Why am i receiving my iMessages 3-5 min late?

So these past few days i noticed that i've been receiving my iMessages late i tried turning my phone off and everything and it still doesn't work can someone tell me why? If it helps i have an iPhone 5

It could be your service. If you're somewhere where your iphone only gets 4G then most likely messages will be received late. Other than that i'm not sure =/ i've never had any problems with imessage on my iphone sorry =/

There can be alots of reason from what time of plan do you have like a prepaid which can be slower or was the phone damage or anything. I have copied a link to the forms of Apple where it shows what to do with lots of different responses.

https://discussions.apple.com/...2?tstart=0

What did your carrier tell you?

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