"Priority" mail..yea right..

[Breakaway500]

I sent a letter last Monday to Texas (from Ma) and its still not there. I swear just using a postage stamp mail is faster. However, I sent money orders so it needed to be tracked or the seller gets nervous.He's understanding but the post office is getting pretty sloppy! Maybe the fleet of horses is just too old..

 

[tt66]

I recently purchased a pistol off the forum. I sent the funds via Priority Mail. I mailed it on the 8th. Somewhere around the 24th, the post office declared that it was lost.
On the 25th I wired the gentleman the funds from my bank. On the 28th, I got a message from the seller saying that he received the initial priority mail packet. He was kind enough to make a video of him shredding the contents.
The gentleman was more than patient but I felt quite embarrassed.

Tim

 

[JET4]

I get my daughters mail. It has her address on the envelope but they deliver it to my house which is a different address The post office is messed up.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My address is 5771. I get packages for 5717 all the time. The carriers are not native English readers!

The people at 5717 get very pissy (upset) when I give them their packages. So, I quit touching them, forwarding, protecting, or calling anyone about them. The UPS and Fed-Ex policy is to throw a package as far as possible at a door then take a Phone picture of the package on your porch to prove they delivered it. Well from now on, they've got proof of their goof!

Ivan

 

[chief38]

Yes - it went priority - but it doesn't specify WHO'S PRIORITY.

 

[30-30remchester]

I sent some rare bullets through priority mail with insurance. When it finally arrived, the box had been destroyed and contents lost. The USPS accepted responsibility for the lost contents and destroyed box. However, they would not pay off on the insurance claim. After 5 months of paper pain and no resolution I gave up trying.

 

[Rudi]

I think I still hold the record! It took them 47 weeks to get a Christmas card to me.

 

[Onomea]

I've recently bought a couple of revolvers here in the classified and sent payment by regular first class mail. Both arrived at their proper destinations within days. One was a cashier's check and the other a USPSMO, as stipulated by the sellers. (I think Zelle is a much easier process and from a seller's point of view very secure: Either the money is in the seller's account or it isn't. Wish more sellers would use Zelle.)

FWIW.

 

[LongTom.44]

Glad it's not just me. Recently sent an envelope priority certified. It had to be signed for by recipient. After 19 days of not being received via online tracking, had to initiate a postal investigation. P.O. finally got back to me to let me know it did get delivered. Don't know exactly when...or who signed for it.

 

[goatsnguns]

I have sent over 100 small flat rate boxes via Priority Mail and have never had a problem.

 

[brendonjames65]

My experience with the USPS: if it’s not important to me, they are usually quite reliable. If it’s of extreme importance, they FAIL miserably every time!

 

[pawngal]

My experience with USPS has been very positive. The last two Priority packages arrived 1 day early. Over the 20+ years as a seller and buyer on eBay, about 15,000 packages, priority & first class. 1 that I didn't receive and 1 that my buyer didn't receive. And 1 that took the Grand Tour up and down the east coast for about 2 weeks. I have no complaints. Now, FedEX, that's a different story but has gotten better.

 

[robrossk]

I had a pkg scheduled for delivery on Sep 25. It then took a detour to Portland (from Texas to "Portland" to Missouri) and arrived 5 days later.

 

[wood714]

I've had maybe enough bad experiences with the USPS that I could count on one hand.

I've had hundreds of good experiences with them.

Considering the amount of mail and packages they handle everyday, I'd say their doing great.

 

[Rustyt1953]

To repeat myself:


"The U.S. Postal Service handles around 500 million pieces of mail every day. UPS and FedEx deliver 34 million packages combined. Those are astounding numbers and their failure rates barely budge the needle.

Gas up your car and try retrieving/delivering your own mail/parcels for the same rates as those three charge and see how that works out.

They do Herculean tasks everyday. If my stuff is late once in a while I cut them slack because they cast huge nets and there are bound to be a few holes here and there."

 

[BC38]

I've recently bought a couple of revolvers here in the classified and sent payment by regular first class mail. Both arrived at their proper destinations within days. One was a cashier's check and the other a USPSMO, as stipulated by the sellers. (I think Zelle is a much easier process and from a seller's point of view very secure: Either the money is in the seller's account or it isn't. Wish more sellers would use Zelle.)

FWIW.

Almost all the scammers use Zelle. Because there is no protection for the buyer. Just saying

 

[Skeet 028]

I just got the handgun I won in an auction delivered med flat rate registered insured blah blah blah. I am surprised I received it intact but expected 3 days with all the registered etc got it in 15 days...Might be 500 million pieces of mail everyday...1/2 goes to regional presorted junk mail... Packages are probably about the same as UPS and Fed -Ex.
USPS Priority mail surely isn't what it used to be. Had a package plundered stuff stolen 50 miles from home sent back in a different box entirely to Delaware origin with half the contents gone and can almost guarantee the stolen items were sold on ebay by a seller in the town it got broken at. BTW USPS didn't pay the insurance claim either...over 300 dollars

 

[RT44nut]

Doesn’t matter what a service cost, reasonable or not, mistakes should not happen. Doctors deliver hundreds of babies but what if it’s yours that he drops on their head, we made thousands of tires daily at the tire plant but what if it’s the one that blows out on your car or won’t hold air, and do you smile at a waitress that forgets your order because she was so busy. Yes, all of us make mistakes but most of us were taught not to make the same one twice and put something in place to prevent it from happening again. Recently I ordered boxes from USPS. They shipped right away, got within a hundred miles of me and sat there for a month. After trying to talk to a real person at customer service, I finally gave up and ordered more. They arrived and then the first order arrived. Since USPS took on Amazon deliveries, a lot has changed. My use to be nice mail lady told me yesterday that I order way too much and it was partially my fault she wouldn’t get home until dark.

 

[Breakaway500]

Day 8...horse must have broke a leg...

 

[moosedog]

The problem with the post office is that just like other entities, they are forced to hire the non-qualified.