journey11
Garden Master
Tell me about it. I was expecting a package of books today that did not show up I checked the tracking and it says the package is sitting in Jersey City......and has been there for about three weeks!
our local PO adds another layer of obfuscation on. They seem to have taken the view that all mail can sit around until they "feel" like delivering it (which they never do) Months can go by when the only mail we get is the presorted junk that requires no input from the post office.
And then of course there are the special headaches that come from buying things from outside the country. I have resigned myself to the fact that such things can take forever. what frustrates me is that even though I get (and usually pay extra for) tracking so I can have a clue when it is showing up (a lot of them are registered, and so need someone to sign for them, and the local PO has this nasty tendency of deciding that, if you aren't there when the package is delivered, you can NEVER get a second chance; the package vanishes into the bowels of the PO system again never to be seen.) it doesn't;t usually do any good since no one bother to scan the package until it's time to deliver it. A few days ago, I bought a book on ebay from the Ukraine. That usually takes 4-12 weeks to get here. I have had the tracking info for a week now but I fully expect that the first time I ever get any idea of where it is the day it shows up at my door needing a signature. That's sort of why for my Japanese book purchases, I use a service that ships everything FedEx. It's expensive as hell, but at least I have some idea of when the stuff is coming!
Good grief. I had a time sensitive letter sent by certified mail to the county this summer, two weeks to spare until it was due. When no one was there to sign for it the day it arrived, they bounced it back to the hub in Charleston and didn't attempt to redeliver for another week! Thank goodness they go by the postmark for the due date. They are just driving the nail in the coffin with this kind of thing. I should have just driven the 20 minutes down the road and hand delivered it myself for free.