Could be my location but I have never really have had any issues with any of the delivery services. Sure the weather delays a package a day or two but I normally don't order things that are of an immediate need. I most likely wouldn't even notice a package being several days late if it were not for email notifications.

One thing Ogie apparently fails to understand is when you order something from Amazon, they tell you who the shipper is AND give you a tracking number. Unless I order something large that UPS needs to handle, EVERYTHING to my address is sent USPS.

Just checked Amazon on a few things, and one thing that has been delayed several times now is a new mailbox. Ordered on Dec. 4th, it is apparently still in Nashville and won't arrive until next week now. And yes, tracking shows that USPS has it...

Even when I bought hearing aids out of Orlando (not an Amazon purchase), they shipped DHL, who then immediately handed them off to USPS. It took about 10 days to make the trip up to Huntsville, and I could have easily driven down and got them and be back home before they ever got here! Tracking showed they left Orlando and travelled to just outside Atlanta, then back to Orlando, then back to Atlanta again, then over to Memphis before coming back east to Huntsville. Insanity!

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Originally posted by corsair:

At my post office it is mostly foreigners

At my Post Office, after the last round of retirements, they are all foreigners - some with hijabs...

The taxpayers will take it in the shorts. Again. I recently asked forum members if USPS went away if they’d miss it. Most of the replies were in defense of USPS. Until something changes, people love their cheap junk mail.

It’s almost as if they actually believe that the cost is only the price of postage.

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Originally posted by bronicabill:
One thing Ogie apparently fails to understand is when you order something from Amazon, they tell you who the shipper is AND give you a tracking number. Unless I order something large that UPS needs to handle, EVERYTHING to my address is sent USPS.

Just checked Amazon on a few things, and one thing that has been delayed several times now is a new mailbox. Ordered on Dec. 4th, it is apparently still in Nashville and won't arrive until next week now. And yes, tracking shows that USPS has it...

My friend took a special assignment in your area, the picture he sent someone was the entire PO parking lot filled with pallets of Amazon parcels. He said he worked till 11pm the first day, haven't heard anymore yet.

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It was never intended to be self sustaining. How do you send a piece of mail to Alaska or even on the other side of the country for the price of a stamp? Is the military self sustaining?

How do you compare the post office to the military? The post office takes in money for services. The military? Not hardly.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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It was never intended to be self sustaining. How do you send a piece of mail to Alaska or even on the other side of the country for the price of a stamp? Is the military self sustaining?

How do you compare the post office to the military? The post office takes in money for services. The military? Not hardly.

The military takes in huge amounts of taxpayer money, something the Post Offices does not do.

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Originally posted by SevenPlusOne:
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My friend took a special assignment in your area, the picture he sent someone was the entire PO parking lot filled with pallets of Amazon parcels. He said he worked till 11pm the first day, haven't heard anymore yet.

Not really surprised. Pissed off, but not surprised! Looking directly at the USPS tracking site, all of my delayed orders appear to be stalled locally in the Huntsville area.

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Originally posted by Ogie:
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The military takes in huge amounts of taxpayer money, something the Post Offices does not do.

I'm getting tired of hearing you defend them. At this point in time, the USPS totally and completely SUCKS!!! No more excuses please!

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Originally posted by bronicabill:

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Originally posted by Ogie:
<<snip>>
The military takes in huge amounts of taxpayer money, something the Post Offices does not do.

I'm getting tired of hearing you defend them. At this point in time, the USPS totally and completely SUCKS!!! No more excuses please!

Yes, the military takes in huge amounts of taxpayer money... and if we get out of NATO and stay out of Europe, it could be reduced.

But, the Post Office is NOT self-sufficient and also takes huge amounts of taxpayer money. It's just not as much as the DOD and they are supposed to be self-sufficient.

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Originally posted by Ogie:


So are you okay with getting rid of the 2nd Amendment too?

You really think that the Second Amendment is the same as the post office? Or are you just trolling people while drinking?

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by Ogie:


So are you okay with getting rid of the 2nd Amendment too?

You really think that the Second Amendment is the same as the post office? Or are you just trolling people while drinking?

