USPS STILL IN NO CARRY LOAD

[DuckRyder]

I once got a Anza Muffler with truck tire tracks on it from UPS. I got the money back from the supplier, but UPS wouldn't pay their claim because it didn't have 2 inches of padding.

I actually get decent service from USPS most of the time. I have stated to find a small box for UOA and stick Blackstones label on it. that seems to help.

 

[Kuato]

Mailed an oil sample 10 days ago

it’s only 30 miles from where I dropped it off.

USPS is worthless !!!!!!

My samples, pre-virus, took about a month to get there regardless of where I sent them from.

But the USPS has been amazingly slow even for them. My brother called to say thanks for the Christmas card. Mailed on Dec 19, his call was around January 20. I have read that they are devastated by the virus and are playing catch up, big time.

That said, I would have been driving the 30 miles to hand them the sample in person.

 

[JustinH]

No issue here, we have a rural carrier NW San Antonio.

When we had the power and ice outage and snow, they did not deliver anything for a week however.

 

[Delta]

Still waiting for the tags on my truck. Been processed and was able to be mailed well over a month ago...

 

[Fattylocks]

No problems here with USPS during the recent weather event. Rural route carrier ditched his usual right hand drive Frontier for an F-150 4x4 and came through. UPS on the other hand took almost three weeks to get a package the last 10 miles. Fedex is just a horror any old day.

 

[HonorAndHonesty]

Lately at our local post office I've noticed the people working there look especially frazzled. Still friendly, but there doesn't appear to be enough staff, there were only two there and people are lined up at the countersmd the other one was trying to handle bulk mailing dropoffs.

There may have been a third person loading the p.o. boxes though I'm not sure.

 

[Dave Sherman]

Shipped a set of service manuals to an eBay buyer back in early December. 3 weeks later, it still showed it hadn't left the PO I shipped it from. Put in an inquiry, it finally got on its way. Went from Akron to Wisconsin by way of North Carolina. Finally, 5 weeks after it left, it arrived - box destroyed, 1 of the four manuals missing, as noted by the USPS at the destination. Had insurance on it, made a claim. Last week they sent a letter saying they need the packing materials as evidence or my claim might be denied. Come on, your own office noted the damage, it's on the shipping confirmation, and obviously I don't have it because I'm not the receiving end. Cripe, I don't care if I get the $25 back at this point.

 

[alarmguy]

Ummmm ... USPS has been just as much affected as anyone and more by the virus. Throw in a record amount of people voting by mail last Nov at the start of the holiday season, throw in the record amount of people ordering on line with resulting packages that need to be delivered, I think it would be best to wait until we are all walking around without masks again before trashing any business affected by the pandemic.

Everything is backed up, including our ports which maybe finally starting to catch up over the last 6 months. I mean, the whole world has been affected USPS employees are people too and they have been short staffed by their workers getting sick just as much as anyone else.

 

[SubLGT]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/louis-dejoy-apology-usps/index.html

"I apologize to those customers who felt the impact of our delays," DeJoy said at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. "All of us at the Postal Service, from our Board, to our leadership team, to our union and association leadership, to every employee strive to do better in our service to the American people -- and we will do better."

Wednesday, DeJoy said the problems the Postal Service faced make more evident the need for reform. He is expected to release a new 10-year plan, which he said in his opening statement will be finalized "soon."
"The status quo should be acceptable to no one," he said.
One source familiar with the plan told CNN that changing first class mail delivery is under consideration -- a move that experts say could further slow down mail.

 

[bunnspecial]

Right now I'm sort of sweating bullets because I have a decently valuable fountain pen in limbo(Montblanc 149 OB if anyone is interested, paid $500 for it). The seller sent it Express on Monday with guaranteed delivery yesterday, and it's last scan was Monday night out of a distribution center. I wouldn't worry as much if I knew it was sitting IN a distribution center, but the fact that the last was a departure scan has me worried.

 

[alarmguy]

I actually get decent service from USPS most of the time. I have stated to find a small box for UOA and stick Blackstones label on it. that seems to help.

^^ that

 

[jhs914]

I ordered a small $10 coolant sensor from Rock Auto the first week of January. After 3 weeks and no part I filed a claim with Rock Auto and they resent the part by UPS and it arrived three days later. Lo and behold a MONTH after my original part was shipped by Rock Auto it arrives in my mailbox. And the Post Office tracking app is useless, all it will say is the package was picked up but never updates where it is after that until they tell you it was delivered.

 

[opus1]

This is all being staged for a bailout, or some sort of favorable legislation from the current administration. They want people to start complaining to their elected officials.

