USPS Tracking...

[luvsmiths]

Logistics is a LOT harder than it sounds when you're dealing with millions of items per day.

Really, cause UPS and FEDEX seem to do MULTIPLE USPS volumes, and they get it to me without going past me and back 6 times over 3 weeks.

 

[CalifEd]

In today's news:
Some 200,000 mail carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks. The new agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, runs through November 2026.
Letter carriers have been working without a new contract, and being paid under the old contract, since their old one expired in May 2023.

 

[Narragansett]

In today's news:
Some 200,000 mail carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks. The new agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, runs through November 2026.
Letter carriers have been working without a new contract, and being paid under the old contract, since their old one expired in May 2023.

The price of a stamp will be a dollar before you know it

 

[s&wchad]

I hoped package #2 would be delivered to me today so I could install it on my truck. Keep in mind I ordered it on the 12th, with 2-3 day delivery.

WRONG...

Here's the latest tracking info...

See my previous post about this...
https://smith-wessonforum.com/142094035-post4.html

My package sat in Pontiac for several days (10 minutes from my home) and is now on the way to Detroit (30+ minutes away). Dollars to doughnuts it will go back to Pontiac, before being delivered to my local PO and then to me.

I contacted the PO online and tried to file an investigation, but they didn't recognize my address.
1-800-GOPOUNDSAND (1-800-275-8777).

I was finally connected to a representative. Wait time was 35+ minutes, so I had them call me back.

I just got off the phone with them. They initiated an investigation and I should hear back in 3-5 days...

Whatever...

 

[glenwolde]

We've been having an ongoing issue here on the west side of Houston. Most of our mail goes through a processing facility in Missouri City, TX which is southwest of Houston. They were so backed up and mail was so late people started complaining to the Representatives in Congress. I've had packages sit there for a week, or longer. Many complaints about much longer delays. Congressmen started asking questions and writing letters.

Turns out they moved some sorting equipment from the Northside processing center, but nobody checked to see if the building in Missouri City was wired for power for said equipment. Of course it wasn't. Now the Northside has less equipment, and the equipment at the Missouri City facility just sat. Thousands of people complaining about missing mail. I haven't seen anything on TV about it lately, maybe they got it figured out.

But if you buy a lot of lead items, you need their flat rate service or you're gonna pay.

 

[Breakaway500]

I ship quite frequently (10-12 parcels a week) but Not by usps any longer. Just too many losses and many weeks of delay. Priority makes zero difference and may even be worse.
When I buy anything, if there is not an option for ups (or Amazon) I skip the purchase. Letters seem to be all usps can handle lately.,especially if there is a holiday involved.

 

[Rob613]

I live in Montana, our mail is always about 2 days behind when they say it will be delivered.

 

[ladder13]

I never send anything priority mail as it seems like regular mail gets there on the same day. Why waste money AND let anyone know something important is in there.

 

[BC38]

Really, cause UPS and FEDEX seem to do MULTIPLE USPS volumes, and they get it to me without going past me and back 6 times over 3 weeks.

True. They do multiples of USPS volume in PACKAGES.
However, the USPS is also trying to handle 10x as many items in total - most of which is mail, not packages. The mail and packages both get handled by the same people, in the same facilities, using the same trucks, planes, and trains to move it all.
I'm not defending the USPS - I strongly prefer and recommend UPS for packages. But that doesn't change the reality that when you count mail, the USPS moves WAY more individual items than UPS and FedEx combined.
That was the point of my post. The logistics of moving the sheer number of items (packages and mail) is a pretty daunting task and much more complex than most people realize. So, a simple mistake - like an item getting accidentally sorted into the wrong mailbag - will send the item clear across the country on a train or plane.
It happens ALL the time.