I think you missed the point. I notice that you didn't also quote the remark that I had responded to. Here it is:

"It was important when written but that is one thing that needs to be changed."

It appeared to me that some people would like to make the Constitution a "living, breathing thing, one that "evolves" with modern society. So in my mind, changing or modifying Article I is no different than changing or reinterpreting Article II. Perhaps I was being too subtle for you.

Oh I read you just fine. You’re a statist trying to pretend that you favor the Constitution. In the same sort of fashion that all of a sudden the left is worried sick about “democracy” after years of turning blind eye to abuses, because at the time the right people are being abused.

Oh, and I’m sure it matters not to you, but the REASON I pruned your jibberish is because admin here doesn’t like a bunch of nested quotes.

We all get your point. We just need to shut up and throw money at our government betters. How dare we demand some actual competence.

(Next up, you’ll choose from-)
A- “You hate postal workers”
B- “Well, you work in government (insert straw man comparison here)”
C- “bUT ItS thE cONstUTioN”

Or some combination there of.

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Originally posted by jljones:
Oh I read you just fine. You’re a statist trying to pretend that you favor the Constitution. In the same sort of fashion that all of a sudden the left is worried sick about “democracy” after years of turning blind eye to abuses, because at the time the right people are being abused.

Oh, and I’m sure it matters not to you, but the REASON I pruned your jibberish is because admin here doesn’t like a bunch of nested quotes.

We all get your point. We just need to shut up and throw money at our government betters. How dare we demand some actual competence.

(Next up, you’ll choose from-)
A- “You hate postal workers”
B- “Well, you work in government (insert straw man comparison here)”
C- “bUT ItS thE cONstUTioN”

Or some combination there of.

Wow!

You got all of that from my previous remarks? You really do have a problem with reading comprehension. Maybe you are the one that has been drinking, not me.

Shit. Sorry. I knew I was forgetting something.

D- “The problem will be that I don’t understand your perspective not the possibility that your perspective is deeply flawed”

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Originally posted by jljones:
Shit. Sorry. I knew I was forgetting something.

D- “The problem will be that I don’t understand your perspective not the possibility that your perspective is deeply flawed”

LOL... good one JLJones, but you shoulda known he'd have needed that one on the list! "You just didn't understand what I was trying to say!" (add in something about reading comprehension, etc.)

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Originally posted by SevenPlusOne:
My friend took a special assignment in your area, the picture he sent someone was the entire PO parking lot filled with pallets of Amazon parcels. He said he worked till 11pm the first day, haven't heard anymore yet.

Any idea if he is working the local postal distribution center on Wall Hwy out near the airport? I meant to drive by there after you posted this but was having a really bad day health-wise and didn't make it. May try tomorrow after my morning visit to the neurologist to see if I have a brain...

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LOL... good one JLJones, but you shoulda known he'd have needed that one on the list! "You just didn't understand what I was trying to say!" (add in something about reading comprehension, etc.) Wink

I guess I really got under your skin. I hope I didn't hurt your feeling.

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Originally posted by Ogie:

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LOL... good one JLJones, but you shoulda known he'd have needed that one on the list! "You just didn't understand what I was trying to say!" (add in something about reading comprehension, etc.) Wink

I guess I really got under your skin. I hope I didn't hurt your feeling.

LOL... you're joking, right? I'm laughing AT you, or is your reading comprehension not any good!

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Originally posted by bronicabill:

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Originally posted by Ogie:

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LOL... good one JLJones, but you shoulda known he'd have needed that one on the list! "You just didn't understand what I was trying to say!" (add in something about reading comprehension, etc.) Wink

I guess I really got under your skin. I hope I didn't hurt your feeling.

LOL... you're joking, right? I'm laughing AT you, or is your reading comprehension not any good!

Keep it coming. You just keep showing your ass.

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Originally posted by Ogie:
<<snip>>
Keep it coming. You just keep showing your ass.

Kettle, meet pot...

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On a different note, apparently Amazon appears they are screwed by USPS and have started automatically cancelling and refunding all of the delayed orders I had with them! Yikes!!!