I mailed my Christmas cards on December 11, 2020. That’s about a week earlier than I usually get them ready for the mail. But I figured with the hot mess this country (and the world) is dealing with, I’d get a head start.
My sister lives less than 200 miles from me. She just received our Christmas card yesterday. 25 days to go 200 miles. That’s around eight miles a day. I think the Pony Express moved faster than that!
And yet it is called the postal “service”.
Knitting In Flashes 
My husband just received the last of his Christmas gifts yesterday (1/5). Based on the tracking information, the journey began on December 14!
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Mr. Aitch still has one gift yet to arrive. Maybe it will get here by Valentine’s Day. 😳
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There you go! That’s making it work in your favor.
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Have to put the blame where it belongs…..the head cheese pulled the sorting machines and no overtime….delaying the mail in votes as well as all mail……making it virtually impossible for on time delivery…let alone high volume at the holidays. They worked as fast as humanly possible. At least it got there! Better late than never!👌
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My favorite has been Amazon telling me “your package is 5 stops away!” “No, wait, we sent it back to the distribution center, it’ll be delivered TOMORROW!”
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Mr. Aitch has been waiting since December 8 for his meds. They are currently in Washington DC at a distribution center and have not moved from there for the past 11 days. Fortunately he was able to get the prescriptions filled locally but had to pay for them as his insurance says they had been refilled already. No more mail order meds for us.
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Oh my word! That’s really wrong.
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He was notified late yesterday afternoon that the package was returned to the issuing pharmacy.
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Tell that to the insurance company, maybe they will refund the money he paid.
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Fortunately the meds were 100% covered. But they are necessary for his health.
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Thank God they were covered!
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Tell me about it! I mailed one package late this year, so I ponied up $40 for express mail on Dec 18. Postmistress said it would NOT get there in 2 days, but would be there by Christmas, though she looked a little uncomfortable saying that. It had to go to Pennsylvania. I watched the tracking, which said guaranteed delivery by 3:15pm on December 23. It left our PO in the evening of December 18, as one would suspect.
It ARRIVED at the Philadelphia processing center at 7:15 pm on December 23. And there it sat.
On December 26 I went to our PO to see how we could move it along. She could do nothing, but printed out everything I needed to get a refund. Which she could not process, I had to go to a larger PO. I did that, and here is what the nice young man said to me “I don’t think it will let me process this, it hasn’t been delivered yet.” I asked him to please try, and it did go through. But not before I said “so if it is never delivered, I can’t get a refund on my guaranteed delivery item?” Which made the lady behind me crack up. Next issue: they couldn’t issue cash, he printed me a money order. I then had to cash that. The machine could not read it. We went through all sorts of shenanigans, and finally he got the drawer to open, gave me the money, I went home, and continued to watch the tracking info. The package was delivered on Dec 30.
It is no wonder that the darned thing is nearly bankrupt… in the end, they delivered my package for free! But it took a lot of time on local employees part, never mind everyone between here and there to make it happen!
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My former daughter-in-law just texted me last evening that she received our Christmas card. She also told me that she received a package that was mailed on December 8 (not from me). And the postal “service” received a $25 BILLION shot in the arm in August!
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But had a leader determined to influence the election. This is the end result…
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Do you think maybe the mailman might be under duress given the pandemic is profoundly impacting most services?
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No. All this late mail madness started in December. Surely the $25 BILLION election fraud funding they received in August should have curtailed this fiasco. Some people just wanted to take what little joy we have left out of the season.
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It should have, but didn’t. Every country is suffering similarly, mail wise anyway, even mine where covid is almost under control.
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In which country do you live?
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I am in Australia
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