Is USPS completely incompetent now?

[CleverUserName]

I sent 2 letters certified mail in early June. This was basic CM no signature required or any other optional services. Just a letter with tracking for $6.38 each.

They didn’t deliver either of them. Both were returned to me as undeliverable and unclaimed. The address was 100% correct on both. I don’t think they even tried to deliver them at all. FWIW they were sent to Southern California. I just got them returned almost 2 months after they were originally mailed.

I’ve sent dozens of letters CM in my life and I’ve never had this happen.

Is this the new normal for USPS?

 

[Lubener]

Since I subscribe to informed delivery, I know in advance what I will be receiving in the mail for the day. Once in a while but not often I will have a letter disapear. I have to admit when it comes to receiving a package, I have had far less trouble with USPS than Fed Ex or UPS.

 

[skyactiv]

Maybe the address or addresses in question lacked a mailbox?

 

[walterjay]

I have found that paying for anything above regular postage actually slows things down.

 

[vwmaniaman]

My daughter works for the USPS and I have learned on my bills that I pay by check in the mail that it takes at least 5 days anymore to get through the maze of the postal system.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I agree with @skyactiv. If they have a post office box and no mailbox - business or residential - the post office will not deliver correspondence to the physical location. You could check with the potential recipient.

 

[Randol]

It seems like in this world we live in, poor service is to be expected. Anything from USPS to your favorite store.
We've had late / lost issues with USPS in the last couple of years. So much so we had to go direct withdrawal for some of our bills because USPS couldn't get the payment there in 10 days. Here in Indiana if I mail a letter to my neighbor, it goes all the way down to Indy for sorting, then back up to the Fort Wayne area.
I don't know if the USPS will ever be as reliable as it once was, you know rain, sleet, snow and all that.

 

[Mechanician]

My service has taken a noticeable dip in competence with the latest generation of postal workers.
Pride in one's work seems to be very scarce these days.

 

[Tricknologist]

All government orgs stopped merit based hiring a LONG time ago.

 

[Pablo]

I sent 2 letters certified mail in early June. This was basic CM no signature required or any other optional services. Just a letter with tracking for $6.38 each.

They didn’t deliver either of them. Both were returned to me as undeliverable and unclaimed. The address was 100% correct on both. I don’t think they even tried to deliver them at all. FWIW they were sent to Southern California. I just got them returned almost 2 months after they were originally mailed.

I’ve sent dozens of letters CM in my life and I’ve never had this happen.

Is this the new normal for USPS?

Not sure what you mean by NOW?

All delivery services range from suck to mediocre at best. Have for many years, say since 2008 not good.

YOU THINK the address is correct, but I bet not. Correct to a point but missing something.

 

[PWMDMD]

I ordered something from Australia during COVID. It was shipped through Australia Post with full tracking. I watched it make its way to California, where USPS accepted possession of it... and then it vanished.

I went to my local post office to file a missing mail claim. The postmaster told me that in 20 years of handling thousands of missing-item reports, he could only remember one or two that were ever found.

I laughed because I thought he was joking.

He looked at me and said, "No, I'm serious."

I asked, "Then why even have a missing mail process?"

He laughed and said, "So people feel like we tried to do something. The fact is your item is either making its way through the system or its not. If it's found not making its way through the system, it's put back on the conveyor belt, and if it's not on the conveyor belt, it's by definition lost."

That told me everything I needed to know about USPS.

 

[Pablo]

I ordered something from Australia during COVID. It was shipped through Australia Post with full tracking. I watched it make its way to California, where USPS accepted possession of it... and then it vanished.

I went to my local post office to file a missing mail claim. The postmaster told me that in 20 years of handling thousands of missing-item reports, he could only remember one or two that were ever found.

I laughed because I thought he was joking.

He looked at me and said, "No, I'm serious."

I asked, "Then why even have a missing mail process?"

He laughed and said, "So people feel like we tried to do something."

That told me everything I needed to know about USPS.

Mostly is THEFT IMHO

 

[PWMDMD]

Mostly is THEFT IMHO

Maybe...this was a $15 modified fuse to slightly increase the charging voltage in the Tundra because I switched to an AGM battery. Not a high value item and really only useful if you just put an AGM battery into a Tundra.

 

[repairman54]

IMO since the jungle site has gone to USPS from UPS it has overloaded the USPS system in a lot of areas. At least in my rural area.
Local folks are great here, it's the middle of the stream that is screwed up slowing things down.
2x on quality of employees, poetry in motion is the new norm.