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In reply to the discussion: Is the US Postal Service Biased Against Atheists? Check Out This Study [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)1.- The USPS is moving to tracking all packages.
2.- Any packet with writing on it, Adidas, Nike, Atheist Shoes, the automated system at the processing plant will kick it out from the automated system. This is why the USPS asks for plain packets.
Now for these packages. The first in the US to handle them is not the USPS but US Customs, which is slow, with the sequester even more so.
Then they go to Philadelphia, on the East Coast that is the initial processing center, where the system will kick it, with Adidas, Nike and Handle with Care because the machine can't read it. This delays it by a day. Then it goes into a plane and onto De Moines, San Diego what have you, add two to three more days if Hawaii or Alaska, where once again the machine kicks it out with the Nike, Handle with Care, Adidas and Gamesa boxes, again that is another day.
So from Germany, two to three days, German Customs, two to three days then US Customs, a week on a good day, then the added kicks from machines, and processing down to your mail box...two weeks would be short, three to six not unheard from.
Yup, my husband is one of the people that company is accusing of tampering with the mail. They got good evidence, they should contact the FBI or the postal inspector. Tampering with the mail is a federal offense punishable with both fines and jail time.