Re: Priority Mail Service (PMS)

Walter A. Moores wrote:
> 
>         I have been sending out all of my orders via the above        
> service. Many customers have complained that it took a week to receive 
> their order. However, today I received two packages sent the same way 
> - one from NY and the other from UT, and they were both mailed on     
> 7.21.  I am beginning to think it is the local post office that is    
> messing up.

Walter, I think it's more a matter of where your mail "hub" city is in 
relation to where you actually receive mail & the same applies at the 
other end. I've recently received plants Priority Mail within as little 
as 24 hrs (clear from Virginia) to as much as 4 days. When I was told 
her that many were leery of mailing live plants on Fridays for fear of 
the boxes languishing on some dock over the weekend, a gardening friend 
in Ohio who works for the P.O. wrote: 

"The major postal hubs work three shifts round the clock 7 days a week. 
So I shipped your babies on Saturday.  They were picked up at 5:00 pm at 
my post office and went on the plane from Columbus (our hub) at 1:00 am 
that night. They got to your hub (Denver) on Sunday afternoon and were 
sorted by 2:00 am to the driver who delivers to your post office and 
then on to your carriers for Monday delivery. Haven't you every noticed 
that you get twice as much mail on Mondays? All we do is b*tch and moan 
on Mondays because of the double load. Tuesdays after a Monday Holiday 
are even worse as three days of mail shows up and has to go out. Now you 
know. Spread the word. Ship when you want. The only time I would suggest 
holding would be in freezing weather with a holiday. Dock workers don't 
always have space for the plants and animals in a heated space so 
animals of course get preference."

So I doubt the "outgoing" bottleneck is actually your local P.O., more 
likely a combination of the connection from your local to the your hub & 
from there to your customer's hub & *their* local P.O. Make sense?

The other thing this friend clued me into is that the P.O. hands out 
free boxes for Priority Mail, which are nice & sturdy & the largest 2 
are just about right for sending, say, 6 or a dozen rhizomes.

Marte in the mtns	Zone 4/Sunset 1 Evergreen, Colorado -- where a 
cool breeze is blowing following this afternoon's short but welcome rain 
after a blazing hot day!
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