This is why the USPS is losing $$

This is a smaller package I ordered on Feb 7th from a business in Pennsylvania. Within a few days it was in Jacksonville, FL (only about 1.5 hrs from me).

Then it was sent to Puerto Rico. Now, it's back in Jacksonville, FL.

I still have not received it.

I had to send some legal documents within my state, NY, aprox 250 miles. Used USPS envelope, and tracking... When it didn't arrive I tracked it... It ultimately went to Baton Rouge, LA .

It did get delivered finally but...

Yep, waiting on a check from Texas that was sent priority mail on the 14th……apparently the priority is to not get it here very quickly

All the delivery companies are failing miserably. We have had some long delivery times, lost, misplaced and stolen packages in the last few months. When you have incompetent and unconcerned individuals working you can expect such things.

UPS, Fed Ex an USPS all have dropped the ball. They sure want their $$ but can't and won't guarantee results. Heaven forbid you try to file a claim to get recovery of $$ loss.

USPS tracking may as well not exist

"Moving through system"

I mailed a book to a friend who lives 15 miles from our local post office on Monday. The expected delivery date is Friday.

I don't see how they are losing money with how much they are charging to ship now. Crazy high prices- even for small light packages.

It was a paperback book. It cost me $6.25 total to mail it. Part of the price was I used one of their mailers. That was $2.25, so the cost to mail it was $4.00.

Did they give you media mail price?

This ground advantage seems to be a real savings to me. I just mailed a four pound package from AR to AK and it was eight bucks. The postage was bought through ebay but I think you can get the same rates through pirate ship.

The USPS is a JOKE!! Two years ago we mailed out Grankids and kids X-mas to them. We sent it priority and should have been there in 5 days. that was the end of November. It did not get there until MAY!!! When we went to the Post Office and wanted to collect our money because it was insured they laughed at us and when it finally arrived months later even refused to give us the money back for the expedited delivery claiming that " IT GOT THERE DIDN'T IT!!! That was from the Post master at Charleston WV!!!

it seems that the packages get scanned into a trailer , then if they don't get scanned out of a trailer they stay in the database with a location of that trailer as the trailer goes round the country your package goes round the country if it is on it or off it until it gets individually scanned someplace.

we have gotten a few packages that made the loop several times when the come they look like they probably got behind the boards on the side of the trailer and rode there a few rounds

they probably have a if it has been in transit for 2 weeks some one go check that trailer for it , query on the database , it would be nice if they set that to if it is 2 days past or has followed the same trailer for more than 3 transfer hubs without being scanned

but since QA in 202X is complaint driven and people working are the shortage in 2 weeks most of these probably get found and scanned and no one needs to go look special , just really frustrating for the consumer , but since you can't actually reach anyone on their phone line that could help you any way , the don't really care

All this ^^^^ is their problem.....not the customer's.

We're paying for a service that we are not receiving. Their internal issues...I could care less about. Get it right or get out of the business!

I ordered some coolers on line ( 9 I think ) post office called and said I would have to come and pick them up, to big to deliver. 5 miles away, had to laugh.

They will waste hundreds of dollars to not pay a $20 claim that the they caused the delay on.

Prayers sent.

May god have mercy on your soul.

w

They do that to me all the time; send packages all over the country, adding hundreds sometimes 1000s of extra miles before they ultimately deliver it to me.

Few years ago had a Garmin that I had bought out in Pennsylvania took 9 days to get here.kept following the tracking number every day went back and forth over the house 4 different times in the air ridiculously.

what I was saying is how I think it happens , how I think they could make it better but that they likely choose not to make it better

about all you can do is ship with someone else , but options are limited and prices are higher.

The book I sent was book rate is what I was told for $4.00 to go 15 miles and take 4 days to get there.

If I wanted to send my next door neighbor a letter on a Monday, it would leave my house and go to the Sylvester PO, from their it would travel to Albany Ga, from there it would travel to Jacksonville Fl, then back to Albany Ga, then back to Sylvester, to be delivered to my neighbor on Thursday or Friday.

