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There is now almost no tracking from USPS. Furthermore delivery times have increased so much that you can walk to another city buy the parts in a bike shop at full cost and walk home and get your parts faster and cheaper.

I won an Ebay auction a month ago and the components hasn't even been shown as having left Great Britain yet.

The plastic tire jack by Var from an American supplier that will fit inside of a small mailing envelope is in stock but shows a delivery time of June 1. The shipping cost is more than the cost of the lever.

Even Craigslist parts are now often from retail suppliers and can only be had by mail delivery. I thought that was supposed to be against the rules of Craigslist?

Time to go for a ride. The Sun finally came out a little.

On 4/10/2020 3:13 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
There is now almost no tracking from USPS. Furthermore delivery times have increased so much that you can walk to another city buy the parts in a bike shop at full cost and walk home and get your parts faster and cheaper.

I won an Ebay auction a month ago and the components hasn't even been shown as having left Great Britain yet.

The plastic tire jack by Var from an American supplier that will fit inside of a small mailing envelope is in stock but shows a delivery time of June 1. The shipping cost is more than the cost of the lever.

Even Craigslist parts are now often from retail suppliers and can only be had by mail delivery. I thought that was supposed to be against the rules of Craigslist?

Time to go for a ride. The Sun finally came out a little.


You have troubles?
Everybody has troubles:

https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/s...worker-robbery

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Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 2:47:54 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 4/10/2020 3:13 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
There is now almost no tracking from USPS. Furthermore delivery times have increased so much that you can walk to another city buy the parts in a bike shop at full cost and walk home and get your parts faster and cheaper.

I won an Ebay auction a month ago and the components hasn't even been shown as having left Great Britain yet.

The plastic tire jack by Var from an American supplier that will fit inside of a small mailing envelope is in stock but shows a delivery time of June 1. The shipping cost is more than the cost of the lever.

Even Craigslist parts are now often from retail suppliers and can only be had by mail delivery. I thought that was supposed to be against the rules of Craigslist?

Time to go for a ride. The Sun finally came out a little.


You have troubles?
Everybody has troubles:

https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/s...worker-robbery

My problems aren't a case of robbery. Despite some unsavory characters living in the neighborhood they steer well clear of me.

My problems are that package tracking has almost entirely ceased from Great Britain and Japan. Also delivery times have slowed almost to a stop. Three weeks to have some innertubes delivered off of Amazon? Two month guess for delivery from Taiwan? And again, no tracking to give you any idea what they are doing?

On 4/11/2020 10:47 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 2:47:54 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 4/10/2020 3:13 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
There is now almost no tracking from USPS. Furthermore delivery times have increased so much that you can walk to another city buy the parts in a bike shop at full cost and walk home and get your parts faster and cheaper.

I won an Ebay auction a month ago and the components hasn't even been shown as having left Great Britain yet.

The plastic tire jack by Var from an American supplier that will fit inside of a small mailing envelope is in stock but shows a delivery time of June 1. The shipping cost is more than the cost of the lever.

Even Craigslist parts are now often from retail suppliers and can only be had by mail delivery. I thought that was supposed to be against the rules of Craigslist?

Time to go for a ride. The Sun finally came out a little.


You have troubles?
Everybody has troubles:

https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/s...worker-robbery

My problems aren't a case of robbery. Despite some unsavory characters living in the neighborhood they steer well clear of me.

My problems are that package tracking has almost entirely ceased from Great Britain and Japan. Also delivery times have slowed almost to a stop. Three weeks to have some innertubes delivered off of Amazon? Two month guess for delivery from Taiwan? And again, no tracking to give you any idea what they are doing?


Which is also manifest in dramatic surcharges for all
classes of service at UPS/FedEx. There are no open air
cargo slots since airplanes are mostly not flying. The
capacity gets pushed down the system such that everything is
filled all the time right now. Not enough space, not enough
drivers, not enough vehicles and so on.

No matter what service you chose, a very large component of
freight capacity is that extra ULD or two or more in every
airliner, times thousands of flights per day both domestic
and international. USA alone normally has something just
short of 50,000 flights per day, every day. Now it's
anemically lower.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 9:25:00 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 4/11/2020 10:47 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 2:47:54 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 4/10/2020 3:13 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
There is now almost no tracking from USPS. Furthermore delivery times have increased so much that you can walk to another city buy the parts in a bike shop at full cost and walk home and get your parts faster and cheaper.

On 4/11/2020 12:04 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 9:25:00 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 4/11/2020 10:47 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 2:47:54 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 4/10/2020 3:13 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
There is now almost no tracking from USPS. Furthermore delivery times have increased so much that you can walk to another city buy the parts in a bike shop at full cost and walk home and get your parts faster and cheaper.

I won an Ebay auction a month ago and the components hasn't even been shown as having left Great Britain yet.

The plastic tire jack by Var from an American supplier that will fit inside of a small mailing envelope is in stock but shows a delivery time of June 1. The shipping cost is more than the cost of the lever.

Even Craigslist parts are now often from retail suppliers and can only be had by mail delivery. I thought that was supposed to be against the rules of Craigslist?

Time to go for a ride. The Sun finally came out a little.


You have troubles?
Everybody has troubles:

https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/s...worker-robbery

My problems aren't a case of robbery. Despite some unsavory characters living in the neighborhood they steer well clear of me.

My problems are that package tracking has almost entirely ceased from Great Britain and Japan. Also delivery times have slowed almost to a stop. Three weeks to have some innertubes delivered off of Amazon? Two month guess for delivery from Taiwan? And again, no tracking to give you any idea what they are doing?


Which is also manifest in dramatic surcharges for all
classes of service at UPS/FedEx. There are no open air
cargo slots since airplanes are mostly not flying. The
capacity gets pushed down the system such that everything is
filled all the time right now. Not enough space, not enough
drivers, not enough vehicles and so on.

No matter what service you chose, a very large component of
freight capacity is that extra ULD or two or more in every
airliner, times thousands of flights per day both domestic
and international. USA alone normally has something just
short of 50,000 flights per day, every day. Now it's
anemically lower.


It had never occurred to me that commercial aircraft are carrying USPS but I suppose that must be the case. Though the FedEX aircraft and depot is at the Oakland Airport, I can't remember a USPS type of operation.


FedEx and UPS do own their own cargo planes but rely to a
great extent on the cargo space of commercial airliners on
an 'as available' basis for the bulk of freight. Cancel
those, and the entire system has difficulty functioning, as
we see.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On 4/11/2020 12:24 PM, AMuzi wrote:

No matter what service you chose, a very large component of freight
capacity is that extra ULD or two or more in every airliner, times
thousands of flights per day both domestic and international.Â* USA alone
normally has something just short of 50,000 flights per day, every day.
Now it's anemically lower.

Whether relevant or not, during the last few blue sky days, my wife and
I have noticed an almost total absence of contrails in the sky.

--
- Frank Krygowski