# USPS Is loosing it. My Yoyo is on a USA tour! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [October 2, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451 "2026-10-02T21:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shirtpants](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shirtpants/32/662788_2.png) [@Shirtpants](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Shirtpants)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/41 "2026-10-03T01:50:33Z")
It’s not my first choice. It’s somewhere in a long list of things the government doesn’t need to be involved in. I think mail delivery and national security are apples and oranges. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Abyss](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/the_abyss/32/704667_2.png) [@The\_Abyss](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/The_Abyss)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/42 "2026-10-03T02:00:19Z")
the government has to so it could be funded. Without it, we would not be getting any mail. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/43 "2026-10-03T03:50:02Z")
That’s not all that unusual. Reading the tracking can be quite entertaining, even though it’s frustrating waiting for your package. I sent a package to a location 5 miles from my house, albeit in a different zip code. It went to 4 different states before it turned around and was delivered 5 days later. In another instance, a friend sent me a package from a city 200 miles away (within the state) it was initially sent to a postal location 50 miles from my house, then to a location 40 miles from the original location and a couple of intermediate stops on it’s way to my house a week later. It’s about a 3.5 hour drive. On the issue of wasting your tax dollars, @stamming and @fradiger are spot on. The USPS receives no tax dollars and have been hobbled by political machinations for years. ---
**Author:** ![Shirtpants](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shirtpants/32/662788_2.png) [@Shirtpants](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Shirtpants)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/44 "2026-10-03T04:20:43Z")
That’s my point. Find me a government agency that isn’t “hobbled by political machinations”. I understand no tax dollars are directly spent, but the money comes from somewhere. If you borrow it, the taxpayers do pay for that, one way or another. I just don’t understand why mail can’t be delivered by someone who isn’t hobbled by political machinations. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 4:24am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/45 "2026-10-03T04:24:36Z")
> [@Shirtpants](#): > > I’m spending my Friday night arguing about the post office on a yoyo forum! How cool is that? Man, I need to get out more! Indeed you (and I) do. :wink: ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 4:55am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/46 "2026-10-03T04:55:05Z")
Maybe the USPS driver was too afraid of Hwy 17 from SJ to SC…in all seriousness, this sucks. I had a game go “on tour” back in 2020 and it was gone for well over a month, ended up getting a refund after waiting an additional week. Ended up just buying the game in person and of course the month later the game arrives. Had a yoyo (SuperYo Renegade) not even have any tracking updates earlier this year when it shipped from Virginia. Its arrival to its main hub was all I got. It sat (and sat) at the post office, both myself and Ebay seller thought it was done and they were ready to issue me a refund. I told them to let’s give it a couple more days before we pull the trigger. They were ready to just take the loss if it did show up though I would have found a way to still pay for it. Suddenly I wake up next day to see it landed in the Bay Area and was slated to be out for delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Shirtpants](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shirtpants/32/662788_2.png) [@Shirtpants](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Shirtpants)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 5:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/47 "2026-10-03T05:13:46Z")
I have had several yoyos take from several weeks to maybe 2 months to arrive. I live west of Portland, OR, and the packages always make it to Portland. Usually they go to my local office and are delivered, but sometimes they are off on an adventure! I have had packages bounce back and forth between the east and west coast multiple times and packages get sent from Portland back to Salt Lake City and sit there for weeks. I recently had a package from Arizona make it to San Francisco, where it spent a number of days, only to be sent to Oklahoma (I think it was Oklahoma, someplace way off the route, anyway), and then on a tour of several more cities before finally making it’s way to Portland. ---
**Author:** ![Gomel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gomel/32/697098_2.png) [@Gomel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Gomel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/48 "2026-10-03T06:07:38Z")
idk man I think most governments sorta need a post service to deliver government documents (tax docs, court summons, voter registration, etc.) to and from people. unless private services are bound by law to deliver these things consistently, untampered, at a reasonable rate then we might still be paying for these services with our tax dollars. so in a sense (correct me if I’m wrong or this doesn’t make sense), since the gov already has to do use the post service quite regularly, why not just run the thing and also allow the public to use it. ---
**Author:** ![Gomel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gomel/32/697098_2.png) [@Gomel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Gomel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/49 "2026-10-03T06:21:37Z")
and now that we know that our taxpayer dollars do not really much fund usps, we also have no real reason to complain about it unless we choose to use it specifically. or we could complain about the larger category of delivery services, I guess. p.s. I do very much like usps and use it regularly to deliver handwritten mail across the country. stamps are also neat! ---
