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Parcel tracking as a measure of system collapse
jfiresto:
Well, my above, USPS First Class International ePacket finally landed in my mail box, 10 1/2 weeks after it was mailed from California. The German Post and Customs were unusually fast and got it off the plane into my mailbox in three days.
engrguy42:
I dunno, I've been pretty amazed at how fast stuff is shipping lately. Last week ordered some PCB's from China on Monday and they arrived at my front door on Friday. And I've been receiving stuff (mostly USPS) just about every day for the last few weeks, and usually stuff arrives (from Amazon mostly) faster than predicted. Ordered something yesterday and it arrived today. And ordered something this morning and it's supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Damn.
I know people love that doom and gloom, but I'm not seeing it. Many countries have been dropping in the number of daily new cases for weeks now (including US). Now of course the scattered idiots make the news because we love to mock others, but just because people are out and about doesn't mean they're getting too close and not being safe. Yeah, there's the idiots, but that doesn't define everyone.
Anyway, I kinda figured that with everyone staying at home the online ordering business would be insanely busy and shipments would grind to a halt. Apparently not.
EDIT: Hey wait a minute...this thread is from two months ago !!! WTF??? :-//
jfiresto:
Two months is not that long and I did not want to leave folks in limbo. Perhaps I have a longer time horizon than most. I have had design problems that I had evaded, apparently left on the back of the brain and realized how to nicely solve decades later.
When I asked the shipper a month ago, they reported I was not the only one suffering long delays on USPS first class mail to Europe. Anyway, thank you for the update!
Nusa:
Could be that USPS is sending some stuff by boat instead of air, since I doubt they have enough of their own planes to carry it all. A lot of air cargo used to travel on passenger planes that aren't flying right now, which means rates are way up because the overall air cargo capacity in the system is down.
tom66:
It's pretty much returned to normal in the UK. I ordered some 3D print filament next day and it was delivered at 8.30am in the morning. And that wasn't even a big supplier like Amazon.
International deliveries are slowed, primarily because of the reduction in passenger flights so there's less space for cargo.
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