Rant on shipping

[Jstpssng]

My question: Why do we have to rent a PO Box when home delivery is free? I asked our postmaster and she didn’t know.

I pay for a PO box because when I moved here I was often gone for weeks at a time. What always gets me though is that people have home delivery even though their mailbox is 50 feet of the post office.

 

[garry1p]

Lately Amazon ships UPS and UPS last tracking notice says it has been given to the local USPS for delivery.
That adds a minimum of two days for delivery.

 

[ponytug]

I had this show up in the mail box yesterday. It turned out to be a passport. It smelled like Windex or something similar must have leaked all over it. The passport smells a little but will be ok. It was so bad they stuffed it in a plastic bag.
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Yikes! I don't know what leaked on it, but it seems to me that a yellow residue isn't Windex. Is it waxy?

I hope that your passport turns out to be ok.

All the best,

Peter

 

[dodge man]

Yikes! I don't know what leaked on it, but it seems to me that a yellow residue isn't Windex. Is it waxy?

I hope that your passport turns out to be ok.

All the best,

Peter

I think what you see is from the shipping envelope falling apart.

 

[Tinhack]

Lately Amazon ships UPS and UPS last tracking notice says it has been given to the local USPS for delivery.
That adds a minimum of two days for delivery.

Amazon uses UPS, USPS and FedEx around here. USPS for light items from 3rd-party sellers. UPS and FedEx for heavy items (not trucked). And their own fleet for run of the mill packages. They also use a lot of contract private party deliveries. I get those for mostly next day morning deliveries. These folks use their own cars.

I'm waiting on an 80lb. tool coming by FedEx. I hope it arrives in one piece.

 

[scootr]

Domestic shipping costs are going up again and again.
Don't even get me started on import shipping.

 

[Dftodd]

Rural mail delivery is always a crap shoot around here. Mail carriers are always changing and don't stay long enough to learn the route. We frequently get mail addressed to others and just put it in the proper box ourselves. Unfortunately, there is one individual on the route that can't be bothered, and just throws it out. He won't even take the time to write "wrong address" on the envelope and put it back in his box for the mail carrier to sort out. We've lost several important pieces of mail because of this.

It seems wherever you go, there is always a crank like this to deal with.

I came home the other day and found a really large box on our landing for the ramp to our home.

Box was labeled 80lbs.

I happened to be on the phone with my wife, so I asked what she had ordered???

She stated she didn't order anything. So I looked at the tag and realized it was for our neighbors who just installed a gate close to their home on there long driveway.

I was out walking the pooch a few minutes later and ran into the neighbor leaving. So I flagged them down and let them know the package was there.

So they whipped in and snagged it.

If I hadn't seen them, I was gonna slide the box into the bed of the truck and drive it down to their place.

They informed me the package was for their son and he had also ordered a living room set that hasn't been delivered yet

I really hope i don't come home one day and find his furniture on my landing

 

[goeduck]

I pay for a PO box because when I moved here I was often gone for weeks at a time. What always gets me though is that people have home delivery even though their mailbox is 50 feet of the post office.

Around here mail theft is a huge problem, so most people have PO Boxes for important stuff and locking mailboxes for everything that seems to need to go to a physical address. Even some locking mailboxes are reported as getting stolen recently.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep… here too.

Those that can have mail slots in the garage.

The rest of us have boxes that do get pilfered.

 

[lman]

No problems with mail theft here. We just use a regular mailbox at the road. Keep your thieves out on the left coast.