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Message:: [QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 8315017, member: 83956"]Yes to these recent posts about the US Postal Service. So far I’ve only lost one coin in 20 years, though I don’t purchase as many as most folks seem to do on this board. Maybe 12 to 20 coins a year. Several internationally. A recent phenomenon is that a coin leaves Europe for New York pretty quickly. Four days or so. Then four days from New York to Memphis. And then when it’s 80 miles away in some Memphis sorting center, it may be weeks. That’s when I get nervous. When it’s 80 miles away. And no, I don’t think the right hand knows what the left hand is doing at the Postal Service. Its own internal tracking and logistics seem to be in disarray. I’ve had the Postal Service tell me one day that they can’t find a package that arrives the next day in my mailbox. One would think electronic tracking would eliminate the confusion. But apparently it doesn’t. I don’t want to be too hard on the US Postal Service. It’s a minor miracle that pretty much everything that gets mailed arrives where it should. Still, I think the service has gotten worse in recent years. Maybe it’s DeJoy. Maybe it’s more complicated than that.[/QUOTE]