Will it arrive?

[Jamvan]

So I purchased a bass off eBay and have been obsessively watching the shipment but it's been "stuck" in Jersey City for the past 3 days. Now I've never put a lot of stock in the USPS tracking status as some packages track the status all the way to my door and while others miraculously show up where the tracking still has it sitting on a dock somewhere. It's supposed to be arriving today in Minnesota but I'm not holding my breath.

So, will it show up or not?

 

[jd56hawk]

Their tracking might not be 100% but I prefer the USPS over FedEx, UPS or anything else.
They've never left anything on my doorstep when I wasn't home.
If you don't get it today, I bet you get it by week's end.

 

[hdracer]

With the severe weather they are having out east I would not count on it showing up.
I shipped a package to NY on Tuesday and it is hung up somewhere.

 

[brianrost]

The Northeastern USA is currently buried under a few feet of snow with more snow falling every few days. It wouldn't surprise me that ground shipments are falling behind schedule.

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Snowing here again on Cape Cod, Boston is a complete mess. Beyond sick of it. This has got to be creating delays all over the country as things bottleneck on the East Coast.

 

[Iridescentone]

My crystal ball says maybe.

My Ouija board says next week, if you're lucky.

 

[Jamvan]

 

[Jamvan]

Yeah. It didn't show up. Status indicates it's still sitting in Jersey City.

 

[Dave W]

I'm just north of Jersey City. Outside today it looked like a blizzard from early this morning until late afternoon.

 

[Avezzano]

I voted carrots, but not to be disrespectful: just because... it's a long time there were no carrots on a poll!!! Nostalgia!

 

[Winfred]

The weather screwed your delivery, but you'll get it, eventually.

 

[Jamvan]

The weather screwed your delivery, but you'll get it, eventually.

With the way the weather has been out east, I'm just hoping it will be sometime before Summer!

 

[Winfred]

With the way the weather has been out east, I'm just hoping it will be sometime before Summer!

Sorry, bro. When I was shipping for a local store, we'd get burned by bad weather every now and then, especially when we were waiting to receive shipments. Usually it adds a couple of days to the travel time. It's impossible to say how long, because so much depends on how long the weather stays bad.

 

[Eric_71]

Well...NJ. Not a great location for your bass to be under any circumstances, but it will still probably arrive. Eventually.

 

[Jamvan]

Yeah. Still there. This can only mean one thing...ROAD TRIP!!!

 

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[Bass Master General]

In my experience it will sometimes look like it's just sitting in a warehouse somewhere when in reality it's in transit, which if by ground will be several days. And yeah this weather definitely isn't helping to expedite the process.

 

[Jamvan]

Woohoo! My obsessive refresh of the USPS tracking status screen finally paid off! It's closer than I thought!

Problem now is it will likely arrive tomorrow while my wife is home..."Honey? What's that big box the mailman just dropped off?" Gulp.

 

[bholder]

Woohoo! My obsessive refresh of the USPS tracking status screen finally paid off! It's closer than I thought!

Problem now is it will likely arrive tomorrow while my wife is home..."Honey? What's that big box the mailman just dropped off?" Gulp.

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BUSTED!!!!!

 

[Pilgrim]

My motto for using USPS is "...when you absolutely, positively don't care whether it gets there or not." I've had $1000 worth of merchandise disappear into the USPS back room for six months, then appear one day covered in dust. Clearly it fell off a belt somewhere and sat around for months until someone spotted it. (To be fair, that happened some years ago.) I guess is would be hard for that to happen to something as large as a bass...right?

But ship a bass USPS? Not gonna happen, except in the rare case where I ship overseas and it's half the price of other options. I also find that USPS tracking numbers are universally useless - I think I've had a grand total of ONE USPS tracking number that ever worked.

OTOH, FedEx Ground tracking numbers always work, are always accurate, and the price is normally better than any other option - especially since I got smart and opened a FedEx account. I seldom use it, but it provides a discount when I do. FedEx is my first choice, UPS second. USPS is my shipper of last resort.