About noon Wednesday I dropped of a small box containing an item I sold on Ebay, it cost me all of $1.92 to send. Today about noon, I checked my Ebay account and noticed I had positive feedback from the buyer, he had received the item this morning. I live near Seattle, the package went to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. I’m impressed.
With any luck, you made the calendar for 2009.
I’ll never forget when I’d moved into a house I was renting, and put my first month’s rent in the mail to my landlord – who lived a couple miles away across the rather small town – in plenty of time to be delivered by the date it was due.
Ten days later, my landlord comes knocking on my door. “I’m here to collect your rent.” She clearly didn’t believe me that I’d already mailed the check to her; but no problem, I wrote out a new one and told her if the other one showed up, let me know.
Two days later she called me. It had just arrived. I could have walked that check to her house and gotten home the same afternoon. It took the USPS 12 days to deliver that mail.
At least after that my landlord believed me when I said the check was in the mail…
Hell, we can’t even get 2-day Fed-ex in two days. I ordered some coffee a couple of weeks ago, and had to pay $22 for 2-day delivery (the only option). It arrived five days later. If you call and ask for USPS delivery, you get told that they don’t have that option. You don’t have the option of taking the fucking package to the post office? Are you located in Bora Bora? I guess I should be grateful that they deigned to deliver it at all. Many companies tell us that either they “don’t deliver overseas”, they only deliver “in the U.S.”, or they “only deliver to the continental U.S.” :rolleyes: