on 24th November and tracking shows it is still sitting in Miami Airport awaiting departure. The second was posted in California on the 11th December and tracking shows it is still sitting in LA Airport awaiting departure. Great service by the Dealers to get them posted very quickly before Christmas but your USPS stinks. Chasing retired sets you want is becoming a nasty business.

Have a great day and stay safe. Cheers Howard

 

[Combat]

Lots of tell tale signs of decline. 300K deaths and counting from the virus. Political divide on every issue. Media bias. Mail piling up. I'm sure the Romans and every other civilization that fizzled out had a similar experience. Most of us won't be around to see it hit rock bottom but the signs are not good. If you want to see how it all turns out watch "Idiocracy" a wildly underrated comedy but some heavy truths.