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PolarGreen12
StuckOnPeas
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Loc: Tulsa, OK
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Two Peas had my order packed and shipped the day after I placed it. I chose the Priority Mail option as usual. My package is doing more traveling than I have in the last year. Two stops in Wisconsin, then off to Memphis, now it's in Dallas. Sheesh...hoping it's in Oklahoma soon. |
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melanell
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
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Priority mail is supposed to reach you in 2 to 3 days. Has it been longer since you ordered?
Or are you just amazed that the P.O. has it stopping so many times along the way?
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PolarGreen12
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 319,638
May 2007
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Loc: Tulsa, OK
| Posted: 2/5/2013 12:00:47 PM
Today is day 4 I think, so at the earliest it will be here tomorrow. SO just a day over normal. No big deal. I guess in my mind if should have just come south from Wisconsin, not east then south then back north. lol |
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GwynnAsbury
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January 2013
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| Posted: 2/5/2013 12:33:36 PM
I have noticed this too! Then I realize that USPS has been shutting down a lot of their outskirts offices..... Particularly in lower population areas, which has resulted in longer shipping times and I think more sporadic movements. It's always fun to see where your package has gone that you have not though! | |
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scrapcatz
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Now, if only our mail could earn frequent flyer miles!!! | |
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Lemon Cupcakes
StuckOnPeas
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July 2005
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Loc: Under The Stars
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I've had packages stop in Reno, go to Sacramento and then come back through Reno to be delivered to me in the next town over. 
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KBPea
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
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October 2008
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Sorry you didn't get your stuff! My "bucket" is at my local post office as of yesterday morning, but they seem to be taking their sweet time to deliver it the rest of the way to me Really hoping it's there when I get home. | |
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AncestralPea
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Lately the USPS has been taking average of 5 days to reach me and Im mainland US. (ordering from various places) |
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stampartiste
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Posts: 179
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Loc: Louisiana
| Posted: 2/5/2013 3:59:14 PM
I mailed a regular birthday card to my granddaughter last week. It took 6 days to go 40 miles. I think the Pony Express was faster! |
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wookiemouse
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Loc: New Braunfels, TX
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I have no complaints - I would wait 2 weeks for USPS! Our idiot UPS man drops our deliveries OVER our fence right to our dogs. We have packages destroyed on a weekly basis, despite complaining to the regional office about him. At least I know my 2Peas boxes are safe!
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Tashak
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September 2005
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Loc: somewhere over the rainbow
| Posted: 2/5/2013 5:05:00 PM
My last order arrived at my local post office, the next day it said it was being transferred to my local post office.  I was wondering how that happened. Did someone had the package to someone standing outside who handed it back? |
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Loc: Froogville
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I mailed a regular birthday card to my granddaughter last week. It took 6 days to go 40 miles. I think the Pony Express was faster!
In that case, it definitely would have been! |
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alohachick
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| Posted: 2/5/2013 5:48:30 PM
Last week I had an order of ATG tape coming to Spokane, Wa from Florida. Somehow it went directly to HONALULU. I sure am envious of that tape. |
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chelsea_vance
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| Posted: 2/5/2013 7:04:20 PM
Lemon Cupcakes are you in Reno?!?!? |
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melanell
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
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| Posted: 2/5/2013 8:41:59 PM
I guess in my mind if should have just come south from Wisconsin, not east then south then back north. lol
LOL...they are trying to be like the airlines.
I love when I want to fly from Eastern PA to another east coast state and they fly me out west first.  |
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Dani
StuckOnPeas
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Loc: Southern Louisiana
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I guess that I am fortunate then because I pay for priority and it goes from Wisconsin to Louisiana in two days, almost every time. Only once in the past year did it take three days. |
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October 2002
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Loc: Froogville
| Posted: 2/6/2013 2:59:46 PM
Last week I had an order of ATG tape coming to Spokane, Wa from Florida. Somehow it went directly to HONALULU. I sure am envious of that tape.
