worried about fish shipment

Gotta love the speed and efficiency of the USPS. I'm waiting on 2 packages. One was shipped parcel post from CA two weeks ago, the other was shipped priority from AZ last Tuesday. (I'm in MD, so they're basically travelling cross-country.) The priority mail package does have a delivery confirmation number, but tracking only states that a label was printed, no indication of when it was shipped or wil be delivered.
The price of postage keeps rising, the service gets slower, and they complain that the USPS is losing money...
 
These were shipped Express. I wasn't given any shipping options and Express ain't cheap. I don't really have any quarrel with the USPS over this one (at least not yet), but I wish the seller would let me know what's going on. I don't think I'm asking for the moon here, just some information.
 
How far does the package have to travel? If it's cross-country like CA to MD it may take 2 days to arrive. Go to the USPS page and enter both zip codes. If the package doesn't arrive by the guaranteed time the shipping cost can be claimed for refund. Bad weather (usually snowstorms) anywhere between the origin/destination can also slow the delivery time.
 
How frustrating!! I'm sorry for your difficulties. Hope the fishies will be ok.
 
toddnbecka said:
How far does the package have to travel? If it's cross-country like CA to MD it may take 2 days to arrive. Go to the USPS page and enter both zip codes. If the package doesn't arrive by the guaranteed time the shipping cost can be claimed for refund. Bad weather (usually snowstorms) anywhere between the origin/destination can also slow the delivery time.
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I checked and if they were shipped out yesterday they should arrive by 3pm today. Difficulty is, I don't know what address they were sent to. If they were sent to my home address (the one associated with my PayPal account) instead of the address I specified, they'll probably have to sit outside my door until I get home, in 20 degree weather, about 4 feet from a major road.

Melody Doucet said:
How frustrating!! I'm sorry for your difficulties. Hope the fishies will be ok.
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I'm sure they'll be fine (unless they're left outside my house and get run over or were shipped without a heat pack). They're pretty hardy species and to be honest they probably would have been fine with just Priority shipping instead of Express. I'm not too worked up about having to wait for them, mostly just frustrated at the lack of communication.
 
Just checked the status and there was a delivery attempt... at the wrong address.

I'll have to go pick it up at the post office, but I don't know WHICH post office (website just says it will be listed on the delivery attempt slip on the door) and they'll all be closed by the time I can get home from work. So I had to call my partner and interrupt his day to go chasing after my fish, which he is not interested in (not even a little bit). If he can't get to them, then they'll have to sit at the post office overnight and I'll have to spend my Saturday morning fetching them.

I am SO SICK of online orders going wrong! Gagh!

:swear: :mad2:
 
For the future, you can edit the shipping address on paypal when you make a payment. This removes alot of the error involved with online shipping. Wish you all the best in getting your fish!
 
msjinkzd said:
For the future, you can edit the shipping address on paypal when you make a payment.
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Yes, I just went poking around PayPal and figured out how to add another address, and I'll certainly do that in the future, but I'm still peeved because I put the correct address right in my notes so it was still in the payment information.

Just heard from my partner. He drove home and got the delivery attempt note and, fortunately, they're being held at our local post office. He'll go pick them up as soon as he... um... "acquires" my signature on the form. (Anyone asks, I totally signed that form. Totally in person. :lipssealedsmilie:)

I'm sure my mood will improve a great deal once the fish and I are both home and my work week is officially over. Just gotta get through a few more hours.
 
If your partner is like mine you better get ready to bake some cookies. :) Make sure and tell us as soon as you get the fish. My mailman locked my dogs on the front porch yesterday so she could drop a package on the steps. I was not happy with that and boy, did my dogs need to go out when I got home!
 
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