My Christmas present to New York (mailed Dec 14) from South Carolina via Priority mail took 10 days. I mailed a birthday present the same way two weeks ago, and it took 2 days. So there is hope they are catching up.

I do not know about packages and there will always be some that were torn up in transit but my regular mail is now in my box by 2 at the latest. Yesterday it was just after 12 vs after 6.

I've been having good luck with USPS. One package that somehow languished for 4 days before really getting on its way, but then made up for lost time and was delivered on the other side of the country by the date I'd hoped.

My mail is delivered here between 4 and 6 PM all year around. We're right near the end of our mail carriers route. I feel badly for her sometimes, I know she's a single mom with small children. They are either on a late dinner schedule or she doesn't eat with them ;0) And she's so accommodating. Two of DH's sisters are a little earlier on her route and if she knows they are gone (often) and we are putting their mail in, she's left a package at either house, she tells us so DH can be sure it doesn't spend a night outside.

I mailed a letter with check to CA on 12/24. It didn’t arrive so I cancelled and sent another by priority mail and it was there in two days. Of course, the first check arrived today! I think you will be fine with priority

I wrote on another thread that I had really good luck mailing via USPS priority boxes the week before Christmas. Printed the postage and label from home and just dropped into the mailbox outside the PO (the smallest size) or the package drop just inside the PO. All 3 boxes were delivered the next day - and I mailed at the end of the day just before the last pick up. The one that went the farthest was about 200 miles to a really remote rural area. She said the box was at her PO at 11:30 a.m. the next day, ready for her to pick up. (Town so small there is no mail delivery, only PO Boxes at the PO).

I wonder if this is regional? When the USPS was ravaged trying to get equipment shut down/removed before the election, I think some states were more compliant than others. Perhaps that's what held things up in some areas?

I got a christmas card yesterday postmarked 12/12 in Cleveland.

but then I would have to take the package to a UPS center.

For a fee, UPS will pick up. I think the last time I had a paid pickup it was around $7, that may have changed but you can check online. I paid via credit card.

Ohio must be facing challenges. I mailed an Xmas box USPS on the 11th of December and it finally arrived a month later (Cleveland suburb). Mailed separate package same day to west coast and it was delivered within a week.

I mailed a Christmas card to my son in Madison, WI with a gift in it. It was mailed a week before Christmas. Madison is only 70 miles from my house. It never arrived. I assume it was lost or stolen.

Last Saturday I dropped a small package into a blue USPS box after the last posted collection time of the weekend. Then Monday was a holiday. But miraculously the package was delivered on Tuesday about 1000 miles away. You just never know.

The other day I mailed my nephew a birthday card and I was in a hurry to get to the post box before they picked up. Pick up was 5:00 I got there at 5:09, on my way home from the gym about 6:40 the USPS truck was there. About 3 days later I got the card back without postage!!!!!....needless to say the card did not get there in time for his bday.

I put the package for my grandson in my rural mailbox on Monday. It was delivered today, Wednesday, so I guess they are back on track at the post office

I have a package that is being delivered from Macy's and it made it the main postal facility in Sandston, VA last Thursday and hasn't moved a lick since then.

krystal, I have a slow moving Macy's package too. Order from the 11th, it was a week before the UPS shipping label was created. Tracking shows it left Illinois for the W coast Sunday 24th. It was only a sale item, for me, so I didn't have a date of need as might have with a gift but this seems slow for both Macy's, and UPS. Slow to be shipped, then delayed in shipping.

I ordered a baby gift from and Etsy shop in NYC, Brooklyn I think. Took two weeks to make it, that’s fine. It went to the post office in NYC for a few days, then it went to Jacksonville FLA for a day, then one Miami center for a couple of hours, then and other Miami center for a day, then a USPS facility in Opa Lacka FLA, now it is back in Miami. Its final destination? Supposed to be a city in Eastern Ontario. So it still has to go through Bufffalo, I’m pretty sure. What the heck is it doing hopping around Florida???

morz8, yea mine isn't a time sensitive item either. I did have this happen back in Sept or October 2020 for a jacket I needed for a wedding. called Macy's, said it looked like it was lost and sent another jacket and original showed up day or two after I made the call. I didn't have to return original. They ship UPS and then transfer to post office which I hate.

My idjit USPS delivery lady dropped off a package at my house that was supposed to go to my neighbor. Again. She's had this route for a couple of years and still doesn't know it apparently. This is a stable neighborhood, very few turnovers. Not like an apt. complex.

ETA...she drives the route with a cell phone pasted to her ear. Which is a violation of Post Office regulations. Likely the cell phone is preventing her from knowing where the hell she is.

Anyway, I noted that the small flat package, sent first class (like a photo mailer), required 7 days to get from Ohio to Wisconsin. First class is supposed to be delivered in 2-3 days, per the USPS website. Guess it is a good thing that my neighbor doesn't live on the west coast. Package probably wouldn't get there until sometime in March.

I very nervously sent something express mail USPS today. Because the delivery address is a PO Box, but I’m pretty sure it’s in an office building, not a neighborhood postal center, the folks at my shipping store said it can’t go UPS or FedEx. Ugh.

Just got another Christmas card today, postmarked 12/14 in Omaha.

I think the logjam is broken, just got card postmarked 12/11 in Indianpolis.

But I still don't have my December utility bill. (paid estimated amount online)