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Odd question, maybe, and I'm not completely sure that I'm asking about it in the correct location, but I gotta ask somewhere and this'll do.
I've had a few shipments from multiple locations drop off the map for the past three days; no tracking updates, and two of the items had guaranteed delivery dates of the 20th and 21st, which are obviously long gone. Would I be right to assume that it's because USPS is getting hammered to hell and back with mail during this last stretch towards Christmas, or is there an extended mail holiday I'm not aware of?
...I'm glad they're not Christmas gifts. Mostly just worried that I'm going to have to call up USPS and run around in circles until I give up and lose all that money I spent (I've had absolutely horrible experiences with them and lost mail in the past, where everyone I talked to on the phone/emailed did absolutely nothing to help other than say that they were "looking into the problem").
Speaking of gifts, don't get me started on Amazon. They shipped me a gift that I bought for my father as new with only half of the packaging - you know how some items have a cardboard backing and then a plastic shell around the front of the item? It was just the plastic shell when I got mine, and you could tell that someone ripped it off by the pieces of cardboard on the shell's adhesive. Someone slapped a barcode sticker on the back, too, right on the item inside, so they were well aware of it being ripped apart. I was a bit angered by it, as it's frickin' Christmas and I paid full price for an opened product (cue the Gamestop comparisons), but most of all, who likes to give their family and loved ones pre-opened gifts?
Got a partial refund for it, sure, but it's too late to get a replacement in time for the big day. Grr.
I've had a few shipments from multiple locations drop off the map for the past three days; no tracking updates, and two of the items had guaranteed delivery dates of the 20th and 21st, which are obviously long gone. Would I be right to assume that it's because USPS is getting hammered to hell and back with mail during this last stretch towards Christmas, or is there an extended mail holiday I'm not aware of?
...I'm glad they're not Christmas gifts. Mostly just worried that I'm going to have to call up USPS and run around in circles until I give up and lose all that money I spent (I've had absolutely horrible experiences with them and lost mail in the past, where everyone I talked to on the phone/emailed did absolutely nothing to help other than say that they were "looking into the problem").
Speaking of gifts, don't get me started on Amazon. They shipped me a gift that I bought for my father as new with only half of the packaging - you know how some items have a cardboard backing and then a plastic shell around the front of the item? It was just the plastic shell when I got mine, and you could tell that someone ripped it off by the pieces of cardboard on the shell's adhesive. Someone slapped a barcode sticker on the back, too, right on the item inside, so they were well aware of it being ripped apart. I was a bit angered by it, as it's frickin' Christmas and I paid full price for an opened product (cue the Gamestop comparisons), but most of all, who likes to give their family and loved ones pre-opened gifts?
Got a partial refund for it, sure, but it's too late to get a replacement in time for the big day. Grr.