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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: tommygun on October 28, 2012, 03:22 pm

Title: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: tommygun on October 28, 2012, 03:22 pm
Lol at the name, but in all seriousness, Hurricane Sandy is currently on course to mess up a lot of the NE.  Probably knock out a lot of power and could disrupt shipping.  Just making sure you aware if you are shipping to/from the NE as there could be delays.  Supposed to be hitting there in next 24-48hrs.  Then again it could just blow out to sea, ya never know..
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: tommygun on October 28, 2012, 05:21 pm
Doesn't impact me personally but it will millions it appears..

Gonna be a lotta power outages.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: akaijunkie on October 28, 2012, 08:06 pm
yeah..i've pretty much accepted that i'm effed in the A.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: anex45 on October 28, 2012, 08:16 pm
This is a clearnet link:

http://about.usps.com/news/service-alerts/welcome.htm
"Hurricane Sandy: The U.S. Postal Service is monitoring the course of Hurricane Sandy and taking actions to prepare facilities and employees in its projected path. As the storm makes landfall and the impacts become known, this Mailer Service Update page will be updated to keep customers advised of its impacts to USPS operations and facilities. Look here for more notices and updates as the storm makes landfall and pushes inland."
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: tommygun on October 28, 2012, 11:01 pm
This is a clearnet link:

http://about.usps.com/news/service-alerts/welcome.htm
"Hurricane Sandy: The U.S. Postal Service is monitoring the course of Hurricane Sandy and taking actions to prepare facilities and employees in its projected path. As the storm makes landfall and the impacts become known, this Mailer Service Update page will be updated to keep customers advised of its impacts to USPS operations and facilities. Look here for more notices and updates as the storm makes landfall and pushes inland."

Cool thanks for the link :) !
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: Moon Fried on October 28, 2012, 11:23 pm
Actually a bit excited, I love rainy days (when I have nothing to do). I can already tell this week is going to be a boring one, so I'm down to ride some hurricane waves.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: Skylight123 on October 29, 2012, 03:07 am
yay for sandy no school xD
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: JacobBang on October 29, 2012, 05:25 am
I'm SOOO glad I bought bulk to ride out the storm.  I can handle a power outage but not without quality weed!!!  I would hold off on ANY orders to the East Coast as a vendor.  This storm is supposed to be the worst in 100 yrs.  I've lived in the Tri-state area for many years.  It's only the last two years we EVER had so many hurricanes.  With the election coming I'm quite certain the term "Order out of Chaos" will be applied to this impending situation.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: tommygun on October 29, 2012, 07:47 pm
Hope everyone's safe in the impacted areas.. looks to be pretty bad there..
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: nitpi950 on October 29, 2012, 08:01 pm
Relevant elephant on the clear:
http://about.usps.com/news/service-alerts/welcome.htm
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: tommygun on October 29, 2012, 09:17 pm
wtf is an elephant..
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: anex45 on October 29, 2012, 10:18 pm
Well, I'm about 30 minutes from D.C. and 45 min. from Baltimore and the mailman just delivered the mail around 5:30pm, was very late but he still delivered. USPS is running like normal in my area, you can also call their national employee hotline to check to see about any service interruptions.

One thing about USPS is that they keep running through it all and only shutdown certain areas if they literally can't get to them.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: bear paw on October 29, 2012, 10:22 pm
hey anex45 what does it mean when it says USPS fedex isnt running?? like on that link you sent us here it says no fedex or something like that does that mean no packages and only envelope mail?
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: anex45 on October 29, 2012, 10:35 pm
hey anex45 what does it mean when it says USPS fedex isnt running?? like on that link you sent us here it says no fedex or something like that does that mean no packages and only envelope mail?

