USPS - Holiday Slowdowns in Full Force Already?

[bcbgcbrcb]

Yes, everything goes up except for low to mid grade vintage baseball cards

[Natswin2019]

I mean it's the second week of December, it makes sense that there's slow downs. Ive been doing some online shopping for my girlfriend and every website I was on basically said order before the 5th of December or we can't guarantee delivery by Christmas. I just always kind of assume that USPS/UPS/FedEx get swamped starting black Friday through the end of the year and plan accordingly. It happens basically every year and has been that way for years. Is what it is.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Everything that we are talking about was ordered between 11/28 Thanksgiving Day and 12/2 Cyber Monday. Don’t really think the holiday gift giving had started yet at that point. Am I wrong?

[bcbgcbrcb]

I thought prices at Publix Supermarket were “temporarily” increasing during COVID because of all the shortages of supplies, workers, chickens/cows, etc. Except that they never went back down again. This is in stark contrast to vintage sports cards that went to the moon and came back down to reality rather quickly once it became apparent that the human race was not ending. Still waiting for those food prices to come back down again.

[Exhibitman]

We just went through the one simultaneous shipping surge and national holiday event, so small wonder that parcel post is slow. FWIW, correspondence has been finding its way to me in normal times thus far.

And again, it bears repeating; the USPS is NOT a for-profit endeavor, it is a national social service. It is charged by Congress with making mail service available to every corner of the nation, no matter how inefficient, at a uniform cost. If Congress sees fit to alter the nature of mail service to maximize efficiency, don't be surprised if it costs fifty cents to send a letter from LA to NY in a few days and five bucks to send one from Wyoming to North Dakota in two weeks.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

We just went through the one simultaneous shipping surge and national holiday event, so small wonder that parcel post is slow. FWIW, correspondence has been finding its way to me in normal times thus far.

And again, it bears repeating; the USPS is NOT a for-profit endeavor, it is a national social service. It is charged by Congress with making mail service available to every corner of the nation, no matter how inefficient, at a uniform cost. If Congress sees fit to alter the nature of mail service to maximize efficiency, don't be surprised if it costs fifty cents to send a letter from LA to NY in a few days and five bucks to send one from Wyoming to North Dakota in two weeks.

But, but....socialism BAD, privatization GOOD, no?

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Everything that we are talking about was ordered between 11/28 Thanksgiving Day and 12/2 Cyber Monday. Don’t really think the holiday gift giving had started yet at that point. Am I wrong?

Yes, I believe you are wrong. Holiday buying begins in full force the entire month of November these days.