Re: [Elecraft] OT: Order handling

2018-03-22 Thread Don Wilhelm
Dwight, Not here in the Raleigh area of NC. If you are in a remote area, then I guess it might be possible that it would take 4 - 5 days, it depends on your local post office. That really should not be true, unless there was an intervening Sunday involved which would delay it a day when it

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Order handling

2018-03-22 Thread Wes Stewart
Tucson, with about a million people using that as as their city address, has no post office anymore. If I mailed a letter to my neighbor it would go to Phoenix and come back. Wes  N7WS On 3/22/2018 1:41 PM, GRANT YOUNGMAN wrote: I actually think if I mail my Savannah water bill from my PO

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Order handling

2018-03-22 Thread Fred Jensen
Ummm ... sounds like a bureaucratic answer. The only Priority mail packages we have sent over the last 10 years or so that have taken more than 2 days are those to APO/FPO addresses.  Those generally take between 7-10 days depending on where our troop is actually located.  I just mailed a Prior

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Order handling

2018-03-22 Thread GRANT YOUNGMAN
Do your packages come through Jacksonville, or somewhere else … Charleston, maybe?. Down here in the radio equipment and parts wasteland of Savannah, everything comes through Jacksonville. I actually think if I mail my Savannah water bill from my PO (in the same county as Savannah), it goes t

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Order handling

2018-03-22 Thread dgb
As of late, all my Priority packages have been taking 4 -5 days down here in NC - I asked the P.O. today about that and, they said you must use Priority Express. 73 Dwight NS9I On 3/22/2018 1:22 PM, Rose wrote: As a shipper of hundreds (thousands?) of Elecraft carrying cases and dust covers,

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Order handling

2018-03-22 Thread Tommy
  And your package will less likely be tossed around or thrown down! 73! Tom - KB2SMS On 03/22/2018 01:22 PM, Rose wrote: As a shipper of hundreds (thousands?) of Elecraft carrying cases and dust covers, I'll offer the following: Priority Mail via the USPS is the only way to go. I've never h

[Elecraft] OT: Order handling

2018-03-22 Thread Rose
As a shipper of hundreds (thousands?) of Elecraft carrying cases and dust covers, I'll offer the following: Priority Mail via the USPS is the only way to go. I've never had a package ... either padded envelope or box ... take more than three days to reach -anywhere- in the US. Plus, for the ship