[herbst]

Weirdly enough the longest shipping times I have in central Europe are everything related to the US. We ship everywhere basically within at max 2 weeks. Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, South Africa, no problem. We receive cheaply shipped packages from China, India or Singapore within on average 3 weeks.

But we had letter sized priority shipments to the US that took 3 months, on average about 3-5 weeks at times!! Shipments from the US that took about as long too.

No idea what happened in the beginning with Corona. But from my POV it seems the postal system is broken over there.

[Scoundreller]

EU<->North America airspace was basically closed. Took a while to make-up the cargo space of cancelled passenger flights going back-and-forth.

Didn't help that people bought more and more online and would order inter-continentally if they had to (I know I did!).

[herbst]

I understand that. However everywhere else it took maybe a week more and only for the first few months.

Does that really explain why the US is still having these problems? My guess is that the system is overwhelmed either way. Flights from and to China also were massively less, yet the worst delay we had with china was like 1 week. And today it is on average a week less than before Corona, because most postal systems were actually able to grow and better themselfs in that time.