Won an auction on 11/24. Purchased a money order and mailed payment with FFL on 11/28. Itinerary
Accepted 11/28. Flat rate envelope.
Estimated Delivery date 12/2 to Manchester, NH.
12/1 Montgomery, Al
12/2 Bessermer,AL
12/3 Calhoun,Tn
12/3 Pulaski, Va.
12/3 Springfield, Ma.
12/4 Nashua, Nh
12/4 Palmetto, GA
12/4 Nashua, Nh
12/4 Merrimack, Nh
12/4 Manchester, Nh Delivery location.
12/7 Nashua, Nh
12/9 in transit to next facility. ??
Delivered today 12/11 at 2:00 pm.
Auction will return the money order to me.
Today contacted auction and paid
By credit card. Contacted my FFL to send copy their FFL by email.
Contacted Post office 35 minutes on line. They will put a trap on it and contact me in 3 days for an update.

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Par for the course.

I've had consistently good experience with USPS Priority Mail over many years.

Sorry about your disappointments.

This is one reason the Postal Service is loosing so much money because of its inefficency. .........drill sgt.

Your money order got frequent flier miles!

My kid sent me a card from Salem OR to MQT.
12 days to get here. The Pony Express averaged 10 days... on horseback!

Yeah I will never use a Priority Mail envelope again.

Last one I did was also for firearm purchase. Going from Eastern NY to just inside PA. 3+ hour drive if I'd delivered it myself. First it went Michigan? Maybe Wisconsin? I don't remember which. Then it came all the way back to eastern PA. Took a week.

USPS generally does an OK job but could definitely improve on delivery times. I sent a package from my home in PA to another location in PA which was only about a to hour drive and it took over two weeks to be delivered. I could have walked it there faster.

The good news is at least your money order isn't lost :-)

I stopped using the envelopes maybe two years ago. Everything now goes in the small priority box. The drawback to the box, if you’re going to a company, is it will most likely end up on the receiving dock. Even so, I’ve only had one long varied stops delivery since I switched.

Delivered today 12/11 at 2pm

The last few small packages I've had shipped to me normally gets hit with a delay for several days before picking back up in the system. It's why now I'll pay the extra for either FedEx or UPS even if it costs more.

This time of year mail often ends up in a black hole. A few of mine are hanging near Milwaukee now.

^^^No joke! Yesterday, we received a letter from the local water utility that was sent 11/14/2025; 28 days to send a letter 6 miles.

I order Priority mail LIVE crickets from Louisiana for my lizards. What used to be a 4-day trip, Louisiana to Arizona has now been 2-WEEKS! Yes, most of the crickets are DOA.

We send regular mail packages to family in So-cal and they get there in 2-days.

And even better, we get the neighbors mail, I take it to their mailbox and in their box is their neighbors mail...domino affect.

And even better, a package was said to be delivered to our mailbox. Never got it. Went to Post Office and they said "picture" of package and MY mailbox was in the system showing it as delivered. I asked to see picture and they refused. AND, how do they know it is my mailbox when there are no address numbers on the front of my mailbox for them to take a picture of?

I dont think it will get better...

I've got one of those, for something I sold to someone in mid November. Incredible.
Guy has been pretty chill about it!

Look how many times this bounced back and forth from IL to WA!!!

Delivered, Garage / Other Door / Other Location at Address
PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368 
December 11, 2025, 10:15 am

Out for Delivery
PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368 
December 11, 2025, 6:10 am

Arrived at Post Office
PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368 
December 11, 2025, 3:34 am

Arrived at USPS Facility
PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368 
December 11, 2025, 3:23 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility
TACOMA WA DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 10, 2025, 9:36 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
TACOMA WA DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 10, 2025, 7:39 pm

Departed USPS Regional Facility
SEATTLE WA DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 10, 2025, 7:15 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
SEATTLE WA DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 9, 2025, 11:23 pm

In Transit to Next Facility
9-Dec-25

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
CHICAGO IL DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 7, 2025, 12:47 pm

Departed USPS Regional Facility
FOX VALLEY IL DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 7, 2025, 11:37 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
FOX VALLEY IL DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 6, 2025, 4:17 pm

Departed USPS Regional Facility
CHICAGO IL LOGISTICS CENTER 
December 6, 2025, 4:02 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
CHICAGO IL LOGISTICS CENTER 
December 6, 2025, 11:31 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility
SEATTLE WA DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 4, 2025, 6:28 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
SEATTLE WA DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
December 1, 2025, 10:35 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
CHICAGO IL DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
November 29, 2025, 11:37 am

In Transit to Next Facility
November 29, 2025, 9:27 am

In Transit to Next Facility
November 28, 2025, 7:45 pm

In Transit to Next Facility
November 28, 2025, 6:26 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
SEATTLE WA DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
November 26, 2025, 1:37 am

Arrived at USPS Facility
AURORA, CO 80018 
November 24, 2025, 3:30 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility
DALLAS TX LOGISTICS CENTER 
November 23, 2025, 2:59 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
DALLAS TX LOGISTICS CENTER 
November 23, 2025, 11:33 am

In Transit to Next Facility
November 22, 2025, 2:13 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility
JACKSON MS DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
November 22, 2025, 1:37 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
JACKSON MS DISTRIBUTION CENTER 
November 21, 2025, 5:43 pm

Come on guys, the USPS is at the top of their game and anyone that bashes them just doesn't understand how underpaid and overworked the employees are Quit being big, mean, meanies!

If my wife could find a way to block access to the USPS tracking URL at our router, she would. Just to preserve my health.

From the range and volume of my profanity, she can now tell when inbound Priority Mail items are going round & round in the "Our local PO : PHL Regional Distrbution" vortex, two miles and 30 respectively.

Every. Time.

Adjusted for inflation a First Class mailing costs more than twice what it cost in 1925. Local delivery times have also more than doubled in the same period, despite modernization. I am just a poor corrupt official, but I'm pretty sure this isn't how it's supposed to work.

Sometimes I use Priority Express with money back guarantee - I get refunds about half the time.