Mail issues

[wayne1967]

Anyone else dealing with a long wait on things ordered from the northeast? I get it, it was a major weather event. There’s just such a delay with usps with updates I keep coming home at lunch to check the porch. Not the best of neighborhoods and don’t want anything left out for long.

 

[sb 54 cal.]

Same here in Missouri

 

[Spikebuck]

Look up the USPS definition of "In Transit to Next Facility." That does not necessarily mean it left the last facility. Someone could have moved it a little within the facility, or as I discovered recently, it could just sitting there with NOTHING happening! If it sits in that status for a few business days, get your local postmaster to check it online and get it moving for you.

 

[Clark Badgett]

The USPS is the foremost experts on over promising and under performing.

 

[VA Hawken]

Well, my mother-in-law (age 93) who lives two doors away from us on the same street, took her Christmas card to us to our local post office to mail it, to help ensure delivery. (don't ask why, it's just the way she is.)

6 weeks later it finally arrived.

 

[Kansas Jake]

It used to be mail was initially sorted at your local PO. So a letter or package to someone down the street never left town. Now everything is shipped to the sorting facility which might be 100 or more miles away to be sorted by computer operated machines and shipped back so it can be delivered three houses away. What possibly could go wrong? All in the name of efficiency and cost savings.