I know you posted that in jest but there was a lot of trouble last spring with the baby chicks arriving dead after being delayed for a couple of weeks.
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I know you posted that in jest but there was a lot of trouble last spring with the baby chicks arriving dead after being delayed for a couple of weeks.
I did, and I did not know that, thank you.
I have a package last scanned in Chicago on the 12th....of Nov. I'm not counting on getting it. I sent the P.O. a request to check on it. They told me they would. 2 days later they wanted to know how they did. I told them how and I suppose to know since I have heard nothing from them. Haven't heard from them since. St. Louis P.O. is way behind. I've heard over a hundred truck vans sitting there waiting. I mailed a package out to a friend and it sat there 11 days before it moved. It was there 3 days before it was even received.
I wonder what we might learn from a list of the best and worst performing USPS distribution centers. I wonder if USPS even tracks that?
Sometimes having a guaranteed lifetime job can take the edge off of incentive..
59sharps
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Fine for adults but tell that to the children
Even before the holiday rush, i noticed USPS serice had slowed significantly. Even when packages are electronically shown as "delivered" to our PO it suddenly took 3-4 days to make it to box. This holiday season its descended into abysmal with 25 day delivery times and more. Long lines out the PO door waiting to get to counter add to to problem. AT the counter poor clerks look about to either faint or explode. Some are saying its intentional.
We have have a very good mail man.
When we see him across the street we go out and and wait on him to come back. We go to the mail box and get what ever he has so he does not have to get out of his truck if there any packages.
Along with being our mail man he is also our newspaper man.
When we see him across the street we go out and and wait on him to come back. We go to the mail box and get what ever he has so he does not have to get out of his truck if there any packages.
Along with being our mail man he is also our newspaper man.
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my local postmaster (tiny little town - no police dept ... about 350 full time residents) told me that she had just received a package that had been in Nashua since the 28 th of November ... she said they have huge staffing problems, and everyone there is working twelve hour days ...
rf50cal
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I'm not sure if this happens everywhere, but our local Post Office closes the doors for lunch every day from 11:00 to noon. I don't know of any other business that does that.
One certain branch of Umqua Bank did this BEFORE the faux stuff and got away with it
The person I bought the horn from sent me this and if you search the TMJ4 site you'll find several more follow-up stories on the Oak Creek postal facility problem.
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/milwaukee-area-usps-customers-complain-of-shipping-delays
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/milwaukee-area-usps-customers-complain-of-shipping-delays
A few years ago, I bought 4 bottles of pure, home made cane syrup from a guy I knew in south Georgia. Sent him a cardboard box with special foam packaging that is normally used for shipping wine, and asked to ship via FedEx or UPS on my dime. He used the USPS instead. I eventually got a note in the mailbox from my local Post Office to pick up a package. The Post Office clerk handed me a cardboard box in a USPS plastic crate. Three of the bottles were completely empty from from sitting in a hot USPS warehouse for several days (popped the seal I guess). The syrup had leaked all over the plastic crate and a bunch of 2nd class mail the USPS had packaged with the cardboard box (I guess he forgot to mark "This End Up"). Another reason why I don't use the Post Office for items that need to be somewhere by a certain date.
tnlonghunter
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I can't criticize them too much. I've seen people - plural, as in multiple individuals over multiple trips - wheeling literal wheel-barrows full of packages into our local USPS office to ship.
Yes, I have a couple things taking a long time to make their destination. When demand outstrips capability by this much, it's no surprise.
Yes, I have a couple things taking a long time to make their destination. When demand outstrips capability by this much, it's no surprise.
Above all don't make these people mad , they may be delivering your ballots in the future. That's where they are most efficient, right?
Dave
Dave
Yes the USPS Postal Service SUCKS !. I have a Christmas gift that has been setting at the first distribution center it made it to since Dec. 13th. and the bozos at USPS can only say that due to the virus and "unprecedented" business packages might be delayed. They just got a 10 billion dollar "loan" from our tax dollars but the worthless devils can't deliver mail on time.
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