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@croybooks wrote:

 

 

Would like someone to give me link to explain why things are slower.

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Money. (Lack of money to facilitate older service standards, or just wanting more money all round), ergo increasing prices, plus decreasing service standards.

I recently got off the phone with Australia Post about a tracked package sent to Chicago, which was dispatched to the US on the same day I posted it (awesome work, considering the last one took 4 days to dispatch), but hasn't had any scan events since (it's been a month between posting and now). They told me weather conditions have caused mail going there to simply pile up without being processed or delivered. Sounds fair enough, except... that it's only the tracked packages that are experiencing these issues (this is the second time I have posted these items to my buyer - $65 packages each time, with over $20 in postage paid, and I am seriously ticked that the other packages I've sent to the same area (at a third of the cost) but don't have tracking etc, have been delivered in 7-10 days after posting. (Well, I'm not ticked they've been delivered, just very dismayed that I - and my buyers - are getting worse service with something that costs so much more). It's not just affecting AU-US mail, either, lots of sellers from Europe etc are experiencing the same thing with their packages shipped to the US. 😞

My domestic packages seem to be arriving in decent time still, though I do have one buyer asking after an item at the moment (purchased this last weekend, and even though it might seem too soon to start wondering, it was just a standard letter and it's really rare for them to take longer than 5 business days).