Your shipping wrecks. USPS,FED-EX and UPS


Well the e-bay USPS shipping has fallen apart, and the e-bay Fed-Ex is not much better......A 4000.00 CD player missing for 20 days by USPS, A box of 50 fuses , says delivered , but nobody knows where ???..........2 cartridges and a headshell...delivered today, but nobody knows where ??........You put a tracking number in Fed-Ex all it says is late delivery, and never tells where it is.....So be careful with Christmas Presents..........The only way I can track USPS is go to the Post Office ans have them track it, if I track it all it says is late arrival......
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All carriers are blown out of the water due to the pandemic. They're doing the best they can. I worked as a courier for twenty years and I hated Christmas. Many times I came back to the station with undelivered packages because I didn't have time to deliver them. Add the pandemic to the  scenario  and you have a nightmare. 
I ordered a log cabin out of a catalog back in 1964... and I'm still waiting for it.
I worked in the moving and storage business for many years moving some of the nicest things imaginable. I could ship the Mona Lisa if required. The first thing that I think of when I order something is how it's going to be packaged for shipment. I always ask for it to be put in a very secure box and use extra bubble wrapping, etc. I recently ordered a couple of expensive iron hand planes for a woodworking project. They came in a flimsy box that contained very little paper inside. UPS left a crushed and empty box on my porch. After discussing this with the shipper, they sent a replacement in the best packed box I have ever seen. 

It is worth mentioning that I have seen carriers taping up boxes on the truck in front of a destination to make it look like the carrier isn't at fault.