SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  What's Your Deal!    USPS announces new service LOL
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
USPS announces new service LOL Login/Join 
Member
posted
Considering the efficiency of their tracking system lets now introduce a new feature which will enhance your experience. Proof that the USPS is tone deaf.
Here is the story:
http://www.npr.org/sections/al...-before-you-get-home
 
Posts: 17177 | Location: Stuck at home | Registered: January 02, 2015Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Very efficient Roll Eyes

My tracking for an order from Ozark Holsters shows "Estimated Delivery Date Thursday April 6".

The program doesn't even realize it's now Saturday April 8 (and it wasn't in today's mail either).

Government efficiency at it's best Roll Eyes
 
Posts: 214 | Registered: December 29, 2016Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
It's the post office.... what could go wrong Wink
 
Posts: 1299 | Location: Arizona | Registered: January 31, 2014Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of mikeyspizza
posted Hide Post
I was one of the pilot users in Virginia in 2014. It worked ok, only images of flat mail showed up in the email. No real need for it unless you suspect your mail is being stolen. Most of the mail I get is junk mail. If you can ID a piece of mail by the return address, and you are waiting for something important, then this gives you a heads up that it's pretty near to being delivered.
 
Posts: 4006 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: August 16, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Press hard,
Three copies
posted Hide Post
I've had this for almost two years as well as a beta I guess. Generally only half the flat mail is scanned for viewing. And in typical USPS fashion occasionally nothing shows as scanned despite the box full of mail. One thing that has changed in the past two weeks is the email has usually came around 0830, but lately it comes in the afternoon, after the mails delivered. Overall I have no real complaints from the USPS service I receive.



A Veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."
 
Posts: 2200 | Location: VA | Registered: June 12, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Don't Panic
Picture of joel9507
posted Hide Post
quote:

quote:
Users will have the option of getting an email with photos of the front of card- and letter-size mail pieces that are due to arrive that day, or a day or two later.

Yeah, that sounds like the USPS. We have it, but can't really predict when it will actually be delivered. Wink
 
Posts: 15001 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: October 15, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Ball Haulin'
Picture of entropy
posted Hide Post
Everyone complains about the USPS. However, if you sit back, take a look at the enormity of it all, how stuff is sorted and delivered...its really a bargain.


--------------------------------------
"There are things we know. There are things we dont know. Then there are the things we dont know that we dont know."
 
Posts: 10079 | Location: At the end of the gravel road. | Registered: November 02, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Maybe it's just me, but I really don't want every piece of mail I receive to be digitized and probably saved to some enormous database at one of the alphabet soup agencies.


-------------
$
 
Posts: 7655 | Location: Mid-Michigan, USA | Registered: February 17, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of SevenPlusOne
posted Hide Post
Some people sure do have a lot of time to waste.



"Ninja kick the damn rabbit"
 
Posts: 4611 | Location: Oklahoma | Registered: October 11, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of sleepla8er
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by the_sandman_454:
Maybe it's just me, but I really don't want every piece of mail I receive to be digitized and probably saved to some enormous database at one of the alphabet soup agencies.


The USPS had a long time surveillance system in place called "Mail Covers." At the request of law enforcement officials, US Postal Workers record information on the outside of letters and parcels before delivery. Opening US Mail would require a warrant, recording what is on the outside of the item does not.

In 2001 following the Anthrax attacks that killed five, the surveillance program grew in to what is now called the "Mail Isolation and Tracking System." Using high speed cameras, the USPS photographs the outside of every item it it delivers.
 
Posts: 2852 | Location: San Diego, CA  | Registered: July 14, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
quote:
The USPS had a long time surveillance system in place called "Mail Covers." At the request of law enforcement officials, US Postal Workers record information on the outside of letters and parcels before delivery. Opening US Mail would require a warrant, recording what is on the outside of the item does not.

In 2001 following the Anthrax attacks that killed five, the surveillance program grew in to what is now called the "Mail Isolation and Tracking System." Using high speed cameras, the USPS photographs the outside of every item it it delivers.

Thanks for posting this. I had no idea. A guy I know from AT&T told me that pretty much everything is accessible to the government if they want it. He said it went back to the Reagan years. Who knows. Glad I am not paranoid.
 
Posts: 17177 | Location: Stuck at home | Registered: January 02, 2015Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of SIG 229R
posted Hide Post
I would sincerly hope they would get what they already do right before trying to add something new.


SigP229R
Harry Callahan "A man has got to know his limitations".
Teddy Roosevelt "Talk soft carry a big stick"
I Cor10: 13 "1611KJV"
 
Posts: 6066 | Registered: March 04, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Don't Panic
Picture of joel9507
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by SIG 229R:
I would sincerly hope they would get what they already do right before trying to add something new.

^^^This.

For example: about half the stamped mail that comes to my house doesn't get cancelled. Been that way for years now. Doesn't matter if they're coming from near or far or in small envelopes or big ones.

And it's not like this mail isn't getting processed - they have the little stickers on the bottom with Zip+4 bar codes, and apparently, according to the above, are probably also getting their pictures taken.

But cancelling while they're in the machines getting processed and photographed? Apparently that's too hard to do all the time. I can't imagine this is random. Maybe they're saving on cancellation ink...maybe they don't like the idea of putting an actual date and location on the mail. Seems very odd.

In the old days, the USPS wanted a used stamp to be very clearly marked and made un-reusable. I guess now they don't care so much.
 
Posts: 15001 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: October 15, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  What's Your Deal!    USPS announces new service LOL

© SIGforum 2024