Is the postal slowdown affecting you?

[MossRoad]

Sometimes our mail doesn't come until after 7:00pm!

We have a large main post office and 3 medium size sub offices. It used to be you put a letter in your box, your mail carrier would pick it up, take it to the closest sub office, it would get sent directly to the nearest sub office if it was staying in town, or it would get sent downtown if it was going out of town. So, next day service for anything in town, 3 day service to almost anywhere else in the country.

Now, if I want to send a letter to the next door neighbor, it goes to the sub office, to the main office, to Ft. Wayne 100 miles away, back to main office, back to sub office and then to neighbor. 5 day minimum, usually longer. Pathetic.

 

[dragoneggs]

My mail is delivered 6 days a week and if packages are to large for my mailbox, she brings them to the door. Her route is 200 miles round trip thru some fairly rough country. Rain, Wind, Snow and Sunshine, we get mail. Haven't had a UPS or FedEx delivery in several months.

I'm sure the USPS service varies greatly by region, including down to the local post offices. I can't say I'm impressed with our local service. We have contracted carriers in private vehicles and they definitely do not go 'out of their way' to provide anything more than the minimal service. Sloppy too. We more than we should... have to swap mail with our neighbors.

I don't enjoy knocking the USPS but there is a distinct difference in attitude between the delivery folk compared to UPS or FEDEX. I wonder why? I think most know.

 

[tallyho8]

I'm sure the USPS service varies greatly by region, including down to the local post offices. I can't say I'm impressed with our local service. We have contracted carriers in private vehicles and they definitely do not go 'out of their way' to provide anything more than the minimal service. Sloppy too. We more than we should... have to swap mail with our neighbors.

I don't enjoy knocking the USPS but there is a distinct difference in attitude between the delivery folk compared to UPS or FEDEX. I wonder why? I think most know.

I agree. Most do know. But in this day and age you are forbidden to state it.

 

[Diggin It]

Tin foil hat time ......

Perhaps they do the long route for local mail so it can be scanned through the x-ray and other contraband detector systems?

 

[CobyRupert]

It’s been pointed out that USPS stands for United States Postal Service.
It’s a SERVICE. WE pay for a service. It’s not a business. We should expect it to turn a profit as much as we do the military.

 

[MossRoad]

Tin foil hat time ......

Perhaps they do the long route for local mail so it can be scanned through the x-ray and other contraband detector systems?

We had all that equipment in our local main branch. I've been in that building in the back many times, as my father was the lead architect when it was built back in the 70s. He took me in there a few times while it was being built. And a few years later he'd take us Boy Scouts on tours in there. Year later, when I was working in I.T. at the local newspaper, I had to go in there several times to talk with the post master regarding mail delivery of the paper to people that requested it, how their systems would take data from our systems to generate the mailing list, as well as the weights and numbers of the product each night. It was quit the interesting place. :thumbsup:

 

[dragoneggs]

It’s been pointed out that USPS stands for United States Postal Service.
It’s a SERVICE. WE pay for a service. It’s not a business. We should expect it to turn a profit as much as we do the military.

Can't agree more. We pay for a service and (at least I do) expect to get what we pay for. Though the analogy is quite weak if trying to equate the military and serving.

The USPS doesn't have to turn a profit. Private carriers generally do.

 

[deserteagle71]

Sloppy too. We more than we should... have to swap mail with our neighbors.

Ha! Me too! Couldn't even begin to remember how many times I've received other people's mail in my box; good thing I know all my neighbors and we get along well so we just exchange.

 

[Doofy]

We have small snafus on occasion. Latest was for 3 containers of disinfecting wipes from Amazon. First problem, coming from China and didn't notice until to late to cancel. 3 or 4 weeks later they are delivered to our local Post Office and then say "Out for Delivery". We wait, no wipes. Alexa chimes in and says " Your Package has been Delivered"! Okay? It wasn't delivered here, it was delivered to someone 50 miles away at another small Post Office. Of course, no one returned the package. Notified Amazon and had our money refunded. I cannot understand the dishonesty of some people.

 

[grsthegreat]

Then again ups screws up also. We got someones glider rocker ordered thru bed bath beyond. Shipping label addressed to a house in vermont. I live in idaho. It was delivered to me with my 2 boxes i ordered. I took it to local bed bath beyond and left it with them.