Congratulations on the new kilt- even if you do still have to wait a few days to unwrap it.

I'm always surprised when I hear of bad service through the USPS. I ONLY ship via USPS, and apart from two instances (once where a package for Atlanta spent the weekend in Puerto Rico, the other where a package for WA vacationed in NY) I've never had ANY bad experiences with the postal service (unlike UPS )

Popular Mechanics recently did an pretty interesting experiment showing just how rough each handler is with your boxes - HERE