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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 10:10 pm 
ok, I got Mom's card today. So that was 6 days for first class to get from near Orlando, FL. to near Kansas City, MO.
It's on day 8 and Mom hasn't gotten my Mother's Day card 
Oh well, now I know to mail my niece's birthday card 2 weeks ahead 
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Friday, May 13, 2016 - 3:39 am
Naja, if your postal service justifies that way ours does then you got that card in 2 days...woohoo!! They don't count the day you dropped it off, or the day they deliver it and of course planes don't fly on weekends. I wouldn't mind if they didn't keep raising prices and lowering standards year after year. Instead, the only thing that they seem to get better at is blowing smoke. Lol
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, May 13, 2016 - 9:20 am
Rissa, actually they have or will soon drop the price of a first-class stamp a couple of cents.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, May 13, 2016 - 9:27 am
They did drop the price by 2 cents in April.
With everything being sorted by machine these days, you are always best off making sure you don't hand write addresses, and that your type is large, block style and not smeared.
That said, you can do everything perfectly and still have things delayed or lost.
A few years ago, the post office returned to me an item that I had mailed out in 1994, I got it back almost 20 years later as "undeliverable." 
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, May 13, 2016 - 2:05 pm
Oh brother, I always print the address out neatly and use a regular return address sticker.
Things have slowly gotten worse. It's not like this one letter is late. Normal delivery time used to be 3 days a few years ago, then went to 4 days and stayed that way for awhile. Then it went to 5 or 6 days back and forth. Now it's just ridiculous.
I was reading the Amazon vendor's discussion board. Some of them are complaining about 2 week shipping times on things that used to take a few days.
Something is really wrong. Some packages don't even leave the the drop off station for 5 days.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Friday, May 13, 2016 - 3:13 pm
At work, we have a customer who is chronically late with their payments. When we look at the check and the envelope, it takes over 10 days to get from the Midwest to Portland. They always blame the post office for the delay..... funny, though, when we mail them a dunning letter requesting payment or we will stop shipments, they receive it within 1 day and we get a check really fast! The conversation in this thread made me what to share that...
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, May 13, 2016 - 5:48 pm
Sometimes I think it depends where you drop things in the mail. Regardless of what time the box or wherever you drop it indicates a pick up, I never trust that.
I get really good service mailing from my home, unless we have a substitute postman, then it is terrible, LOL. And I must say it is really odd when I see the Post Office truck delivering on Sunday.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, May 13, 2016 - 7:49 pm
It does matter.. here all the mail (not going to the same city, I assume) from local post offices goes to a certain location Sunflower in Santa Ana and then goes out, including straight up to LAX to fly out.. so if I have any hurry I drive to that location to mail items.
But I absolutely agree that mail often takes longer than it ever did in the past. I wish companies would take the postmark as proof rather than putting us at the mercy of who knows where it goes before it reaches a company and then however long it takes to be processed.. meanwhile it becomes late.
I know often I can pay online but was really zapped when I scheduled a payment online on a credit card that was 0% interest.. I had scheduled a $500 payment but then the card was sold to another bank in the meantime and I was hit with a late fee because they didn't get $30. and I'd already paid $500 the first month so was way ahead in theory.
Face it, those late fees are happily taken by those imposing them.
And of course I had just bought some stamps for the first time in a couple of years and shortly after there was that rate drop.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, May 13, 2016 - 9:02 pm
It's going to be a while before the price of my stamps go up. The first year Forever stamps were issued I bought a lot of them. I still have ten sheets of 20 stamps.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, May 14, 2016 - 8:49 am
If you use a service like Stamps.com to print your postage, there is no postmark, only on actual stamps.
And yes, everything I mail from home or the local post office goes to the big city to be sorted. So if I mail something to my neighbor it can take 3 days to get there.
I will say however that the USPS is still the least expensive and best way to send things. Postage in other countries is MUCH more.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, May 14, 2016 - 11:03 am
For sure!
When I used to get the little devil ducks, I ordered from a Canadian company in Vancouver BC and the owner.. we talked on the phone.. told me that they would mail most stuff out from the US.
At one time I sent devil duck keychains to moderators who wanted one and she basically told me that the one that went TO Canada would take much longer to arrive and indeed that was the case. It also cost more since she was shipping it from Canada.
It wasn't a gigantic difference but it was interesting. Haven't shipped anything like that for at least 10 years but I do know things are taking longer within the US these days.
As for using a postmark.. yes, it would only work if you took the envelope in and requested a postmark. That is what I used to do when I was still mailing in my property tax and income tax (I think).. now I pay those online, but I remember driving to the post office on April 15 (or March in earlier years) and on that night they would post employees outside to take the envelopes with the guarantee that they would be postmarked. It would be all dark and you'd be with all the other last minute filers and of course vow not to wait so long next year...
But even with regular stamps, you aren't guaranteed a postmark unless you request one or if the post office is promising them.
I wouldn't drive great distances to get to a main collection center but I happen to live where the location of that center is only a mile farther than if I go to the fountain Valley PO, where they will then take it to Santa Ana.. plus it is often on my way someplace. Both locations have the drive up boxes so you don't have to park and go inside.
As for the stamp price dropping. Somehow I had missed that completely until just after I needed to go buy some stamps at the grocery.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 3:25 pm
I know a lot of people in this thread use tracfones, and someone posted a question about one in this thread that needs help.
https://tvclubhouse.com/forum/read.php?file=/9200/8597232.html&lm=1463523607
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 3:49 pm
I went over there Naja.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 3:54 pm
Thanks
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-28-2004
| Tuesday, July 05, 2016 - 7:17 pm
Butt crack sweat.
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Keldogg
Member
08-12-2005
| Tuesday, July 05, 2016 - 7:20 pm
haha
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2016 - 11:09 am
Under boob sweat, LOL.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2016 - 9:29 pm
Putting the furnace back on in July.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, July 07, 2016 - 8:00 am
That sounds like one of my "it's the little things" Juju! LOL I LOVE cold weather, and the humidity we're having now is making me grumpy. Fortunately, it's been a bit cooler where we live by Lake Michigan, and by Monday, it's supposed to be a bit more reasonable dew point levels as well.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Thursday, July 07, 2016 - 8:31 am
Using heaters under your office desk because they keep the air conditioning below zero level. It's a guy thing....they whine if you change it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, July 07, 2016 - 3:37 pm
LOL Not having a working furnace.. in February
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 4:15 pm
I swear, I just want to see the news, I don't want to hear the speeches at the convention, if I did, I would go and watch the convention.
I want to know what is going on in my area, how are the fires, what is the weather going to do!
Stop giving me all this other crap that I can watch if I want to in it's entirety.
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 5:13 pm
ditto to what Dipo said
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 5:54 pm
LOL, I thought I was the only one.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 6:13 pm
Oh I am so quick on the mute and ff but it is everywhere of course.. giant headlines in the paper, online, etc.
Thankfully nomorobo has so far successfully blocked all political robocalls.. they just roll off into the ether with other robocalls. 
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