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............always has me confused.

Bought a book, it shipped from Waukegan on the 23rd. By today it has made it to Glendale Heights. According to Al's internet that distance is 47.6 miles.
At that rate of travel I will probably get to start reading it in early January.😆
 
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lawandorder said:
............always has me confused.

Bought a book, it shipped from Waukegan on the 23rd. By today it has made it to Glendale Heights. According to Al's internet that distance is 47.6 miles.
At that rate of travel I will probably get to start reading it in early January.😆
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your vendor shipped via pony express. :cool:
 
Speaking about the Pony Express. Years ago (Regan was pres.) I owned a service station in the Sierra Nevada mountains. We had a huge landslide that blocked the only road that led to a couple of small towns. The Postal Service started delivering mail to those towns by pony express. You could even get a letter that had a pony express cancellation on the stamp. Regan even came by and delivered a little speech.
 
I am in the process of changing most of my bills to autopay because I can't trust the post office anymore. I charge them to a rewards card if I can, but some have to come from my bank account - I hate that.

Last month it took 20 days for the post office to deliver a payment IN THE SAME TOWN. It was late of course.

This month I had to mail my mortgage payment without receiving a bill. I finally received the bill in the mail on the 26th that is due on the 1st.

It is going to take a long time to use up all those 73 cent stamps I just bought.
 
armadillo said:
I am in the process of changing most of my bills to autopay because I can't trust the post office anymore. I charge them to a rewards card if I can, but some have to come from my bank account - I hate that.
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I had to do this and become 25% less of a Luddite for this reason. I sent a payment to my credit card company in St. Louis 2 weeks before the due date and it didn't get there until the next day AFTER the due date. Luckily I had set up the online procedure and paid the current bill on time and with the mailed payment made one heck of a down payment on the next month's bill.
 
Well sir...My wife has been in private business for over 30 years, she mails out and receives product at the house on a daily basis. Of all the issues that plague someone running a successful private business the United States Post Office is the last on her list. She loves the USPS and for the most part doesn't have issues with UPS and as of late FedEx. When you think about being able to send a package or letter for the price we pay and in my wife's case run her business with checks coming in the mail to pay for stuff she usually mails out it could never be done for twice that amount if it was private. When my wife buys forever stamps she buys them as if they are the last ones she intends to buy, the ones she is using currently she paid like half what the current price is.
If you work or worked for the USPS hold your head up high in my book, the thankless ***** would never in their wildest dreams begin to walk a block in your footsteps. I always make a point of thanking my delivery person, offer a cold bottled water in the heat. JMHO
 
it's been my observation that USPS has taken a fairly sudden nosedive.
A package seems to spend extra time at its various stops. and the route?!?!?
Had a few that only had to cross one state line on what would have been a 2 hour road trip, end up touring the country for weeks. This , of course, is when the tracking works.
another case, it went dark after "shipment accepted, awaiting processing" It did show up weeks later with no tracking history at all.
 
My wife is in the middle of a game of where is my package today.

Sent out on the 5 of August. A small package to go to the Kissimmee Fla area from the Saratoga NY area.

It shows up in the system spasmodically. It appears to have bounced many times between two Post offices in the Kissimmee area, out to a truck back in and then more bouncing between post offices.

After a looooooooooong run around somehow she actually got to a human to investigate. Something about a bad bar code. Wife finely got a update about a week ago that the packaged was to be returned to her. Well still not here and it no longer shows in the system.:mad:

It was insured for a $100 but other than family sentimental value its worth nothing to anyone else. ( a few pictures and school report cards)
 
I purchase several items on Ebay, and the USPS delivery schedule has been terrible. Normal three day delivery (Ground Advantage with tracking) takes about 7-10 days now. I only count the days after USPS accepted the item.
 
