So shipping to Alaska always sucks; usually expensive and takes forever. Shipment tracking is always frustrating. Watching it and it's no wonder why the USPS is always losing money.

A few years ago I ordered a Copper River Fleece jacket. Tracked the shipping it went from Cordove, Alaska to Juneau to Seattle and then Anchorage. Really? 6,000 miles of travel for 2 towns that are 1,000 miles apart?

The latest, ordered a holster from Kirkpatrick Leather. Left Laredo Texas on October 29th, then it went to San Antonio, then Austin, then Dallas, up to Portland, arrived in Seattle on November 2nd with an estimated arrival in Anchorage of November 16th.

Really 2 weeks from Seattle to Anchorage? Coming up by barge?

Mad Jack and #7 are bringing it up…

Mailed a package from the East Coast to Alaska.

USPS sent it to Honolulu first.

hell I would of just brought the jacket to you when we lived in Cordova for letting me ship that winch to you!

I still feel EXTREMELY embarrassed that I dropped what I dropped by the way...

My sister's Husband was JAG at Elmendorf for 4 years. Every Christmas I had to budget at least 100 dollars for shipping and plan on getting the package sent before December 1. BTW for 2 of the 4 years the Christmas package didn't arrive until the week after Christmas.

My least favorite from my Alaska days was the unholy alliances between USPS and UPS/FEDEX. Think you're getting 2nd day delivery from UPS/FEDEX and the MF'ers would mark delivery complete when they dropped off at USPS in Washington State. USPS would deliver it to me in Alaska whenever they felt like (frequently took a week) with zero tracking.

UPS/FEDEX could've at least got it to Alaska before handing off to USPS. For example, Anchorage International Airport is one of the 10 busiest airports in US due to freight, and USPS, UPS, and FEDEX are all neighbors at ANC.

USPS in Delta Junction, Alaska (middle to late 1970"s) to the APO (army post office) at FT. Greely, Alaska less than 10 miles distance the mail would be there next day.....Ft.Greely (APO) to Delta Junction (less than 10 miles) had to go to Fairbanks, Alaska (110 miles) to Anchorage, Alaska (350 miles) to Seattle, Washington to be resorted to return to Anchorage to Fairbanks to FT,Greely which could be 7to 10 days travel time to go 10 miles........................ Also hand some personal mail as well as packages if and when it arrived had possible several large red letters stamped-- No such address in Arizona.... No such address in Arkansas...... No such address in Alabama.... But the town / state name fully spelled out as well as the zip code cleary spelled out ......Also postage / freight rates sometimes were greater than the cost of the item ordered.......................... drill sgt.

Latest is the package spent 4 days sitting in Seattle, left November 9th, schedule to arrive here n the 16th. Really? A week to go from Seattle to Anchorage?