Thread: Post Office Killing Me

I ordered my new strop from SRP last Sunday and they shipped it at 10 the next morning. Great! I live just over 3 hours from Medina, where SRP is located and according to the USPS tracking number it was to be delivered 2 days ago. Still don't have it and USPS site still says it is on its way to the sorting facility. Things like this drive me crazy and stress me out. I'm getting antsy, I neeeed my new strop!

I HATE USPS!!! Uuugh!!! After months of searching i found and I ordered special parts for one of the Gorton Panograph Engravers I have in my shop. These things have not been made in over half a century so I finally nail down the parts I needed. Everything goes smooth with the purchase and I get a tracking number. The stuff comes across the continent and my local post office lost them!!!!!! I freaked out! After 25 calls and 3 weeks later they found them rather than pay the max insurance I put on the package! For Christmas my sister and brother inlaw whom live in Alaska sent me fresh and smoked Salmon. It got to my local post office in 2 days. They lost it. Found it 2 weeks later sitting on top of a hot radiator in the post office with perishable clearly written on it!!!

It could be worse - you could be at the mercy of Canada Post!

Honestly, if I was 3 hours away from SRD I'd probably just drive.....

JMHO of course

Originally Posted by Ryan82

It could be worse - you could be at the mercy of Canada Post!

Honestly, if I was 3 hours away from SRD I'd probably just drive.....

JMHO of course

Same here, besides roadtrips can be alot of fun.

I thought about making the drive, but too much on my plate right now. Locally, my postman has put a note in my box that i wasn't home and could pick up my package. I was home all day. Last year I had an iPod touch shipped to me. USPS site said it was delivered and I found it in the snow next to my mailbox! He didn't get a Christmas gift last year!

You have to make friends with them. It workedfor me. The local bloke would take the lazy option everytime, I got so sick of finding the notice of pick up due to no one home in the letter box, when I knew damn well I was home and had been for two days or more, that I had a bitch to the post master. No problems from that day on. The usual delivery bloke even knows me by name, and he doesn't have to show up more than once every few months.


Mick

Originally Posted by Ryan82

It could be worse - you could be at the mercy of Canada Post!

Honestly, if I was 3 hours away from SRD I'd probably just drive.....

JMHO of course

dont know what that means, canada post is like a cadillac compared to usps which is like a sunfire lol....canada post has never done me wrong

hope you get your strop soon

Originally Posted by sleekandsmooth

dont know what that means, canada post is like a cadillac compared to usps which is like a sunfire lol....canada post has never done me wrong

hope you get your strop soon

Perhaps you guys get better service out East . Here it routinely takes 2 weeks+ for a package to arrive, and that's from the States, not international. Read the SRP Thater brush thread, you'll see that members on the other side of the world were getting their product long before me. Compare that to US members who ship stuff across state lines and it only takes a day or two....

But to be fair Canada Post surprised the hell out of me last week. One of our fine members in Vancouver sold me a DE razor and it only took two days to arrive (thanks celestino ). On the other hand, I've hand mail sent from my grandparents take 4x as long to arrive - and they live 15 minutes away!

Take care,

Ryan

Sounds about right...I've had a razor arrive from Germany quicker than one shipped from Ontario...lol.