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THE USPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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As a long time online seller I have shipped over 12,000 packages, 99% have been by USPS. How many failed to be delivered to the buyer?
1 EXACTLY 1 PKG. The defect percentage on that is 0.000083%
How many have taken a tour de USA? About a dozen or so.
How many have been damaged in shipment? Exactly 2.
One was my fault, glassware not packed well enough.
One was USPS fault. 6 foot fishing rod that appeared to have had a truck door lowered on it. Insurance paid.
I'll take those odds/percentages any day.
1 EXACTLY 1 PKG. The defect percentage on that is 0.000083%
How many have taken a tour de USA? About a dozen or so.
How many have been damaged in shipment? Exactly 2.
One was my fault, glassware not packed well enough.
One was USPS fault. 6 foot fishing rod that appeared to have had a truck door lowered on it. Insurance paid.
I'll take those odds/percentages any day.
Isn't this horse still dead from last week?
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And yet, we will flog it still. Because we can.
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OFT II
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We gripe about the one piece of mail that gets lost or delayed but we never mention the millions of pieces of mail that arrives on time.
LVSteve
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"The town below..." That must be a Rhode Island thing.
"Tried to deliver, no access" is correct in a sense. He couldn't access your house from his prescribed route.
we cant help you here, but the post office got your package to you.
HOUSTON RICK
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Have you taken donuts to your post office lately?
Marshwheeling
Member
My carrier gives great service. If a package is too big for the mailbox, she comes up the driveway and puts it inside the gate.
Fedex and UPS CAN’t seem to get it right. I have talked to them, and left memo instructions with my online orders. Yet they persist in leaving packages at a door that is never used. Even in winter, they wil slog through a foot of snow, making the only tracks to the obviously unused door.
Fedex and UPS CAN’t seem to get it right. I have talked to them, and left memo instructions with my online orders. Yet they persist in leaving packages at a door that is never used. Even in winter, they wil slog through a foot of snow, making the only tracks to the obviously unused door.
crstrode
Member
Can't tell - The death notice was misdelivered
S&WIowegan
US Veteran
I live in the Des Moines IA metro area and our suburb has its own PO. I have lived here 30 yrs. and we originally had a very good carrier who eventually retired. Service from a long list of subs deteriorated. Now, for at least 5 yrs., service is very good. I'm going to sound like a reverse racist but many of the new carriers are Hispanic women. They are very cheerful, hard-working and smile a lot. They seem glad to have the job. Many of the old grumpy white PO workers have retired.
Anyone else have similar experience?
Anyone else have similar experience?
It's saturday...
That probably means that you had a substitute today. New at the job maybe??? No matter. Somebody didn't do their job.
That probably means that you had a substitute today. New at the job maybe??? No matter. Somebody didn't do their job.
ColbyBruce
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“They are very cheerful, hard-working and smile a lot. They seem glad to have the job. Many of the old grumpy white PO workers have retired.”
Let these women spend thirty years delivering mail and watch their transformation.
When God allowed Satan to test Job’s faith and endurance Christmas, Amazon, and the USPS didn’t exist.
Let these women spend thirty years delivering mail and watch their transformation.
When God allowed Satan to test Job’s faith and endurance Christmas, Amazon, and the USPS didn’t exist.
My experience with the USPS suggests they deliver 99.99% of the mail. No one else gives me 99.99% service, so I'm happy with them.
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Missus Smiff retires.....
Missus Smiff retires next week after 30 years. It has taken a toll on her mentally and physically, but she still treats her customers like gold. She keeps an eye on them does 'wellness checks' and keeps in touch with them She watches the obits in case she 'loses' anybody.
Missus Smiff retires next week after 30 years. It has taken a toll on her mentally and physically, but she still treats her customers like gold. She keeps an eye on them does 'wellness checks' and keeps in touch with them She watches the obits in case she 'loses' anybody.
Having been an associate rural carrier for a short time, I'll add my comments.
