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I would wait a minimum of two weeks to see if the lot arrives. Even priority mail can get misdirected or slowed down.
I dunno if this is a regional thing, but I have had a lot of auctions which have arrived without ever being marked as dispatched on ebay. A couple of them were MIP items from Germany and they arrived just fine. It is also possible the seller is away and so isn't answering beccause of that (there are a lot of festival holiday things in different cultures around now so that might be a reason for that aspect of it).I would give it some more time. I have noticed that lately US postage has been slower than other postage. I've sent a bunch of ponies to the US recently and at the same time sent a trade box to New Zealand and a few to the UK. The UK lots all arrived on time or early and the New Zealand one arrived yesterday but while all the US ones are in the US now, they are still on their way to their destinations. The average delivery time from UK to US is 5-8 days and to New Zealand, longer. I know this is a US lot you are talking about, but the delay in all of my packages is happening on the US side, they all left the UK really quickly but have taken some time to get around the States since landing at US customs, so it seems like a USPS slowdown. I should add these are all parcels which have come into the US through the New York area - the one I sent to California on Saturday was already in LA by yesterday so it might only be one area that's more clogged up.I wonder if various holiday periods have slowed down postage over there. Easter messes up deliveries here quite substantially, because of closure days and people being on holiday etc. So yes, they should respond to you - but I still would give it a week more before you panic.
If you read what I said, I did say that I realised that. BUT that the slowdown in the postage was since the parcels arrived in the US, thus in the USPS system.Also I didn't mean that post offices were closed, but that postal workers might have taken time off over Easter, or Passover, or even orthodox Easter weekends and breaks, making things more short staffed and thus creating a backlog that is still being cleared. And that might also account for the seller not communicating with you, as when people are away, they are less communicative.It might of course be exactly as you fear. But it is worth exploring other possibilities and giving a bit longer just in case.
Ouch! What is starting to worry me is that I am reading posts like this more and more. You won the lot: The seller should ship your purchase and also respond to your messages out of common courtesy. Why do people no longer feel they need to honour things like this? It's sad.