USPS is slow, buyer beware

[cuedoctor]

fyi - They tell you priority mail is not a guaranteed service and it will run very slow during the holiday season. Best bet is to spend the extra $ on express mail. It's still quite a bit more reasonably priced than UPS or Fedex overnight and is guaranteed. I hear DHL is offering a good service these days.

Aint that the truth! If you dont want to spend twice what others charge then dont whine about a extra day or two. First of all,the day you mail it dont count as day 1 because it aint gone anywhere until it leaves the post office,so if you mailed it on say monday, 2-3 days would be thursday and a day late would be friday. And I just love when you go online at fedex website and get one price and then go to there office and its like 17% more for fuel surcharge! Thats like going to the post office and buying a book of stamps
(20) for 7.90 and the person says that'll be 9.50 ! And fedex and ups rates are going up jan.1. Mail it fedex next time,or better yet,call ups for a pickup and make sure you have 50 bucks atleast.
LOL

 

[jay helfert]

Real, real busy at the post office this time of year. The USPS is definitely overloaded right now. And they do not hire the extra help they need. At least not enough extra help. Expect everything you mail in mid December to take twice as long.

Other than that, my experience using Priority mail (with insurance and delivery confirmation) has been excellent.

 

[Nine Ball]

Hello all, I will never ship cues postal service priority, here is the reason...I did not ship a cue but a holiday present for my grandfather. I am very upset as the post office is running especially slow, I understand the whole holiday crunch and rush and high volume influx, but don't sell a mail service that is touted as 2-3 days and have it arrive 4-5 days...that's BS. If that were a cue--who knows what types of conditions it will be exposed to over that time.

Always ship valuable cues overnight, much safer and cues are not exposed to as much variable extreme temperatures.

I have filed a complaint on that particular priority shipment (like that will do anything but I did anyway)...Sorry for the early morning rant but had to vent.

Always insure for the full retail value with any carrier, I have had one cue lost by the post office that I bought on ebay, it was shipped to me and the seller forgot to insure it so there is a cue out there in the universe somewhere...and all above carriers have damaged packages even with the most bullet-proof packing, they found a way to make a mess.

Just some FYI.

Yep, Right now it is kind of crazy. I sold a cue and the money was sent to me on December 9th by Priority 2-3 day mail. I did not receive it until one week later. Nice 2-3 days.

Thanks,
Josh Hillard

 

[Nine Ball]

My mother in law just told my wife today, she sent her sister a holiday gift, an electric can opener and a couple of other trinkets...her sister received the package, sealed, to find the box empty...the package had been opened, rifled, and re-sealed. She did not purchase insurance as it was only about 20.00 worth of stuff, but that is some Shiate...to add insult to injury...and to add to this thread. You know what her recourse it...nothing!

Try this. I received a cue in the mail about 2 weeks ago. It was sent in a PVC tube with the caps glued on. I opened up the tube to find nothing in it. They ripped the bottom off, Took out the cue and sealed it back up. Nice postal employees. Also, On top of it all there was no Insurance on the cue and I can take no action against the post office. As much as this happens to people you would think something would be done to help prevent things like this happening at the post offices.


Thanks,
Josh Hillard

 

[Poolhawk]

Try this. I received a cue in the mail about 2 weeks ago. It was sent in a PVC tube with the caps glued on. I opened up the tube to find nothing in it. They ripped the bottom off, Took out the cue and sealed it back up. Nice postal employees. Also, On top of it all there was no Insurance on the cue and I can take no action against the post office. As much as this happens to people you would think something would be done to help prevent things like this happening at the post offices.


Thanks,
Josh Hillard

How do you know for sure that there was ever a cue in this pvc tube?? I guess once we weed out all the crooked sellers and pool hustlers out of this billiard industry then shit like this might not happen.Even the great KT turned out to be a crook.

 

[Poolhawk]

My mother in law just told my wife today, she sent her sister a holiday gift, an electric can opener and a couple of other trinkets...her sister received the package, sealed, to find the box empty...the package had been opened, rifled, and re-sealed. She did not purchase insurance as it was only about 20.00 worth of stuff, but that is some Shiate...to add insult to injury...and to add to this thread. You know what her recourse it...nothing!

