COVIDtest.gov is up and taking orders (site for free covid tests - program restarted Sept 2023),)

Got mine a few days ago (not sure exact day, as it was placed in my non mailbox box on my front porch)

Bruan

Hi, Bruan! I like your new name. It’s distinctive!

Darn tablet “keyboard”

Brian

Mine finally arrived on Thursday

My kit arrived today.

Mine’s already coming this Thursday.

Our kits arrived today. They’re kind of smelly.

Ours arrived yesterday.

Just got a 5 day notice. Will check early each day so it’s not sitting around in the cold.

That’s a good sign you don’t have covid but why are they smelly? They shouldn’t smell like anything.

FWIW, I just got my notification for delivery this coming Friday. I ordered on Jan 18th.

I got two emails this morning: one saying to expect delivery by the 26th, the other saying that it’s out for delivery today (the 22nd). Mail’s not here yet.

I expected the test to be more sophisticated than “if you can smell this, you don’t have COVID”…

It was funny. Saturday morning I looked at my email. There was a USPS announcement (from informed delivery) that my package was en route and should be received within 5 days. The email sent minutes later said it would be delivered that day, then a follow up email said it had been delivered.

I received a 2nd email yesterday saying it would arrive Today. And it did. So that was 30 days for me. The email communication looks like it improved a little.

They were indeed in the mail.

I presume they’ll work even if you don’t download the app? I have no device that scans codes to download apps.

They’re dated to use by July 23 of this year.

And they don’t smell. Or at any rate I don’t know whether they smell if you open the inner pouch to actually use them, after which they’re only good for an hour; but they certainly don’t smell if you only open them far enough to read over the instructions.

They’re like a pregnancy test. No app needed, just the appropriate fluid.

Just got mine a day early.

Same here; got the same two emails, and they arrived today. No smell, and both boxes have a use by date of July 24.

my use by date is July 27.