[GeoStL] Re: NGR shipping
- From: Craig Ingram <seaeye@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:41:13 -0700 (PDT)
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My experience is with shipping and recieving 5-10 lb packages to and from
California (weekly) and no one else can touch Priority mail. Parcel post, UPS,
and FedEx and the former DHL all take a week to ten days to make that same trip
at more expense. Priority is always here (or there) in three days cheaper than
you could ship it with the others. If I was shipping letters I would never use
it no matter what part of the country I was shipping them to. And for sure
wouln't have used it for a 50 mile trip basically across town.
--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Michael Griffin <mike.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Michael Griffin <mike.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR shipping
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 10:37 PM
> The only thing I'll add is first class only allows
> packages up to a certain weight. Less than a pound I think.
> Priority is cheaper when you get over 10 ounces on first
> class.
>
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> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Mon Apr 27 22:24:03 2009
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR shipping
>
> I'd have to disagree Craig. My mother, a retired mail
> carrier, was the one who alerted me to this in the first
> place. The item I referred to earlier cost 3 or 4X as much
> to mail as first class items I have received from the same
> agency. And those other items sent first class reached me in
> 1 day, not 4. Here's an older article that backs me up.
> http://tinyurl.com/cywvvg It states, "In a
> head-to-head race, about half the first-class letters mailed
> from Atlanta to seven cities across the country arrived
> sooner than or on the same day as Priority Mail packages
> mailed at the same time." Not sure where you got your
> stats to say priority will make it first every time, but
> when it's my money, I'll stick with first class when
> possible. Also, priority doesn't guarantee any delivery
> time and even though your local post office is closed on
> Sunday, the major ones, like the main St. Louis one are
> processing mail on Sundays and it's being transported.
> My mother worked many Sundays at the downtown post office.
> Happy mailing.
>
> Gale
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Craig Ingram
> <seaeye@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> -
>
> You can't beat Priority on the long haul. Mail that
> same package to California and see which one makes it first.
> Priority will hands down everytime. It sounds like your
> package made it within the time restraints set forth by
> Priority. You mailed it Friday, it would have then been
> officailly recognized by the post office on Saturday- Day 1
> Sunday doesn't count no mail then. Monday was day 2 and
> Tuesday was day 3. Priority gaurantees 2-3 day delivery. No
> scam there, and I'm not a postal employee and I was not
> paid for this in any way. Had you mailed it first class you
> wouldn't have left them the option to wait three days to
> deliver it.
>
> my two
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