I made an Ebay purchase from a vendor in China shortly before Christmas. It shipped and cleared US customs in 10 days. Great. It is now 30 miles from my house and being transferred from the shipper to USPS. Probably ShartPost and it has been at that facility for 4 days now. It is probably going to take longer to get it the last 30 miles than it did to get from China and clear US customs. I guess they toss all of the ShartPost boxes in a bin until it gets full then harness up the mule.
I bought 2 custom made items exactly alike from China before Christmas. I had one sent to my son in Houston, he got his on Dec 31st. only 12 days after ordering. Yay!
Mine went the Shanghai, to Anchorage, to NYC, to Avenel NJ. UPS picked up in NJ, sent to SC . It has been in Rock Hill SC UPS for 8 days. says its being transferred to USPS for delivery. USPS says its waiting for the transfer. Total shipping time is now over 2 weeks. I even got an email and a txt from the Chinese manufacture that said they are asking UPS "WTF". They also sent a discount code for my next order.
At least its my B-Day and the drinking is about to begin
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Got my mail today. Seems to be working.
UPDATE to my Rant:
My Package finally showed up. Got it the 14th. 28 days after ordering, not bad really, from China. But it sat at UPS/USPS for 8 days. Oh well, quit bitching, it arrived and there are other things that are more worthy of fretting about.
Bravopilot
Yeah, that's a winner.
My doc already has the results and wants me to repeat the test in 2 weeks.
Moeman Sorry to hear, never sounds good when they tell you that. How much can change in 2 weeks.
The results are all good, except Triglycerides...
Those are always high.. Cause I have a drink or three.
HDL and LDL levels were in the acceptable range.
This is my heart doc who I have had for abt 15 years.
He has kept me alive through some rough shit over the years.
I trust him.
WTF is happening with the USPS these days? I have trying to get my wife's estate closed for the past few months. One item is I had a death benefit payment from her retirement account. For some reason this is a paper check that is mailed, not a direct deposit. It was mailed in my small city on the 22nd. We only have one post office. As of today the 31st it still hasn't arrived. I talked to retirement this morning and they told me the hold up is USPS and to call them back if I have not received anything on 2/7. Also as executor I am trying to close out an investment account in a city 30 miles away. I had to mail them some documents on 1/28 and sent it priority mail for tracking and it was addressed to a PO Box. It was supposed to be delivered on 1/29 . I check the next morning and it shows it arrived in that city that evening of the 28th. The next day it shows delayed due weather. No tracking updates since. Weather? We have not had any bad weather in weeks and roads are clear. USPS WTF is going on? I would like to choke some lazy USPS asshole who desperately needs it. 
I just got a letter yesterday that was mailed locally on Jan. 14. Nice going USPS. I have been dealing with my retirement system waiting for a check since November. They finally mailed it (local) on Jan 22. So after waiting on them I wait on the F'ing USPS. They must have a pile of mail to sort as big as the Matterhorn. 
USPS.
I have a shipment that is statused as " Arriving on time" (to me, today) and it's still in Florida.
Didn't want to start a new thread but if you buy things from China.
