Amazon delivery problems using USPS

[ultrarunner]

At our country place, there is not to the door USPS service, at all. If you want US Mail service here, you have to get a PO Box.

Can you use General Delivery where they hold you mail at the Post Office for 2 weeks and no PO box is required?

 

[dmccarty]

I think we just had our second Amazon delivery failure! The horror! The package arrived a day late. :shocked: Amazon shipped the package on time but USPS did not deliver. To be fair, we have had days and days and days of rain with 3-4 inches of rain on the day the package was due. Some local roads are closed and some low lying areas were evacuated. The local lake is up 13 feet above normal. :shocked: A creek near us has an ox bow and this week, and a week or so back, the water was so high the creek cut across the top of the ox bow. I have never seen that happen before. 2015 was one of the wettest years ever, with one of the higher years due to Hurricane Floyd and Dennis hit back to back dropping around 15 and 18 inches of rain EACH. 500 year floods were the result.

I will give the USPS a pass on this late package.

FedEx did deliver the new monitor I bought in spite of the Noah Like Conditions.

Now here is the strange thing about the package....

I ordered an "album" from Amazon last week. Anyone old enough to remember albums? :laughing::laughing::laughing: Now it is a CD of course and I just downloaded the digital version after ordering so I had the music the evening I bought the CD. Since I had the music, and Amazon would give me so money back if I shipped via snail mail, I picked the slowest delivery method. Days after the album was ordered I bought a cable for the computer and selected second day delivery...

The padded envelope that was delivered a day late had the album and cable. :shocked: This means Amazon ended sending the album second day but the album should have been sent days prior. Either Amazon made a mistake, possible but doubtful, they have a process to batch ship packages when it saves them money, and/or they waited to see if I would make another order that they could ship in the same package at the same cost. :confused3:

We do use Prime to stream movies but lately, most of the videos we have been watching are from YouTube. Go Figure. There is a huge amount of interesting content on YouTube for free. The kids use Netflix all of the time.

We got some really good prices on new cell phones a few weeks ago and while setting up my phone, Amazon sent me notifications about Prime Music streaming. Amazon looked at the music I had bought, which unfortunately, included music our kids ordered, :shocked: so Amazon's suggestions of music I might like was a bit odd to say the least. :laughing::laughing::laughing: The new phone plan has a quite a bit more data than our old one so I might stream some music from Amazon. They had music from a band I like but whose albums I have not bought yet so I will listen to the albums on Prime before buying. Going to have to see what else I can stream.

I try to do most of my book reading on my Kindle. It really annoys me that the magazines I subscribe too are not available on the Kindle. This has caused me to stop some subscriptions. One benefit to Amazon I have not used much, heck I think I have used it once, is to get a free book once a month. :confused3: They just don't have the books I am reading right now but maybe one day I will find something I want to read via that service.

Later,
Dan

 

[japody]

Can you use General Delivery where they hold you mail at the Post Office for 2 weeks and no PO box is required?

General Delivery can be held for up to 30 days. In addition, if no carrier service is available, the USPS provides the PO box at no fee.

 

[STx]

Can you use General Delivery where they hold you mail at the Post Office for 2 weeks and no PO box is required?

I'm not sure, we'll be moving here in about 3 months though, so I'll find out then.

 

[ultrarunner]

General Delivery can be held for up to 30 days. In addition, if no carrier service is available, the USPS provides the PO box at no fee.

Thanks for the update... I bought a car once and the title had General Delivery for address...

Grandma had a post office box for decades and didn't get much mail... the postmaster asked if she would surrender it and go General Delivery and she did... also saved a few dollars... every two weeks she would come to the post office and ask for her mail...

South Lake Tahoe 1960's...

 

[Gary Fowler]

I don't think it could get much worse than my present FEDEX package. Monday it was picked up in Wilmar, MN. and today (Saturday) @ 4:46AM it left St. Paul, MN. for places unknown. 6 Days and it is still in state of origin. I will be lucky to get it in 10-14 days at this rate.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I wonder if the USPS employees are doing a work slowdown?

How else could a Amazon package be lost in a small local post office for over a month when I had Fedex confirmation of delivery?

I guess I don't understand why FEDEX involves the PO. Here they deliver to our houses or at least close (I sometimes get my package delivered to my neighbor across the road).

 

[ultrarunner]

I was told the post office visits 6 times a week anyway and it is supposed to be cost effective using post offices as local distribution hubs...

Problem is Postal Employees don't like it...

 

[lostcreekranch]

This year I did 100% of my Christmas shopping online. Probably 75-80% thru. Amazon. We have had Amazon Prime almost since it started and the one thing I have noticed is before Prime we had the occasional late delivery but, since Prime not one problem. I suspect that Amazon really puts a priority on Prime orders. Very satisfied and just now starting to take advantage of the streaming music and movie service.

Ranch is about 15 miles from the local Post Office but, have had same mail lady for over 20 years and get great service. We upgraded our mail box to one of the very large ones so, rare that we get anything, via USPS, that won't fit in the box. In the case of something big she brings it to the house and leaves it on front porch.

We have an electric powered front gate at the ranch. When we were at ranch only on weekends, UPS and FedEx guys had my gate code and would still put packages on the front porch during the week. Until about 5 years ago, my mail lady could use my gate code during the week also. Now, either USPS or maybe local idiot PostMaster made a rule that carriers are not allowed to open customers gates to make deliveries. That is what caused me to upgrade the size of my mail box.

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[dmccarty]

Just picked a family member up at the airport but their checked luggage was missing. The luggage was not even put on the plane...

The airline is supposed to put on the luggage on another plane today and then they will deliver the luggage to our house after 7:00pm which is fair enough.

First time we have had missing luggage... Several people at the airline were very helpful and it only took us a few minutes to resolve the problem which was really quite good.

Will be interesting to see if we get the luggage today...

Later,
Dan