Ya - Every system has its' quirk doesn't it? I did a usps parcel post as selected by a ebayer, and the package went out to Michigan on the 11th of Dec, and they started screaming when they didnt have it around the 20th? I told em' "you picked parcel post", then yesterday another query from them on ebay, and I ran the dc # and found it to be just released from the main depot in Michigan. So they got what they paid for....
Now I bought a phone for my son on the night of Christmas Eve, and paid for onight delivery, obvious on the 26th tho, and the seller stipulated that he wanted signature delivery conformation. Today the 27th, we came home and found the phone setting on the front porch with no sig. hmmmmm or maybe we didn't get the phone.....???? What a perfect world we live in- but hey- it was the holidays, and my hat goes off to the shipping agencies for all their hard work!!!!!