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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7879779, member: 120820&quot;]For sure. I&#039;ve never actually lost anything at the hands of the USPS, but it&#039;s getting more and more dodgy. I have far more faith in FedEx, although I will say I just passed on a cheap bronze from Roma since it didn&#039;t make sense to pay $30 FedEx shipping on a $60 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen way more delays within the US than outside of it. Delays of a week or more at inbound customs in NY are pretty routine, but what&#039;s increasingly happening is delays of weeks or months at local distribution hub USPS locations. I recently had to sweat it out while an unlisted coin just stopped in this way for a couple of weeks before continuing on. When things are functioning normally they should be in and out of these hubs same or next day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently what&#039;s happening, due to short staffing, is that these distribution hubs get backed up and then rather than continuing to process mail in first-in first-out order (adding a uniform brief delay to all mail) some instead are doing last-in first-out until the backlog clears... This means some mail continues to sail through without delay, and the unfortunate backlogged pieces are now stuck until the backlog is cleared. Reddit&#039;s r/usps_complaints is full of horror stories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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