 

[Skeet 028]

If the little Podunk as you call i00 letters in the office that would be a lot. Get a letter addressed to town put a cancel stamp on it and put in the mail box...Sending to a sorting place is ridiculous in podunk ***...Talking with the postmistress(of pain) she asked me why I wasn't shipping anything any more. I told her I was...but with UPS and FedEx...I used to send as many packages in a month as all the rest of the packages the podunk PO sent by everyone in a year. She knows why too. I had one package that I lost 800 dollars on and couldn't collect insurance...or actually they wouldn't pay. I actually got a 32 pound packge after more than a month of traveling around that weighed 17...so they said I got the package so no insurance. PO does great..I've never lost a package with UPS...or even Fed Ex

 

[NYlakesider]

Better late than never!

About 2 months ago my wife went to the USPS to send a small package of family items to a niece of ours. Nothing valuable just some family pictures and things like old birthday/Christmas cards. Insured for a $100!

It never arrived and wife started tracking it,For some reason it could not get delivered. In her checks it mostly bounced back and forth between two large mail handling centers, one was Atlanta! After over more than a month doing all that she was told she went to our very small local PO.

Talked with a rather friendly counter man there and he tried a few things but it still kept bouncing. Somehow he got ahold of someone at one of the big centers to hand pull it out of the equipment Charlie Foxtrot. Then it got return to sender status and came back to our house.

Wife looked it over quite well and there was nothing on the package that could explain this. Package was in good shape.

She then took it to UPS and a couple days later my niece got it.

 

[CalifEd]

The price of a stamp will be a dollar before you know it

Invest in Forever Stamps, lots of them.

In the future you are guaranteed you can sell them for more than you paid.

I live in Montana, our mail is always about 2 days behind when they say it will be delivered.

I send (sent) my house payment via Bill Pay from Pasadena Ca to Atlanta Ga.
The bank did not do electronic transfer so it was a paper check.

It took 13-16 days for delivery. The bank was not too forgiving of a late check but did acknowledge 'they were having an issue' with the Mail.

BTW, got notified last night that this bank was selling my servicing to another service. Best news ever......

 

[erikpolcrack]

Well I can go the po in my town and send a letter or card to someone and it has to go south 4 1/2 hours to Casper Wy and gets delivered maybe 2 days later or maybe not...even if it is going to someone with a mailbox in this town...Talk about Tupid

A couple of the US Post Offices in my area have two mail slots in their lobby, one marked specifically for local in-town delivery.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Take the cost of a Forever Stamp (73¢), put that in your gas tank and see how far you get delivering a Christmas card cross country.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Spontaneous Dental Hydroplosion . . .

No idea. I never heard of it before and I didn't snap a photo. The book said it was rare.
It might have been Bronchiectasis or Hockalugie Syndrome...

 

[s&wchad]

I think the Pontiac and Detroit Distribution Centers are playing package ping pong.

Here's the latest...

 

[S&W Fan]

Ugh, I feel your pain. I’m waiting on a firearm that the shipping ffl sent usps priority that was supposed to arrive at the receiving ffl on the 17th. Tracking shows “in transit to the next facility” as of yesterday, nothing new today. A short time ago I started a service request-not sure if that will accomplish anything.

 

[Skeet 028]

Invest in Forever Stamps, lots of them.In the future you are guaranteed you can sell them for more than you paid.....

If I remember correctly...at one time they were considered as legal tender just like regular cash...Still true? I think soe businesses would nnnnnt accept stamps as payment

 

[zeke]

While i sympathize with USPS's plight, am grateful my health clinic now uses another carrier for my med shipments.

 

[BC38]

...I send (sent) my house payment via Bill Pay from Pasadena Ca to Atlanta Ga.
The bank did not do electronic transfer so it was a paper check.

It took 13-16 days for delivery. The bank was not too forgiving of a late check but did acknowledge 'they were having an issue' with the Mail...

Yeah, the one and only time we ever made a "late" house payment - or any kind of payment that wasn't made on time - was in the late 1990's when the USPS lost the envelope with the check in it.