Are you waiting on your mail?

[RC Storick]

NAH NAH NAH

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TT3lxggJDTs

This is so true! but funny

[Dan McEntee]

  OH DON"T GET ME STARTED ON THIS!!!!! I have hours of horror stories regarding bad postal service or lack of! Tampering of my mail. Late mail and bills getting to me just before they are due.  Mis-delivered mail. I'm waiting on a package right now that should have been here earlier this week but now no one knows where it is!! And don't forget the sky high rates!! About the only thing worse is the State of Missouri and how they keep screwing up the registration of my vehicles and my records, and then blame me for it!!
    Type at you later,
     Dan McEntee

[Dave Harmon]

Here's another one for ya.....

Tuesday...12/10/2024....
I placed an online order to a business in La Crosse, Wisconsin....
Wednesday they sent me an email confirming the order and provided a tracking number.
I immediately tracked it....
The provided tracking number showed delivery to an address in Ohio in November 2024....WHAT??
Obviously....an incorrect tracking number because the shipment had not been sent yet and I don't live in Ohio!
I called the post office and after finally getting them to understand that the picture they had of a package on a porch was in Ohio and not Oklahoma....they took some info from me yesterday and likely I'll never hear from the Post office again.
The person at the post office just did not want to understand that the shipper does not generate tracking numbers.
The POST OFFICE generates tracking numbers.

I contacted the shipper in Wisconsin and they are resending another item and told me if the first one arrives....donate it!!
In the past...I have had no problems with post office shipments and in fact I had preferred to use them or FedEx or Pirate Ship.
Never UPS.

[Steve Helmick]

On the contrary, I've had pretty decent and reliable service from the USPS and UPS, while FedEx has ALWAYS been a disaster. I've never tried Pirate Ship, but might in the future.  Steve

[Leonard Bourel]

Sure wish I had Mail service of any kind!

[Dave_Trible]

I really think it's about your own local post office more than anything else.    Where I used to live about 30 minutes from where I am now the mail service and service at the post office was always very good.   About 25 years there and nothing to complain about.   However we moved ( to really a higher-end area) and the mail service here has a lot of issues.  When I get notices about when packages are going to be delivered they about always are two or three days later.    Go to the post office to inquire and they shrug.    To put it mildly this particular and new post office is understaffed and in a sluggish mood most of the time.   It needs a new postmaster.   The new neighborhood has community mailboxes rather than each house having it's own box.   Last year someone came down the street at night- probably liquored up- and plowed the big box over.   The post office was almost three weeks getting a new box up.  We all had to travel to the post office to pick up mail during this time.   Most of the time they couldn't find your mail when you went or they seemed too busy to go look for it.   Again I'm sure the old post office would have handled this MUCH better,  and that was a local issue.

Dave

[Paul Smith]

I really think it's about your own local post office more than anything else.    Where I used to live about 30 minutes from where I am now the mail service and service at the post office was always very good.   About 25 years there and nothing to complain about.   However we moved ( to really a higher-end area) and the mail service here has a lot of issues.  When I get notices about when packages are going to be delivered they about always are two or three days later.    Go to the post office to inquire and they shrug.    To put it mildly this particular and new post office is understaffed and in a sluggish mood most of the time.   It needs a new postmaster.   The new neighborhood has community mailboxes rather than each house having it's own box.   Last year someone came down the street at night- probably liquored up- and plowed the big box over.   The post office was almost three weeks getting a new box up.  We all had to travel to the post office to pick up mail during this time.   Most of the time they couldn't find your mail when you went or they seemed too busy to go look for it.   Again I'm sure the old post office would have handled this MUCH better,  and that was a local issue.

Dave

I would be surprised if the USPS fixed it all.  As a residential home owner I maintain my own mail box.  I would expect that a subdivision common box would be the HOA's burden.

[Dave_Trible]

I would be surprised if the USPS fixed it all.  As a residential home owner I maintain my own mail box.  I would expect that a subdivision common box would be the HOA's burden.

