Well Josh sent me some feathers on 5/23 and the tracking number says it would be here 5/25. There is no scans after it was scanned in Fort Wayne IN.

Aggravating no doubt, but most likely it will show up at some point.

I've had staves get stuck in transit for several weeks.  They eventually made it to their destination.  Both times I sent a replacement before they were delivered.

I have had only one package not make it to its destination. If it doesn't show this week I will replace those feathers for you. No worries.

Josh

I know Josh, I was just bashing usps, I know it isn't not fault of yours. We will hold out, thanks

I had a bow sent to Alaska take 3 weeks, a bow coming from Colorado take 10 days and a payment going to Maryland take 2 weeks, but they all got there. Sometimes it takes patience. That being said I prefer shipping USPS and they have always came thru in good shape.

A package to TX Priority 3 days.  A check in an envelope 7 days. But they get there....eventually.

Depends on what hub it goes through it seems.  I've had better luck with UPS.  Don't remember the last time I had a problem.  USPS...not a lot of problems, but more stuff started coming up missing after our hub moved from Tupelo, MS to Memphis, TN.

We just had a national holiday, and although there was parcel delivery all weekend, I still delivered 150 parcels and three days' worth of mail yesterday. We are trying. And I admit, I may have made a mistake once or twice.

Give it time, but keep in contact with the delivery supervisor, or if they are a slug, the postmaster at your office. And the postmaster at the office that shipped it.

Killdeer
It all rolls downhill, and I stand at the bottom, gaping up.  

I have had really great luck with USPS but UPS not so much.  Our local UPS delivery driver left a package at our gate several hundred yards from the house.  I try to never use UPS.

I send out over 100 invoices per month. At least five percent get lost in the mail.

I sent out 2 large boxes with a Jo-Jan fletcher, bow parts, books, and all kinds of other stuff, from Ohio to Alaska and neither has arrived yet.  Sent them USPS in 1997.

QuoteOriginally posted by Archie:
I sent out 2 large boxes with a Jo-Jan fletcher, bow parts, books, and all kinds of other stuff, from Ohio to Alaska and neither has arrived yet.  Sent them USPS in 1997.

WOW! Should be arriving soon! Lol

I've always had excellent service out of the USPS. If I'm sending something of value or fragile I send it Priority Mail and sometimes there isn't much difference in the cost of Parcel Post and Priority Mail.
I was told by a P.O. agent that fewer folks handle Priority Mail, thus it is a safer way to go.

Killi, good to see you posting again.

And.....no offence to you, but the USPS haven't located the Schafer, Marriah, and Cook Mountain, longbows my brother shipped to me last month from Alaska.

You have a couple of choice.
Ship USPS to save some money but understand that their tracking system is not good.
Ship UPS and pay more.
I have never used Fed-Ex, so I cannot comment.
All of them will lose or damage packages as they are run by people and people make mistakes.
Add to that holiday backlogs.

Complaining about the shipper on this or any forum will not help you.

Walt, I wish I could tell you what swell bows they are.

Killdeer    

Killy, I miss you posting like you did some years back.  Always interesting and enjoyable.  I remember when you announced you were cutting back.  I have always hoped you would reconsider.
As to USPS, most of the service is wonderful.  But, I have sat at my computer where I can see my mailbox, and watched the driver fill out a form to leave that stated no one was there to sign for a piece of mail.  A call to the post office led to nothing but double talk and frustration.

Murray

Had been mailing USPS for many years sending bows, arrows and targets to military bases in Afganistan and Iraq with not one issue. Never lost or damaged parcels.  That was a few years ago and can't do it anymore. I now send and receive large flat rate boxes of knapping rock without any problems.  

I know USPS is cheaper than the two mailing services.

I have mailed dozens of bows and fly rods USPS Priority/Insured. None have failed to get where they were sent intact save once when a bow was damaged, it was the only one I ever lost the receipt for and it was a p.i.t.a. but I did receive full reimbursement. I have never failed to receive an item sent USPS and all have arrived intact. On the other hand and simply one among a number of instances, a package was recently delivered to my residence and left by FEDEX in plain sight, unprotected from the elements on the ground against the outside of my roll-up garage door. When my wife left the next morning of course she ran over it. A claim with FEDEX was arbitrarily denied within a week but fortunately the shipper ate the loss and mailed a replacement package. It came by FEDEX again and this time the driver threw the package blind over a seven foot high wood fence into the open side of my garage. It was protected from the elements this time at least but the down side was it ended up against the back of the front passenger tire of my wife's car, which already had proven to be pretty rough on cardboard packages. I noticed it the next morning fortunately and am still waiting for FEDEX to give me any explanation of why they can't simply walk the package to my front door like the post office always does.