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Is This a Record: 4.5 Months to Deliver a Registered Package?
In November 2020, our firm sent a Registered envelope containing a CAC coin to a destination exactly 20.5 miles away, as per Google. It arrived 4.5 months later. Yes, 4.5 MONTHS!
We attribute this absurdly long delay to our use of a small envelope instead of a HUGE box as I recommended in an earlier thread. Post offices hate having space hogs in their safes, security cages, and locked offices, so large boxes invariably make Registered Mail travel much faster in our experience.
We mistakenly assumed that we could let our guard down for a mere local shipment. After all, earlier in that same year the transit time for another Registered envelope sent 22 miles in the opposite direction was but 21 HOURS.
For the missing envelope, we filed an insurance claim with USPS 14 days after shipment and received a reimbursement check four months later, the day after the package was finally delivered. We returned the check to USPS with a sarcastic note thanking them for their prompt delivery.
This year, all of our Registered mailings have arrived in one to six days except one that took eight. All were large boxes. Coincidence?
(Upon request, I will provide the mod with the tracking number and documentation via private message).
We attribute this absurdly long delay to our use of a small envelope instead of a HUGE box as I recommended in an earlier thread. Post offices hate having space hogs in their safes, security cages, and locked offices, so large boxes invariably make Registered Mail travel much faster in our experience.
We mistakenly assumed that we could let our guard down for a mere local shipment. After all, earlier in that same year the transit time for another Registered envelope sent 22 miles in the opposite direction was but 21 HOURS.
For the missing envelope, we filed an insurance claim with USPS 14 days after shipment and received a reimbursement check four months later, the day after the package was finally delivered. We returned the check to USPS with a sarcastic note thanking them for their prompt delivery.
This year, all of our Registered mailings have arrived in one to six days except one that took eight. All were large boxes. Coincidence?
(Upon request, I will provide the mod with the tracking number and documentation via private message).
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This is my new record. I sure would hate to loose $5,000!
For safety, I never ship on a Friday.
Steve
In fairness to Fed Ex, our big city addresses are very confusing. But that still does not excuse forgery!
But the longest transit time for any of my firm's other Registered mailings still holds at 13 days, out of untold thousands sent.
Has anyone else experienced unusually long delays when using Registered Mail? Does anyone else even use it? If not, you should consider using it due to its extreme safety. David Akers of Paramount International Coin stated that his firm had never lost a Registered mailing out of MILLIONS sent!
If you are concerned about transit delays with this service, please refer to my prior thread for tips on how to greatly speed it up.