shipping rant

Ordered some new bandsaw blades from Detroit Bandsaw Sun. night, shipped Tues., arrived Wed. via UPS. Recently waited 17 days on USPS delivery and have had multiple 10+ day deliveries on their "Priority" mail....not hard to figure out who I'll be using from here on.
 
UPS finally got here. Box a little beat up. Find out in a min how it is on the inside.
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A portable bead blaster?

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It used to be the only one to use when buying stuff from the States............99.9% of the time it was 10 days to get here and the cost was very, very, reasonable compared to FedX or UPS. Priority mail international cost of postage would b $60 USPS and $160 for FedX or UPS..................mind you this was a few years ago now........Never lost anything with USPS
 
At least in my part of the world USPS is working great. Just for example @Downeaster mentioned something I had never heard of before. 123 blocks. Wow. I need a couple of those. ordered late Saturday night and it was in Monday's mail. @DogBunny sent me a package Monday and it was here in Wednesday. UPS tries hard and does a pretty good job. Fed ex on the other hand is a complete mess. Tracking will show delivered and then 2 days later it will show up on my doorstep. I think the contractor, who is very nice when I have talked to him, only comes this way a couple of days a week.
You have to remember I live right at the edge of the world just before it drops off at the edge.

I still remember a time when if you bought anything by mail it had the proviso " Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery" at the bottom of the ad so this one day delivery thing still is pretty amazing to me.
 
I ordered a battery from Battery Sharks..Their.warehouse is based in MD..about a 5 hour drive from me...It took USPS exactly 30 days to deliver it... Ordered 2 weeks before Christmas..it just came 2 days ago..Tracking information was useless..It appeared to be lost..COVID19 is the main reason..so.they state ..that mail.is way behind..UPS on the other hand is darn good around here...
 
On the night of the 26th, I ordered parts from Sirius Consolidated in Ontario. It's the 29th and my parts are in my hand. They came in two packages. One UPS from California and the other FedEx from Ontario. BOOM! I paid $14 in shipping. Sirius Con says no weight limit on the $14 FedEx charge. It's been a while, but not the first time I did business with these folks. They packed and shipped immediately and I can't expect more.

On the 18th of January I ordered two seals and two bolts from Part Shark. They handed off to USPS on the 21st, and I don't find that unreasonable. It's the 29th and I'm empty handed. I paid a reasonable $8.00 for Priority Mail. Tracking info shows my package in Memphis since the 22nd. USPS has dropped the ball. BTW, Part Shark prices on OEM parts beat Partzilla on everything I looked up. My last Partzilla orders came via third party shipper that was awful. PartShark does have a UPS Ground option, so I guess I should have marked that box.
 
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