US Postal Service

[MossRoad]

We've got regular old postal vans with postal employees delivering to our mailboxes. The regular guy is a hoot and delivers to everyone's back doors. The regular sub does O.K. too, but she won't put packages at the back door for anyone.

Still waiting for my package from England....

Woo hoo.... my package got to Ft. Wayne at 1:45pm today... 36 hours England to NY. 9 days NY to IN.

 

[japody]

Woo hoo.... my package got to Ft. Wayne at 1:45pm today... 36 hours England to NY. 9 days NY to IN.

:thumbsup:

 

[downsizingnow48]

I think there must be a lot of local variation. Never had a problem in Reedville Va ( rural) or here in Carmichael (urban).

 

[PILOON]

Shucks my delivery gal even sends xmas cards to her 'clients'. (not stamped however)
She also leaves fresh eggs as that is one of her hobbies. (U leave an empty egg box and she delivers eggs next day)

 

[TomSeller]

Not sure about USPS, but Civil Service employees get paid "sick days". So they probably due call in more frequently than someone that does not.

In the Government office I worked in I scolded my subordinates if they came to work deathly sick. Now you are passing all your virus germs to everyone else in the building. Thanks a lot.

Coming to work sick and passing the virus will ultimately cost the Employer much more than if the carrier would have stayed home.

Where I work we allow paid sick days but it is subject limitation by us as managers. We encourage people to use it rather than come to work sick, but in the long run we have fewer days off than the workplaces who have a fixed number of paid sick leave days. Most of those are government.

 

[drajj5]

For those who are curious....

USPS mail, regardless if it is a letter/magazine, or package are not sorted locally (At your Post Office). Yep, even the letter mailed to your neighbor is sent elsewhere to be placed in delivery sequence for your local mailman to deliver.

Fed Ex sends whats called, "Smart Post" to your local Post Office for Final delivery..... It is the cheapest venue paid by the consumer; shipping with Fed EX

UPS sends whats called , "Ready Post" in the same fashion as Fed Ex stated above.

Amazon is a whole different animal, that doesn't care who ships it. They use contracted trucks, FED EX, USPS, any means necessary to get the packages to its destination. The Post office only handles the (final leg) of delivery which is to your house.

So who is really handling your packages? Seems as though it has become a 'Joint Service venture' in most cases as even the USPS will utilize it's competitors for freight; via plane when things need to get there in a hurry.

USPS, imo struggles in a few areas - some of which they are not to blame
1. Foreign mail that enters and leaves the country gets (stuck in customs) for what seems an eternity
2. Forwarding..... There are tens of thousands of people moving everyday, that mail goes to a "special sort facility" and delays mail - terribly
3. Tracking, if I order it through Fed EX, I get a number, then a new number is generated by USPS which means I must utilize both companies websites to see where my package is....

Hopefully this bit of info gives some insight to some of you!

 

[TomSeller]

USPS, imo struggles in a few areas - some of which they are not to blame
1. Foreign mail that enters and leaves the country gets (stuck in customs) for what seems an eternity
2. Forwarding..... There are tens of thousands of people moving everyday, that mail goes to a "special sort facility" and delays mail - terribly
3. Tracking, if I order it through Fed EX, I get a number, then a new number is generated by USPS which means I must utilize both companies websites to see where my package is....

I'd add junk mail to the list. Way too much bulk rate mail, which I think should be eliminated and they should pay full rate.

 

[Mendonsy]

I'd add junk mail to the list. Way too much bulk rate mail, which I think should be eliminated and they should pay full rate.

I definitely agree with that! It certainly doesn't cost any less to deliver all that junk mail and it all ends up in a landfill somewhere.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Yep. I go straight from mailbox to garage and toss 80% in the trash day after day.

 

[Bird]

Yep. I go straight from mailbox to garage and toss 80% in the trash day after day.

I don't put mine in the trash; I put it in the recycling bin.:laughing: Of course, that probably means I'll get it back in another form someday.:laughing:

Way too much bulk rate mail, which I think should be eliminated and they should pay full rate.

I was a clerk in the Dallas Post Office 5 years; 1959-1964. Everyone I've ever known, postal employee or not, agreed that the bulk rate should be eliminated. Everyone, that is, except the advertisers, who apparently also contribute to the congressmen who refused to change it.