Comon,now its a can opener,next thing you'll say they stole your under wear
This crap aint even pool related,do your self a favor,next time just hop in the car and deliver the can opener for her

 

[cueball1950]

And i was beginning to think that i always had good luck with the USPS. I just bought a pool dvd off of ebay and the person selling it sent me an email with the tracking number and all. When i go and check the tracking number it tells me that my purchase has been forwarded to Washington D.C....Something about forwarding info or wrong zip code. But she sent me everything she had for shipping and it is correct. I am just wondering if somebody went to the post office and had my stuff forwarded for some reason. But yet i am still getting all my important mail.... Maybe just a holiday screw up somewhere. Anyway. she is going to reship me another copy.........................mike

 

[iowa_player]

I have always shipped using Priority, at least 50 to 75 items, and have never had a problem. It has always arrived within three days and sometimes two.

Same here never had a problem yet.
Happy Holidays Larry

 

[rackem]

Check this out!

You guys might remeber a little over a month ago I posted about this postal money order that took like 3 months to get to me. I was still able to cash the money order so we went ahead with th deal.
I mailed the cue Priority mail on Dec 14th, 3:11PM in SoCal. He had it at 9:05AM Dec 16th in Charlotte. Go Figure, a day and a half at Christmas Time for a package, 3 months for a letter a month before.

 

[paulybatz]

That is crazy!!!!!!!!!

I just sent a MO priority mail and it is three days today and still has not arrived, at least not yet as per the delivery confirmation...I really hope that does not happen to me, I was hoping to have my Christmas Present by Christmas, actually by Wednesday.

 

[Nine Ball]

Try This One On For Size

How do you know for sure that there was ever a cue in this pvc tube?? I guess once we weed out all the crooked sellers and pool hustlers out of this billiard industry then shit like this might not happen.Even the great KT turned out to be a crook.

Hey,

Because the cue was built for me by a well respected cue maker and I find it hard to believe he would try to rip me off for one cue when it could cost him many sales. On top of that he is building me another exactly like the cue that got stolen at his expense. So that's how I'm sure there was a cue in the PVC tube.


Thanks,
Josh Hillard

 

[cueaddicts]

Man, you guys either have the $hittiest luck or have some kind of an inside job going on. Seriously, that's pretty bad on the sealed tube deal.

Still tough to believe Pauly would send a can-opener rather than a gift certificate for one.

Sean (probably 500+ shipments through usps and all good so far)

 

[paulybatz]

I also...

how Sh*&tty the world is, it is so sad that people are just so horrible. I think there should be a class action suit started...

Try this. I received a cue in the mail about 2 weeks ago. It was sent in a PVC tube with the caps glued on. I opened up the tube to find nothing in it. They ripped the bottom off, Took out the cue and sealed it back up. Nice postal employees. Also, On top of it all there was no Insurance on the cue and I can take no action against the post office. As much as this happens to people you would think something would be done to help prevent things like this happening at the post offices.


Thanks,
Josh Hillard

 

[paulybatz]

I didn't...

Man, you guys either have the $hittiest luck or have some kind of an inside job going on. Seriously, that's pretty bad on the sealed tube deal.

Still tough to believe Pauly would send a can-opener rather than a gift certificate for one.

Sean (probably 500+ shipments through usps and all good so far)

Sean, it was not me who sent the can opener, it was my mother in law--and a holiday present for her sister who is legally blind and cannot make it to the store herself to buy one...they literally opened it, took the contents and resealed it...it is $hit luck and it just hasnt made its way around to others yet---and just like anyone who rides a motorcycle...eventually they will see the ground.

Pauly

 

[cuedoctor]

You guys might remeber a little over a month ago I posted about this postal money order that took like 3 months to get to me. I was still able to cash the money order so we went ahead with th deal.
I mailed the cue Priority mail on Dec 14th, 3:11PM in SoCal. He had it at 9:05AM Dec 16th in Charlotte. Go Figure, a day and a half at Christmas Time for a package, 3 months for a letter a month before.

