Please stop using Ground Advantage

Dr. Kralenstein said:

How much of an advantage is it really? You save like 4 bucks on shipping, but the package ends up taking almost a month to get to the destination. It's ridiculous.

I refuse to use the post office for shipping items now vs a year ago I actually recommended them. My items have also been getting damaged by them vs the other 2 major carriers. They are about worthless when trying to file a claim or any follow ups to said claims.

I can't be the only one who's had issues with this service. How has your experience been?

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i only send priority mail, with signature required when using usps.

Ive probably used it atleast a hundred times with only one issue. It can save a decent amount of money on some items. My higher priced items go priority usually. Some have terrible luck with USPS but I’ve been lucky.

Dr. Kralenstein said:

How much of an advantage is it really? You save like 4 bucks on shipping, but the package ends up taking almost a month to get to the destination. It's ridiculous.

I refuse to use the post office for shipping items now vs a year ago I actually recommended them. My items have also been getting damaged by them vs the other 2 major carriers. They are about worthless when trying to file a claim or any follow ups to said claims.

I can't be the only one who's had issues with this service. How has your experience been?

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I just recently shipped a package to HI using Ground Advantage and it was there in 5 days.

No problems with it here, hundreds of packages and no issues.

I recently sold several guns and shipped the first 3 using priority mail. All 3 were over 10 days late. I shipped the next 3 using advantage. 2 of them were early and the 3rd was 14 days late. I dislike using USPS but UPS is over twice the cost here and FedEx will not ship them.

I 'll just keep using USPS but give any buyer the option for Priority or Ground Adv and I always ship insured in case of loss. BTW, last time I checked a couple of years ago, USPS does not consider it lost enough to start a case until the package is 18 days past due.

Make sure you insure any packages with contents worth more than $100 at the ups store. They just lost a package of mine before it ever got to ups I sued and the judgment was for them and I’m out an $1100 gun!

No problem with it here as well.
Maybe it’s Karma

Ship with usps all the time. Only once have I had a problem, but it was resolved.

I just had a Trade here and sent a Scoped well packaged and the other party sent Me Pellets. Both shipped USPS and both arrived safely and undamaged. It's a 100 Mi round trip to go UPS. lol

Check out pirate ship or shippo. It’s free to create an account and both have great ups rates. Generally they are cheaper than usps even.

Ive used it a bunch and my stuff always gets there same time as priority at most a day later.

I've had multiple bad shipping and receiving experiences with FedEx and UPS, but not USPS. By the way, last time I checked USPS considers air pistols to be firearms, so will only ship them to FFLs. Interestingly enough, they don't consider air rifles to be firearms.

But regardless which shipper you use, if you don't package the contents in such way as to make it virtually impossible for gorillas to destroy the contents you'll likely regret it.

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Some folks just like to complain

It’s in their nature

Amen Nobody or no business is perfect Love my USPS one of a kind but not perfect

I use USPS Priority. I once had a package delivered in 2 days to the East Coast. Most will arrive in 3-5 days. Parcel post is the worst, took almost 2 months to arrive.