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John,,Ed ,and the rest...
I live in a small incorporated village. Around 3500 residents... Since last year our PO has been decimated. Right now they are looking for 13 employees. Wide range of different jobs. Jobs that before Covid people would have given their left toe for! Must be like that all around the country.. 2nd day priority from Long Island NY to Ohio can not be guaranteed anymore!
My wife just today mailed a box to Ukraine. About the size of a shoe box,,weight = half kilo.. $62... Guesstimate arrival time,,,a month!


Sadly most books are printed in China.. the data gets sent electronically,, But the book is printed there and shipped here. So its the rapidly rising cost of fuel,,and then the time sitting way too long in the CA water all adds to the costs..

So the President opened the docks in CA open 24 hrs.. The problem is there aren't any trucks to move the items and the dockworkers are also way understaffed. To truck out of CA you must be employed by a CA trucking company.... No independent trucker is going to go for that period... SO,, there are 100s of ships waiting to offload them. Not enough dockworkers to unload them,,,AND even though the Pres. opened it 24hr a day there are no trucks there to get the items to us...

This is just the light scratching of the problem.. The person that is supposed to be handling all this was a short term mayor of a small town in South Bend IND.. He knows nothing about the job he has and has no clue how to handle it. He got the job because he dropped out of the Presidential race when told to.

- Nothing here political. - Because he does not know. about his Job that forced the Pres to take action.. The action of the open the ports 24 hr. So the other problem is he knows nothing about the situation/job either,, and the ships are still out there,,,and no trucks to send out to all of us..

Sorry about the long ramble but thats just one of the problems we all face here in the US and why Von Ryans International shipping is more than double the Domestic..