Shipping Stuff -- rhetorical
Aug. 3rd, 2007 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zianurayI always feel nervous when I'm sending out a package -- worse if the person has paid (or swapped) for it and is expecting said package to get there.
I realize stuff happens, and (when on the receiving end) try really hard to be patient if the person tells me it's been shipped -- I mean, once a friend sent me a letter from Great Lakes to St Louis -- generally a two-day matter -- and it took over three weeks to get there and had postmarks from Memphis, somewhere in AZ, and three others I don't recall right now. That was really unusual, IME. I've recently sent several packages overseas, to Scotland (smoochesla_colere!) and NZ (huggles cosmogonic) with no trouble and a reasonable delivery time.
Still, at least one package being delivered within CONUS has gone missing...and no clue if that one was on the USPS or on the mailroom at the business the buyer had me send it to.
So I'm always very relieved to find out something arrived!
I realize stuff happens, and (when on the receiving end) try really hard to be patient if the person tells me it's been shipped -- I mean, once a friend sent me a letter from Great Lakes to St Louis -- generally a two-day matter -- and it took over three weeks to get there and had postmarks from Memphis, somewhere in AZ, and three others I don't recall right now. That was really unusual, IME. I've recently sent several packages overseas, to Scotland (smooches
la_colere!) and NZ (huggles cosmogonic) with no trouble and a reasonable delivery time.Still, at least one package being delivered within CONUS has gone missing...and no clue if that one was on the USPS or on the mailroom at the business the buyer had me send it to.
So I'm always very relieved to find out something arrived!