***Disclaimer: My mail lady would’ve just stuck in my neighbors mailbox and probably chew me out for being stupid!!***

The USPS delivers packages from China and other countries, at those countries purported cost in those countries. Subsidizing other countries costs the Post Office billions in lost revenue and makes it easy for foreign businesses to sell cheaper here than American ones. It should be outlawed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadesh...o-ship-to-the-usa-cheap/?sh=442da27840ca

Keith

USPS has outlived its usefulness. Let anyone and everyone deliver any and all mail and let the consumers decide who wins.
I generally can't complain too much about my local USPS deliveries. I have a long driveway and they will come down the drive with a package that does not fit into the mailbox.
Only complaints I have is once they didn't do this they just tossed the box into the ditch by the mailbox. That and the hours at the post office. Ours shuts down for an hour in the middle of the day. The hours on the website are not the same as what they actually are.
Nothing PO's me more than driving to the po and having it closed in the middle of the day during "normal' working hours.

I think one of the bigger issue stems from small rural to big city post offices.

Strange things do happen, but I have to say that out of thousands of usps packages I can count on one hand the problems.
I do think more issues happen with small items that can get stuck in a conveyor belt.

I use USPS for my business unless directed to use something else by the customer, unfortunately Priority mail is any thing but Priority any more, costs more than just regular drop off, but moves the same time schedule or less now after 15 years of using it and cost moved up three times now !!

It's almost quicker to just use the regular mail and pay a dollar for tracking !!

Oh and don't forget about forever stamps moving up every year, LOL

I agree - none of them are stellar. I have some horror stories with all of them

I had 925 jumbo, coturnix quail eggs shipped to me last week from the same place in Pennsylvania, in 2 boxes, by Priority Mail. The boxes traveled together until they reached the Columbus, Ohio distribution center. One box, of 450 eggs was delivered last Thursday. The other box of 475 eggs was delivered this Tuesday.

I'm getting 5000 eggs shipped in next week. I hope they all arrive quickly, without damage and on time.

Keith

I can mail a letter to my neighbors across the street . It will first go to Knoxville TN. 121 miles away..... Then back to them

my wife is into a particular kind of embroidery it is a Japanese embroidery she ordered a pattern that came with a 12x12 inch piece of fabric and the pattern it got here to southern WI in 5 days from Japan and total cost shipping included was 14 dollars came in a padded envelope

it cost me 6.90 to send something to Milwaukee and it has to go there anyway to be sorted

The nearest town to me is seven miles away. Less than a thousand people but they have their own Post Office. They were my PO for decades. Some great, long-time employees working there. One woman in particular is a great community asset. she knows everyone and all the goings on.

I caught a non-target canine two seasons ago and took it home with me. I told the landowner who told the PO lady who found the owners almost immediately. It had come from over five miles away. She called me to let me know, I took it to her after hours at the PO and she took it back to the owners.

The carrier was great too. She'd drop stuff on the porch that was too big for the box. She'd take letters I forgot to stamp and leave me a note saying I owed her fifty cents or whatever it was at the time.

For reasons known only to the USPS, a few years ago they started having my mail delivered out of a PO in a larger town another five miles away. The PO employees are incompetent and rude and the various carriers they employ suck, missing mail, other people's mail, etc.

I still do all my business out of my old PO and only go to the new one when I have to pick up a registered letter or something like that.

Wish they never would have switched me.

X2.
At my post office they even circle the tracking part with a pen right in front of you.
Maybe it's an inside joke with them

A few years ago when I lived in Florida, my dad was living and living in Newark, Ohio which is 30 miles east of Columbus. He called and said he was sending me a check for some equipment I was wanting for my business and he was late getting it mailed. So, he sent it over-night. He also said it was guaranteed to be delivered over-night.

I ask him what the guarantee penalty was if It didn't get here in that time frame, He said, since I had to sign for the letter for me to send him the receipt and he would get his money back.

