I just received my second notice that they will not reimburse me for a package they failed to deliver. They said I can appeal, and provide additional info and proof as to why they should pay me back a whole $50. It really is not worth my time. But the principle of the matter is. They are pissing me off. I think I'll just extract my $50 in other ways.

I have already sent copies of the check, receipts etc. What the hell else do the require? The package and its contents never made it out of their facility in the Denver metro area. They must have some really slimy folks working for them these days.

My local PO branch is not only incompetent and lazy, but these fuckers are hostile on top of that. Been that way for years with these bitches. Screw-ups are too numerous to list.

I still have a package of electrical connectors for my business sitting in originating hub in Ohio.

Its been sitting there for six weeeks now.

I'll add my tale of woe.

I placed an order with Freedom Tactical for some M2 upgrade parts and they sent the order USPS signature required.

No one was home when the package arrived and the postal worker left the paper with your options on it. I filled it out and put it the mailbox. This was Thursday.

Friday morning I check my email at work and there's one confirming the package was delivered. Asked the wife and nope its not there.

I checked the tracking number and it confirms delivery as well. So I am sitting here on a cold rainy Saturday thinking there's going to be $400 worth of problems if it isn't delivered today.

I can't imagine how fun it'll be to unfuck this if I have to.

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Originally posted by Underdog:
I'll add my tale of woe.

I placed an order with Freedom Tactical for some M2 upgrade parts and they sent the order USPS signature required.

No one was home when the package arrived and the postal worker left the paper with your options on it. I filled it out and put it the mailbox. This was Thursday.

Friday morning I check my email at work and there's one confirming the package was delivered. Asked the wife and nope its not there.

I checked the tracking number and it confirms delivery as well. So I am sitting here on a cold rainy Saturday thinking there's going to be $400 worth of problems if it isn't delivered today.

I can't imagine how fun it'll be to unfuck this if I have to.

So, you checked the option to waive the signature required? If that's the case, they delivered it, and it got stolen from the porch, then I think you're SOL.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Underdog:
I'll add my tale of woe.

I placed an order with Freedom Tactical for some M2 upgrade parts and they sent the order USPS signature required.

No one was home when the package arrived and the postal worker left the paper with your options on it. I filled it out and put it the mailbox. This was Thursday.

Friday morning I check my email at work and there's one confirming the package was delivered. Asked the wife and nope its not there.

I checked the tracking number and it confirms delivery as well. So I am sitting here on a cold rainy Saturday thinking there's going to be $400 worth of problems if it isn't delivered today.

I can't imagine how fun it'll be to unfuck this if I have to.

So, you checked the option to waive the signature required? If that's the case, they delivered it, and it got stolen from the porch, then I think you're SOL.

Tracking showed delivered Friday AM before the mail even came. USPS delivers around 2PM here.

My son mailed some tee shirts to his friend in SW Virginia at the end of summer (we live near Washington DC but in VA). He just got them this week. 6 weeks.

I avoid using USPS whenever possible (electronic payments when available, email vs snail mail, delivery of packages by FEDEX or UPS when possible). I have noticed more local businesses and governments are utilizing electronic invoices and payment systems vs USPS mail). In my neighborhood, USPS packages often misrouted to the wrong address--FACEBOOK page for local neighborhood association provides some ability for people to post about missing packages, allowing return of packages to the correct recipient.

A guy who was buying something from me mailed me a USPSMO from his local post office in rural Oregon last June. Tracking showed it arriving in the Portland, OR sorting center a few days later - seemingly never to re-emerge. A few weeks ago Informed Delivery showed an unexpected package arriving at my PO box. I tracked it and it had left a sorting center in West Palm Beach, FL and taking 3 days to work its way up the east coast to my post office. When I picked it up - lo and behold - it was the Oregon money order finally arriving 137 days after being mailed. No clue how it got from OR->FL and it was addressed perfectly.

The buyer and I had made other payment arrangements so I let him know and shredded the MO.

Unbelieveable.

Yea, I hate the people in the Post Office too. I used to live in this little town in California called Mill Valley.

When you went to the post office, there was always a line of people. The Post Office people would work as slow as they possibly could.

They would work for 30 minutes, help 2 customers, then go on break in the back. Didn't matter how long the line was. Any other business, a manager would have been trying to keep the line shorter.

The worst part was, if you asked them if they could get someone from the back to help move the line along they would start yelling about how they wouldn't help you and they would tell you to go to the back of the line for being rude.

