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Michigan Commerce - Airsoft Guns Allowed / Re: Shipping guide
« on: April 25, 2015, 08:12:01 AM »
I just wanted to note here my personal experience with USPS. I recently had my barrel sent out to Airsoft Advances in Ohio. He used USPS for return shipping. What would have taken 1-2 days to arrive via UPS took almost 3 weeks with USPS First Class (their equivalent to UPS Ground). The package was stuck in Cincinnati, at first I thought the package was lost and they told me they won't look for lost packages until 21 days after its been missing !!! I filed a report and eventually my package made it to me about 2.5 weeks late. With First Class they wait for a truck to be full before they send it out. If that truck takes 2 weeks to fill up with other packages, sucks to be you. Moral of the story is ALWAYS use 2-3 day priority shipping with USPS or use UPS. Personally I'll always request UPS in the future. Within most of MI and parts of the Midwest UPS ground is actually overnight delivery. You can see a map of UPS Ground delivery times here...
http://www.ups.com/maps/.
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TL;DR: Never use USPS First class.
http://www.ups.com/maps/.
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TL;DR: Never use USPS First class.