Has anyone managed to work out WTF happens to packages that take multiple weeks to travel from the US to Australia??
I decided to stop procrastinating on my new winter jersey purchase on the 9th of July so that I could wear my fantastic new kit during winter - NOT spring.
My order has now been somewhere between LA and Sydney for more than 2 weeks.
Does USPS use kayaks for non-express deliveries??
I am trying to be patient - I know this stuff happens some times but why this time and what the feck causes these sort of delays. I’ve also had purchases from the US arrive in Canberra in less than 3 days FFS.
It really stings when I get emails asking if I like my kit, when it’s supposedly not even in the county yet! I have mentioned this to Ornot and agreed I need to chill out (LOL) and wait….
I want my stuff! 
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That seems like a long time, but I guess it’s the USPS special. I get packages from Attaquer in Australia to Canada in 3 days usually, but that’s DHL.
Yep, I can’t remember which brand it was but I’ve had stuff from the US in 2-3 days!
I could cope with 7-10 days but 13 days of “with international carrier” is really painful.
For what it’s worth, my Ornot orders to Canada have also taken fairly long. I think it’s a USPS problem, unfortunately.
I’d just really like to know whose warehouse my parcel has been lost in!
Is it sitting with USPS in LA, or if there’s a 3rd party carrier who lost it in their transfer dock, or HTF does this happen. How can some things take 3 days from US to CBR and somethings just fall in a black hole!?
USPS say it left LA but is it actually still in their warehouse, either lost in a dark corner, or in a container waiting until that container is full before they send it?? 
It’s curious that AusPost say it has NOT been handed over to the international carrier yet.
I hope someone finds it under their desk soon! 
It’s got me wishing I could opt for adding an airtag to my international parcels!
Holy Carp! My parcel has finally arrived in Aus!
I’ve been feeling like an idiot refreshing the tracking website every day for a month! It looks like it should arrive on Monday - exactly one month since it was shipped! 
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I finally got to try some of my Ornot jerseys this weekend, having been injured since they arrived. OMG I love them! So well made and low key branding.
OTOH, I wish Ornot would use DHL for delivery. I bought a Wolftooth pump with clik head from Wolftooth in the US at 11pm Thursday and it just arrived at 8:30am Monday. I’m still waiting for the valves I bought from CCache in Sydney on Wednesday!
Sadly this is quite common with USPS. It’s best avoided if you’re in a hurry.
DHL, UPS, and FedEx all deliver in a timely manner. DHL is the most dialled in my experience.
I’m wondering if it’s rude to ask Ornot to use DHL instead of USPS. Wolftooth still gave free shipping for my pump!
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I wonder if I could send an AirTag to Ornot to pack with my next parcel so I can see where it goes for its month long detour !?
Ornot have confirmed that USPS is my only option.
I’m making another order but don’t care if it takes 2 months to arrive this time.
To add insult to injury, I just tried to setup an account on USPS. I had one about 5 years ago but it says it’s been disabled. So then I tried to make a new account… The new account system lets me enter a page full of details and then when I click the button to make the account, it comes back with “the system is unavailable”. This would be ok, except it locks up the user name I entered and being the gullible idiot I am, I’ve tried about 4 times so I’m running out of username ideas! 
In the first instance I simply entered a username to check it was available, and then closed the page without saving it but that username is no longer available. What a marvelous system. More to the point, I’m just frustrated that I can’t check if the system is fixed without using another user name and wasting time entering a page of info. So even if I wanted to setup alerts for my next package, their computer says no.