JackMDS
i've been making online purchases for numerous years now and have found USPS Priority Mail to be the fastest shipping method for the best price.. usually within 3-4 days even from CA to NY. Directron offers USPS Priority, and they are out of TX.. so you may want to try them in the future if you want to recieve your items more quickly.. plus USPS delievers on Saturday for FREE.
for the record, i demand SAME day processing on any order placed before 5PM (local time to vendor), and next day processing otherwise.. anything else is unacceptable at this point. These vendors have been around long enough now, and the systems are in place to handle this demand..
also, unless i'm forced to I boycott UPS, as they could care less about customers or customer satisfaction.. they deliever packages when they're good and ready.. i've had plenty of packages shipped within the same state take 5 days via UPS ground.. that is so abusrd, it's not even funny.
USPS seems to really care about getting the job done, i've gotten packages from NY to CA via priority in 3 days. and I never have to worry about stupid notes on my door or missing the delievery man, because they'll leave it in my box, or on my doorstop EVERY TIME!
FedEx EXPRESS is by far the fastest, but it is also the MOST EXPENSIVE. if you want overnight or two-day fedex rocks, i've had numerous memory modules from crucial sent 2-day fedex and arrive next day.. even had a few times where i missed FedEx in the morning, and I was able to call and have them reattempt the same day.
newegg's little scheme to cheat people outta 4 bucks is disgusting.. i'm sure they process ALL their orders the same way..