Plus, I think they all had a little excel sheet they filled out every 15 minutes with -- I only have 16 years and 220 days more then I can retire and I will get x amount of money.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, man, don't get me started. I've never seen this kind of bullshit from the postal service. Last week, my wife wanted to send a friend a birthday card. I put it in the mailbox and put the flag up. Later, I go out to check the mail. The flag is still up, the card is still in the box, and so is the day's mail delivery! Lazy fucking assholes!!

Fuckin' useless, these people are. Lazy and incompetent in equal measure. And that's just for starters. I'm not even going to get into it, because I'll get really riled, but in all the decades I've been getting mail, I've never seen this degree of laziness and incompetence from the USPS, and that is saying something.

There are lots of truly lazy ass and woke mother fuckers working in the USPS, who would seem to provide better value by living on the dole sitting on their asses all day in front of the tv. And yes, I've seen that shit you're talking about Para. Unfuckingbelievable. For anything important or expensive I ship via fedex or ups. I've even had restricted delivery signature required fucked up more than a few times, lazy asses. And guess who's paying for all that JUNK mail ?? Lovely, just lovely.

I'll just leave this right here...

https://player.vimeo.com/video/286446657

(Crap, guess I can not get a vimeo video to embed.)

Note the carrier took out the leaf bags on the first day, and then came back the next day to finish the job.

What was interesting is they backed out of my driveway. One time they did a K turn in the driveway and I unfortunately did not save the video.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: steve495, November 08, 2021 07:22 AM

I post often in the what's your deal on the USPS.
They hire the most incompetent people and the union protects them.

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Originally posted by old dino:

It looks like your video did embed ... at the top of this page. Thought maybe was my browser but shows same both on Firefox, Chrome as well as my cellphone.

Well I have not seen that before. I removed the code from my post, but your embedded post has the same code. Can you edit your post to remove the embed code? The video seems still pinned up at the top of the page.

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Originally posted by old dino:
Sure ... can you give me kinda an idea what I need to do to remove the code ?

Go to edit your response, and remove my quote that is in there. Remove everything between

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Originally posted by steve495: and the

Here is my local USPS in action (this is from our weekly crime blotter)

Nov. 6 (4:35 p.m.) A witness reported suspicious activity that he observed while at Village on the Park located at 400 E. Parkwood Avenue at approximately 3:30 p.m. The witness advised that he observed a US Mail truck parked outside near Regions Bank. The witness observed a postal service employee exit the truck with a carton of mail. The postal employee walked over to the dumpster and deposited all of the mall into the dumpster before driving away. The mail items recovered from the dumpster included various types of mail including, vehicle registrations, advertisements, small packages as well as bills and invoices. The witness was able to capture a picture of the postal employee.

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
Nov. 6 (4:35 p.m.)

Yep. The postman wanted to go home on time, and said "screw ya'll's mail".


Reminds me of an issue I had with the postman at my last house for a period of time. We were in one of the last subdivisions on their route. Whenever I had a package that showed Out For Delivery on a given day, there was a decent chance that it would suddenly be marked "Unable to deliver - Location inaccessible" at the end of the day. Then they'd deliver it the following day.

There was never anything inaccessible about my house. No fences. No outside dogs. No vehicles blocking anything. It was an easily accessible house in the middle of a subdivision. They merely wanted to skip their final deliveries, cover their tracks, and just do it tomorrow.

So here it is again. Every day I get the daily email on what's coming. Seems like a wonderful feature that they add with minimal cost because all mail is scanned and emails have zero cost.

So every day I look at the email, and 90% of the time it is just ads and such. Every now and again I have checks, or other important things coming. They show up on the email, but dam it, they don't show up in my mail box. In the end, I can contact the sender (state of Texas for vehicle stickers etc) but this evolves phone calls, waiting on line and delays for what you are expecting. Who ever is in charge of this needs to go.

Several weeks ago, I came home to find 500 Medium size Priority Mail boxes setting on my front porch. Whoever delivered them, drove across the front yard leaving ruts in the grass.

They're getting worse... *sigh*

Ordered a magazine guide from Smith & Alexander for my Kimber Custom II GFO last Tuesday. He said he'd try to get it in the mail Wednesday. I asked for, and agreed to pay extra for, Priority Mail.

Kept checking USPS Informed Delivery for something to show up. When nothing showed up by today, I gave him a call. He tracked-down and read me the tracking number. I punched it in. Lo and behold: It was sitting outside in our mailbox.

UPS has had tracking nailed for years. USPS' tracking, instead of getting better, is getting worse

(I'm kicking myself for bothering the guy. I meant to check the mailbox and forgot.)