<p>Okay, I just mailed a package for the first time in my life at about 11 AM today (Tues), and I had it sent Priority Mail, which I was told would take “2-3 days.” Umm, does the day I mailed it count as one of those days? When should I reasonably expect me friend to get her gift? Thursday? Friday? Saturday? Next week? Also, I got tracking, but when I looked online tonight there was no record… Should it be in the “system” after being picked up today?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>In most cases, it’s 2-day delivery, beginning on the mail date if mailed by 4 or 5 p.m. Mailed by 5 on Monday, delivered on Wednesday. Depending on the zip code you send from/to, it could take a max of 3 days. I send to my D from east coast to west coast and it is 3 days.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>MT to CO, mailed Tuesday at 11, so I’m guessing that would be two days… (Thursday/Friday at the latest?)?</p>
<p>It varies. I mailed two priority mail boxes last week on Saturday. One went to DD who received it on Monday (across the country). The other went to DS who got it on Wednesday (all the way south but on the same coast). Go figure.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the location. </p>
<p>For example, suburban Boston to suburban LA is only a day or two, but I suspect if I were sending from a small town in the midwest to the same in Montana it would take longer.</p>
<p>The USPS only updates their system once every 24 hours, so there is a lag in being able to track your package.</p>
<p>I think you can go on the USPS post office and see from zip code to zip code how long it will take Priority Mail.<br>
fendrock - I think you are right - it depends if the sending or receiving zip code is really rural.
It should definitly arrive Thurs or Friday.</p>
<p>Priority mail boxes make it from Cleveland (a city) to Austin Texas (a city) in two days. A long way apart but two “cities” - I think that is what helps. I love fixed rate priority mail boxes!!!</p>
<p>Don’t know the timing of shipping and arrival, but here is a good website for comparing shipping/mailing rates and options: [ShipGooder:</a> Courier Rate Search, Shipping Rate Search for FedEx, UPS, DHL and the United States Postal Service](<a href=“Agen Judi Slot Online Gacor Pragmatic Play Terbesar di Indonesia”>http://www.shipgooder.com/)</p>
<p>I just tstick with US mail - gets there and is almost always cheaper.</p>
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<p>you can’t beat them!<br>
When my daughter was in Alabama last year, I would go to the grocery store and buy her goodies. Granola bars, crackers, cookies, dried fruit. Stop at the post office on my way home and stuff one of those boxes full! Throw in a magazine or a movie or two and that was one happy kid!</p>
<p>In my experience - USPS is a good deal but their estimate of days to arrival is just that - an estimate.</p>
<p>Whereas UPS/FedEx, you can pretty well count on their days to the letter.</p>
<p>Tracking does usually take a while to show up, as one poster said… shorter lag time to showing in the system for UPS/FedEx. But online tracking is wonderful once the item shows up in the system.</p>
<p>Agreed…fixed rate Priority mailing boxes are great. There is now a somewhat larger one. DD forgot some books (yikes) but the price is the same regardless of the weight. I just stuffed the box with a ton of goodies…it weighed a lot…but it was still a deal. And it got to her in two days coast to coast (very small town to medium city).</p>
<p>Fedex ground is remarkably less expensive than you would think. There is an online calculator that lets you see what the charge will be, and you can track day by day. Try their estimator and you’ll be surprised at how inexpensively you can ship something. </p>
<p>USPS often says its just been introduced to the system and it shows up at the other end with no intervening info.</p>
<p>I think the fixed rate priority boxes is something the USPS got right. I love how easy it is to use 'em. Stuff it, tape it, slap on my self stick mailing label and leave it on the counter at the local PO with $13 sitting on top and I don’t even have to wait in line! From my west coast small town if I get the box to the post office early enough to make it on the truck that leaves at 11am it makes it to my son in Boston by 2pm the second day, -unless I mail on Friday when it takes until Monday. I’m sure as winter approaches weather will cause delays…</p>
<p>Well, the gift arrived Thursday (9/25)… but my friend haven’t even bothered to go to the ****ing post office to pick it up!!! 
I spent all my time and money getting and mailing and autographed book, and she doesn’t even care enough to pick it up??? Wow, I’m really, really hurt!</p>