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This was in front of my neighborhood Thursday afternoon:

http://www.wbrz.com/news/photo...d-afternoon-traffic/

This was before the rain:



 
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Originally posted by honestlou:
This was in front of my neighborhood Thursday afternoon:

http://www.wbrz.com/news/photo...d-afternoon-traffic/

This was before the rain:





Some of that stuff looks like The Advocate pages.


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I received the green card yesterday from a certified letter I sent in July. The green card itself is postmarked July 25. From within my own state. The USPS website still has no tracking information.




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According to the latest tracking, the mail has reached it destination. Feeling better that it arrived, but it was confusing going back and forth from Philly to Newark. In reading the posts, maybe they did give it to FedEx and hence the explanation why it went to Philly and Newark more than once.


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According to the latest tracking, the mail has reached it destination. Feeling better that it arrived, but it was confusing going back and forth from Philly to Newark. In reading the posts, maybe they did give it to FedEx and hence the explanation why it went to Philly and Newark more than once.


It is more likely that your letter got bounced around unnecessarily. That is unfortunate.
 
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They claim my Casio watches from Dave should have been delivered on Friday. It's Monday and they never arrived.


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This was Friday, not our normal mail lady. I realize the package probably goes through worse in processing, but doing it in public for all to see is unnecessary.




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Seeing that video makes me thankful for the woman who delivers the mail here. If we have a package she drives up the driveway (350 yards or so), honks the horn by the house. If no one comes out, since she knows we don't use the front door very often, so she puts the package and any other mail in a plastic bag and places it by the back door.




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I only once had a problem with USPS one time, nearly two decades ago. I was mailing a gift to a friend internationally. The nice lady at the counter measured the box and told me I had enough postage. It came back more postage required as one of the dimensions was something like 12.001 inches, not 12 in. When I walked back into the post office, the same lady was at the counter. She took the package from me, and said, "I can't believe they screwed that up. I'm paying the extra postage for you myself."
 
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I think there are some really good postal workers, probably about half of them.

The problem is their is very little oversight, guidance,leadership, and disciplinary actions for the other 1/2 that just doesn't care. I think a lot of it is typical government red tape and hoops you have to go though. Just look at their tracking system, I can never figure out what on earth it's even tracking, because it's useless!

Where I lived before here was in a normal city neighborhood, with houses 20' apart. The lady was always jabbering on her blue tooth to someone on the phone the entire time she delivered mail AND she would do the front half of her route one day and the back half the other day. So you literally got mail every other day, this went on for the years and years that I lived there. I lived in a 4 unit building and nobody got mail (or the neighbors) every other day.


I had another one at a condo I lived in prior to that, that would just send back a bunch of my mail (a lot of them were checks I was waiting for) every 3-4 months. My customers would get them, call me and text me a picture of the envelope, and it was addressed as clear as day, the postmaster wouldn't do anything about it. One customer received his check back 9 months later!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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The problem is their is very little oversight,

Huh? almost everything I do, everyday, is to satisfy the micromanagement of the Post office, at the expense of efficiency.



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Am I missing something here..?

I see in-bound & out-bound scans at all the facilities your letter progressed though.


He sent a letter from south jersey ~50miles east of Philly.
It went to newark nj 70 miles north of him. Then it went to Philly (the destination city), then it went back to Newark. If he folded the letter in to a paper plane and threw it, it would get there faster.


Hell, that is fast service. I ordered something (maybe 4 years ago, and it bounced back and forth between the same to "processing points" for something like 10 days. That thread got a lot of laughs here on the forum.


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