that's just nuts. Gee, wonder where some of the post office waste is?? |
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margievis
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| Posted: 2/6/2013 3:33:51 PM
I am ROFLOL at this thread...too funny! |
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margievis
PeaFixture
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| Posted: 2/6/2013 3:34:57 PM
And they are getting rid of Saturday deliveries to save money? Sounds like they could save more by sending package on a more direct route! |
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Frootfoot
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| Posted: 2/6/2013 3:47:05 PM
Two Peas has been awesome with my shipping, on my latest order I ordered it on a Wednesday, it shipped Thursday and was here by Friday!  |
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ThreeCs
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| Posted: 2/6/2013 4:28:22 PM
My last order went priority mail and I had in 2 days. smart post runs 6 to 7 days for me. | |
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scrappinbetty
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January 2003
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Loc: Texas y'all
| Posted: 2/7/2013 12:28:07 AM
I am very pleased with my order's arrival. I received it a couple days after ordering it, and I didn't pay for fast shipping. Yay 2Peas and my USPS guys! |
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misfit
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December 2011
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| Posted: 2/7/2013 12:39:17 AM
It took exactly 1 wk to get mine, but I didn't pay for priority. I have to add it was packaged very well...and I got my very first wood verneers  | |
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| Posted: 2/7/2013 7:05:54 AM
And this is the base problem with the USPS, IMO.
I track packages and they go to wild and crazy places. My very favorite was a package that was sent from northern CA, got all the way to NC (where I live) and somehow ended up back in southern CA and then made it back to me.
Seriously!? |
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ckettel
PeaFixture
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December 2004
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Loc: Chicago, IL
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Allright, add me to the list now. Ordered 2/14, shipped 2/15 from Two Peas in WI to IL USPS Priority. Normally 2 days max until I receive it (it's not that far). Checked the status this morning and my package is in South Dakota! Really USPS? |
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lovetodigi
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April 2006
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| Posted: 2/19/2013 9:24:14 AM
It once took 12 days for a Priority Mail package to get from me to my SIL three hours away. I told the PO that I could have walked it there faster than that. |
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| Posted: 2/19/2013 9:31:30 AM
It's because of all the postal closings that have been happening this past year! The USPS is closing a ton of there service centers and offices.. So needles to say your package won't be going from point a to point b so easily anymore.. It may have to jump through some hoops to get to you  |
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Momma_Paparazzi
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Loc: Wisconsin
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I mailed a regular birthday card to my granddaughter last week. It took 6 days to go 40 miles. I think the Pony Express was faster!
It would be faster!!!!
It is the pony express where I am too. Mailed a dr. bill from my house to Mpls.. 36 miles away... 11 days!  | |
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Momma_Paparazzi
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January 2011
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| Posted: 2/19/2013 10:11:45 AM
Allright, add me to the list now. Ordered 2/14, shipped 2/15 from Two Peas in WI to IL USPS Priority. Normally 2 days max until I receive it (it's not that far). Checked the status this morning and my package is in South Dakota! Really USPS?
Middleton to Chicago is what 4 hrs maybe??? It can't go from the Madison, WI post office to Chicago's? Your package will be well traveled.  | |
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Budletsmom
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January 2003
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Loc: So CA
| Posted: 2/19/2013 10:21:18 AM
I agree it is nuts. Closures or not there is no reason for a package to cross the states several times or go to Hawaii before making its way to its destination.
We have three postmen drive down our street each day - no reason for that as we are in an area that sort of dead ends we back up against hills with no houses so not a reason to drive through our area unless they are delivering. Combine the routes so that they aren't driving in the same area multiple times a day. What a waste.
The PO isn't the only one that can take a while. I had two packages from the same place coming to me one was smart post FX and the other regular FX - the FedX one got here in two days the other one took over a week and it wasn't just because of the PO it was Fed X that package seemed to be checked in and out of the same place multiple times. |
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ckettel
PeaFixture
PeaNut 181,125
December 2004
Posts: 3,667
Layouts: 33
Loc: Chicago, IL
| Posted: 2/19/2013 10:58:34 AM
Middleton to Chicago is what 4 hrs maybe??? It can't go from the Madison, WI post office to Chicago's? Your package will be well traveled.
LOL. Heck, you add 2 extra hours for a snow delay and it would still be on time.
It once took 12 days for a Priority Mail package to get from me to my SIL three hours away. I told the PO that I could have walked it there faster than that.
LOL.
Imagine if the USPS had to issue refunds/price adjustments for Priority shipments that took longer than 3 days. They would go out of business. |
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ltllea23
Montana Sweet Pea
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April 2004
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Layouts: 974
Loc: Missoula, Montana
 | Posted: 2/19/2013 1:54:42 PM
USPS is just off these days. I sent a package to my friend in Minneapolis the Monday before Valentine's day, and they didn't receive it until Yesterday. 7 days to a city that is 15 hours from me?? It's nonsense. |
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cengland
AlienGreenPea
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May 2011
Posts: 529
Layouts: 131
Loc: Sweden
| Posted: 2/19/2013 2:36:34 PM
I feel for you ladies. You really want to put this in perspective? I live in Sweden and provided that customs doesn't detain anything (which sadly now happens with my 2Peas orders), it takes a week to the day for post to arrive from North America. So it seems that I'm getting my orders in the same amount of time as you are, but a quarter of the way around the world - ouch! | |
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desdichaedo
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April 2007
Posts: 1,294
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Loc: Miami {the one in Florida, not the one in Oklahoma}
| Posted: 2/19/2013 4:30:25 PM
I once had a 2Peas box take a three day vacation in Albuquerque before slowly wandering over and down to Miami. The whole thing took over a week!
