ordering tools online

Very simple explanation: The calendar has been sequestered.

If I can't buy what I want in local area stores, I don't need it anyway.

Was it a nice expensive tool ?? Then it probably "fell off the truck" in Richmond, and since it has not passed another scan point, the system won't update.

From the same folks who brought us the healthcare site?

We ship a stack of parcels six days a week and I've never seen Post Office deliveries as slow as the last two months.

Lost items are up as well from negligible to aggravating and your 'insurance' is worth a bit less than the average lotto ticket.

If I used that logic, my life would suck indeed. Tooltopia is your friend.

nate

I just bought a water pump for an LG washing machine. I could have bought it locally but it would have cost $116. The part, with 2nd day shipping was $65 bucks. It was an offer I couldn't refuse. A tool to put on the spring retainer for the rubber gasket cost $70 to $35 on the web. I used an old fashioned automobile brake spring tool instead from the auto parts store for under $10. That one I bought locally. I don't see much point in restricting myself to sources located anywhere in particular.

good info, AMuzi, thanks GW

Well, that's reassuring, seeing as I just shipped all my pocketknives off to be sharpened (nobody local will touch a folder, and it's FAR cheaper to send them off than to buy the stones I would need to resharpen them all myself.)

I personally haven't had bad luck with USPS (touch wood) but with my luck it'll be the little box with several hundred dollars' worth of knives that gets lost...

nate

I've only received one UPS package recently, and it was only one day late due to a storm *shrug*

I avoid them like the plague though after a string of bad experiences a few years ago.

I did get all my knives back a day earlier than expected, so that was nice (USPS)

nate

Our company used the USPS to mail hearing aids, which can cost thousands, for decades without any problems. What most people don't know is that the US mail is a remarkably reliable system.