Well, it did not get here the next day, but the following day. So, as I was instructed by him, I sent the receipt to him and he got his money back.

A couple of days later, I ran into the Assistant Postmaster in Palatka, Florida, ten miles away from me, and ask her about the deal. All of my regular mail, I thought came from there. She told me that is didn't, it came from Daytona, 75 miles away. The road east of me, closest to Palatka, was the dividing line... so everything that came into the Palatka office for me was forwarded to Daytona.

She advised to have my dad send everything of any impertinence to send over-night and he would always get his money back. She said they had been arguing this point to the P.O.H.Q. for years, but they wouldn't do anything about it.

The funny thing is after my street to the south was a river which would have been a much better cut off area.

So, he did that is the future.

Garry-

Yesterday I found my new golf clubs and bag in the front seat of my pickup. I figured the UPS guy just thought it was easier to drop them off here at work, instead of taking them to my house. When I got home, there on the porch was another UPS package for my wife. He had to go there anyhow, yet still left my stuff where only I could find it. It's rare to find good people like that anymore!!

a rare find indeeed
maybe he was worried your clubs were more likely to get stolen

I happen to have a good postman talked with him yesterday he likes my dogs.

I had a great UPS man but he must have retired
he used to drop a lot of our stuff off at he co-op when my wife worked there it was nice

both the mailman and the ups man liked stopping by the co-op as there was a bathroom and place to fill up water no store just a co-op office with pull through parking right outside the door.

Says my package is at my local PO and now out for delivery...we'll see.

I do everything through UPS or FedEx if at all possible. It might cost a little more sometimes, but it's worth not having to deal with the hassle of USPS.

I use Fed ex mostly and sometimesUPS!! Ifit is important I NEVER Usethe USPS!!! EVER

Well good for you......I'm glad you got that off your chest on the quarterly bash the USPS thread! Why not just use the other shipping companies.....or do you feel better? Along with everyone else on the quarterly bash the USPS thread. Just stop using them.....see how easy that is? There....until the next quarter....carry on! Lololololol now...wasn't there just a bash UPS thread on here a little while back? And FedEx ? Lololol

Thats your money too

Are you sure they aren't handing off to the USPS for final step delivery? They do that quite frequently as I'm sure you are aware. Lol

Well..well...it looks like we have a USPS employee or family member here.

If so...see if you can help them with their problems. i didnt get to choose the shipper. I ordered...company shipped USPS.

I had a package not long ago sent to me from 4 miles N.W. of me. It traveled all the way to N.J., then back up here, then BACK down to Jersey and finally back to here. Over 400 miles before finally getting to me. Their excuse?
Wrong zip code or unreadable label. Guess what? The label was correct and PERFECTLY READABLE. Steve Wonder could have read it.

Talk about ineffecient!

Dejoy really needs to go. We used to have ONE mailman back in the good old days. Now we get 2-3 different mail people a week. The USPS has went to all to (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman).

A lot of whiners on this site about everything known to man. Use another company for services if USPS does not meet your personal standards.

Had a,friend mail package from ID to WA was stuck in TX for a week

I like USPS. Only ever had one issue with a package. Trouble with UPS is I have to drive 40 miles to ship something or pay extra to have them pickup with an estimated pick up time of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
USPS does waste money though. There are 3 post offices in 6 miles here staffed all day. literally less than 50 houses between them.

That's a 100% fact! They RARELY update tracking.

Move on out of there! My mail carrier sends a text when a package is too big and asks where to leave it.

USPS WAS the only Govt. money maker. Politicians found out and "fixed it".

Waaa, waaaa, waaa!!!


I ordered an item. I didn't choose how they decided to ship it to me.

Quit whining about us whiners!

I was outside this morning and saw them pull up to the mail box. So I walked out to get the mail. Two letters in the box one to me and one to my neighbor to the north. I guess the new guy delivering is not any better than the old one. Two different names and address in one box.

