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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 ...

Link

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...

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

Maybe by this Thursday?

Nope! A full seven days late (from the original USPS projection), my package finally arrived at the regional distribution center late Thursday afternoon.

As of this morning, tracking is showing that it's still there.

Maybe tomorrow?

Louisville USPS is in critical condition.
https://www.wdrb.com/news/usps...1d-7f0a99012535.html

USPS employees show piles of packages, 'total chaos' inside Louisville facility

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Inside the United States Postal Services' regional facility on Gardiner Lane in Louisville, packages and mail — many long past due to their destination — fill bins as workers try to clear a backlog created by staffing shortages and icy routes.

An employee of the facility, who wants to remain anonymous, showed pictures and videos from inside the facility weeks after nearly a foot a snow and a layer of ice coated much of the Louisville area, helping lead to a backlog of mail is still stuck at the main post office.

"It's so messed up in here," another employee said. "It's unreal."

Dozens of complaints for more than a week tell the same story: Packages show they're stuck at the Gardiner Lane Post Office with no signs of when it'll be delivered. The USPS isn't giving much information on the cause of the problem or when it'll be resolved.

Susan Wright, strategic communications specialist for USPS, declined a request Wednesday to speak to the postmaster in Louisville, blaming the delays on weather.

Louisville residents said tracking on their USPS packages show the mail is stuck at the Gardiner Lane location with no update on when it'll be delivered. People are still waiting on Christmas gifts, checks, medication and more.

"It was like this before the weather even came," a USPS employee said. "It's going to be a long while — a long while. This postal office is packed with mail. It's ridiculous.

"... There's no order, nothing. It's total chaos."

USPS won't say how backed up the Gardiner Lane facility with several semitrucks arriving each day. Employees say they think it could be months before the issue is resolved.

"Last week, there was over 50 (semis) full of mail ... and they have packages in the barn," an employee said. "They are throwing people's packages in the barn."

Employees say the barn is an extra storage area, which is frustrating as employees working there.

"We still have Christmas packages still in here," an employee said.

The employee shared pictures of broken equipment with signs showing they can't be used and forklifts that don't work. Some dock doors are broken too. USPS typically rents extra equipment and brings in more workers around the holidays, and an employee said none of that happened.

"We're doing the best we can do that we're told by management," an employee said. "That's all we can do."

US Congressman Morgan McGarvey said on social media in response to the mail issues, "I know we're all waiting on mail in Louisville right now. This needs to get fixed. My team and I contacted USPS to get answers and address the backlog ASAP."

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"It was like this before the weather even came," a USPS employee said. "It's going to be a long while — a long while. This postal office is packed with mail. It's ridiculous.

"... There's no order, nothing. It's total chaos."

USPS won't say how backed up the Gardiner Lane facility with several semitrucks arriving each day. Employees say they think it could be months before the issue is resolved.

"Last week, there was over 50 (semis) full of mail ... and they have packages in the barn," an employee said. "They are throwing people's packages in the barn."

This wouldn't happen at UPS.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
Louisville USPS is in critical condition.

Thanks, doublesharp. What that article describes might explain at least part of why my package is running late. It showed arrived in Louisville (a day late due to weather) on January 15th, was never scanned out, and appeared in Cincinnati on or around the 20th.

Unrelated but a friend in Chicago texted me on 1/23 they receieved our Christmas card postmarked from Pensacola 12/18. WTF ?!

Explains why my mail into Frankfort is over two weeks late, consistently, or lost....

The USPS finally came through and delivered my package today (1/25/25). As noted in my previous posts, it was originally estimated to arrive on 1/16.

My wife mailed a late Christmas goody box to my son in Georgia from Missouri on January 3. It got there today.

On Jan23rd 4 days after our 100 year winter storm I was at our local Post Office when I asked the clerk what happened to the "neither sleet /rain /or snow would stop their appointed rounds her reply was/// Well back then they used horses but we use trucks now............. 10 customer waiting in line ahead of me //// Only 2 clerks working and BOTH were occupied by 1st time passport applicants /// after several minutes one of the clerk realized the person was 2 hours early for here scheluede appointment.. broke contact and told her to come back at appointed time with her paperwork properly filled out .. Wait line started to move... Had 2 waiting customers ahead of me leave without getting service.... ............................ drill sgt.

Well my package is out touring the upper north west. It got as close as Aurora Colorado, but then headed northwest. Our postal system is one big POS.