Re: USPS is broken
[Re: dOrk !]
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12/28/20 11:04 PM
12/28/20 11:04 PM
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Shipped a package from Maryland to Kentucky on Nov. 24th, it just got delivered today Dec. 28th and it was Priority mail. I could have driven there in 6 hours.
I love the smell of Deer guts in the morning, it smells like... VICTORY!
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: 71charger]
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12/29/20 12:06 PM
12/29/20 12:06 PM
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I had the misfortune of having the cheesy plastic dipstick handle break off the other day in my 09 Challenger. I went to Rock Auto Sunday to order a new one, and their standard shipping was USPS, but with the problems I’m hearing I spent the extra $2 for their optional lowest grade Fed Ex, which promised delivery Wednesday. They don’t offer UPS. Just showed up 15 minutes ago! Best $2 I ever spent! Now if only getting the remains of the broken dipstick out of the tube was that easy, hope I’m not back on Rock Auto soon ordering a new tube also! Note to self, if dipstick getting harder and harder to remove over time, go spend $12 on a new one before the old POS breaks!
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: 71charger]
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12/29/20 01:23 PM
12/29/20 01:23 PM
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The USPS doesn't normally pay overtime. They decide how long it should take a carrier to do a route and theoretically design the routes so that they can be done in a normal workday. The management is notorious for withholding mail from any carrier whose route is going to be audited so that it can be done easily in the allotted time. Then, after the audit's over, release the backlog and make the poor SOB work whatever hours it takes to get it delivered while being paid only his/her basic pay. They held huge amounts of mail during the holiday season when they do pay overtime so they could hold down the OT bill. That mail is now being released on to carriers who will work overtime without overtime pay to get it all delivered. Sale flyers/coupons that expired weeks ago suddenly showing up in your mailbox are indications of this underhanded management. My brother has been a mailman for years, he works for as much overtime as he can get. They have to pay them, it's in the CBA. He gets double and sometimes triple time. They are actually mandated to work overtime right now.
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: 71charger]
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12/29/20 07:47 PM
12/29/20 07:47 PM
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The USPS doesn't normally pay overtime. They decide how long it should take a carrier to do a route and theoretically design the routes so that they can be done in a normal workday. The management is notorious for withholding mail from any carrier whose route is going to be audited so that it can be done easily in the allotted time. Then, after the audit's over, release the backlog and make the poor SOB work whatever hours it takes to get it delivered while being paid only his/her basic pay. They held huge amounts of mail during the holiday season when they do pay overtime so they could hold down the OT bill. That mail is now being released on to carriers who will work overtime without overtime pay to get it all delivered. Sale flyers/coupons that expired weeks ago suddenly showing up in your mailbox are indications of this underhanded management. Audits (mail counts) are done at the slowest time of the year, I believe late February. And yes, they are manipulated to screw carriers.
If the results don't match the theory, change the theory.
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: 3hundred]
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12/30/20 12:13 PM
12/30/20 12:13 PM
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Maybe you can send that driver to somewhere south of Des Moines to pick up my package that was due Friday? Tracking shows it left Des Moines on the 10th and is somewhere in between hither and yon. Tracking shows my package in Memphis, Tn as of 2:43 this morning. So 5 days on the road from Des Moines to Memphis. Is Memphis closer to D/FW than Des Moines? Eh, about 260 miles closer, in FIVE days. Mebbe by Christmas Package was shipped December 7th, originally scheduled for delivery December 11th. After a 12 day tour of Memphis, it arrived in Dallas yesterday. Got to my local post office this morning @9:00 AM and is already out for delivery. So it didn't make Christmas, but it's making New Years!
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: 3hundred]
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12/30/20 03:27 PM
12/30/20 03:27 PM
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Maybe you can send that driver to somewhere south of Des Moines to pick up my package that was due Friday? Tracking shows it left Des Moines on the 10th and is somewhere in between hither and yon. Tracking shows my package in Memphis, Tn as of 2:43 this morning. So 5 days on the road from Des Moines to Memphis. Is Memphis closer to D/FW than Des Moines? Eh, about 260 miles closer, in FIVE days. Mebbe by Christmas Package was shipped December 7th, originally scheduled for delivery December 11th. After a 12 day tour of Memphis, it arrived in Dallas yesterday. Got to my local post office this morning @9:00 AM and is already out for delivery. So it didn't make Christmas, but it's making New Years! FUNNY! My local mail person at the business said he would be off next week the said "I don't know what pickup or delivery will be while I'm off. It is what it is" and LAUGHED. Told him (sarcastically) I'm trying to lighten your load and not ship as much through the mail (like 3 items in 3 weeks now). He said he didn't care. He gets paid the same. This LOSER should be fired. He misdelivers our mail. I get packages and checks meant for other businesses weekly. An then to be so cavalier to say that their services are probably gonna be WORSE than usual next week?!?!? When I worked for "the man" if a customer called on weekends, or after hours or at 2AM I HANDLED whatever was thrown at me. I always put my best out there because I was representing and selling ME. The company I worked at for way to long like the Island Of Dr Moreau. No one gave a damn. I used to ask all the sales guys from suppliers that I dealt with, "do you deal with any GREAT companies where the employees are excited, do a great job, are motived?" They would scratch their heads like I was CRAZY and say "No". At 57, looking back, I wish I had a life coach to have told a younger me, "What are you doing working for this company. YOU wouldn't even hire them!" I couldn't even imagine working for the USPS.
