Holiday Rush Delays

are there others here having delayed shipment problems due to the christmas season rush? i have sent parcels to a couple of fellow collectors and as far as i know, they havent received their respective packages yet, and same case with a collector based in europe who sent a couple of parcels to me and i havent received them yet. the worries/anxiety is nightmarish and is killing me.

i am waiting on a parcel form germany but at this time of the year i expect that, but i did order a game from australia which arrived today just 4 days later which is really fast to the uk even stuff from uk to uk can take longer than that.

Oh yes, it's terribly frustrating isn't it? None of the packages I've sent or received recently have arrived on time. I paid for Priority on all of my last boxes and all arrived very late and/or went way off track (I sent a box to a friend only a few hours from me, it skipped over her city and went to another below her, then went eastward to a different state and finally back to her over a span of three days, I paid for 1-day Priority). I sent a box to a bordering state, paid 3-day Priority. Took 7 days total. Doesn't help to complain since you won't get your money back - was told by the local post office that Priority is no different than any other shipping service, it's just a fancy name and another way for the post office to make money. No guarantees whatsoever. The only time you'll ever get a guarantee is if you use "Priority Express" which you have to pay an arm and a leg for. It's bad enough not having the packages arrive on time, but some of these boxes I sent had perishable items in them, and they took way too long to get there!

Yep, all postal systems (including private company parcel deliveries) are snowed under at present.

However things can go astray any time of year. Back in October I sent a parcel to a fellow member in Italy - and it went via Latvia! He did get it OK after a couple of weeks.
Alphabetically, Latvia is just after Italy of the EU countries, so I guess it fell into the wrong bag at the UK international sorting depot.

Tell me about it XD I'm working in customer service of a big online shope which name begins with A (no names) - now about 99% of all contacts are about delayed/lost parcels

Christmas is worst time to order/send anything.

i really dont mind the delays anymore as long as they arrive at all (both ways)...

Nasty feeling indeed, - the fear of all collectors !!!

I think the post-businesses have to take in un-experienced, temporary help !
Even more this year, - at least in Denmark the E-shopping for christmas has risen to unpredicted high levels, - about 30 % higer than ever before !!!