Handling time question

[sunsetpainter]

(I'm sorry!  I should know the answer to this question but my brain seems to be on vacation this week!)

I have one day handling.  If I sell something on Friday, when does it need to be mailed?  Saturday or Monday?

Thanks!

[Deleted]

Handling time is for business days...which Sat, Sun, and holidays aren't. So, 11:59 pm PT Monday would be your deadline. I have one day handling too, but always mail on Saturday whenever possible.

[sunsetpainter]

Thanks Bets! If I sell something on Friday I always ship on Saturday (because I really have no life! lol), but tomorrow I have to leave before the PO opens. So I'll ship on Monday.

[val2525]

Why not just drop the package in the blue box at the PO on your way out?

[sunsetpainter]

Doh! I didn't think of that because I'm so obsessive about getting it scanned.

[val2525]

So far (knock on wood), all the packages I've dropped off in a box or bin AT the post office have been scanned correctly.

Only issues I've had were with pickups (scheduled and just regular pickup at the office).

[zoesam]

I drop all my pkgs in a blue box at the PO.

[homecomforts]

I obsessively worry about getting scanned, too. I try to get to the PO on Saturday morning if possible but it's okay to wait till Monday. When I order from a big retailer on Friday, I figure it will be Monday before it goes out at the earliest.

My new carrier is crap and will not even pick up packages that I schedule. :/

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May 30, 2015 12:42:44 GMT homecomforts said:

I obsessively worry about getting scanned, too. I try to get to the PO on Saturday morning if possible but it's okay to wait till Monday. When I order from a big retailer on Friday, I figure it will be Monday before it goes out at the earliest.

My new carrier is crap and will not even pick up packages that I schedule. :/

Well, I'd sure as heck would be contacting the Postmaster regarding scheduled pickups not getting picked up!
Their system is supposed to account for those packages!! Occasionally I have an extra pkg tossed in with my scheduled stuff and I always receive a "discrepancy" notice via email. It bugs me, but at least I know everything is accounted for. 

There's only been one time my scheduled pickup  was never scanned...after being promised by a young punk sub carrier that it would be. The next day my regular carrier came to the door and asked whether the packages had been picked up. Apparently no scan waved a red flag. He then told me his name and the name of his manager for future reporting purposes, if that ever happened again.

To date, the kid is still delivering mail, but only has been on my route once since that time...which has been several months.

[homecomforts]

I thought about reporting but was worried he might start messing with my mail.

[val2525]

I wonder if your new carrier is an outside contractor? That's what happened with my downtown office. Either it would be picked up but not scanned/marked as pick up, or I'd get the email message that my package had been picked up, but it was still up front waiting to go out. The regular carrier was great but I never knew who was working that day. Regular carrier told me to call the PO and report it each time it happened, apparently they take notes on stuff like this and it's a way to get the contractor fired. It was easier for me to just go back to dropping it off at the PO.

[sunsetpainter]

I don't trust our carrier enough to schedule a pickup...she's a flake. I dropped them off early at the PO this morning where you put letters (in the lobby). I have a friend who works the counter and she said she'd make sure they got scanned.