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: 71TA]
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12/31/20 11:51 PM
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Jim, I like your style. To me it is just one more thing in society that you used to count on that has become a shell of its former self propped up by an iconic brand image. A house of cards ready to fall down any day. How you can run a shipping business into the ground is beyond me.
Last edited by Jeremiah; 12/31/20 11:53 PM.
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: Jeremiah]
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01/01/21 11:18 AM
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I worked at the big Post Office when I was a teenager. Strange place to say the least.
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: 6PakBee]
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01/01/21 11:32 AM
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From what I see, the problems are with the northeast. I sent a brake booster to a buyer in New Jersey on December 8th. The last tracking entry was St. Louis on the 16th. I fear that my package is now in either purgatory or the Bermuda Triangle. But I have still, overall, had the best luck with the USPS. Update: After spending a week in St. Louis (Dec 16-23), my package is finally on the move. Update: After taking over a week to travel from St. Louis to Chicago (Dec 23-31) my package is in Chicago. This is close to the delivery point but I'd guess when it is all said and done, this will have taken a month.
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: DrCharles]
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01/01/21 01:25 PM
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As of today (27 Dec), this is the only information available on my part... at least it made it to KC only 300 miles away, but has entered the Bermuda Triangle for the last nine days. December 22, 2020 In Transit, Arriving Late Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility. December 18, 2020, 10:47 am Arrived at USPS Regional Facility KANSAS CITY KS NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER December 17, 2020, 5:40 am Departed USPS Regional Origin Facility GRAND RAPIDS MI DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX December 17, 2020, 5:36 am Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility GRAND RAPIDS MI DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX December 15, 2020, 6:00 pm Departed Post Office OKEMOS, MI 48864 December 15, 2020, 4:21 pm USPS picked up item OKEMOS, MI 48864 December 15, 2020, 1:37 pm Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item OKEMOS, MI 48864 Update: it finally arrived yesterday. 12 days to be processed in KC, then the usual one day to get it here... Doesn't say anything about it being late any more, of course December 31, 2020, 11:32 am Delivered, In/At Mailbox WEST PLAINS, MO 65775 Your item was delivered in or at the mailbox at 11:32 am on December 31, 2020 in WEST PLAINS, MO 65775. December 31, 2020, 8:18 am Out for Delivery WEST PLAINS, MO 65775 December 31, 2020, 8:07 am Arrived at Post Office WEST PLAINS, MO 65775 December 31, 2020, 7:49 am Arrived at USPS Facility WEST PLAINS, MO 65775 December 31, 2020, 5:28 am Departed USPS Regional Facility SPRINGFIELD MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER December 31, 2020, 4:06 am Arrived at USPS Regional Facility SPRINGFIELD MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER December 31, 2020, 12:43 am Departed USPS Regional Facility KANSAS CITY KS NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER December 22, 2020 In Transit to Next Facility December 18, 2020, 10:47 am Arrived at USPS Regional Facility KANSAS CITY KS NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
I mentioned this when dropping off a return at the UPS Store in town, and the clerk said the post office has had major covid problems in the KC distro center with 2/3 of the staff out sick... Which is actually believable.
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: mopars4ever]
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02/24/21 08:24 PM
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FED EX is no better now. I have been waiting for 11 days for a package and I still don`t have it yet. FedEx and UPS have been having weather related delays. Packages going down around Texas or up to Washington/Oregon have had multi day delays. I have had customers in TEXAS complaining about shipping taking a few extra days. They must not watch the news cause if I'm not mistaken they got a dose of Michigan weather and it really messed things up. Heard a news story that drones can deliver tampons the same day. And McDonalds is testing a canon to shoot food in your car as you drive by and pay by Snapchat. Is it just me or has the media CONVINCED people that things should happen instantly OR FASTER? Could you even IMAGINE a 10 year old now a days assembling a model car that took a day for the glue to setup on one sub assembly before you could continue? People just have no ability to plan ahead, have a backup plan or cant fight the need for instant gratification. I was at a Tim Hortons and a guy in front of me burned rubber leaving. I asked the gal what that was about. She said he was mad his coffee was going to take 30 more seconds and didn't want to wait?!?!?! He was literally at the window for maybe 2 minutes.
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Re: USPS is broken
[Re: 71TA]
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02/26/21 05:38 PM
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FED EX is no better now. I have been waiting for 11 days for a package and I still don`t have it yet. FedEx and UPS have been having weather related delays. Packages going down around Texas or up to Washington/Oregon have had multi day delays. I have had customers in TEXAS complaining about shipping taking a few extra days. They must not watch the news cause if I'm not mistaken they got a dose of Michigan weather and it really messed things up. Heard a news story that drones can deliver tampons the same day. And McDonalds is testing a canon to shoot food in your car as you drive by and pay by Snapchat. Is it just me or has the media CONVINCED people that things should happen instantly OR FASTER? Could you even IMAGINE a 10 year old now a days assembling a model car that took a day for the glue to setup on one sub assembly before you could continue? People just have no ability to plan ahead, have a backup plan or cant fight the need for instant gratification. I was at a Tim Hortons and a guy in front of me burned rubber leaving. I asked the gal what that was about. She said he was mad his coffee was going to take 30 more seconds and didn't want to wait?!?!?! He was literally at the window for maybe 2 minutes. Aint that the truth. I've been using the fedex one rate boxes with really good results recently. USPS can KMA with the website locking me out of my account and they refuce to help. Screw USPS which sucks for international folks buying things.
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