maybe customs. USPS could track the label number, and it never advanced past NY for a couple weeks. I asked at the local office, and the woman there suggested I wait til after that weekend, and they would check on it. It ended up arriving that Monday, so I did not find out what the hold up was. The package was registered mail, it should have been first on the trucks at arrival.

I have this notion in the back of my head that if I had asked about it a week earlier, it would have arrived a week earlier - the postage goblins were just waiting to get a rise out of me.