When the carrier comes into the post office in the morning, he/she has to pick up the mail from at least 5 different areas of the PO. The carrier takes it back to their area and then puts it into the pigeon holes for that route. The holes are arranged in the order that the mail is delivered. There is a lot of memorizing to get the mail into the correct pigeon hole. Magazines, flyers and catalogues are a pain also. Plus, there is mail that has to be tracked and packages as well.
Once the mail is sorted, you have to bundle it up and put it in your vehicle. Mail boxes are supposed to be set at a certain height. Not all are. Driving on the right side of a vehicle, using your left foot for gas and brake, takes a little bit of time to master.
I had 5 or 6 days of training at a couple of large post offices and then 4 days of training on the job. The big problem was that I only worked every other Saturday. It is kinda hard to master a skill with that schedule.
I tried coming in an hour early to try and get ahead of schedule, only to be told I wasn't supposed to do that. Anyway, I soon found out that I was too slow for that job and got fired, after working from January to mid March. Later, I was told by other postal workers that I got a raw deal and wasn't given enough time to truly learn the job.
I left the PO in March and was offered a security job in April that paid better. The Good Lord may close a door, but He will open another one.
When the carrier comes into the post office in the morning, he/she has to pick up the mail from at least 5 different areas of the PO. The carrier takes it back to their area and then puts it into the pigeon holes for that route. The holes are arranged in the order that the mail is delivered. There is a lot of memorizing to get the mail into the correct pigeon hole. Magazines, flyers and catalogues are a pain also. Plus, there is mail that has to be tracked and packages as well.
Once the mail is sorted, you have to bundle it up and put it in your vehicle. Mail boxes are supposed to be set at a certain height. Not all are. Driving on the right side of a vehicle, using your left foot for gas and brake, takes a little bit of time to master.
I had 5 or 6 days of training at a couple of large post offices and then 4 days of training on the job. The big problem was that I only worked every other Saturday. It is kinda hard to master a skill with that schedule.
I tried coming in an hour early to try and get ahead of schedule, only to be told I wasn't supposed to do that. Anyway, I soon found out that I was too slow for that job and got fired, after working from January to mid March. Later, I was told by other postal workers that I got a raw deal and wasn't given enough time to truly learn the job.
I left the PO in March and was offered a security job in April that paid better. The Good Lord may close a door, but He will open another one.
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Doug M.
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Service from the PO has slowed a lot in the last couple of years as the closer regional processing centers went away. Mail from here now goes 170 miles east to the outskirts of Spokane, which adds at least a day, and it goes there even if it is going to a place here in town. Minimum of two days from here to here. Huh? 3 days to a small city near the processing center. Express mail to anywhere in WA cannot make it in a day. Period. There are bills I send that take a week or more to get delivered. It used to be that three days was good to go anywhere in the U.S. I suspect it is a volume vs. low bid trucking contractors issue as much as the moving and consolidation of service centers.
I have not used a street address in years. I honestly cannot recall how long it has been. Close to 40 years if I include living with my parents in college and most of law school, except for the period when we first moved to WA and could not get a PO Box right away. Anything that needs a street address either gets the PO's street address and a box # (which I think they adopted from UPS stores), or comes to my office (ammo, etc.). It is a pain in the neck to get to my house and home mail delivery has been a security fail for years - another prosecutor's office in the state vigorously advocated never using one due to mail theft (a real problem thanks to meth maggots).
I have not used a street address in years. I honestly cannot recall how long it has been. Close to 40 years if I include living with my parents in college and most of law school, except for the period when we first moved to WA and could not get a PO Box right away. Anything that needs a street address either gets the PO's street address and a box # (which I think they adopted from UPS stores), or comes to my office (ammo, etc.). It is a pain in the neck to get to my house and home mail delivery has been a security fail for years - another prosecutor's office in the state vigorously advocated never using one due to mail theft (a real problem thanks to meth maggots).
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