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<p>[QUOTE="definer, post: 1824686, member: 39713"]Glad you got your coins! I've waited as long as 4 weeks when a package was "in transit" before I received a domestic first class mail package.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing to recognize is a good amount of first class, priority, and express mail are, in fact, transported from city to city via either FedEx or UPS under contract to the USPS. FedEx has been doing it for about 13 years and just started a new $10.5B contract in October to continue doing it for the next 10.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would stay away from UPS' "SmartPost" service. You "book it" through UPS and they pick it up but it's delivered the "last mile" by the USPS. Problem is the USPS doesn't know the package is coming until it's dropped off at the local postal facility so you have to track it through both services. It also takes longer to get the package through it than through either one separately (based upon my experience).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="definer, post: 1824686, member: 39713"]Glad you got your coins! I've waited as long as 4 weeks when a package was "in transit" before I received a domestic first class mail package. One thing to recognize is a good amount of first class, priority, and express mail are, in fact, transported from city to city via either FedEx or UPS under contract to the USPS. FedEx has been doing it for about 13 years and just started a new $10.5B contract in October to continue doing it for the next 10. I would stay away from UPS' "SmartPost" service. You "book it" through UPS and they pick it up but it's delivered the "last mile" by the USPS. Problem is the USPS doesn't know the package is coming until it's dropped off at the local postal facility so you have to track it through both services. It also takes longer to get the package through it than through either one separately (based upon my experience).[/QUOTE]
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