Greg Morris Cards - A tiny, insignificant and petty rant

[Jenx34]

I too share your frustrations on time. I have been under the understanding that once packages are dropped off, they still have to be scanned individually as they are processed to leave that facility. From what I've gathered, the Post Office is overwhelmed. My belief is that a GM representative drops off packages daily and the PO gets to them as quickly as they can, which isn't quick, unfortunately. I'm sure the sheer volume is nuts. But there are other sellers who do heavy volume that don't have this problem.

One of the things that led me to believe this is what's going on, aside from my wife formerly working for USPS... I had a package sit for 8 days waiting on the Acceptance Pending scan. I got typical BS about the Post Office being slow from GM so I opened a case with USPS. I got a call from USPS, explained further the package had never made it out of LA, and magically within an hour, the package was scanned and on it's way to the LA processing center. That couldn't happen if GM still had the cards.

I'll also add, I am a big fan. I do think their "grading" has slipped some recently. But overall, it's still a positive. One thing I don't like to do, but have on a couple of occasions is return a card. Again, one of the benefits of using them is they have a no questions asked return policy and will even send you a return label. I have bought a ton of cards from them within the last year, and will keep doing so. But the shipping and sometimes off grading has slowed me down some. Ok, just a little. ha ha

[Sluggerrr]

I have never bought from GMC. I do watch plenty of their listings but their cards go for a premium and that's not how I buy cards.

I did make a purchase from gmcards2 earlier this year and it shipped the next day. I'm not sure if cards are handled differently between GMC and GMC2.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by Jenx34

I too share your frustrations on time. I have been under the understanding that once packages are dropped off, they still have to be scanned individually as they are processed to leave that facility. From what I've gathered, the Post Office is overwhelmed. My belief is that a GM representative drops off packages daily and the PO gets to them as quickly as they can, which isn't quick, unfortunately. I'm sure the sheer volume is nuts. But there are other sellers who do heavy volume that don't have this problem.

One of the things that led me to believe this is what's going on, aside from my wife formerly working for USPS... I had a package sit for 8 days waiting on the Acceptance Pending scan. I got typical BS about the Post Office being slow from GM so I opened a case with USPS. I got a call from USPS, explained further the package had never made it out of LA, and magically within an hour, the package was scanned and on it's way to the LA processing center. That couldn't happen if GM still had the cards.

I'll also add, I am a big fan. I do think their "grading" has slipped some recently. But overall, it's still a positive. One thing I don't like to do, but have on a couple of occasions is return a card. Again, one of the benefits of using them is they have a no questions asked return policy and will even send you a return label. I have bought a ton of cards from them within the last year, and will keep doing so. But the shipping and sometimes off grading has slowed me down some. Ok, just a little. ha ha

The situation you describe in this post may be a one-off. Some of my shipments include lots which are shipped in multiple boxes. Ironically the first label prints the day following the payment, the next label originates the day before the USPS takes possession. Subsequently, both packages leave LA at the same time...this only means that GM has a lot of orders and is doing their best to ship as quick as possible.

In my previous example I showed the tracking info from a package they sent me. This order/payment warranted two boxes on the shipment. The first label creates on Wed Feb 15, the second label (see tracking info below) is created on Sat Feb 18. Both are received by the USPS at the same time. This scenario has occurred dozens of times over the past few years.

At least with my shipments, the USPS is NOT the cause of the added 3-4 days in delivery times.

Again, so BobC does not accuse me of being upset with this delay, I AM NOT UPSET BY THIS DELAY!

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[Jenx34]

You may very well be right. I will say this. It irritated me a bit when I sent a message and their response was to simply blame the post office. If in fact they are the culprit, it irritates me a bit more that they would blatantly lie about it.

That said, I am about to go to bed and I will not lose any sleep over it.