In this case it was indeed the post office.  They also control all the keys.   We had to go to the post office and sign for the keys to our individual box.   The postman carries the master key to the whole box which also has an outgoing mail slot.  Now did the HOA have to pay to replace the box?  don't know.   My SUV was parked on the street that night not too far ahead of that box.   Maybe them hitting the mail box saved hitting the back of my car so it might have been lucky for me in the long haul.  The box is out in front of the next door neighbor's house.

Dave

[kevin king]

Sure wish I had Mail service of any kind!

Last Brodak order had a 60 dollar DHL import fee on top of the 30 dollars shipping.

[Rusty]

Boy, this is TIMELY!   I ordered my son a nice, brand new, Guy Harvey shirt 10 days ago.  The USPS site said delivery at the LATEST would be 12/20.   Well, it is Memphis Tennessee coming from Las Vegas and it says "not arriving on time."  They removed the delivery date completely from the tracking.   

I HOPE TRUMP SHUTS THE POST OFFICE DOWN and privatizes it.

[Dick Pacini]

I have used Pirate Ship a few times with good results.  They aren't actually a shipper, but an agent that can root out the best rates.  They give you a choice of shipper after the best rates have been found.  Then you pay for a label and print it out.  Then you take it to the selected shipper and drop it off.  Their software is easier to navigate than the Post Office.

[Mike Griffin]

Truth

[Dan McEntee]

   I don't receive bills in the mail in any consistent regularity. i usually turn the around and pay them immediately, sometimes the same day and next day at the minimum. I mailed in my gas bill payment a week before it was due, and that was only a day or two after I got it. It took a month to get there and only had to go across town, about ten or twelve miles!! This months bill showed a missed payment, so I paid that and sent it in a week before it was due (today) and it has not cleared the bank yet. getting something you bought and paid for is bad enough, but when you have to pay late charges that are NOT your fault, that is a problem!! I'm gonna call the gas company tomorrow and see if it at least got there today. I got a package today from an eBay seller in California who shipped it on the 13th. It only took two days to get to St. Louis, but it's been bouncing back and forth between the two distribution centers here in the area for the last 4 or 5 days!! This ain't the first time this has happened either!! Isn't there a song about how I long for the good old days!!
  Type at you later and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
  Dan McEntee

[Motorman]

Don't you use on line banking?

[Ken Culbertson]

There are a thousand reasons a package or letter gets delayed but only one that it gets there in time - dumb luck 

I actually lost a large (for a small company) customer over the USPS.  They insisted on sending us checks by mail and they never came on time.  Some took over a month, some never came at all.  Eventually they got tired of the stop payment and FedEx fees to replace the checks  .  For 10 years or so I have put at the bottom of all of our invoices a 5% discount it they will use anything other than USPS.

If ever there was a target for Musk and Friends it is the USPS. 

Ken

[Paul Smith]

The US Mail is one of the few Constitutionally legitimate functions of The Federal Government.  It is embedded in THE BODY of The Constitution, not just one of those flimsy and shaky Amendments.

As of now, when I shop around for package delivery services, the US Mail is often the low bidder.

I've been using the US Mail since stamps were 3 cents and there were penny post cards and the penny also bought the card itself.  If check from one payee got lost in mail all the time, I would look one step before the USPS.

[Paul Smith]

Sure wish I had Mail service of any kind!

Canadian businesses in Windsor have US PO boxes in Detroit and send a runner through The Tunnel every day.  They caution US customers to use the Detroit PO box only.

On the same note, if the PO box is in El Paso, you know where the mail is really going.

[GallopingGhostler]

US Post Office has the following advisory regarding shipments to Canada. Although Canada has ended their postal service strike, USPS is maintaining no shipments to Canada until further notice (attached). Canada appears to be clearing out the backlog of shipments hosed up during their employee strike.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/canada-suspension.htm

USPS is awaiting the backlog to clear, so shipments and letter mail to Canada will not be hindered.