I'm not at all complaining, but if FedEx pulls this off today. I will be most surprised. Original delivery date was supposed to be tomorrow...Saturday.
USPS delivery times have increased
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I'm not at all complaining, but if FedEx pulls this off today. I will be most surprised. Original delivery date was supposed to be tomorrow...Saturday.
Another of my Priority Mail boxes made it from Central Illinois to Los Angeles in 2 days and another to Mississippi in the same 2 days. I will buy that performance any day.
Pisgah
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Here's an equally shocking headline: "Sun Rises In East".
All mail leaves our little town and goes to a Charlotte, NC sorting facility. To send a letter from here to a recipient in Charlotte has taken at a minimum 8 days for at least 20 years...
All mail leaves our little town and goes to a Charlotte, NC sorting facility. To send a letter from here to a recipient in Charlotte has taken at a minimum 8 days for at least 20 years...
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ColbyBruce
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A USPS truck rattled past my house at 6:03 a.m. this morning. It and many others will likely still be on the street at 6:03 p.m. tonight.
I grew on a ranch. Another ranchers wife would drive to the nearest post office and pick up all of the mail for ranches in the surrounding area every M-W-F. and deliver it and pick up any outgoing mail and take it the post office.
That was a round trip of over 60 miles. She was an official postal employee.
I live in town now, but I still don't get too excited about mail delivery.
That was a round trip of over 60 miles. She was an official postal employee.
I live in town now, but I still don't get too excited about mail delivery.
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I haul mail from 9 lost offices to a distribution center and then haul the next days mail back to all 9 post offices.
This past week was and always has been the heaviest week for mail yet the USPS waits until the week prior the Christmas to bring in a second truck for our route.
Yep, our government at its finest.
This past week was and always has been the heaviest week for mail yet the USPS waits until the week prior the Christmas to bring in a second truck for our route.
Yep, our government at its finest.
len917
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I purchase lead cast bullets from a mfgr in the southern mid-west. The shipment goes via PRIORITY 2 DAY says so on the label. It takes the better part of 7 days to get delivered. Maybe I expect too much?
UPS Mail Innovations: The whole is less than the sum of its parts. Both UPS and USPS have headaches right now. I get that. But put them together and it's a compound headache. For example, an order from Midway on 7 December got stuck at Kansas City MO on 9 December and didn't move until today. Bad weather, understood; Christmas, understood., What gets me is the "system" lies to me. They've been saying "delivery by 9pm today" for a week! Really? If it's gonna take 3 weeks, just say so! FedEx is even worse, I suppose. The system predicts astoundingly fast arrival. Of course when that day arrives, the package is nowhere to be seen. So they update to a later delivery date. Then, THEN… The deliver a day early.
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we had no idea when stuff would arrive. It arrived when it arrived. We were happier then, when we didn't expect a computer to tell us the real truth! Simpler times…..
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we had no idea when stuff would arrive. It arrived when it arrived. We were happier then, when we didn't expect a computer to tell us the real truth! Simpler times…..
NRA-Life-Member
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They are waiting for the parts to fix it, their in transit (somewhere) for the last couple weeks!
