USPS Shipping delays

[Lyndon302]

If your getting parts from the USA as we all do don't use the USPS at this time for international shipping. I have 2 packages in NY and 1 in CA that have been sitting for 4 weeks now. 1 in fact has been in NY for over 5 weeks.
At the same time I also have had parts shipped to Australia via Fed Ex that took a week. So a heads up pay the extra and use Fed Ex
Lyndon

[WPOZZZ]

That's because FedEx has their own planes. USPS typically piggybacks on a commercial carrier. Because of Covid19 and the reduction in air travel, lots of stuff are taking forever. My N95 masks took 5 weeks to get to Honolulu from China. My gf wanted something from S. Korea, and her sister said she can't ship it. There are no planes.

[Ian Comerford]

I’ve had the same problem. New fuel lines shipped at least 7 weeks ago and still sitting somewhere around Chicago and a Fedex'd package from Pelican taking 8 days to UK

[stownsen914]

Good to know, thank you for the heads up

[Harpo]

Stateside FedEx is not so good. My stuff on multiple instances has been stuck at their distribution center for a week on two different shipments. UPS has been very timely. However 5-7 weeks make my problems pale in compairison

[mikedsilva]

yep, we have parts that stopped somewhere in the usa on 23rd May.. still sitting waiting to be sent to Aus.
Tried to get quotes from Fedex but the online system quoted a zillion dollars.
Any tips??

[ian c2]

Amazon prime same-day an next-day where taking around a week .
Usps has been running anything from 1-day to 4-days late On a next-day .within california .
Last week 1-day late on a 2-day package to a buddy in riverside, this week 1-day early on a 2-day package to a pelican in NorCal somewhere .
So things appear to be getting Back to normal if that’s an consolation .

I called an ebay seller Friday evening to tel them not to stress about shipping as I am in no rush .
Nearly 2 million infected , and nearly 110 thousand dead helps keep my porsche hobby in perspective ...

[kevingross]

It's been variable for me. I am getting a lot of stuff earlier than committed, I assume because of slowness in the business. I had a 930 case committed for Monday delivery by FedEx that arrived the previous Thursday.

Stuff has been very slow coming from Europe to me. Probably the same reasons others have mentioned.

I still love USPS, best deal there is. Free shipping supplies, free pick-up, competitive rates, and an easy-to-use "Click and Ship" web app. UPS and FedEx could learn from them. Don't even start me on DHL...

[Flojo]

Same issues here.
From Germany I'm stuck to go with DHL. expensive enough.
Parcels are obliged in big size only, 5kg onwards (no small parcels possible at the moment, or at same price as the big boxes).
They leave for international delvery within 48 hrs.
But then time goes by. Two weeks at minimum, rather three.
Most of the time the are stuck at customs.
Canada and Australia is quicker than USA.
But at least, they get delivered. That relieves me. And the clients as well.

[anglophone1]

Parcel arrived Friday via USPS - Milwaukee >Ireland 5.5 weeks!

[Ian Comerford]

Originally Posted by anglophone1

Parcel arrived Friday via USPS - Milwaukee >Ireland 5.5 weeks!

Sounds like you were lucky.....

[anglophone1]

Aye lad- I were lucky!

[OSC911]

Awesome - I sent my fan and housing to Shaun at Tru-6 in the US from Australia. Australia Post is pretty slow at the best of times let alone now with the delays. Probably should have gone with Fedex and he might have it by now. I'm not expecting its arrival for a month or two now.

[stormin48061]

I have had parcels sit in Detroit for 5 weeks and NJ for 4 weeks.... they are the hotbed for covid and affecting the workers of USPS greatly, thus reducing capacity at those USPS hubs. If you are going to those areas, Fedex is better. fyi.

[creaturecat]

last week:
parcel from Europe - DHL - 5 days to door.
parcel from USA - USPS (preferred) - still waiting - been 7 weeks.

[ClickClickBoom]

Alot of this is multi faceted. Its no secret that the President wants the USPS to go away, their funding ends in Oct, so probably no overtime work. Now that everybody is shopping online delivery services are maxed. The majority of offshore small parcel stuff comes on planes. The package companies fill up the shipments with air/first class then quite often will fill up the rest of the space with common mail/packages. When the airline industry was effectively grounded. The only guys left flying were UPS, FedEx, and the other freight companies. So in short until the airlines are back to 95% capacity deliveries will be slower.

[kltarga72]

Ordered small item from Germany and it was sent Fed-Ex. Took six weeks + before part was delivered. Sixteen days between Frankfurt Germany and Jamaica NY. I figured customs caused part of the delay. I was in no hurry to receive the part and expected delays before ordering.

Prior to Covid-19 I never really had shipping problems and most times would select USPS to keep cost down. As others have stated when the airlines get back to normalcy our shipping delays will decrease.

Lash