The USPS is in a "slow down" mode. The only thing that they seem to deliver on time anymore are Amazon packages. From what I've observed, they'll pick up packages from the sender, but not scan it. After they park it for a day or two in a local Post Office, they'll finally scan it, and it will go to a regional hub, where it will be parked for another day or three without moving. Then they'll put it in the "stream" and allow it to proceed through the system. End result is a 2-4 day delay.

I have noticed that the local idiot Postmaster who threatened to call the police on me for showing up at the Post Office (after he hung up on me during a phone call) has disappeared. At the time, I let him know that it was a stupid move, as he was very easy to locate (yes, he was this stupid). He has been replaced with an "Officer In Charge" who is even more incompetent, and does as little as possible. This OIC probably isn't on site either, and is probably trying to run things from behind a desk in Chicago.

I suspect this is the case.

Personal experience, I recently had to make insurance payments on half of the fleet. One bill was mailed on Feb 2, the other on Feb 8. Both were headed to Dallas. This was well before the winter weather hit. Payment #2 arrived within a week of my mailing it. Payment #1 finally was processed on the 22nd. I'd like to blame the insurance company's processing center for that, but I mailed something else on the 2nd which finally made its destination yesterday (the 23rd) so it sure looks like the PO is at fault.

 

[Pew]

It took three months for my company's October verizon bill to go from Chicago to NJ, shipped via regular mail and postage. It didn't get to them until early February. Like really??!?! THREE months to get regular postal mail through?

 

[jhellwig]

If you can’t understand by my post apparently you just don’t know

If you paid attention the last 10 days there might be a reason for the delay.

You paid $2 to ship it. Don’t expect it to be put on a silver platter and delivered by Air Force one.

 

[surfstar]

Mailed an oil sample 10 days ago

it’s only 30 miles from where I dropped it off.

USPS is worthless !!!!!!

Its almost as if they put someone in charge who wanted to ruin the Postal Service !!!!!!

 

[aquariuscsm]

It honestly depends on location. Ghetto fabulous post offices will give you ghetto service. You have to use a post office where the employees look at least halfway educated.

 

[gman2304]

Ummmm ... USPS has been just as much affected as anyone and more by the virus. Throw in a record amount of people voting by mail last Nov at the start of the holiday season, throw in the record amount of people ordering on line with resulting packages that need to be delivered, I think it would be best to wait until we are all walking around without masks again before trashing any business affected by the pandemic.

Everything is backed up, including our ports which maybe finally starting to catch up over the last 6 months. I mean, the whole world has been affected USPS employees are people too and they have been short staffed by their workers getting sick just as much as anyone else.

^^^This! My wife works for the USPS in Greensboro,N.C. in the Human Resources dept. Her office handles retirements, transfers, benefits, promotions, grievances, separations ( fired employees), bereavements, etc for the USPS.....for the entire nation! Her office employs over 500 people working 2 shifts a day. Most departments within the building are working 10 hour days Monday through Friday and 8 hours on Saturday. One dept worked 8 hours this past Sunday. The uh, well you know, plus bad weather, has wreaked havoc on the USPS these last 12 months not unlike certain aspects of the private sector. There are laggards in every workplace but the vast majority are hard working conscientious people who go the extra mile but the public never hears about them. She tells me about the employees who contract cancer or are stricken with massive heart attacks or other life changing events in their lives. The mail carrier in Idaho who had worked for the USPS for 40 years and had 2 weeks to retirement but a tire blew on his mail truck and he crashed and was killed. The bereavement dept had to steer his family through the maze of benefits his family had coming as well as console the family, yes, they have classes on what and how to say things to a grieving family member. Our own mail carriers wife passed last fall and my wife told me to talk to him and have him come to our house and go over his benefits as he was about to time out ( he was unaware he needed to file a death benefit claim within 90 days of her passing or lose the benefit). She did this on her own time and he received the death benefit shortly thereafter. He offered to take us out for dinner but we politely declined. Even her office has been experiencing mail delays resulting in new retirees not getting their first check for up to 2 months and some even longer. Even their inter office mail from Washington, D.C. is often delayed. Patience and tolerance should be a top priority in these times. This country, indeed the world is going through an unprecedented time in history. Having said that, the light at the end of the tunnel seems to me to be quite a bit brighter than it was 1 year ago!

 

[kstanf150]

If you paid attention the last 10 days there might be a reason for the delay.

You paid $2 to ship it. Don’t expect it to be put on a silver platter and delivered by Air Force one.

I live in Georgia
But if you think 10 days to travel 30 miles is ok
Then I guess you have low exceptions in life. And just for the record
If Air Force one showed up to deliver my package . I’d just as soon flush it down the toilet

 

[Hermann]

Now on Day 8 waiting for a 2-day priority package that weighs 2 pounds from Tuscon AZ to Kansas City. Last 2 orders from this specialty coffee roaster have taken 8 and 11 days. Looks like were in the running for a new record.