# Anyone having trouble getting yoyos in the mail? **URL:** \ **Category:** Unrelated Discussion\ **Created:** [December 24, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555 "2020-12-24T19:28:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RABid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/rabid/32/71864_2.png) [@RABid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RABid)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/1 "2020-12-24T19:28:15Z")
I ask because I bought some comics on Ebay. Should not take long to get. Just traveling from NJ to Kentucky. Checked tracking the day they were supposed to arrive. Where are they? San Francisco, CA. Dropped a note to the seller asking if they put the correct address on the package. The reply was that I was the 5th customer to contact them with this problem. When the seller inquired at the post office the reply was that a man power shortage was causing mail to be routed to any sorting facility with available capacity. Well, it took 6 days for the package to go from Jersey to California. Hope they still had sorting capacity when it arrived. The package is on the move again but tracking does not say where it is going, or when it will arrive. Just that it is moving to the next destination. ---
**Author:** ![Ne0phy73](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ne0phy73/32/163412_2.png) [@Ne0phy73](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ne0phy73)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/2 "2020-12-24T19:35:14Z")
Yes, and not only yoyos. šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![djinni\_cake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/djinni_cake/32/113245_2.png) [@djinni\_cake](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/djinni_cake)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/3 "2020-12-24T19:38:12Z")
Yea, and other things as well. Current events being what they are, theyā€™re dealing with both 1) twice as much mail as normal, and 2) more employees out sick. The scanning of packages is also slipping a bit, I think. A gift for a family member showed ā€œPre-shipmentā€ right up until it was delivered yesterday, as did a couple of other things Iā€™ve been tracking. The good news is that so far everything has eventually made it to its destination. ---
**Author:** ![JSERR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jserr/32/186876_2.png) [@JSERR](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JSERR)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/4 "2020-12-24T19:43:43Z")
Oh yeah. Itā€™s the time of year and the current events taking place. Not just yo-yos. And itā€™s all over the place. I redeemed some points from Nintendo to get a bandana and that shipped early this month. It arrived at my local sort facility and had been there for 8 days. Then it left my local facility today and is now in another state in the absolute opposite direction of my address. Compare that to the gift I got my mother that didnā€™t even tell me it shipped and arrived an entire week early from the expected delivery date. Itā€™s a madhouse. ---
**Author:** ![twitch77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/twitch77/32/60219_2.png) [@twitch77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/twitch77)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/5 "2020-12-24T19:57:35Z")
Iā€™ve had 4 packages through USPS that say theyā€™ve been delivered but were not. 1 of them showed up a week after the tracking number said it had been deliveredā€¦the other 3 are still missing. Frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![AngryGumball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/angrygumball/32/683872_2.png) [@AngryGumball](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AngryGumball)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/6 "2020-12-24T20:03:05Z")
My YYE FedEx package came in as expected yesterday after it left the east coast Monday. Havenā€™t touched USPS this holiday season, let alone at all after having a game take a month to get to me back in August. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisFrancz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/chrisfrancz/32/48992_2.png) [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/7 "2020-12-24T20:17:26Z")
My postmaster told me yesterday that about 300 postal workers in my region are out sick or quarantine. I ordered something Sunday - it left Texas, went to KY and came on Wednesday which is super fast. I think with all the holiday mail and sick employees things will be nuts for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![TheHelveticaScenario](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/thehelveticascenario/32/61632_2.png) [@TheHelveticaScenario](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TheHelveticaScenario)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/8 "2020-12-25T02:42:55Z")
On the international front, I ordered yoyos from SpinGear in early 2020 right as COVID was hitting hard. I still have not received them b/c the JPS (Japan Postal Service) completely stopped all shipments to/from the US and itā€™s still in effect. Itā€™s been so long, I even forgot what I ordered. ---
**Author:** ![twitch77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/twitch77/32/60219_2.png) [@twitch77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/twitch77)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/9 "2020-12-25T02:48:29Z")
> [@TheHelveticaScenario](#): > > I still have not received them b/c the JPS (Japan Postal Service) completely stopped all shipments Oh man, that really sucks ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![ChrisFrancz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/chrisfrancz/32/48992_2.png) [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/10 "2020-12-25T03:08:24Z")
9 months waiting for yoyos. Thatā€™s brutal. ---
**Author:** ![Chriscatastrophe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/chriscatastrophe/32/111769_2.png) [@Chriscatastrophe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Chriscatastrophe)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/11 "2020-12-25T06:30:08Z")
Iā€™ve had good luck with usps. fed ex and ups have always been slow for me. I think it just depends on the area and how well they are staffed Iā€™m in California so they are pretty well staffed it seems ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/12 "2020-12-25T07:07:38Z")
Yes, Iā€™ve had a few items including cards and letters take an abnormal amount of time to arrive recently, but it also happened to me last summer. I mailed a package to a location less than 10 miles from my house. It traveled 6 days and over 500 miles to arrive at the destination. > [@The great circle route](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-great-circle-route/325143): > > I love our postal service and wish them all the best and want them to succeed, but sometimes I have to wonder if some of their problems are not self inflicted. A health care provider associated with my insurance company recently sent me (unsolicited) a Samsung smart watch that enabled me to contact them at any time as well as monitor my heart rate and step count through out the day and periodically send it to them. I called them and said I was not interested in participating in the program for aā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![RABid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/rabid/32/71864_2.png) [@RABid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RABid)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/13 "2020-12-25T13:54:08Z")
FedEx is the one that has always given me problems. From marking packages as undeliverable so they could take off early to delivering my packages to the wrong house. Monday I am supposed to receive a new iPhone 12 Pro Max by FedEx. Weā€™ll see how that goes. ---
**Author:** ![AquaJoe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/aquajoe/32/292_2.png) [@AquaJoe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AquaJoe)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-having-trouble-getting-yoyos-in-the-mail/331555/14 "2020-12-26T10:24:58Z")
The usps mail has been about 4 weeks late for the past 3 months. All my packages arrived, just super late! Ups and FedEx seem to be on time though I had a ups package actually arrive early yesterday! But yea, your usps package will sit at the same spot for weeks with no movement, then one day appear across the county one day. Just keep checking itā€¦ it will eventually be delivered