jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

It's amazing how shipping speeds can vary from vendor to vendor. I've gotten packages from Hawaii in three days, and packages from Japan in under a week. I got an email from the USPS telling me that a package was "prepared" on 11/20, and I will receive it on 11/28. It's coming from Niagara Falls, just a 5 1/5 hour drive from me. I know the "timing" starts when the label is printed, but how can anything take so long to travel such a short distance? I don't recall what the shipping charges were, but driving up there and back would have cost me $100 or more, so it's still worth it to wait.

After leaving Niagara Falls, it went to PA and then to MA.

I had a similar situation with car parts I ordered from a Honda dealer online. It took ten days for them to arrive from just a few states over.

Amazon keeps looking better.

SonyBug

Jerry, maybe it circled around looking for a flat road to get into the Catskills.

Festus Loc: North Dakota

I ordered a leather camera half case from Luigi in Italy. Ordered on Monday at 10am. Received the case the next day, Tuesday at 11am. 25 hours! However, Italy is day behind where I live, so it actually took 49 hours, still very fast.

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

I can get the same issue with the snail mail....
Something can be mailed to me from NY and I can receive it the next day, something from Charlotte NC only thirty miles from me can take up to three days....

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Your location shows North Dakota - Italy is 7 hours difference - are you living somewhere else???

Italy is 7 hours ahead of Bismarck, ND
1:26 PM Monday, in Bismarck, ND is
8:26 PM Monday, in Italy

armymsg

I live 1 1/2 hours drive from NYC. B&H deliveries were always the next day by USPS. Since they switched to DHL it takes 5 days or longer!

Chris

I feel your pain. We live 20 minutes southwest of Disney and I ordered some simple light bulbs for accent light in the yard, which happened to be coming from Orlando. The tracking was left Orlando (40 minutes east of me) went to Tampa (hour west of me) then to Ybor City (50 minutes west) to Sebring (70 minutes south) to Lakeland (30 minutes northwest) to my town.
Gee wonder why they need to raise stamp prices lol

Jazztrader

Yep. USPS is behind the eight ball these days. Package I sent from Minnesota to Colorado in October should have taken 3 days and it took a week. During the holidays I shudder to think of the delays!

granbob Loc: SW Wisc; E Iowa; W Illinois

The person managing USPS routes must have been a pinball addict the way packages bounce around the destination day after day.

bthomas42 Loc: North Ridgeville Ohio

I live in Cleveland Oh and just had a FEDEX smart-post shipment that started in Philadelphia that passed thru Cleveland on the way to Bellevue MI which is a smart post destination. FEDEX then brought it back to Cleveland to turn it over to the local post office. Delivery took 5 days.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

When there is something being advertised on TV why does it say in the fine print "four to six weeks" for delivery. Don't they know this is 2018 and most places can deliver overnight or two, maybe three days. What's their problem?

htbrown Loc: San Francisco Bay Area

The longest I've experienced is a postcard I received in 2003. It was mailed in 1974 to a former resident at this address, long since dead. I kept it on my cork board for years.

drucker Loc: Oregon

I've noticed that direction makes a big difference in shipping times with USPS. I recently bought an item on eBay from a seller on the east coast. Iimmediately after mailing the shipper realized that they had shipped the wrong box so despatched the correct one. Both arrived in Oregon the second day -- about 3000 miles. Since the first box was supposed to go to northeren California, I offered to send it on rather than shp ot back to Maine. So I prepared a label so the box wouldn't even leave the PO. But this time the PO took THREE days to send it 400 miles!

Overall I'm not complaining. I well remember the 60s and 70s when if you saw something you wanted in the Antique Trader, it wasn't uncommon for nearly two months to pass by the time you mailed your intent to purchase and address to the seller, waited for the total including postage, sent the payment, seller waited for the check to clear, and shipment was made by Parcel Post. Everthything was done by mail becasue long distance calls were just too expensive unless it was something very special. And, because there were no pictures, all the while you hoped that the seller actually knew what they had and had described it correctly!

Can you imagine today's "gotta-have-it now" generation getting dropped back 50 years in time?

Tex-s

I got a package fro Italy in 30-is hours, but since there is an Italy, Texas, it was not really spectacular.

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Maybe it depends what state you are in how they ship. I also live 1 1/2 hours away from B&H, but I am still in New York. Pretty much everything I have ordered from B&H, if I order it before 4:00PM, I get it the next day with their "free expedited shipping". Some larger items, I see that they don't offer the free expedited shipping, just free standard shipping. Probably due to size of item and weight. I noticed this when looking at the sale they have for the Canon Pixma Pro100 printer. They only offered free standard shipping, not the free expedited shipping.