frustrating, priority mail tracking!

[chkinut]

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great question! that misleads us....if it's called a tracking number, and you get an email that says you can track you package by this particular number...then i feel that i should be able to track it.
oh, one out of 3 shipments of eggs made it today. i'm sure the other 2 will be here tomorrow. great looking eggs! very dark! no breaks, so i'm happy. i can't wait to get the rest here safely.

 

[Katy]

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great question! that misleads us....if it's called a tracking number, and you get an email that says you can track you package by this particular number...then i feel that i should be able to track it.
oh, one out of 3 shipments of eggs made it today. i'm sure the other 2 will be here tomorrow. great looking eggs! very dark! no breaks, so i'm happy. i can't wait to get the rest here safely.

When I ship eggs the reciept that I get calls it a delivery confirmation number......nothing about it being a tracking number. I get it only as a safeguard to show I shipped the eggs and whether or not the buyer recieved them.

 

[pamperedpoultry]

I know the feeling I sent out 2 packages of eggs on 12/4 one package was delivered on 12/6, the other however is still missing and has yet to be updated on the system. I wish with eggs their were actual tracking # instead of just delivery confirmation

 

[BooBear]

Express is the only way you will be given a guarentee that the shipment will arrive on time. USPS does not guarentee Priority mail.
My Silkie eggs took 7 days to get to me. I now know to ask the seller to ship eggs by Express.

 

[yanmar1610d]

Just like it was stated in another posting ("and they wonder why they are going Broke?”). I just had my first two shipments of eggs sent to me that I purchased off of E-Bay. Both were shipped using USPS Priority Mail, what a joke!! One shipment came from North Georgia and the other from Kentucky. I am located in Southeast Georgia. The shipment from Georgia was updated daily until I got the eggs at my backdoor. The Shipment from KY was updated once, the day before it was delivered to my house. The eggs from Ky. took two days longer than the normal 3-day shipment that the Post Office normally does. On the tracking data it showed that the eggs set in the Post Office in KY for two days before being shipped out. If these boxes had been shipped by UPS or FEDEX, I would have gotten updates at least once a day about the status of the shipment. Oh, but not with USPS, maybe someone in our Government will get enough about them to totally Privatize the USPS. Bet it would be run a whole lot better.

It was very very cold this week I just hope the eggs hatch out. They set outside for quite a few hours before I got home from work. They are in the incubator now due to hatch on Jan 1, 2011.

 

[BooBear]

Are you hatching with Mahroni? He has the new year contest going for hatches.

 

[Lifesong Farm]

We got our eggs today. I hope they hatch. They were really cold.

Out of curiosity I called Fed Ex and they DO accept eggs for shipping. For those who are sick of using USPS I would ask if they could be shipped Fed Ex. You as the buyer are paying for it.

 

[chkinut]

how do you pay for it if you buy your eggs off ebay, and the payment included the $13 shipping? do you go back through paypal and make an extra payment to that person to get the FedEx? i just took the $13 shipping cuz i thought that's how the seller had it set up, and that was my only choice. i'd like to know how to pay for FedEx for future eggs. i see eggs almost as important as shipping live chicks.

 

[Lifesong Farm]

You can try and contact the seller. If they won't then even if you are the one paying...

I know after all the horror stories I have seen and the inability to track your shipment, I will use fedex when I start shipping.

 

[galanie]

Fedex next day costs more than Priority Mail. The reason is, Priority Mail is not guaranteed next day or even second day delivery. If you want guaranteed Next Day or even second day delivery with a tracking number, then USPS Express Mail is the best deal around IMO.

Also, if you check the charges the shipper is quoting for shipping, then look at what it actually costs them, you may be surprised. I ran across someone on eBay just today that was selling something for 99 cents and charging $14 for shipping, when said shipping method costs them less than $4 via USPS.

I check those shipping charges before I finalize the order, and if they are out of line, then I don't order. I've known people that sell things online and made the bulk of their money on inflated shipping charges rather than on the product.