Best time to buy books

Pasbal
Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:39:33 +0000

Not everyone will. Often it’s only a day or two slower than First Class Mail. However, if you are shipping something from the northwest to Florida, it can take 2-3 weeks to receive. In fact, when I bought one of my Fall textbooks a few weeks ago it took 3 weeks to get the book.

One of my summer textbooks shipped from Atlanta and took 11 days for me to receive, because of how the USPS has spaced out their facilities for Media Mail (as stupid as it is, Atlanta doesn’t have a facility for Media Mail items. The closest to there is in Memphis, and the only one in north Florida is in Jacksonville).

If you need a book quickly though, you might as well pony up the extra $4 or so to get it upgraded to Priority Mail instead. It’s almost always worth it.