Hi Chris,
Chris wrote:
> 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 usually persuade those situation folks to drive over to see me! You'd be
surprised how far people will drive to get a free t-shirt! ;-)
>
> 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.
They are better than Airborne, that is for sure. Airborne has TOTALLY sucked
lately, you don't even want to hear it. Postal Express arriving the second day
actually is better, because most folks can arrange to pick up their gex from the
local post office, which the gex usually have arrived the night before the
second day, or early that am anyway.
> 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.
>
They are going to owe me a lot of $ this week, and I may have to make some
claims for the gex. I sure hope not though.
>
> 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.
Right.
> If I remember
> right, the airport rep. for Logan Airport said that no cargo will be going
> on planes.
I saw that this am in their conference. I am not sure that makes any sense in
light of what happened though. It is one less thing for them to think about, but
what are they going to do with their cargo biz?
> 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.
Another factor is how long it is going to take for normalization of the shipping
process. This could take a week or more before they figure out which end is up,
so it is unwise to ship any live animals until then.
> 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.
>
That's fine with me. For starters I think they need to spend some real money on
airport security employees. You know, the ones slumping in their chair, halfway
looking at your stuff on the X-ray machine that get paid minimum wage? Airfares
should go up, and that is also ok with me. I will pay to feel safer.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
> Chris
> Words cannot be put the how I feel.
I agree with ya there Chris. Also I sure hope my customers don't have to open a
box with dead geckos because of this.
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
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