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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2997342, member: 27832"]In which the package keeps getting closer, but never actually arrives...</p><p><br /></p><p>Last Saturday I bought a small lot on eBay. It shipped Monday the <b>12th</b> (from my old hometown in Maryland, oddly enough).</p><p><br /></p><p>It left Maryland shortly after midnight the morning of the <b>13th</b>, and arrived at the regional facility in Raleigh before 8AM. "Oh boy", I thought, "I might get it today!"</p><p><br /></p><p>Nope. The next day (the <b>14th</b>), at about 1 in the afternoon, it showed up as "in transit to destination" (my town, maybe 20 miles over from Raleigh). Fine, whatever -- normally it would've been at my door by then, but these things happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>This morning (<b>the 15th</b>), the tracking showed "Departed USPS Regional Destination Facility" (Raleigh again)!</p><p><br /></p><p>I've been spoiled by the USPS -- normally, even a package from California would've arrived by now. But there's one coin I <i>really</i> want to examine close-up in this lot, and it's maddening to watch the PO play keep-away with it...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2997342, member: 27832"]In which the package keeps getting closer, but never actually arrives... Last Saturday I bought a small lot on eBay. It shipped Monday the [B]12th[/B] (from my old hometown in Maryland, oddly enough). It left Maryland shortly after midnight the morning of the [B]13th[/B], and arrived at the regional facility in Raleigh before 8AM. "Oh boy", I thought, "I might get it today!" Nope. The next day (the [B]14th[/B]), at about 1 in the afternoon, it showed up as "in transit to destination" (my town, maybe 20 miles over from Raleigh). Fine, whatever -- normally it would've been at my door by then, but these things happen. This morning ([B]the 15th[/B]), the tracking showed "Departed USPS Regional Destination Facility" (Raleigh again)! I've been spoiled by the USPS -- normally, even a package from California would've arrived by now. But there's one coin I [I]really[/I] want to examine close-up in this lot, and it's maddening to watch the PO play keep-away with it...[/QUOTE]
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