Rant on shipping

ponytug · Dec 31, 2021

It was mentioned another thread, and is now TDSTSNBN.

I have literally had to tell a couple of shippers that any issues with material sent via TDSTSNBN is 100% on the vendor. My bottom line is "It didn't arrive." What TDSTSNBN says about where it might be or what the address challenges aren't my problem; they chose TDSTSNBN, not me. Ergo it is on them. I think that they are aware that they cheaped out and selected TDSTSNBN; they get to deal with TDSTSNBN.

Interestingly, I have never had to escalate problems with TDSTSNBN to my credit card company, which leads me to believe that the vendors know that TDSTSNBN is a problematic shipper.

All the best,

Peter

Dftodd · Dec 31, 2021

dragoneggs said:
If it is anything like my daughter's new neighborhood, better check the HOA rules. Pretty strict. Would drive me crazy to live back in suburbia.

No HOA. We are talking small city in Arkansas. Now I could see checking with the property manager though since the home is a rental.

Jstpssng · Dec 31, 2021

ponytug said:
It was mentioned another thread, and is now TDSTSNBN.

I have literally had to tell a couple of shippers that any issues with material sent via TDSTSNBN is 100% on the vendor. My bottom line is "It didn't arrive." What TDSTSNBN says about where it might be or what the address challenges aren't my problem; they chose TDSTSNBN, not me. Ergo it is on them. I think that they are aware that they cheaped out and selected TDSTSNBN; they get to deal with TDSTSNBN.

Interestingly, I have never had to escalate problems with TDSTSNBN to my credit card company, which leads me to believe that the vendors know that TDSTSNBN is a problematic shipper.

All the best,

Peter

For a few years I was telling vendors the same thing about UPS; starting when I lived on a state highway, they never could find my house. That was many years ago, they've gotten much better.

Oaktree · Jan 1, 2022

Larry Caldwell said:
DeJoy was determined to wreck the postal service, and it looks like he is succeeding.

Quoted from a different thread.
I don't know much about DeJoy's qualifications, but let's be real. He faces an impossible task, and I doubt anyone else could do better. He took over a quasi-government agency that's been grossly mis-managed for decades and receives an odd combination of neglect and micro-management from congress, not to mention having to deal with a strong union that resists every attempt to streamline operations.
Every time anyone so much as suggests curtailing Saturday delivery or closing some one horse town post office the public cries to their congressman and that gets squashed.

I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.

Larry Caldwell · Jan 1, 2022

Oaktree said:
Quoted from a different thread.
I don't know much about DeJoy's qualifications, but let's be real. He faces an impossible task, and I doubt anyone else could do better. He took over a quasi-government agency that's been grossly mis-managed for decades and receives an odd combination of neglect and micro-management from congress, not to mention having to deal with a strong union that resists every attempt to streamline operations.
Every time anyone so much as suggests curtailing Saturday delivery or closing some one horse town post office the public cries to their congressman and that gets squashed.

I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.

So his genius move is to cut rural mail deliveries, when everyone in town can walk to the post office for their mail?

Jstpssng · Jan 1, 2022

Larry Caldwell said:
So his genius move is to cut rural mail deliveries, when everyone in town can walk to the post office for their mail?

I live in one of those rural towns, our PO serves several hundred people. From a cost standpoint delivery is much more expensive here than in a heavily populated area.

Doofy · Jan 1, 2022

Personally, we do not want or need Saturday delivery and we tell USPS that each time they ask. We have a rural route box up on the highway and are 21 miles away from the post office. Our postal route is 175 miles RT and ending Saturday delivery would be a significant savings.

Jstpssng · Jan 1, 2022

Doofy said:
Personally, we do not want or need Saturday delivery and we tell USPS that each time they ask. We have a rural route box up on the highway and are 21 miles away from the post office. Our postal route is 175 miles RT and ending Saturday delivery would be a significant savings.

Many people still work for a living and Saturday is the only chance they have to get to the post office.

Doofy · Jan 1, 2022

Jstpssng said:
Many people still work for a living and Saturday is the only chance they have to get to the post office.

Our Post Office closes at Noon on Saturdays. Proper Planning by people makes it work.

goeduck · Jan 1, 2022

Jstpssng said:
Many people still work for a living and Saturday is the only chance they have to get to the post office.

The Post Office being open on Saturday makes sense to me but delivery to mailbox routes on Saturday, not so much. I could do without that and without junk mail which is 90% of what I get. I have both a mailbox and a Post Office box and get the same junk mail in both. At least at the Post Office I can toss the junk mail in the dumpster inside the lobby. These days with so much on-line, almost nothing goes in my mail that is urgent.