Kinman said:
Well sir...My wife has been in private business for over 30 years, she mails out and receives product at the house on a daily basis. Of all the issues that plague someone running a successful private business the United States Post Office is the last on her list. She loves the USPS and for the most part doesn't have issues with UPS and as of late FedEx. When you think about being able to send a package or letter for the price we pay and in my wife's case run her business with checks coming in the mail to pay for stuff she usually mails out it could never be done for twice that amount if it was private. When my wife buys forever stamps she buys them as if they are the last ones she intends to buy, the ones she is using currently she paid like half what the current price is.
If you work or worked for the USPS hold your head up high in my book, the thankless ***** would never in their wildest dreams begin to walk a block in your footsteps. I always make a point of thanking my delivery person, offer a cold bottled water in the heat. JMHO
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I suspect that the ethos of your postal workers is quite different from ours. I am glad that your postal workers care - ours generally do not. Letters are left in the post office undelivered for weeks due to neglect. Absenteeism post COVID is routine if not expected and lunch hours can last entire days in some cases leaving offices unmanned. I am no longer surprised to enter an unlocked post office and leave 20 minutes later having not seen a soul. A few times, I have caught them "mating" behind the counter. Even certified letters are now commonly lost and explained with an uncaring shrug. Rather than track it, they immediately ask if you want to send it again. I am pleased that you and your wife have had such a pleasant experience, and hope that it remains so. Here, it has been most unpleasant dealing with the USPS on sending and receiving legal notices. We have been forced to fire them as much as possible and incur significant expense working around them when this cannot be done. The earned, proud tradition of the USPS has been forgotten here. I am again glad your experience is so different. Best regards,
 
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Before I retired my office was west of Little Rock in a rural area.. We had a large postal box on the highway. Occasionally there would be items in the mail that would not fit in the box.

One rainy day I was stuck at the office trying to catch up on some paperwork. My Admin. Assistant was at a training class.

Heard a car coming up the drive and it stopped in front of the office. I didn't hear a car door close so I looked out the window to see what appeared to be the rural carriers vehicle. The window came down and a large bundle of mail was pitched out onto the ground that had standing water and more raining coming down.

Before I could get outside to pick up the mail the car was almost back to the highway. After I got the mail in and spread out in hope it would dry I drove to the small PO that route ran out of. I basically tried to file a complaint but the Post Master said there was not much she could do.

The postal service has seemed to continue to go downhill.
No doubt there are some good contentious employees but they seem to be in short supply.
 
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And I wish gun dealers would stop using the USPS to ship-we pay immediately but then a week for the gun to show. I’m not blaming the dealers, I understand it’s out of their control but I’d gladly pay an extra $20+- for the gun to show up quicker to my receiving ffl.
 
HOUSTON RICK said:
I suspect that the ethos of your postal workers is quite different from ours. I am glad that your postal workers care - ours generally do not. Letters are left in the post office undelivered for weeks due to neglect. Absenteeism post COVID is routine if not expected and lunch hours can last entire days in some cases leaving offices unmanned. I am no longer surprised to enter an unlocked post office and leave 20 minutes later having not seen a soul. A few times, I have caught them "mating" behind the counter. Even certified letters are now commonly lost and explained with an uncaring shrug. Rather than track it, they immediately ask if you want to send it again. I am pleased that you and your wife have had such a pleasant experience, and hope that it remains so. Here, it has been most unpleasant dealing with the USPS on sending and receiving legal notices. We have been forced to fire them as much as possible and incur significant expense working around them when this cannot be done. The earned, proud tradition of the USPS has been forgotten here. I am again glad your experience is so different. Best regards,
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There could be something to fact that you are from Texas, I spent most of my life in labor and right to work states like Idaho and Texas in general do not have an excellent worker attitude, you pay for what you get. I remember going to Dallas with my wife for a Mary Kay Award she was getting and continued to get for nearly 30 years. I drove bus in Spokane for 27 years and was talking with a city bus driver and their salary was nearly a third of what we were getting with a benefit package about the same. I would think the USPS worker pay was equal across the states, I could be wrong. I know that in the not too distant past there were many changes that had all the "old timers" getting ready to split instead of working out another five years. DeJoy did not do them any wonders either.
 
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