I'm not sure to be honest, I know Fedex handles priority and express package shipping for USPS so I'm unsure how those packages are going to be effected. I imagine USPS is doing everything they can to get em to us though. I have 1 Express package I'm tracking to see what route it's going to take to get here.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: nitpi950 on October 29, 2012, 10:40 pm
wtf is an elephant..
like, a word that pseudo-rhymes with "relevant." bro
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: anex45 on October 31, 2012, 08:07 pm
Just an update for all the eastcoasters...I received both of my USPS Express packages today (a day late) so Fedex has resumed flights to most East Coast airports (Fedex does the transportation for USPS when it comes to priority and express packages). I believe that New York's airport is still not accepting flights, but almost all the other airports effected by hurricane Sandy should be transporting mail again.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: trainfour20 on October 31, 2012, 08:12 pm
awesome man, thanks for the info... I'm sort of affected by Sandy...Im a little more north.  Thought we would've gotten it bad today... Yesterday had some rain and some heavy winds...lightning that set fires and stuff.... Lots of flooding down south though... fuck you Sandy you dirty bitch!! >:( 

I hope mail is on track though...we'll find out tomorrow i guess! :D
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: anex45 on October 31, 2012, 09:29 pm
awesome man, thanks for the info... I'm sort of affected by Sandy...Im a little more north.  Thought we would've gotten it bad today... Yesterday had some rain and some heavy winds...lightning that set fires and stuff.... Lots of flooding down south though... fuck you Sandy you dirty bitch!! >:( 

I hope mail is on track though...we'll find out tomorrow i guess! :D

The mail should be on track, both of my packages were at a stand still while Fedex suspended their USPS package transportation to the major airports but now that they have resumed it looks like most areas are getting mail at their normal rate.

I'm close to D.C. and Baltimore and we got some heavy rain and wind but nothing to serious...and mail wise my packages were only delayed by 1 day. People talk a lot of shit about USPS but USPS is damn good about still operating/delivering during major storms.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: nwportlandguy on November 01, 2012, 03:35 am
I have a package from montreal that always goes through nyc before heading my way.  I think it's only a day behind, as well.  I do think the usps is really amazing.  some offices suck, but my local ones are top- notch!  I love my mailman, LOL!
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: anex45 on November 01, 2012, 05:40 pm
I have a package from montreal that always goes through nyc before heading my way.  I think it's only a day behind, as well.  I do think the usps is really amazing.  some offices suck, but my local ones are top- notch!  I love my mailman, LOL!

Yeah man, I live next to a major sorting center and a major airport so I always get my packages really fast and I can't remember the last time I had a lost package from USPS. The 2 packages I were waiting on were only delayed by 1 day during the hurricane but as soon as they hit my postal office they had workers immediately bringing them to my house!
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: jack2324 on November 01, 2012, 06:26 pm
I have a package coming from SE Asia (first one ever) and I'm worried that Sandy may have put it even farther behind schedule  >:(
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: anex45 on November 01, 2012, 09:18 pm
I have a package coming from SE Asia (first one ever) and I'm worried that Sandy may have put it even farther behind schedule  >:(

I wouldn't worry about it, they've done a pretty good job of getting everything back to normal shipping times since the hurricane...your package probably won't be delayed that much (except for maybe the regular times where customs can sometimes take forever to process a package...but that's normal). The packages I have ordered from Asia usually reach me on the East Coast in about 3 weeks...sometimes less.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: tommygun on November 02, 2012, 01:05 am
Pretty amazing that USPS can recover that quickly.  Really hope USPS stays around!
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: anex45 on November 02, 2012, 02:33 am
Pretty amazing that USPS can recover that quickly.  Really hope USPS stays around!

+1, my mail man was at my door before the priority overnight fedex trucks had even entered the neighborhood lol.
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: microRNA on November 02, 2012, 11:18 am
i too had an order traveling through sandy and was worried it might be delayed in a huge puddle or dark room somewhere

thankfully, and honestly surprisingly, it still arrived in the standard 2-3 day shipping window as usual

and people say the post is unreliable, that is quality service if you ask me 
Title: Re: Frankenstorm!!
Post by: those coins on November 02, 2012, 01:02 pm
whats up boys


my priority was sent from natashai on Saturday.....I KNOW IT WILL BE HERE TODAY ILL LET YOU ALL KNOW. SINCE MY STATE GOT LITERALLY DESTROYED.

GOD BLESS HOPE ALL IS SAFE