Well,look at the envolope,this piece was damaged by the automated machines that sort the mail.70-80% of all mail is now sorted by robots and machines that are the size of a small house at mail processing plants.The reason they went that way is a machine can sort 40-50000 pieces per hour were as a human does 4000 if they had a good nights sleep.Some times these machines get jammed up and a piece gets somewhere in the machine that its not found until they do a full service maintance on it. Looks like it got jammed between the rollers on one of these machines.Thats the way everything is now.You take it to the P.O. and it may not touch another humans hands until it reach's the destination P.O. and thats if the Optical reader read the address right
LOL

 

[cuedoctor]

Sean, it was not me who sent the can opener, it was my mother in law--and a holiday present for her sister who is legally blind and cannot make it to the store herself to buy one...they literally opened it, took the contents and resealed it...it is $hit luck and it just hasnt made its way around to others yet---and just like anyone who rides a motorcycle...eventually they will see the ground.

Pauly

Yep,I'm sure they really hit the jackpot when they stole that can opener
Maybe it was packed shitty and came out and they the box open and just sealed it up.I'm sure everybody does a excellent job of packing when they send items thru the mail right. Here's one for ya, A very well known azer here who runs a cue dealer business and post here everyday sent me a bluegrass cue and a check for 700 bucks in a trade for my cue. Well,when it arrived one shaft was missing and the check was gone.The package had one piece of tape on a used box that had lost all its rigidness and NO bubble wrap.The bottm of the box popped open because it had zero tape on it.The cue was a 2500 bluegrass cue and had no insurance on it. Blame the Post Office right . The dealer has since packed his cues better and would not hesitate to do a deal again but he admitted he was in a hurry. Maybe I should have started a class action lawsuit As Sean says 500 cues and not a problem,ALOT OF TIMES ITS THE SENDER WHO IS THE PROBLEM
LOL

 

[bnall]

When I have anything of value shipped I usually have shipped at my place of employment. Thats the way to do it because its a business not a residental customer. Also my wife doesnt find out my cue buying habbits. I know UPS, Fedex, and USPS will leave residental packages without anyone being at home, just happened to me, but when its a business all packages must be signed for or the packages will be taken back to the depot and be delivered the next day. Also when you receive any package from a carrier MAKE SURE ITEMS ARE NOT DAMAGE! OPEN THE PACKAGE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE UPS, FEDEX, ECT... DRIVER. ONCE YOU SIGN FOR THE PACKAGE THIS RELEASES THE RESPONSIBLITY OF THE SELLER AND THE SHIPPING COMPANY. SO IF YOU SIGN FOR IT YOU ACCEPT FULL RESPONISABLITY. ITS EASIER TO FILE A CLAIM THIS WAY. TRUST ME I DO THIS FOR A LIVING. I DEAL WITH CLAIM ISSUES LIKE THIS EVERY DAY. Hope this helps.

 

[paulybatz]

Yes...

be sure to do signature confirmation on all important parcels as well...good tip!

When I have anything of value shipped I usually have shipped at my place of employment. Thats the way to do it because its a business not a residental customer. Also my wife doesnt find out my cue buying habbits. I know UPS, Fedex, and USPS will leave residental packages without anyone being at home, just happened to me, but when its a business all packages must be signed for or the packages will be taken back to the depot and be delivered the next day. Also when you receive any package from a carrier MAKE SURE ITEMS ARE NOT DAMAGE! OPEN THE PACKAGE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE UPS, FEDEX, ECT... DRIVER. ONCE YOU SIGN FOR THE PACKAGE THIS RELEASES THE RESPONSIBLITY OF THE SELLER AND THE SHIPPING COMPANY. SO IF YOU SIGN FOR IT YOU ACCEPT FULL RESPONISABLITY. ITS EASIER TO FILE A CLAIM THIS WAY. TRUST ME I DO THIS FOR A LIVING. I DEAL WITH CLAIM ISSUES LIKE THIS EVERY DAY. Hope this helps.

 

[rhncue]

I shipped a cue last week from Cincinnati to Washington state over night express. It was guaranteed to be there by noon the next day or my shipping would be refunded. It cost 20.00 plus change, I went to Fed Ex and they told me the price for the same package and service was 48.00 and change. Quite a difference.

Dick

 

[JoeyInCali]

I shipped a cue last week from Cincinnati to Washington state over night express. It was guaranteed to be there by noon the next day or my shipping would be refunded. It cost 20.00 plus change, I went to Fed Ex and they told me the price for the same package and service was 48.00 and change. Quite a difference.

Dick

I was sending Edwin some aluminum rails. UPS wanted over $400.
USPS could not take it b/c it was too long but was going to charge $275 if it made it.
I went to LBC Air Cargo and paid $80 for a 4-6 week delivery via boat.