"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message ...
On 08/14/14 07:16 pm, Guv Bob wrote:

I ordered something online and I love watching tracking** but I've never
signed up for monitoring before.

**Watching tracking is like watching a horse race, except I always win.

The Fedex tracking page said my package would come on Friday but the
email they sent me said

Estimated delivery 8/15/2014 12:00 am

Apparenty they will deliver it at midnight. That is devotion.

Either that or a big international company doesn't know what 12 am
means.

If it were shipped by post office, it wouldn't really matter what time they said it would arrive.

A few months back I ordered a book from the UK on a Saturday. Estimated
delivery was 3 to 6 weeks by surface mail. It was delivered in the USA
on the following Saturday.

The "free shipping" from NewEgg and other online vendors often involves
pickup by UPS, FedEx or DHL and transfer to the USPS for delivery. IOW,
USPS can deliver things more cheaply than any of those other services.
Just once a small package got lost between UPS and USPS (NewEgg shipped
a replacement), but other than that I have no complaints.

Perce

USPS is fine for the big junk mailers and 1st class individual pieces. They deliver those right on time. Little mailers like my group (1500 pieces) gets no respect, no respect I tell you. Delivery within 75 mile radius is anywhere from 4 to 12 days for standard mail. First class is supposed to be 1-2 days, but if we mail 1st class with imprint instead of 1st class stamps, it's a week.