MEDIA MAIL

[Chris Dillon]

Does anyone know how long it usually takes. somebody sent me an item on 5/12 and i still havent got it. Its a socom2 guide and i want it for the maps for the game. Just got dsl this week and have been playing it but i cant get a handle on some of the maps.

[bignick]

Medial Mail is a huge YMMV. It could be a few days or weeks.

[pimpinc333]

When i ship stuff out like games it usually only takes about annywhere from 3 to 10 days..

[Chris Dillon]

okay so its been 8

[sm04as]

Seems like stuff getting to me is starting to take months.

[Chris Dillon]

what do you mean by that

[sm04as]

Oh, I'm exaggerating. It's more 3-4 weeks for me. Currently I have a couple of packages in limbo, either coming to or from myself. I have DC with only one of them, but that does not help.

[jasonditz]

My copy of Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga took 5 or 6 weeks by media mail.

[Chris Dillon]

no you got to be lying

[CaseyRyback]

I sent a guide Media Mail and it took like 2 weeks

[JimmieMac]

Yeah, I traded here with one guy and we had made two deals two days apart. The first one(which happened to be the smaller of the deals) was there in 3 days. The second one took 3 weeks and it wasn't even media mail.

[pinoy530]

If the place is in the same state as me, takes just couple days. If its a little further, usually about a week. The longest its taken me is two weeks.

[doraemonkerpal]

i've had books come to me a month later... no joke! i always use delivery confirmation when i send media mail b/c it can take forever!

[GF_Eric]

Media Mail is such a waste. First class shipping only costs a little bit more and it gets there in like 4-5 days. Thus, everyone is a lot happier.

[Ikohn4ever]

media mailon average take 7-14 days for me

[rimsforsale]

for me it takes about 2-3 weeks, depends where the other persons at. cheap saving on the sender's end, but long wait on the receiver's. i guess its ymmv, im in so. cal.

and even thou first class is not a big difference when ur shipping (1)one game, it makes hell of a difference if your shipping a book, or a set of something, or something thats not media at all (ps2, xbox, harddrives) the difference is some times $10! thats the price of NBA street2, or freggin' metroid prime!..

[pukemon]

media mail sucks. what really sucks is when somebody or company *cough*videogamedeals.com*cough charges you $4 for shipping only to find out it was shipped media mail and it's been almost a month since i ordered. way to go.

[sm04as]

The extremely odd thing is that I sent 2 packages Media to the same state, May 4. The one without DC was received in about a week. The one with DC is taking too long to be delivered.

[dtcarson]

For small/lighter packages you're better off with First Class [1 or two dvd's, one or two games]. Or even priority mail, since you can get supplies free.
However, I ordered a bunch of DVD's from an etailer, and they sent me 13 in one box Media Mail--the postage cost something like 2.50, whereas I don't know how much 1st class would have cost.
I've not had a problem with Media mail, but I generally ship stuff first class anyway, since it's not much more, if at all.
Weird thing--went to a post office the other day, a very busy one that I don't normally go to. They said you had to hand your Media Mail package to theM UNSEALED....I guess so they could 'make sure' it was actuallly media mail. Wow....And I recall someone saying they got in an argument with their PO who said a video game wasn't 'media' [which to me it totally fits the definition.] Of course, there's also a lot of people using UPS or FedEx for personal packages, since they probably aren't that much more expensive and specialize in packages.

[YoshiFan1]

I stopped using Media Mail when I sold a game on Half.com, sent it Media Mail and it took a month for the buyer to receive the game. For $0.10 to $0.35 for, I ship everything 1st class (or Priority if the item is too heavy for 1st class).

[mookiemeister]

I use media mail a lot and the amount of time it takes varies greatly. On USPS web site, it says media mail could take weeks, but I noticed on average it's about a week or so.

[drfrielgood]

Haha, I'm the one who sold him the SOCOM II guide. I keep records of when I ship everything that I send out, and I did indeed ship the guide on May 12th, media mail. I've never screwed anybody out of everything, let alone a strategy guide. The reason I ship the guides media rate is because it would cost me $3.85 to ship first class, and media is more around $1.50. This is the first instance I've had where a guide has taken longer than a week or so to reach its buyer.

[cronox2]

You know, DC is the biggest waste of .50 i've ever seen. All you get to know is when the item leaves their post office, and when it gets to yours. UPS's system is superior to the USPS's one.

The only reason to get DC is if you don't trust the other trader at all.