Thread: Ten days. No razor

Originally Posted by gugi

Why not ask the USPS?

I did receive my razor...and it's really nice. Here's the irony (if one chooses to call it that). I took the advice of gugi. Went to the local post office, gave them the tracking number (Registered mail-requires a signature each time it changes hands they told me). They advised they had yet to receive it (no record of any transfer from one location to the other either..tracking showed it somewhere "en route" from a postal facility about 100 miles away). OK..no worries.

Three hours later-letter carrier at the door with the package. USPS...always an adventure.

For the record, I have no complaints. I'm one of those "as long as it works out in the end" sort of people.

Originally Posted by Phoenix51

They advised they had yet to receive it (no record of any transfer from one location to the other either..tracking showed it somewhere "en route" from a postal facility about 100 miles away). OK..no worries.

Three hours later-letter carrier at the door with the package. USPS...always an adventure.

I think that these express packets travel through a separate channel, but once they are near you it's very quick. I have had some international packages this way and there is a completely different truck with a completely different guy who show up at completely different times than the normal delivery person.
They seem to be more like a courier service - come up to my office in my building just like the express ups/fedex instead of leaving it with the internal delivery guys. They also seem to always be quite in a hurry.

It doesn't seem to mattered in your case but if something takes longer than it should I've found it useful to ask USPS to look for it, after all they've got it and they have all the tracking even the stuff that's just internal and doesn't show up in the online tracking tool.

Enjoy your razor.

I have only tried shipping to Canada once ,,(maybe it was you stevethecanuck) but I think next time ill just drive to the border and throw it over to someone or launch it with a slingshot ,, I cant believe how much time a government system can take , we can send it 2000miles in country in 3 days ,, maybe 2, (that's how long it takes pixels items to get to me ) but just over the border not 850 miles from me takes weeks crazy!!!!!!!! sorry about the rant tc

Canadian Border Services is the worst bureaucracy ever. They are so wrapped up in their importance and power they have lost the concept of efficiency. It is a sad sad statement because it's true. I could get a crazy ant going but will leave it there, for now.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

I have only tried shipping to Canada once ,,(maybe it was you stevethecanuck) but I think next time ill just drive to the border and throw it over to someone or launch it with a slingshot ,, I cant believe how much time a government system can take , we can send it 2000miles in country in 3 days ,, maybe 2, (that's how long it takes pixels items to get to me ) but just over the border not 850 miles from me takes weeks crazy!!!!!!!! sorry about the rant tc

Don't think it was me but yeah, CBS can be brutal. So canUSPS.