SSS Insignia Orders and the United States Postal ?Service?

[Two Flints]

Hello SSS,

As soon as I get an order for an insignia(s), and after returning from the post office, which is 10 miles away, I sit right down and prepare the envelope with the insignias inside for mailing the very next day. 

It's up to USPS to get the insignias to you within a reasonable amount of time, and it's also up to them to get your orders to me within a reasonable amount of time.  So if there is a delay either way, it's really not my fault, you've just gotta be patient with them (USPS).

By the way, I'm still taking orders for insignias!

Thanks,

Two Flints

[Two Flints]

Hi SSS,

There is no consistency in mail delivery.  One member of SSS sent me an insignia order from Baltimore, Maryland, and it took a little over two weeks for his envelope to reach me here in Patten, Maine.  I sent the insignias to him the very next day on Tuesday, September 26, and I received an Email from him this morning that they had been received on Thursday - just two days later   Go figure!

A postal clerk weighed my envelopes each containing 1, 2, and 3 insignias to predetermine the postage required for each different weighted envelope containing insignias.  One of my "correctly" weighed envelopes was just returned to me stamped, "insufficient postage".  It has been resent with double the postage.

Trials and tribulations of the United States Postal System...and then there is the time I completed an on-line purchase of a 2000 S&W Schofield for a very, very, good price, and the buyer was waiting for my USPS money order to arrive...and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...finally after 3 weeks of waiting, he sold the Schofield to someone else.  Couldn't really blame him; he had been more than patient enough with me.  Three months later, he calls to say my payment had just arrived!  The seller sent the money order back to me and I ended up getting my 2000 Schofield, but from someone else, but it ended up costing me more money!

Two Flints

[Major 2]

Been there... I sold a pair of holsters , cashed the guys MO. and sent the Holsters USPS,
what was suppose to be 3 day was in fact 2 weeks.
Fortunately the buyer was both elated with his holsters and glad they arrived ( having paid for them )

I suppose that give cadence to the joke ....

" What does the USPS have in common with Thom McCan Shoes ?

..... 20,000 loafers ....

I suspect as fact,  my copy of Gun's of The Old West is well read before I ever get it , sometimes a week or so after it hits the newstand 

[Grapeshot]

just to emphasize the weird way the postal service works, I sent a letter, with a SSAE in it, to Lubbock, Texas on the 25thof Sept 2006.  I received a reply, in that SSAE, today, the 30th of Sept 2006.

That is the Fastest I have ever seen the US Mail get letters from point A to Point B and back again.

[Forty Rod]

I sent a money order to Crazy Crow for some stuffon Tuesday and they e-mailed me on Thursday saying it had arrived and the order had already been sent to me.  I had to pinch myself.  Last time it was 19 days round trip for a similar order.