I'll just drop this in right here. On a Wednesday, she started the job. Came back the next day to finish it off. (Note the leaf bags.)

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
If you want something shipped for free via a refund, send something guaranteed next day with USPS. Works every time

I sent a Priority USPS letter to my daughter, tracked it, the moment it was delivered I told my daughter to go to her mailbox to get it (condo complex with a central mail facility). She did, it wasn't there. The local USPS checked the mail box that day, said it was lost, I should file a claim, which it did.

My claim was denied. I appealed, about four months later I got a check for ~$15.

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Originally posted by Tn226:
Might be a good place for this:

"I paid $110 for PRIORITY and it took EIGHT DAYS to get my parcel from downtown San Francisco to the San Francisco airport, a distance of 14.8 miles.

A turtle could have done that in four days. Seriously, I looked it up. An ordinary box turtle cruises 0.17 mph; it could make it from the Rincon Center post office to the cargo terminal of SFO in 87 hours. The United States Post Service took 179 hours to make the same trip.

And I had to wait in line at the post office. There is no line at the turtle store. I could have popped in, bought a turtle, strapped the parcel to its shell, and it would have gotten there in less than half the time.

Can I get a refund here? A partial refund? A complimentary box of turtle food? Anything?"

https://www.esquire.com/news-p...ps-complaint-letter/

Last summer I had a package that took six weeks (IIRC) to get from San Francisco to San Jose, about 45 miles, which is about 4 feet per minute.

Also last summer I sent a pkg of books, CA to Utah, USPS Media rate. It was in a small heavy duty UPS shipping box, well packaged and taped. It never arrived, they tracked it, said it was somewhere in the Mid-West, IIRC Iowa. Then a couple of weeks later they told me the pkg was in "recovery(?)", meaning it was lost/destroyed. And recovery is handled out of Atlanta GA (again IIRC). Could I send a list of books, by title, author, ISBN, color of book cover, maybe they could recover some of the books. I did send them a list of the books, incl author and title. But good news. A couple of weeks ago they sent me an email, don't give up, they are still looking for the books.

I talked to our retired Post Master, great person. He said he was shipping all his Christmas presents UPS and FEDEX.

Maybe Amazon ought to be delivering the mail. At least they don’t leave packages leaning against a tree in the front yard.

I would never ever send anything more than a postcard using USPS. UPS or FedEx. Get it done right the first time.

Or you could have driven it yourself

I ship a lot of stuff thru USPS, Priority and First Class,

and some UPS Ground,

customer pays for item
I ship item,
send customer tracking number,

wash rinse repeat,

once in a blue moon UPS will have a delay status for something, then in 24 hrs that goes away, (I only know this cause a customer will ask me instead of UPS)

Priority and First Class have treated me and my customers well, rarely an issue,

All of our mail goes to a “processing center” 300 miles away.

And get this. If one of the white mail trucks needs service, they put it on a flat bed truck and take it 200 miles away, and then truck it back.

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And get this. If one of the white mail trucks needs service, they put it on a flat bed truck and take it 200 miles away, and then truck it back.

^^^^^^^^^
Yep. They have their very own mechanic shop!!!

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Originally posted by lyman:
I ship a lot of stuff thru USPS, Priority and First Class,

and some UPS Ground,

customer pays for item
I ship item,
send customer tracking number,

wash rinse repeat,

once in a blue moon UPS will have a delay status for something, then in 24 hrs that goes away, (I only know this cause a customer will ask me instead of UPS)

Priority and First Class have treated me and my customers well, rarely an issue,

You are a special person.

Years ago I was CFO of a consulting firm in CA. We had a client who would mail their monthly check (regular mail) on the last Fri of each month. Without exception we would get it in our mail the following Monday, two days later. We had a subsidiary office an hour away. Mail between the two offices would take at least a week.

We have kids in Nashville TN and Portland OR. Priority is delivered in Portland before it is delivered in Nashville?

We are in Southern IN....2 1/2 hours away from Nashville???

One problem is that airlines have cut routes and flights and mail moves on those planes. Space is tight and certainly, things wait.

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Originally posted by jljones:
All of our mail goes to a “processing center” 300 miles away.

And get this. If one of the white mail trucks needs service, they put it on a flat bed truck and take it 200 miles away, and then truck it back.

After the anthrax attack in 2001, all letter mail must be scanned for Anthrax, which is done at the processing facility.
They used to be able to keep "local" mail at the town PO, but not anymore.

the post office is so efficient here in Tucson that you mail a letter here, they bag it and send it to Phoenix, sort it, send it back to Tucson and deliver it...

tell me how that is efficient - or even intelligent?

Here is my all time favorite. Well, so far anyway. I'm sure I will find one even more pathetic.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/5dNDdYp5Moc

When I was kid our mailman crashed the truck into our garbage cans every day. It was a battle of spite. Eventually we changed the game, rather than moving the cans we moved the mailbox, took away his joy. lol

Long ago when they did away with local mail and everything went to a centralized center, the writing was on the wall. Now I take a letter to into the post office and drop in in the box, addressed to to a PO Box literally feet away, and it goes in a truck and is shipped close to an hour away, only to come back a few days later to make that journey of mere feet.

I can see there came a point where sorting the incoming mail became time/cost prohibited. But is 2020, the world has changed, just how much incoming mail can they be getting?

Personally, I've been trying to figure out why the USPS' bar code system is so bad that; it allows for a package to incur a 36 hour delay (20%) in delivery time.

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Originally posted by cas:

I take a letter to into the post office and drop in in the box, addressed to to a PO Box literally feet away, and it goes in a truck and is shipped close to an hour away, only to come back a few days later to make that journey of mere feet.

The Post Office in the small town where I work, has two mail slots in the lobby: one for local (same zip code) and the other for everything else.

The local stuff does not make the round trip to the regional center.

I had a certified letter, which needed to travel 90 miles, take 10 days to deliver.