Rant on shipping

   / Rant on shipping #301  
How many packages do you get pre week/month?
Myself I may go weeks without getting any certainly less then 20/yr.

We are all very different.
Between UPS, FedEx, and USPS, I can get 20 per month ....personal stuff!
 
   / Rant on shipping #302  
Dey wore demselves out & exhaust all resources delivering mail in ballots in envelopes dat required folding ballot to get in envelope. In effort to help vote counters de PostOffice found a way to deliver ballots never been folded. Dat ate plenty budget.

Been around a while, and I'm pretty sure all comes down to carrier wanting to do job and Postmaster making him do de job. Truth is de employees get paid pretty good for de skill dey sell.

Today de informed delivery screen tells me dey backed up due to seasonal peak and lack of employees due to de COVID.
Next excuse be how dey tied up getting Vaccine to stick in yer arm.
Wonder how many day a year dey get paid fer bein sick?

Worked whole lot better when Post Office answered to Congressman.
 
   / Rant on shipping #303  
Big Lots is doing something a little different (not that they have much most people would mail order). Website orders placed for in store pick up get an additional 10% off any other coupons or discounts as an incentive to avoid shipping items.
 
   / Rant on shipping #304  
I'm not sure, but I think the "hub deliveries" are not free.
FedEx offers delivery to hubs or locations such as Walgreens and Dollar General. I have used it when a signature is required and I may not expect to be home.

Well, I picked up my hub-shipped order today...arrived 3 days before it was predicted to. In this case it was UPS shipped to a locker inside a Rite Aid store.
Couldn't have been easier. They emailed me a 6 digit code #, entered it in and one of the lockers automatically opened. No extra charges, in fact it was $1 less than it would have been to ship to my house (well, the order was over $25 so shipping was "free", but Amazon shows the ship price at checkout, and it was $1 less than what it would have been for home delivery). I'd use this service again.
 
   / Rant on shipping #305  
Well, I picked up my hub-shipped order today...arrived 3 days before it was predicted to. In this case it was UPS shipped to a locker inside a Rite Aid store.
Couldn't have been easier. They emailed me a 6 digit code #, entered it in and one of the lockers automatically opened. No extra charges, in fact it was $1 less than it would have been to ship to my house (well, the order was over $25 so shipping was "free", but Amazon shows the ship price at checkout, and it was $1 less than what it would have been for home delivery). I'd use this service again.

Sounds like a workable plan.
 
   / Rant on shipping #306  
No Problems at all this year because we didn't order a single thing. Everyone received Gift Certificates so they can choose their own gifts this year and get something they can actually use. The year has been such a dud and disappointment this is a good time to rethink and reboot for the new year. Getting out of debt in the process is a bonus too.
 
   / Rant on shipping #307  
It's nothing new, things have always gotten lost in the mail. When I was self employed I gave one company a really good rate for property line maintenance because I could work it around my schedule, and if I turned a bill in on Tuesday AM I would see the check on Friday. Usually...
One Friday it didn't show up, and I desperately needed the money because I was leaving town the following week on another project. It took two weeks to travel 20 miles... the autoscanner read a "0" as a "6" and it did a loop out around MossRoad's town.
 
   / Rant on shipping #308  
If you believe that a cost cutting measure by USPS who has been losing billions of dollars a year is a deliberate attempt to delay the mail then so be it. Everyone knows that junk mail rates are much lower than first class mail rates and aren't delivered as fast by USPS for that reason. When USPS warns states that sending out ballots by junk mail rates in order for the states to save money, may slow the deliveries and possibly not be delivered in time, this is not deliberate slowing of the mail by USPS, it is deliberate slowing of the mail by the participating states that wish to mail ballots the cheapest and slowest way.

Read carefully unbiased reports such as What’s really going wrong at USPS. to determine if there really was a deliberate attempt to slow down mail by USPS or whether it was a conscious cost cutting method to cut down the billions the postal service is losing each year by merely delaying some mail from 2 day deliveries to 3 day deliveries.
Exactly, run fewer (expensive and high maintenance) mail sorting machines regionally instead of one in every facility, yep it will slow down local mail by a day, but it saves a chunk of money and makes things much more efficient.

Aaron Z
 
   / Rant on shipping #309  
I started a mail order business 38 years ago which I turned into an online business a little over 20 years ago. In the first 10 years I mailed about 6000 small packages and never had one lost in the mail. In the next 10 years I mailed about 12000 and had about 5 lost in the mail. In the next 10 years I mailed about 18000 and had about 20 lost. In the last 8 years I have mailed over 26000 and had about 20 total lost in the first 7 years and over 40 lost this year alone. They are mailed First Class with tracking or Priority Mail. Today I got notice that my first Priority Mail package was lost in 38 years.

With everyone having items shipped to their homes instead of traveling to stores because of the virus, all the shippers are completely swamped and unable to hire enough trained workers making losses and slow deliveries reach record highs. I just wish I had invested a lot of my savings in UPS or FEDEX stocks back in January. I would sell the stock now at more than twice what I paid for it before the bottom drops out when everyone gets the vaccine.
 
   / Rant on shipping #310  
Porch Pirates are huge here... a real problem with very low risk.

They often just follow the UPS, USPS, Amazon, Track, etc...

I have work from home neighbor averaging 5 deliveries weekdays and several on Sunday...

They went away Saturday night returning Sunday and had 4 deliveries I put in their garage
 

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