Amazon delivery problems using USPS

[tractorshopper]

My brother works for USPS. He has showed me pictures of how they receive trucks of Amazon materials hardly shrink wrapped and falling off pallets all over inside the trucks. Think Jenga. The USPS then has to try to re-sort everything and figure it from there.

Not saying USPS is great, but Amazon is also less than perfect.

 

[davesl708]

My brother works for USPS. He has showed me pictures of how they receive trucks of Amazon materials hardly shrink wrapped and falling off pallets all over inside the trucks. Think Jenga. The USPS then has to try to re-sort everything and figure it from there.

Not saying USPS is great, but Amazon is also less than perfect.

It is not just USPS that is damaging packages and not getting them delivered on time.
I just received a large box from Amazon delivered by FEDX. I new it arrived when I heard a loud bang on the front door. The large box was laying on the sidewalk. Apparently it landed there after hitting the door first. The driver was already moving down the road by the time I walked ten feet and opened the door. The box end was damaged an a hole punched through it. Luckily the contents were fine.

 

[Oaktree]

USPS is so short handed that they usually can't even keep up the work load during non-holiday times. Its strange that they just can't seem to understand that most of us don't really need delivery 6 days per week.

Blame Congress for that one. Pretty much every time the USPS has submitted reorganization plans to Congress for approval (as they are required to) there is much gasping, fainting and gnashing of teeth from certain members of said body about how discontinuing Saturday delivery will cause undue hardship, crater the economy and unleash plagues of locusts upon the land. Needless to say, they never approve it.

 

[davesl708]

Blame Congress for that one. Pretty much every time the USPS has submitted reorganization plans to Congress for approval (as they are required to) there is much gasping, fainting and gnashing of teeth from certain members of said body about how discontinuing Saturday delivery will cause undue hardship, crater the economy and unleash plagues of locusts upon the land. Needless to say, they never approve it.

The union is a major driver of keeping Saturday delivery and the overtime it cost. Big uproar every time dropping Saturday delivery comes up the union fights it.
Most of us don't even need five day a week delivery. Nothing important comes through the mail that a one or two day delay would effect.

 

[Soundguy]

So far this week, 2 packages that amazon says were delivered to me by USPS were not received. Didn't get the tracking number for the first one, as it was unavailable once I clicked on the "Did Not Receive" button. They sent me a replacement for that one, received today. Another package listed as received today did not appear. This time I recorded the tracking number, entered it at USPS, and it says they delivered it to another town, another zip code. My correct address is on the amazon order. Will have to call USPS tomorrow to see what's going on. Anyone else having problems?

You answered your own question. you said USPS

they s*ck... period. end of story...

 

[KBinCT]

My brother works for USPS. He has showed me pictures of how they receive trucks of Amazon materials hardly shrink wrapped and falling off pallets all over inside the trucks. Think Jenga. The USPS then has to try to re-sort everything and figure it from there.

Not saying USPS is great, but Amazon is also less than perfect.

FedEx drops off pallets to the PO the same way. The other day when the FedEx driver opened the back of the truck the shrink wrap had come undone and the parcels were scattered all over the back of the truck. He was also late so those parcels weren't delivered until the next day as the carriers had already left to deliver their routes.

 

[Timm250]

Around here FedEx is worse than USPS. They will go for 2 or 3 days with the package on the truck & if you track it the comments will say attempted delivery but no one home and we will have been home all day.

 

[sd455dan]

I am overall very happy with UPS, FEDEX, and Amazon Prime. Still a bit in awe that one can get about anything in the world delivered to your door and pretty fast while not having to move off the recliner. I wish the government would get out of the business. USPS would be gone if I were King.

Wow- that is almost the exact opposite of my experience- especially with any item from ebay.


Every time it is shipped USPS it arrives within 3-5 days .
If shipped UPS almost always 7 or 8 days.

And if i have to pay the shipping it is always less using USPS.



If USPS Is gotten rid of- I can see the cost of mailing a letter rising to $2 .... jmo

I do agree that amazon prime is well worth the yearly investment- second day air for no additional charge or even overnight for a small up charge is well worth it when you want something in a hurry.

 

[sd455dan]

Blame Congress for that one. Pretty much every time the USPS has submitted reorganization plans to Congress for approval (as they are required to) there is much gasping, fainting and gnashing of teeth from certain members of said body about how discontinuing Saturday delivery will cause undue hardship, crater the economy and unleash plagues of locusts upon the land. Needless to say, they never approve it.

Yeah - not only that but there was a poison pill law passed years ago that requires funding of postal worker benefits 75 years in advance.... How many private companies are forced to fund worker benefits this way??

a bit of the requirements from the following link

But the root cause of the financial distress that the Postal Service is going through is overwhelmingly caused by Congressional mandates that were imposed upon the Postal Service. Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), which was signed into law by President G.W. Bush on December 20, 2006. Under the guise of modernizing the Postal Service for the 21st Century, it actually doomed the Postal Service. If not for the PAEA, the Postal Service would be functioning fine even with the impact of email and the financial collapse of 2008.

One of the provisions of the PAEA was to mandate that the Postal Service fully pre-fund future retiree health benefits for the next 75 years, and to do it within a ten-year window. This means that the Postal Service is required to send to the U. S. Treasury $5.5 billion each September 30. Remember, this is to pay for the future retirement health benefits of people who haven't even been born yet. The Postal Service is the only entity that is mandated by law to do this. No government agency, corporation or organization is required to fully pre-fund future retirees' health benefits.

The Political Poison Pill That Is Killing the Postal Service | Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center

 

[ultrarunner]

For a while here Amazon had an arrangement where they would ship it FEDEX, then FEDEX would give it to the local post office and they would deliver it. Had some fancy marketing name. All it did was add 2 days to the delivery time. Since everything I order is Amazon Prime that was a PITA. I complained vigorously to Amazon on their email contact address giving several specific examples. I got good human-written replies. Haven't had that FEDEX to USPS arrangement for more than a year. I think they do pay attention, I am sure they got similar feedback from many.

Last year I ordered two out of print books that had a mention of my Dad in them...

They never arrived and Amazon said they were confirmed at the post office... I went in and checked the East Oakland Post Office everyday and the clerk behind the bullet proof counter said they had not received it and Fedex said they did...

I cancelled the order and contested the charge... Amazon was not happy... they blamed me!

I did find another source for the book and ordered it and had them in 3 days...

About a month later the post office delivers the Amazon order and said they had been misplaced... I refused.

Honest to gosh... the post office said they have nothing to do with Fedex and that Fedex doesn't deliver to them...

That was my last Amazon order.

I posted before about holiday packages I sent priority international to Austria... 7 days and $55 each box.

I think they got there 6 weeks later... all the packages went from Oakland to SF to Canada to Australia... sat for two weeks and then back to Canada, back to SF and back to Oakland and then went to SF to London then to Frankfurt then to Vienna and then to Salzburg...

Really kind of disgusting and I pointed out to the Post Office they need/should know Austria is NOT Australia...

The address labels were large block print and even had Europe underscored...