Current Mail / Postage situation due to Covid-19

[muppet1]

I've been waiting on a Media Mail package  sent from San Francisco for 1 month and 3 days now. I live in NYC and it's been in transit from Jersey City since May 2nd. The wait doesn't bother me, mostly just curious where and why they decide certain things to be throttled.

[Batteryxcage]

I've got a friend who works at USPS and honestly, I think certain areas get slowdowns because of people being out of work due to not feeling comfortable and wanting to put themselves at risk or just straight up being sick. Some packages take a week, a couple took about a month. I think it's slowly smoothing out but I'd definitely expect long waits.

[Ashmonger]

As of yesterday we can ship again to USA, Canada, Brazil, Russia and China with regular post from Belgium.

[Bruitiste]

Still on waiting on a package from Old Europa Cafe that shipped in February.  The tracking stops on March 5th.

Tesco already said they can't ship to Canada so that's been on hold a while too, waiting for one there.

Otherwise seem to be getting packages from the US ok or with some delay.

Package from OEC arrived today at last, incredibly.  So there's hope for all the delayed items I'm waiting for, if that somehow made it.

[implementsofsacrifice]

Last week I received a package that was in the mail since mid February. The tracking hadn't been updated since it left the country of origin in the first week of March. There are plenty still missing, but my faith in their arrival is renewed.

[PedestrianOrgans]

I'm in the United States. I ordered two packages from a Russian friend, one has arrived after literally two months plus a few days, the other is still in limbo but within a similar timeframe. I just received a package from the Netherlands today that shipped April 24.

[DSOL]

located in the US, waiting for 2 packages from Sweden, yesterday was exactly one month when the first one was shipped, the 2nd one a few days later

[implementsofsacrifice]

I would be weary about shipping internationally. Most of my outgoing international mail is taking upwards of two months to arrive. An impatient buyer just ripped me off by opening a Paypal claim prematurely. It doesn't matter that it has tracking if it hasn't been delivered and I only have 10 days to appeal. Here's hoping it's been delivered by then.

[absurdexposition]

My coworker just received a package shipped February 3rd from Estonia...

[acsenger]

These examples of packages arriving after months give me some hope that my package posted from Sweden to Hungary on 15 April may eventually arrive, although it was sent unregistered and the distance is far less than between the US and Europe...
On the other hand, a package sent (unregistered) 5 days ago from Germany arrived today.

[HONOR_IS_KING!]

Yesterday I finally received my artist copies for the Yakuza release from GIW and it took over a month. Came from the UK to the US.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Over here, still Australia, New Zealand, some of the South America etc are closed.
One can always check if their destination and Finland has working post connection from here:
https://www.posti.fi/en/customer-support/sending/country-information

I read news that USPS sent the biggest letter/package shipment of its entire history while ago. Stuff what was supposed to be airmail, but cumulated so much, eventually was loaded into shitloads of sea cargo containers and shipped to Europe. Who knows if it is still sailing over the ocean, or whether some of these containers are being processed in Europe... Anyways, most of stuff from USA sent to here, no way to track or see what is happening. I assume they're on the cruise...

[impulse manslaughter]

Still waiting for 2 overseas packages. One is a rare record that was mailed over 2 months ago. It's making me a little nervous. Within the EU no problems so far, just a few delays.

[Peterson]

Currently waiting on a lot of domestic and international stuff, ranging from sent about two months ago to two weeks.

The funny/frustrating thing is, while anything important gets held up, like packages or bills, the junk mail flyers and circulars still seem to come in and pile up at the same rate.

[pidgeons]

Packages within Europe basically as normal.
Two shirts from the US took about a month (from California), that's happened before though too due to customs etc