If you did the holiday shopping mostly on-line this year, how are you finding shipping? --

[Backseat Driver]

With less than 9-10 days left, have you rec'd all your packages??? Especially between primary carriers and USPS. I've got Informed Delivery and I've noted confusion and delay in which sites are not matching up with the inital carriers' and USPS's tracking systems. Packages are not getting proper turnovers to American shipping/postal services, and packages are shipped overall by very circuitous routes to their final destinations. Some packages have been "in transit" which were marked in stock at the time of order was made for over 30 days and steps in the tracking systems seem to being missed on routes that don't seem to make any sense. Packages are marked as remaining in what amounts to sorting facilities awaiting further handoff or trucks, air, and Customs for up to a week.

Because I don't have a daytime car, I've had to send DH to the post office 3 times to pick up packages that could easily have been delivered by the truck earlier or on the day it was "promised" but not delivered in the mailbox, in the postal package locker, to my complex's office, or at my door by a known carrier. Keep your eyes open if you don't want to be wrapping on Christmas Eve/Day!!!

[MOMFUDSKI]

1. Got a few deliveries from Amazon and

all perfect. Placed another order an hour ago. Got the free month so husband watched last night’s football 🏈 game on his computer. All good.

[we can do it]

5. You're lucky amuhzon drivers are horrendous in my neighborhood. UPS usually very good.

[Sanity Claws]

2. My problem was with the vendors, not shipping

I placed an order with one vendor and a few days later they told me I was waitlisted. About a week later, they cancelled the order.

Another order I placed 3 weeks ago and still have not been informed that it was shipped. I followed up with an email about a week ago and said that I will cancel the order if I don't hear about shipping shortly. Still nothing.

[Niagara]

3. I don't believe the shipping is horrible this year

I just went to the Post Office and shipped another package that weighed almost 9 lbs through non priority for $14.05.


I also give myself plenty of time to ship.

[Autumn]

4. I've done all my shopping on Amazon. I have Prime so I've not paid any shipping.

A lot has been delivered next day by Fed Ex or UPS and everything else within a few days. Our mail service sucks and she delivers when she feels like it so the few things that have come through the post office have been delivered 2 or 3 days after the post office dash board had told me they were delivered.

[Chakaconcarne]

6. My go to now is to do it all before the start of December...

Way easier, more predictable and less stress.

[nevergiveup]

7. A couple of days ago I sent two boxes from Chicago to my son in Durango, Colorado.

One box was 2 lbs but still barely dimensional wt. and billed at 12 lbs and the other was 10 lbs a little larger and billed at 32 lbs dimensional weight. The total cost was $106 without insurance. Ten years ago those two boxes at their dimensional weight would have totaled together at around $45.00 to ship to Durango. I know because I was in the shipping business at the time and shipped boxes to my son several times a year. Prepare yourself because shipping costs are through the roof.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Shipping has worked out very well for me this year.

I'm surprised by how fast I have been getting my orders.

I request all of my orders to be delivered via US Mail, since I live in a rural area and I get my stuff delivered to a P O Box in a nearby town.

[cloudbase]

9. USPS, UPS, FedEx, and Amazon deliveries have been without a single problem.

I live in a large city, so that may make a difference.