Being in my location of the United States, New Mexico, all express mail I
send is guaranteed 2 day. Even if I send overnight, 2-day guarantee. I
could probably ship to El Paso, TX, an hour away, and have it take 2 days.
I have no worry with the 2 day guarantee. I've been shipping USPS for the
past 6 years I've lived here in NM and have only had 1 delayed package
coming to me or going to a destination (KNOCK ON WOOD!). ALL animals have
arrived fine and were eating shortly after arriving or a few days
afterwards. The 2 day guarantee does "round up" to 3 pm by second day. Any
and all packages shipped express mail, whether slated to make it in 1 day or
2, are guaranteed to arrive on the 2nd day by 3 pm or your shipping is to be
refunded.
Now, due to a certain VERY unfortunate and saddening turn of events, all
airline flights have been halted. If any mail is being delivered today (I
don't believe it is) it will more than likely go by ground. If I remember
right, the airport rep. for Logan Airport said that no cargo will be going
on planes. If this applies to the whole US, I wouldn't recommend shipping
anything other than bills. It appears it's going to be a VERY long while
before packages will be shipped. Prices may also go up even more now that
packages will have to be extensively examined, ignoring the fact that
airliners will be examined even more now. At least I'd assume.
Just my 2 cents.
Chris
Words cannot be put the how I feel.
----- Original Message -----
From: "cassie schilliger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Gecko] Anyone else in Express Mail H*ll?
> apperantly they wont guarantee anything faster than 2day express now.
> the thing that bugs me most about that is that i took two boxes in and
they
> marked next day by 3pm...there supposed to "round up" and they did the
oposit
> giving me a sort of false sense of security...
>
> -cassie
>
> Julie Bergman wrote:
>
> > I sent out five gecko shipments Monday, four of which were supposed to
> > arrive Tuesday. None did. I can understand the one in the east coast
> > destination (Virginia), but not the one going to Washington State, just
> > two states away from me. Apparently there is a different set of rules
> > for live animals now with Express Mail. The post office first tells me
> > the live reptiles will go on Fedex flights and things will be like they
> > used to be, now they are telling me they will go commercial and aren't
> > allowed on Fedex flights. I have two other failures from when they
> > started this Fedex stuff.
> >
> > My question is, well then, if we cannot call and get info on guaranteed
> > time of arrival, how are we supposed to predict when live reptiles will
> > arrive? It seems they are now a two-day service to more destinations
> > because of the Fedex deal. Anyone got any details from a real Express
> > Mail supervisor?
> >
> > Julie Bergman
> > http://www.geckoranch.com
> > GGA lifetime member
>
> --
> Cassie Schilliger
> White Iguana Reptile Rescue Advisor and Adoption Coordinator, So.
California
> aim: emcityturtle
> yahoo: creepy_crawley_girl
>
>
>
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