Another tale of USPS woe.

[dben002]

Elon Musk should be given control of the US Postal Service, FedEx and UPS...He could then merge all three into one delivery service called FEDUP

 

[Nevada Ed]

I have had letters delivered to me with the right street number, but the wrong street. I usually put them back in the outgoing mail slot. The last one came back to me 3 times before I gave up.

Circle the street name; and add "not here"

before putting back in your mail box.

Just a simple filing error by the delivery person.

 

[LVSteve]

They would not reimburse me the $24 for postage as they said they have fulfilled their service.

How can they say that with a straight face when the item has not been delivered?

Joe Public doesn't help USPS much. I keep getting stuff for a neighbor 2-3 doors away from their car dealer. I gave the lady one of these missives and said she might like to tell them to fix their records. She said, "Oh yeah" with her mouth, with body language that said "Are you kidding?" I even wrote "Return to sender. Fix your records" to no avail. Her car stuff in my box goes in the trash now.

 

[38magnum]

I think what is often going on when we realize an explanation someone is earnestly giving us has a snowball's chance in hell of being correct, is that we humans, in our instinctual desire to understand outcomes, reason backwards from the outcome, arranging various "facts" in a sequence we decide to believe to be correct in such a way as to arrive at what seems to make causal sense to us, given the outcome.

It's not lying, but a working hypothesis which the speaker is comfortable believing and handing off to you.

My wife does this, quite blithely, a lot, whereas I try to actually understand reality.

(But what REALLY irritates me is when I spend a long time analyzing the hell out of why something is the way it is, and then finally realize that the reality of it is unknowable, and that I have been wasting my time, while, meanwhile, my wife has, without an ounce of remorse or reflection, found her hypothesis works just fine and has moved along to the next issue and I am reduced to saying, "Hey! Wait up already!")

its more of a "hey wait, as much as this moron deserves to have their teeth knocked out... this is a federal government agency office.. thus it would most likely be federal charges and federal prison system"

 

[mrchick]

Your mail with tracking numbers is scanned into a larger bin that is sent to your PO. They don't scan every package in that bin when the bin arrives at the PO, they scan the bin in and all packages tied to that bin then show "arrived at destination PO". When they scan it out of the bin it goes to "out for delivery". If the package doesn't get scanned out of the bin, it will show in the bin when the bin goes elsewhere. I have had packages arrive when the last tracking shows at destination PO, without it ever showing out for delivery. The stories of packages bouncing all around are probably because the package is still tied to a bin and is actually misplaced and un-scanned since it was removed from the bin.

 

[charlie sherrill]

This has been going on for a while. My mother received a letter I sent her when I was in the Navy five years after I mailed it. It too had a tire track on it. I had already gotten out of the Navy and been employed with the local PD for four years when she got the letter. Five weeks ago my son shipped an old bolt action rifle he had sold through USPS. The tracking number shows it in Gulfport,Ms. They can't find it and the buyer is threatening negative feedback. He insured it and will soon file a claim. He has been in touch with the buyer telling him all that he is going through and has assured the buyer will either get his money back or get the rifle.

 

[dockmurgw]

If those sleazy, slimy thieving chicoms weren't so sleazy, slimy and thieving...the USPS would have the money to get it right.

From FOX News:
More than 161,000 counterfeit U.S. Forever stamps from China were recently seized in Chicago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said Thursday.
Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement officers at the Chicago International Mail Branch stopped eight shipments containing a total of 161,860 fake stamps that violated trademark laws last weekend, CBP said.

 

[glenwolde]

I make repeated orders from the same vendor. I subscribe to the USPS "Informed Delivery". They should probably rename that to "this is our best guess but we don't really know".

I currently have two inbound packages with them. They showed "out for delivery" on Saturday. Now some of the tracking has disappeared and is replaced with "In transit to the next facility" when previously their tracking showed it had already arrived. I've had them arrive on time once I think. They are batting .200 at best. One time the boxes were soaking wet and the only thing that saved the shipment was the shippers reinforced tape and inner packaging.

I'm starting to think that the estimate they give you is nothing more than the "goal" they have but there are many things that can delay it from the "goal".

But I've had this happen before and they could show up today. In which case the tracking will suddenly fill in and show "delivered". I've always gotten them though. It just sometimes takes longer. Considering the current weather we've been having across the southeast it's not a surprise. I just wish the tracking was, well...tracking...rather than a forecast.

 

[Skeet 028]

Wellllll...for once I have to eat my words.. A friend sent my wife a priority mail package on Tuesday...It actually arrived on Thursday...but tracking DID say it had been delivered in a different town...Now on a different note...a package from Amazon hasn't been delivered though it has been on the delivery truck for 3 days...bad weather! the mail got here though...esp all the junk mail...I even got a bill...late. Glad I pay by phone. Maybe UPS will get here Monday. It'a actually above freezing too 33 degrees

 

[kimporter]

Had a package shipped from a city 65miles from me,took 10 days to get to me,1 day to go to distribution center the,the rest to go 7 miles to me,seem the distribution center had 30,000 undelivered packages sitting in it even made local news

 

[handejector]

...I'm still not sure if he was outright lying, thinking I was as dumb as I looked, or if he honestly believed what he was telling me, but nothing of what was running through my head can be repeated in an open forum.

I think what is often going on when we realize an explanation someone is earnestly giving us has a snowball's chance in hell of being correct, is that we humans, in our instinctual desire to understand outcomes, reason backwards from the outcome, arranging various "facts" in a sequence we decide to believe to be correct in such a way as to arrive at what seems to make causal sense to us, given the outcome.

It's not lying, but a working hypothesis which the speaker is comfortable believing and handing off to you.

My wife does this, quite blithely, a lot, whereas I try to actually understand reality.

(But what REALLY irritates me is when I spend a long time analyzing the hell out of why something is the way it is, and then finally realize that the reality of it is unknowable, and that I have been wasting my time, while, meanwhile, my wife has, without an ounce of remorse or reflection, found her hypothesis works just fine and has moved along to the next issue and I am reduced to saying, "Hey! Wait up already!")

That's deep, my brother, but I believe, correct! Well reasoned!

 

[dben002]

Joke of the year

USPS priority shipping.

How can they sell this with a straight face?

 

[Gamecock]

My FFL has told me to get gun purchases shipped by UPS or FedEx - absolutely NOT USPS. He says guns track to his local PO, then disappear from there.