Yes it is taking longer & longer. They keep blaming stuff on Covid but I no longer believe that. Reminds me that I have to check on something I sent Certified just to be sure they got it.

Paid a premium for 2-3 day priority service recently, but it took exactly 6 days to arrive at the other end, should of just paid the $.55 for regular postage (or maybe not, considering your dilemma).

Sometimes they do.  I've had mail from Belgium and it tooks months to get here!

I have not had problems like that with my mail. But you did mail it awfully close to election day.

They may have been mistaken for ballots .... check your local dump. 😲

I've always been a fan of the USPS - I know some very hard workers there and I've always (well until recently) had great service and delivery times. But I do have to say the last three or so months they have been very unreliable. A package I've been waiting for has been stuck in "in transport to next location" status since 12/27. I just put in a claim this week and wow, look at that, it's supposed to arrive tomorrow. There's a lot of mail stuck in limboland at the moment.

Not that I know of.

The USPS has been unreliable for many, many years now.  This is just icing on the cake.

Wow, Will!  That seems very strange!

It appears that we can no longer rely upon delivery times.

Will,,

Our post office is doing a great job.  I have heard about this however. A

I have not done any volume mailings like you have, Will Hamm, so I have nothing with which to make a comparison

I know they're working hard as I see mail trucks out quite early and quite late... 

Mail up here is horrific too. We received a Christmas card last Friday that was mailed the beginning of Dec. a month and a half later for a card!!

It's been on the network news for weeks.  the USPS is still backlogued from holiday mail, and it may still be weeks before they work their way through it.

I had delivered them to high exposure locations. No mail stoppage.

Sorry to hear this Will, next year it may be better to deliver them yourself.

You picked the worst possible time during this Covid experience.
The USPS is overwhelmed....but it gets worse.
USPS has a last in first out system. If your stuff has not been delivered it is on the bottom of the mountiain of undelivered.  There is no PROJECTION from the USPS when they will ever see the bottom of pile.
Now you have reason to make a personal contact with those on your list. If only you had a stack of calendars you could deliver in person.

I actually ordered stuff from Home Depot, Mystic tool and directly from China. It is shameful to admit and share with you which one actually arrived first and complete. HomeDepot was second but instead of T-track I receive 20, 1inchx48 inch sanding belts. I am not sure how to count that.
Mystic may have abscounded with my money.
What did I order from China?  A 48inch, indexed, calbrated miter gauge fence with fixture rail. $280 from Incra $59 from China. And all the hand touch controls are BRASS not plastic. So far I am liking my new tool.

My son mailed his Christmas cards in early December. We live 5 city blocks away. Waiting for its arrival. Wrote it off as a loss!

Mail is extremely slow and unreliable right now! 

Yes I have noticed more delays, and shipping of packages has suffered.