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Originally Posted by cholodolo
They both use the word First Class, but it doesn't mean the same thing (and you know that). If they are the same -- why the price difference? So what did the seller do? Price Swap? Not Class swap? Is there a distinction?
I find that statement to be questionable given what we read daily on these boards regarding ESE, PWE, or whatever.
Unless a card was ESE or "Free Shipping" from LA, never had one arrive before a 3-Day BMWT.
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It's how the usps has defined it for years there is first class and first class parcel or package. They are shipped often together in the same bags to some locations. First class is letter size items first class parcel is for larger items weighing under 1lb or I think its limited to 13oz at counter.
https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-...rst-Class-Mail
Times can vary depending on location. A lot of mail going to LA passes through Bell Gardens Erich is considered by most ebay sellers as one of the worst and slowest processing centers. It has improved but used to be a notorious black hole. Dallas has 2 big centers if they go through the main its pretty fast and any class of mail including media arrives in 3 days or less virtually anywhere in most situations. If they get routed to Coppell Texas then you are looking at 5 to 7 days on nearly everything. Hell if I send an item to my own town it takes 2 days minimum.
I just checked aside from a few anomalies most of the items I have sent since the first of the year arrived in 3 to 4 business days no matter how it was shipped. One I did find was going from Texas to Florida arriving in less than 24 hours it was a FCP item.
Over the years I have seen priority going less than 100 miles take 15 days, Media mail going to Hawaii take 2 days things happen. In December 2020 at one point I(like many other sellers at the time) had over 20 package that were over 3 weeks. Longest one in that time took 40 something days. Yet at same time many people were stating that PWEs were getting through at normal speeds.