Ordered a few items from the USA recently and all have used USPS Priority international ... a month later ... still not arrived. Tracking has 2 bouncing around San Francisco.
Anyone else had any issues?
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Ordered a few items from the USA recently and all have used USPS Priority international ... a month later ... still not arrived. Tracking has 2 bouncing around San Francisco.
Anyone else had any issues?
Only a month.... I had a parcel take 3 from the us, not sure which courier though
Covid mate :-)
I just ordered an economy shipping item fro. The states, said 10-30 day delivery, was here in 4 days
Got a new press just left the supplier today. Last year around May I ordered stuff from the same outfit. Took 6 months to arrive here, all due to Covid and NZ being a backwater. I was just working out how to lodge a claim and the package arrived.
Having said that I ordered stuff from a Hong Kong company about the same time and it arrived in 4 days.
USPS service is always a potential drama even aside from Covid.
My parcel last year, IIRC got from the supplier in Indiana to Chicago real quick, which gave me false hope.
It then went to LA where it sat for some time. Then went to Hawaii, then back to LA were it sat for weeks.
Then it appeared in Sydney but was gone next day to New Caledonia where it sat for over a month.
At that point I started to investigate a lost parcel claim..
Orders from Creedmoor Sports, Inline Fabrication and The Outdoorsman.
Amazon ordered last week wednesday night ,here tuesday avro
I bought a CD from the states, said allow a month and it arrived bang on to the day. That was about 2 months ago.
I thought it was only my mail that bounces around the States. Last thing I ordered had a long long layover in florida for some reason.
Totally random. Some packages within a week or two. Some 3 months.
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I bought something from the States a while ago. It got to Japan and sat there for around 2 months. Took some 3 months to get here...
A US mate sent me something "airmail" about 4 months ago and it took at least 10 weeks to get here. US freight is now appalling, both the cost and delivery times.
missus has been waiting for a parcel since june got from some town in michigan to chicago earlier this week and has departed chicago but to where who knows......shes had stuff out of turkey and morocco within a week..... crazy
I ordered a boat prop from USA earlier this year. Wanted it quickly as was week before easter so paid extra for 3 day international. Arrived in NZ in 2 days and released from customs within hours. Good I thought but then it stalled. When I asked international customer support why it was stalled in Auckland they said it was with NZ agent and named them. Aramex!!!!!! Thats when I knew it'd be slow. Interestingly they said they'd changed NZ agent a year before as previous one was under performing. Aramex took a week to get it to Chch then another 2 days to deliver it.
and this just in ......
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/ind...transportation
what a monumental fuckup that was probably on the cards since we shut the borders
I went to San Francisco once, never again, for the rudeness and ignorance I encountered from the people whose job was at the airport, and you'd think, was to be welcoming.
USPS advances DeJoy’s plan to make mail delivery ‘permanently slower’
...when Postmaster General Louis DeJoy unveiled his “strategic plan” for the future of the United States Postal Service, which was not well received. The Republican donor, chosen for the job by Donald Trump despite his lack of postal experience, presented a blueprint that included, among other things, higher rates, slower services, and reduced post office hours.
https://amsnbc.com/usps-advances-dej...nently-slower/
It might not be the fault of the NZ people...
On the flip side, I've been getting a few things in from Britain the last 18 months and they are consistant 14 days max delivery.
I see its to 20 somthing countries, not just us.
USPS has just cancelled all deliveries to new Zealand..... Heard it as a rumour and just found a link saying something similar on RNz
My understanding of it is that because we are not letting travellers in, it means there are much less incoming international flights. Most of the mail travels on said flights and with so few planes coming in, mail capacity is reduced. Locking the borders is loke putting a fence up without a gate. Sure it keeps undesirables out like viruses etc, but it also keeps the delivery guy out.....
I am not saying open the borders. I am saying there are costs to society that are a consequence of these actions and as a society we have to figure out which costs are worth it and which ones are too high..
Yeah, see post #22. Postponned is the word used I think. Problem has been a world wide issue since last year. However with a fair chunk of the world trying to upon up and us maintaining our hermit kingdom we will be one of the last to be serviced. Also the poor state of USPS itself.
