USPS rant

[Yaworski]

I send checks and money orders via first class all the time. Nary a problem.

I did have that magazine disappear recently. The PO says nothing was stolen because they delivered the package and they have no record of the package having been opened. Also said that an insurance claim would likely be denied because they had no record of the package being damaged.

The problems that I now have with the PO is they seem to have taken common sense out of the equation.

Back in the 80s a friend of my brother sent him a letter from Denmark addressed to my brother, with the town name, no street address, and USA. It got to him.

About 20 years later when I lived in Maryland, my wife sent a letter to the Boy Scout offices in Bethesda. They have a four story building that takes up a good chunk of the block. Having a brain fart, she addressed it to Boy Scouts of America, Bethesda MD omitting the street address. It was returned. They couldn't make the leap to say, "Hey, this goes with all the other mail that goes to that building."

 

[dave1918a2]

Twice recently I sent paperwork UPS next day. Still looking for it, still under 'investigation'. Re-did the paperwork and sent it USPS priority and Walla, it got there.

 

[OldYooper]

I live in the U.P. of Michigan. I have a sistor who live 165 miles from me in
SSM, Michigan. It takes a letter 5 to 7 days to get to her. The letter travels over 1000 miles to get to her. Just my 2cents worth....OldYooper.

 

[Rule3]

 

[wood714]

I usually have good luck with the post office. I sent a barrel off to Warsaw IL to be cut and re threaded, that's currently moving around in FL. I was supposed to received it on the March 4th...who knows.

This is the tracking of a package a friend of my mom's sent to my house for some reason for her. I've never seen anything like it. It's been moving back and forth to the same location. It may be next month before I get that barrel.

Click it and it will enlarge.

 

[Shibadog]

Sent our 40 yr old nephew a birthday card 5 days before his BD. He's lived at the same address for the last 17 years. He didn't get it. A week later he Still didn't have it. Two weeks after That what shows upon MY mailbox but Dave's birthday card returned because the USPS was "unable to locate address". That message was from the PO in HIS town of 4 k folks!!! Put it in a Manila envelope, remained itto the SAME address and he got it three days later. That friends, is a seriously screwed up organization…

 

[madmikeb]

Won an auction on ebay 2/27 in Michigan, and I'm in Maine. Tracking was Michigan, Massachusetts, Maine, Texas, and now its in New Jersey. Hopefully when it makes it's way back to Maine they will actually get it to me!

 

[Roofuss]

Sent my sister on the east coast a normal Christmas card 2 weeks before Christmas from Montana...she's till waiting for it on February 18th.
As far as money orders thru the mail, only " certified mail " with tracking and must be signed for, NEVER standard mail !

Well, this takes the cake....Just this past Thursday, I received my Christmas card I sent to my sister on the east coast as { addressee unknown, un-deliverable } and was post marked return to sender on Dec, 29th. !! I got it back on March, 7th .
She has lived in the same place for 50+ years !
*** .... ????

 

[Roofuss]

Sent my sister on the east coast a normal Christmas card 2 weeks before Christmas from Montana...she's till waiting for it on February 18th.
As far as money orders thru the mail, only " certified mail " with tracking and must be signed for, NEVER standard mail !

Well, this takes the cake....Just this past Thursday, I received my Christmas card I sent to my sister on the east coast as { addressee unknown, un-deliverable } and was post marked return to sender on Dec, 29th. !! I got it back on March, 7th .
She has lived in the same place for 50+ years !
*** .... ????

 

[johngalt]

Last year my sister was going to school in the UK. I sent her a birthday card, it arrived in 7 days. Across 2 different mail systems and an ocean.

 

[cmj8591]

Won an auction on ebay 2/27 in Michigan, and I'm in Maine. Tracking was Michigan, Massachusetts, Maine, Texas, and now its in New Jersey. Hopefully when it makes it's way back to Maine they will actually get it to me!

Ah ya, can't git thar from hea.

 

[BC38]

...When the I90 Vantage project kicks off later in the spring, it's going make a mess...

What are they doing to I-90 at Vantage? And when does it start?
I haven't heard anything about it...

 

[BigBoy99]

I ship any firearm buy USPS Registered Mail. My last two shipments (from WI) have been "lost" during their transit. One package going to VA was "lost" in a Washington DC PO for over a week. Tracking says it arrived in DC and there the package sat. I filed a claim and then all of a sudden the package arrived at it destination. The last one I shipped was going to MA and got as far as Jamacia, NY. Tracking shows it arrival and there it sat for two weeks! After filing a claim, it arrived at the recipients door. Why do Registered Mail packages get put in the safe and them forgotten?

 

[Yaworski]

I recently had a package sit for 5 days at the PO before it actually got scanned in.

A few years ago I dropped a package a FedEx Office (nee Kinko's) and the tracking information said that it sat at Kinko's for three days before being picked up. The clerk had told me that EVERY PACKAGE goes EVERY DAY, they make sure the pile of boxes to be shipped leaves.

I contacted FedEx and asked why it sat for three days and the only answer I got was "we don't guarantee a delivery date for FedEx ground." I replied, "I don't care about the delivery date, I want to know why it sat for three days at the store." Same response.

 

[erikpolcrack]

I once ordered a gun part from a guy in Florida. He mailed it right away, but it took almost two weeks to arrive at my place in PA. When I checked the tracking history, it showed it had crossed the Pennsylvania/Maryland border SEVEN times!

 

[Yaworski]

I once ordered a gun part from a guy in Florida. He mailed it right away, but it took almost two weeks to arrive at my place in PA. When I checked the tracking history, it showed it had crossed the Pennsylvania/Maryland border SEVEN times!

If the automated sorting equipment missorts something, it will get caught at the second location. If not handled properly, the missort will happen again and the process will repeat.

When I lived in Maryland, I got a hand addressed letter on which the MD looked more like MO. Interestingly, each place it landed postmarked it. It bounced around a few places in Missouri, came to Maryland, went back to the Show Me state, and finally made it to me. I wish that I had kept the envelope.

I imagine that somewhere there is a package like the guy stuck on the MTA, forever doomed to go from post office to post office, never to reach its destination.

 

[wood714]

Due to my barrel leaving Florida and heading back to IL. I Googled how to talk to a real human at the post office. I was on hold for 42 minutes, but determined to talk to a human.

She said the shipper had shipped it to himself. When I asked her why it would leave IL. then go to Miami, and Jax FL. she said "all I can tell you is what I see scanned."

Talked to the shipper, and he said the label must have got messed up. He said he'll be watching for it. I've had packages get stuck in one location a few days, but this is a first for me.

 

[Yaworski]

She said the shipper had shipped it to himself.

Been there, done that. Usually a letter.

 

[Doug M.]

What are they doing to I-90 at Vantage? And when does it start?
I haven't heard anything about it...

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Complete rebuild. They are not doing it the smart way (tear down completely and replace, which could be done in a year), but in steps estimated to take 3 years. It's old bridge and needs a lot of work.
The detours are vile as there are only a few places to cross the River. (Generally, south to the tri-cities and back using 395 and I 82, or north using Blewett, which will suck in the winter.) The publicity has been worse. I only know of it cuz some stuff came up at work. It is estimated that going over the bridge will take longer than going around.

 

[OldYooper]

We should have the cartel run the USPS...LOL...OldYooper