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.

 

[Tumbledown]

I don't know what's worse, not being able to track a package, or watching it get delayed as it bounces around the system. Had an Amazon package I paid extra for next day delivery, saw it got to my post office in the early afternoon of the day it was supposed to be delivered, and then sat there until the *next* day. (Got a credit for the extra shipping fees after b*tching to Amazon, figured they have more pull with the PO than I do.)

 

[#BPBReloadingFFL]

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.

Have to post office hold your mail!

 

[wayne1967]

Have to post office hold your mail!

That didn't even cross my mind. Thanks

 

[stubshaft]

I live in Hawaii, and USPS is a four-letter word in my book!!!

 

[tallPercshooter]

I bought an item from panhandle of Florida 13 days ago. Still in transit to Louisiana. That's about 20 miles a day. USPS getting worse and worse.

 

[French Colonial]

Amazon can get almost anything I order very quickly, lots of times next day if I pay attention to the shipping. FedEx is also very good in my area.
UPS is so so.
USPS, you will get it, but lord only knows when.

 

[2 shots]

usps m/o can be checked online. shows date purchased, amount, ect. if it not on the p.o. site by serial number somethings wrong. i just go to p.o. and cash it before i ship. if you put it in the bank and its bad they will charge you back.

 

[Paladin357]

Just had an issue with USPS on a flintlock I got on Gunbroker. Shipped 12/22/24, tracking updated 12/27 and then nothing. Emailed them and they said I had to wait 14 days after the last update before they would do anything. Waited the extra time, put in a search request, waited over a week again with no updates, and finally got the gun 1/25/25. It had apparently been sitting in a facility in KY. I had pretty much given up on receiving it and was just about to put in an insurance claim. Bought another rifle that was sent UPS and it only took 3 days. So yeah.

 

[Daytime Smoker]

Same here for me. I’ll get “out for delivery” and the package will show up a few days later. It took almost a month to get a package delivered from Utah. And I’m currently waiting on a sling to arrive that I ordered three weeks ago. It’s coming from Louisville, Ky. It’s sat there for three weeks till this morning and now it is in Knoxville.

I had read somewhere that the USPS was trying some new system to cut costs. But it’s hurting the consumer. I’m just glad that these items weren’t dependent on a specific date like a birthday or anniversary.

Anthony

 

[Shawrco]

I could add a few recent experiences but they would all sound the same. USPS is the worst. Our recent snowfall in middle GA caused a two-day shut down and wreaked havoc all over the southeast... whatever happened to the US PO creed "neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"???