We're fighting with the USPS to get any service at our place, at all, right now. After talking to the postmaster at both our local post office and the one that our contract carrier is contracted through, we've gotten nowhere. First they told us to put a box on the street and we'll get mail, we did, we haven't. Then it was well maybe they'll deliver, maybe they won't, we don't really have control over the carrier. Then it was you might need to put it at the highway but, we don't know for sure.
Yesterday I ordered something from an Amazon seller and this morning I see tracking for USPS. I contacted them to tell them it won't get here that way, can they please switch to UPS or FedEx. Their reply was free shipping orders go USPS, period. Not an offer to change to another carrier at an additional fee, just that's how it is, deal with it. I told them to cancel the order then, I'm not standing in line at the post office to pick up a package that may not ever even end up there, it defeats the whole purpose of ordering it from Amazon. If I need to go somewhere, I might as well just go to the Welding Supply shop the next town over and be done with it.
I bet they send it USPS anyway and then they'll have to deal with the return and be out the postage. Oh well.
By the way, not all Amazon Prime is 2 day anymore. They've made some changes to the program that I personally think suck.
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