Rant on shipping

[California]

Amazon allows for specific delivery instructions be included in your address. Such as front door, garage or porch.

Sometimes ignored. I put 'Tractor Barn' as the last line of address when I bought a ROPS from Hoye.

UPS hid it in weeds halfway down the driveway. That were so tall that I never found it until Hoye traced it and insisted it was delivered. I suspect the driver didn't like the large heavy components.

 

[user.69169]

Well I've got a package shipped from Syracuse, NY to be delivered in Greenwich, NY;

December 9, 2020, 11:19 pm
Accepted at USPS Origin Facility
SYRACUSE, NY 13209

December 10, 2020, 12:34 am
Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
NORTHWEST ROCHESTER NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER

December 14, 2020
In Transit, Arriving Late
Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility.

And it's still in transit.

Dat translates to sittin in one de trailers over at de old Ragu sauce factory waitin to get in de door soon as USPS figure out how to move trailer.

 

[Jstpssng]

I sent out a soil sample this spring via Priority Mail; it was only going 70 miles. For the next two weeks I got the "Your package is in transit to the next facility", and finally realized that it was lost. I assumed the blame, thinking it was because I shouldn't have shoved that pint of dirt into a Priority envelope.

Then one day I got an email from the soil lab, giving me my test results. I checked my tracking one last time and it was still in transit...

Sometimes I wonder why the USPS still spends the money on thier quasi tracking.

 

[japody]

Same here. Our local Post Office sends all our outgoing mail 187 miles to Anchorage only to be processed and trucked back a day or few later. Makes no sense.

The average clerk at the PO can sort mail at the rate of 700 letters per hour. Once it gets to the carrier, they sort the mail at their case at the rate of 500 letters per hour. The machines at the distribution and sorting facility are capable of sorting at the rate of 25 to 30 K per hour. Once it's sorted on the machines, it goes back to the station. It does not need to be sorted by the carrier because it has already been put in delivery sequence according to their route. It's simply economies of scale.

 

[Diggin It]

^^ But most rural POs probably get less than a couple of hundred letters or packages addressed with the same zip code per day, maybe per week. It makes no sense not to move it from one box to another in the same building rather than send it hundreds of miles. There isn't enough scale to matter.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^ But most rural POs probably get less than a couple of hundred letters or packages addressed with the same zip code per day, maybe per week. It makes no sense not to move it from one box to another in the same building rather than send it hundreds of miles. There isn't enough scale to matter.

There are 200 people in my town. The clerk spends as much time studying for her classes as she does doing postal work. That 25 or 30K per hour really doesn't apply here.

Yet aren't you the one who mentioned things are done this way so that I don't mail pig **** to my neighbor with the barking dogs?

 

[dragoneggs]

I love when I get an email that says your USPS package was shipped and then when I click on the tracking number it says... 'Label created'. Then I get another email that says your USPS package was shipped, and I click on the tracking number it says... 'Waiting for package to be picked up'.

 

[ultrarunner]

Maybe someone in the know can shed light on recurring issue of Return to Sender, Addressee Unknown" or "Moved, Please Forward"

Thirty years ago never a problem... now when a tenant moves or a home sold mail that is properly marked with bar code obliterated and large Return to Sender stickers has a 50/50 chance of coming back in a few days...

Dropped off 31 letters today at the post office counter ranging from Bank Statements, Car Registration, Jury Notices, Bail Bond Statements and Toll Violations...

 

[Jstpssng]

Maybe someone in the know can shed light on recurring issue of Return to Sender, Addressee Unknown" or "Moved, Please Forward"

Thirty years ago never a problem... now when a tenant moves or a home sold mail that is properly marked with bar code obliterated and large Return to Sender stickers has a 50/50 chance of coming back in a few days...

Dropped off 31 letters today at the post office counter ranging from Bank Statements, Car Registration, Jury Notices, Bail Bond Statements and Toll Violations...

Somebody needs to fill out a change of address form before mail can be forwarded. Would you tell your parole officer that you were moving?
Hypothetical question of course, which probably neither of us is qualified to answer.

 

[japody]

Maybe someone in the know can shed light on recurring issue of Return to Sender, Addressee Unknown" or "Moved, Please Forward"

Thirty years ago never a problem... now when a tenant moves or a home sold mail that is properly marked with bar code obliterated and large Return to Sender stickers has a 50/50 chance of coming back in a few days...

Dropped off 31 letters today at the post office counter ranging from Bank Statements, Car Registration, Jury Notices, Bail Bond Statements and Toll Violations...

The letters are processed by OCRs that sort the mail at the rate of 25 - 30 K per hour. The machines only do what they are told to do. If the letter gets back to your local PO, the carrier is supposed to make a notation in his/her "edit book" that will direct the sorting machines to handle the mailpiece accordingly. If you see the same letter repeatedly, the carrier is not making the notation. There are a lot more steps involved but that is the simple explanation.