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Originally posted by got2hav1:
Glad you got your package. I ordered two CZ magazines on Dec. 4th. Shipped on the 10th of Dec. I still don't have them. I live in NC, the shipment got to Raleigh on Jan. 7th. Yesterday I tracked it again and my package arrived in Washington DC dist. center.. I have no idea

UPDATE: Package is now back at the Raleigh Dist Center. Guess it wanted to go to the inaugration yesterday. DOGE might want to start with USPS cause that routing is highly inefficent. RANT OVER

egregore. So people getting shot and killed in a workplace is funny? People committing suicide is funny.

Still waiting on my meds which were prescribed the sixth of January. The message continues to be arrinving soon.

Buy a lottery ticket. Me, I'm dreading my next trip to the PO where we will once again try to get our mail situation un f'ed.
Believe it will be about round 5.
Recently visited the retirement community we lived in until October. New owner at old address is still getting our mail randomly. Not talking junk mail, the limited but important stuff. Been to the PO on both ends multiple times yet it still continues to NOT get forwarded. Right now I have a missing Medicare card and a missing refund check (4 figures) from my property insurance. Does anyone at the PO give a F? Nope.
I'm told the forward is in place and should be working. Well no shit, but guess what? It isn't working.

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Originally posted by StarTraveler:
My package, which was supposed to arrive last Thursday....

After days of being lost, the postal service found my package yesterday in Cincinnati, 100 miles from its previous location in Louisville (considering where it was coming from, I'm not sure why it was in either of those places, though it might have been rerouted due to weather). It was scanned as departed but then scanned back in 14 minutes later.

This morning, nearly 24 hours later, it shows as having departed again. Maybe by this Thursday?

Would imagine that the weather is affecting postal delivery and transport especially in the south where we are ill prepared for snow and ice, but in a few days, that will all be gone.

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Originally posted by HRK:

Would imagine that the weather is affecting postal delivery

Neither rain nor snow ...

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by HRK:

Would imagine that the weather is affecting postal delivery

Neither rain nor snow ...

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Actually, that isn't the motto of the USPS....



The U.S. Postal Service has no official motto. Nope, it’s not this: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” But we certainly appreciate the sentiment.

About that motto…

Those words are engraved on the front of the James A. Farley Post Office in NYC, set in stone by the architectural firm that built it. The phrase is taken from an ancient book by the Greek historian Herodotus and refers to messengers in the Persian Empire.

The phrase comes from book 8, paragraph 98, of The Persian Wars by Herodotus, a Greek historian. During the wars between the Greeks and Persians (500-449 B.C.), the Persians operated a system of mounted postal couriers who served with great fidelity.

The popular belief that Herodotus’s description of the Persian postal service is about the U.S. Postal Service is a tribute to the hundreds of thousands of men and women who have delivered the mail reliably and dependably, through all conditions, for centuries

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The popular belief that Herodotus’s description of the Persian postal service is about the U.S. Postal Service is a tribute to the hundreds of thousands of men and women who have delivered the mail reliably and dependably, through all conditions, for centuries

Well... up until around the turn of the century, 25 years ago, it was a fitting tribute.

From Neumann the postman on Seinfeld...