**Author:** ![Shirtpants](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shirtpants/32/662788_2.png) [@Shirtpants](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Shirtpants)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/50 "2026-10-03T06:34:42Z")
I think we can all agree that stamps are neat! ---
**Author:** ![zxin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zxin/32/649326_2.png) [@zxin](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zxin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/51 "2026-10-03T07:14:25Z")
> [@Shirtpants](#): > > Who the hell gets a pension in 2026 that doesn’t work for the government? People in need who live in countries that bother to take care of their citizens. ---
**Author:** ![zxin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zxin/32/649326_2.png) [@zxin](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zxin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/52 "2026-10-03T07:23:50Z")
Oh if they paid _their fair share_ then you could have a UBI that pays more than a minimum wage job, lol. The amount of wealth hoarding in this world is insane. ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/53 "2026-10-03T13:47:26Z")
It’s not a business, it’s a service. While I don’t condone wasteful federal spending, it’s not supposed to generate profit. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Abyss](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/the_abyss/32/704667_2.png) [@The\_Abyss](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/The_Abyss)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/54 "2026-10-03T14:02:17Z")
because without it being a government service not every single person by law would be getting their mail out of companies being greedy and choosing not to deliver to rural areas like where I live. I feel if you want to complain about shipping times and delivery come live in Canada or some other country than the place with arguable one of the most manned postal services aka getting your packages on timee a lot lot more consistantly than other places. Just food for thought since people who talk about shipping kinda irks me as I live in a Country where shipping is both very expensive and takes a lot of time. ---
**Author:** ![NuroVolt7](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nurovolt7/32/671908_2.png) [@NuroVolt7](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NuroVolt7)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/55 "2026-10-03T14:22:16Z")
This is why I don’t agree with those who say living in the US sucks and living in another country/continent is so much better. There’s a lot we Americans take for granted that others would go as far as emigrating to the USA for. No country is problem free, but I’ll take what I have here over anywhere else ---
**Author:** ![Tempura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/tempura/32/246135_2.png) [@Tempura](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Tempura)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/56 "2026-10-03T15:47:25Z")
I feel like shipping to Canada from the US is way more expensive than vice versa, which means our post is the cheap one… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Abyss](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/the_abyss/32/704667_2.png) [@The\_Abyss](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/The_Abyss)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/57 "2026-10-03T16:25:35Z")
Shipping in country is aeound $20-$40 depending on the size of rhe package but that’s usually only like standard $5 shipping Americans get. Also Canda is a lot larger with less postal workers across country because of the population densities that America has that allows them to be way way quicker. There’s hubs closer together whereas a province over could quite literally be 2k kilometers (Mississauga is like the capital of shipping and warehouses I feel, to Winnipeg which is my nearest hub). And don’t get me started when it starts to snow. That impacts deliveries a lot, and Canada Post just LOOVES to go on strike around Christmas due to underpaying. That is a whole topic in-and-of-itself. Longstory short though, postal services are extremely busy and stressful for all involved. The more you give it time to be, without anything going missing, the easier it’ll be on you waiting for it. ---
**Author:** ![Tempura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/tempura/32/246135_2.png) [@Tempura](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Tempura)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/58 "2026-10-03T16:37:43Z")
I’d like to say shipping a yoyo costs me between $15 and $20 most of the time, including to the US. I live in Ontario though so maybe I have a different experience. Those strikes the last couple years have been super annoying for sure though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Abyss](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/the_abyss/32/704667_2.png) [@The\_Abyss](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/The_Abyss)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451/59 "2026-10-03T16:51:10Z")
Oh, no. Our post is NOT the cheap one. Any place that ships to Canada has to overcome more hurdles to ship here. Our shipping is more expensive than in the States. A package that I sent in the States was closer to 17 for a PIF Box with other stuff in it, one that I would ship in Canada would be a lot more. For context, flatrate shipping in Canada usually lands up being between $10-$15 whereas in the States I have rarely ever seen a ahipping cost be more in country than what I would get in Canada. Most places would require you to buy like +$100 worth of things for free shipping options minimum, but for America.. for example.. the FOV Max V2 being shipped to an American address was $5. $5!!! That thing weighs a lot!! But to ship it here would put the whole expense of the FOV Max V2 from like $220 to $360. It is extremely expensive if neither side is marking down the value of their item when shipping, and this is a practice that sadly happens due to the high cost of importing and getting things just across the border line, of which I was born there. Ontop of duty and customs. It is not a fun experience getting things to ship across the border. The way Canada prices things for shipping is based on weight and the dimensions of the box. When I shipped something to my ex in the past in the Netherlands before, it was around $150 [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-is-loosing-it-my-yoyo-is-on-a-usa-tour/454451.md?page=2)