# USPS rant....again

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**Category:** General Yo-Yo\
**Created:** [September 28, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-rant-again/84913 "2017-09-28T16:17:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**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 7, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-rant-again/84913/21 "2017-10-07T02:23:43Z")

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Most any government really… :wink:

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**Author:** ![hobbyman101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eada6e/32.png) [@hobbyman101](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hobbyman101)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-rant-again/84913/22 "2017-10-07T19:03:52Z")

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Occasionally I face a delay and once I had to have the PO look for a package, but, overall they beat DHL post and UPS post and I forget the other one,but, they beat that too. Hooray USPS!

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**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 7, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-rant-again/84913/23 "2017-10-07T22:17:59Z")

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> [@hobbyman101](#):
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> …I forget the other one…

Ummm, maybe FedEx??

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**Author:** ![hobbyman101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eada6e/32.png) [@hobbyman101](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hobbyman101)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-rant-again/84913/24 "2017-10-08T12:23:22Z")

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Maybe.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/usps-rant-again/84913/25 "2018-09-13T03:25:52Z")

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I’ve had very good luck with USPS, both in terms of

- shipping one or two yo-yos via priority (with tracking, this is $7 or more even for one yo-yo)
- shipping one or two yo-yos in a padded envelope with Plain Old Stamps ($4 or ~8 stamps at the current “forever rate” mails two yo-yos anywhere in the continental US in my experience). This would be first class mail, instead of priority, and there’s no tracking… but it is ½ the price!
- receiving packages mailed to me, though these are almost always priority with tracking

I’ve sent and received a _lot_ of yo-yos in the last year via USPS had almost zero problems, except in two cases

1. There was one time I sent a package with stamps that didn’t arrive. But the guy had been travelling and was in the process of moving to a different apartment so I think it got lost in the incoming held mail shuffle while he was away. I don’t blame USPS for this one. It is annoying because it was a Nickel Deep State though ☹

2. There was another time I bought $600 (!) of yo-yos from someone here on the B/S/T, that was obviously sent with tracking and it was _craaaaazily_ delayed, like it arrived two weeks after it should have. I was pretty worried about that one, but the guy swore he sent it, had a receipt and of course I had a tracking number. Sure enough it was just USPS weirdness and in the end everything was OK.

This probably varies somewhat depending where you live of course.

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