I think my box wanted to thaw out from the cold WI weather! |
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paperpea
PeaFixture
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March 2001
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Loc: Iowa
| Posted: 2/19/2013 4:31:15 PM
My USPS story: 24 days for a 2 mile delivery. The epitome of efficiency. Ha ha. | |
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Gem Girl
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March 2010
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Loc: Lost in thought
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I ordered something from FL on 2/7 that shipped on 2/8. It was in my state (MD) on 2/16, so I got my hopes up, only to see that it's now in NC. For Pete's sake!  |
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Fevvers
Garden Girl
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April 2003
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Loc: Hawaii
| Posted: 2/19/2013 4:35:42 PM
These tales are hilarious and sad all at once. I've had a package that should have been delivered in one week's time sit in one spot in California for almost a month before heading to me. Two Peas shipped the package really quickly -- that wasn't the problem -- but somewhere along the way the package lost the will to live and had to be talked back onto an airplane.
I track packages and they go to wild and crazy places. My very favorite was a package that was sent from northern CA, got all the way to NC (where I live) and somehow ended up back in southern CA and then made it back to me.
We should definitely be earning frequent flyer miles for this. |
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thegirlx
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Loc: Vancouver, BC
| Posted: 2/19/2013 4:38:35 PM
I ordered something (not from 2Peas) on the 6th, was shipped out on the 8th. The USPS tracking says it was in Nashville, then on the 10th went down to Miami and now (9 days later) it says nothing. Where, oh where, has USPS taken my little package? I know things shipping to Canada take longer, but really.. the tracking hasn't even been updated! | |
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StuckOnPeas
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January 2007
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| Posted: 2/19/2013 4:50:46 PM
I have no complaints - I would wait 2 weeks for USPS! Our idiot UPS man drops our deliveries OVER our fence right to our dogs. We have packages destroyed on a weekly basis, despite complaining to the regional office about him. At least I know my 2Peas boxes are safe!
My husband works for UPS and when he started he would deliver to places with loose dogs. But after being bit twice and losing out on pay (yes work related so they paid him regular hours but not the overtime that he usually makes) he doesn't go into yards with dogs...no matter how nice they may seem. |
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arinfaith
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| Posted: 2/19/2013 5:35:29 PM
I think they should come with postcards of all the places your package has been.. |
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March 2002
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Loc: Poconos PA
| Posted: 2/19/2013 8:30:28 PM
I mailed presents to my nieces and nephews in Sweden for Christmas leaving PA November and not arriving until last week. 
I love our UPS and our UPS lady! Our mailman is great, his company is just not so hot. |
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ckettel
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December 2004
Posts: 3,667
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Loc: Chicago, IL
| Posted: 2/19/2013 8:57:42 PM
I think they should come with postcards of all the places your package has been.
I want pictures of the traveling gnome holding my box in various cities and states. |
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LindaBabe54
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December 2003
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| Posted: 2/20/2013 12:04:41 PM
30 years ago, we lived in Germany. Our address was an APO (which is a US address). I ordered address labels from Walter drake. Months passed and they had not arrived, so I got a refund.
About a year later, the labels arrived, the envelope totally undamaged. The only indication we had of where they had been was a post mark on the back - Tel Aviv! | |
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October 2002
Posts: 17,509
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Loc: Froogville
| Posted: 2/20/2013 12:12:20 PM
I want pictures of the traveling gnome holding my box in various cities and states.
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scrapstitcher
StuckOnPeas
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October 2008
Posts: 2,350
Layouts: 8
Loc: Ohio, USA
| Posted: 2/20/2013 1:28:20 PM
The post office will no longer be delivering mail on Saturdays starting in August. My DH's cousin is a mail carrier and she said they'll still deliver packages and medicine though. And that they'll have to deliver 6 days worth of mail in 5 days' time. Not sure how the whole package delivery thing will work though. |
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BEF2008
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January 2005
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| Posted: 2/20/2013 7:26:21 PM
Last week I had an order of ATG tape coming to Spokane, Wa from Florida. Somehow it went directly to HONALULU. I sure am envious of that tape.
It must have been confused by your name, ALOHAchick! | |
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