I did not check the mail Monday or Tuesday and when I did today. 7 pieces of mail, four to me three to the neighbor. His address is 1100 and mine 1201. He has a PO box in town and I do not. Why they guy does not take it back and put it in his PO Box is a mystery. I am taking these three back to the PO. I have just been dropping his mail off to him. But no more of that.

Buy from a different company..or just continue with your whining and crying....or get your LowT treated......the amount of LowT "men" on here complaining about everything is laughable. Hey...maybe even try trapping occasionally....but then again...you'll just complaint about prices....carry on

Why would they do that....it's so much easier to commiserate with fellow whiners on Tman. If it's not USPS it's FedEx or UPS. How about everyone say what they do for a living and we can give anecdotal evidence of how bad you are at your job. After reading some of these posts ..there should be an uptick in pacifier deliveries.....

Do I pick who carries my mail? I wish I could. If I did it would not be the USPS. Shut them down and cut my taxes the amount that goes to them. I packed and shipped cargo for 20 + years. Everything from nuts and bolts to aircraft wings and fuselage, ammo and bombs by the semi load, top secret cargo that USPS was not cleared to carry. Shipped land, water and air. USPS was way low on the list for use due to their record.

Whee dogies haven't seen a thread this good since you guys swore off football for kneelin Well maybe covid vax or Groenwolds fur prices #1 so far is the one whose neighbor 4 miles away sent him a package must have been across the lake

Just hope nobody goes postal?

I ordered a battery from knoksville Tennessee, they shipped it the next day. I'm in eastern oregon, it went from Tennessee to guam to Texas to Hawaii to Seattle to portland to boise and finally to me. It took 18 days

Maybe you spelled Knoksville wrong.

This made me laugh out loud. Needed that this morning.

Ltrman,
I'm retired and pretty good at it.

Trapping? I've been on Tman a long time and I don't recall ever seeing a trapping post by you.

I'd wager that you can't wait until you retire from the useless USPS.

Seems to me that you are the one whining. There are a lot of legitimate concerns voiced on here and the toxic attitudes of postal service workers like the one you expressed here is a big part of the problem. It wasn't that long ago that it was hard to get a USPS job and they could be selective about the people they hired, but like most corporations they are now forced to hire from a pool of lackeys and low IQ people. The woman who carries our mail here is a perfect example of a lazy dipstick who slacks whenever she can and even skips a part of her route from time to time just so she can get home early I suppose. I just happen to be on that section that's easy to skip.

There used to be a saying about the reliability of the USPS, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" well that's become a pathetic joke.

Bernie im with you on postal employees skipping part of route. Ive put mail in mail box early in morning , flag up and never picked up. CALLEd post office, nothing but butt #$$ excuses. USPS employees dont have to worry about getting fired

BernieB nailed it.

In my area, all of the rural mail delivery is done by contractors. They are not USPS employees.

LTRman I’ll respond by telling you I’m a Truck Driver and also in Law Enforcement just so you can bash me I’ve heard it all before have a blessed night bashing

I was about to say that I thought rural delivery was done by contract.

Who is paying them? Who do they have a contract with?

I would guess the USPS. No different than if you contract some one to build you something.

When someone puts a stamp on a letter or pays postage on a box they are paying for it to be shipped to the address on it in a reasonable amount of time, no matter who delivers it. If a contractor can not deliver mail to the correct address that he runs every day should he work there?

I would expect a 98% accuracy rate in getting the mail to the right box for a delivery driver who knows the route and has mail with legible addresses and mailboxes with legible addresses.

I really haven't had much trouble with stuff getting lost. Sometimes there are delays (especially when it hits Memphis) but I've not had anything lost. I print out all of my labels so maybe that helps. With some peoples chicken scratchin I'm surprised most of their mail doesn't get lost.

Yesterday I got the three pieces of mail that were my neighbors back on 3/6 again. I took them to the post office and they were gone for lunch. The even had a yellow sticky on one with my last name wrote on it. I am wondering if it will come back again. He has a PO box in a town of 350 people. You would think they would know he has a box in town.