Having said that, the likes of Amazon and FedEx who operate their own services are still getting the stuff thru.
On Friday (the day of the USPS announcement) my press that I have ordered was accepted into the USPS system. It has made it to Chicago over the weekend so I am hopeful. It wasn't declined at the USPS agency given its destination address.
So hopefully I will see it sometime. I'm guessing on experience from last year maybe 6 months.
Heard on another forum that USPS has stopped shipping to Australia due to lack of flights so might be NZ too
Got a spotting scope coming usps. It left Japan on the 28 Sept.
Hope it headed this way.
Just go a newsletter from Titan who are one of the notable sellers of Lee stuff in the States.
They had already stopped using USPS and now are using UPS. Reason - uncertainty of deliveries with USPS.
Suspect if Titan have confidence in UPS, the issues with USPS are not entirely Covid related.
Airfreight will be the only way forward, containerised sea freight is going to grind to a halt.
US suspends postal deliveries to New Zealand
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has suspended mail deliveries to New Zealand due to an unavailability of transportation.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-z...BcGkNolKHnIK4U
Not so sure about this. The demand in China for empty containers to ship out exports is so high at the moment, shipping companies make moor money taking exports to the US etc and returning with empty containers than they do shipping full containers both ways to NZ and Australia especially considering the difficulties getting sorted at our ports due to quarantine and requirements and capacity issues etc....
If a shipping company has to choose between a faster (empty boat) run that is more profitable and a slower full and less profitable run then it is an easy choice....This was starting to happen pre covid and I saw an article about 2016 by a shipping company here in NZ suggesting that in 5 or 6 years (about now...) we may need to look at subsidising shipping to get it to travel to our country or set up a dedicated Aus/ NZ transfer company so freight could be shipped to Aussie and we could 'pick it up from there....." I remember the rreaction was something along the lines of they were being self centred / wanting more money / excuse to jack up prices etc...but to me it looks like their prediction was closer to the mark than anyone would have liked....
I think DHL is the best option as they have their own planes. At origin ask for shipping via DHL
Surface hasn't been an option for a while based on my experience. I keep funds in the US and my mate there forwards stuff I fancy. Got some tooling in about four months ago and the cheapest freight option ( still some sort of airmail) took about ten bloody weeks to get here at an exorbitant price.
Weird thing- about three weeks ago, bought an anti-reflective screen protector for my tablet to use on our electronic targets. Sent from the UK and got here in about a week!!
Had a spotting scope leave the US 10 Sept via USPS. Arrived NZ 4 October and is now out for delivery.
They are crap
UPS is far better
I used to use DHL - yes - good shipment time to AKL - then bloody useless - would never Pre clear - always wait for arrival AKL then do clearance and insist on using Credit Card for clearance @2% fee which is a lot when talking 10-20K
So take 3 days sitting AKL waiting for this clearance
No - UPS
Pre-Clear all as soon as leave origin country
No CCard BS - Bank Transfer etc etc
I used FedEx once for a scope. Wasn't my choice, for some reason Opticzone sent it via them.
Arrived in Auckland in good time. FedEx contacted me to reimburse them for the gst that they paid on my behalf, then they wold release.
Rang them with CC details and asked for them to hold scope as I would collect. Yep, no problem.
Drove up the same day, 1 1/2 -hour drive thru the usual Auckland shit traffic.
At depot they spent around 20 minutes searching for my parcel only to tell me they had just given it to a courier. Exactly what I didn't want to happen.
Could they call the courier please and I would meet said courier somewhere and grab my scope. No they couldn't do that.
Returned home mightily pissed off.
2 days later my scope arrived at my home.
What part of USA was the supplier? I think that greatly affects the delays as i have some goodies heading my way from Minnesota which have to go through CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTERl.............which is the worst USPS depot. My goodies were dispatched 2 September and went into Chicago 3 September then last heard of 7 September.
September 7, 2021
In Transit to Next Facility
Your package is moving within the USPS network and is on track to be delivered to its final destination. It is currently in transit to the next facility.
whatever the "next facility" may be.... A storage warehouse until the Covid pandemic no longer exists.i suppose . Sigh. The last delivery from Minnesota took 7 weeks + to reach me... this one 7 years??.