Posted on 11/10/2023 5:59:29 AM PST by devane617
Anyone else having problems receiving USPS packages, or UPS/FedEx items? During the past few weeks I have had several mailed/shipped items take bizarre turns in routing which has created delays in receiving.
I guess watching shipments is front and center these days.
Out here in the country we have more and more issues with drivers just dumping packages at the road and not driving them in the 300 foot driveway. Gate is always wide open.
Increased theft risk as we don’t even know something is left for us.
We have had some major problems with items we’ve ordered getting lost in shipment. Several ordered from Amazon that “went astray”. Amazon reshipped and we received those, but where this stuff goes...?
Don't get me started. We moved to a temporary rental while we're having a house built. Did the mail forwarding. Wow...three weeks sometimes to forward mail. I think it's probably related to the fact that the USPS shut down local area mail sorting facilities and went to regional ones. For example the town I live in the mail is sorted in a city that's 3 hours away. That means that if something is sent to my old address it goes there to be sorted. It then hits my local PO where there is the forwarding notification but it has to go BACK to the main sort place and then resent back to the local PO with the right address.
I’m a UPS driver. It’s not unusual for one of our now severely overpaid part timers to load a box into the wrong trailer headed to a strange destination.
Amazon drivers sometimes are some shady characters. I think they randomly keep stuff. While I was delivering one day there was an Amazon driver smoking a joint not realizing he was on camera. That same day he took out a covered parking awning.
What in particular?
Car parts?
Books?
Explosives?.....................
We’ve resorted at times to modify the address label. We don’t use driver instructions area as they are ignored.
We make the second address line show the following ...
Rather than apartment number info for many we do all caps
‘DO NOT LEAVE AT ROAD’
I ship a lot of stuff I have out for sale on outdoor trader sites and track the shipments. Quite often I see the USPS regional centers playing “ping-pong” between themselves and end up seeing the original delivery estimate date being delayed 1 or 2 days.
I haven’t figured out why, though. I use printed labels and they are very easy to machine read. I can only guess it happens because of logistics (maybe a truck was full or they decided to pong it because they “hold” a package at a center waiting for the next truck to the correct place). It’s frustrating.
Yes. I have been getting a lot of spam from domains ending in .de and edu.pl. I filter them directly to trash.
You’re flagged as a Maga patriot so the routing is for the deep state to put a tracker in the item.
In all seriousness though that has happened to me several times over the last 3 months.
“I’m a UPS driver. “
Thank you for even showing up. For at least three months, Our local post office has been having difficulty finding USPS rural route drivers that work for a week. We get deliveries of Regular Mail about every four days, with packages held at the local post office to pick up twice a week if lucky.
Of course, customers are angry when waiting in line on a Tuesday for an hour while the counter staff are looking in the back for packages from the list of addresses in the line. Always reminding those in the line to thank the workers who DID show up, since working workers are not the problem.
It is ironic that the postal workers check identification for many people. Whoever is going to stand in line for that long without a daggum good reason.
Years ago, my wife sent some gifts from California to home because she didn't want to carry the excess baggage. The package showed up about three weeks later with everything that was easily resaleable missing.
Yes—I have noticed how a lot of items are rerouted on the way to me-—instead of coming here—they get sent on crazy unnecessary detours.
And we should rely on mail-in ballots for elections, don’t forget.
Yes. I ordered a dog chew toy from Amazon. The first place it showed up in tracking was Theodore, Alabama. Great. That’s where it was supposed to be. Then it decided to leave there and go hang out in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. It stayed there a couple of days, then went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It stayed there for a couple days then started back to Alabama. It was in Theodore, my local distribution facility, on 10/26. I got it on 11/1 after its southeast tour.
I haven’t, but I did get a notice from my bank last week that was encouraging people to use autopay instead of writing checks because there were mail delivery delays taking up to 14 days for mail to be delivered and causing late fees because bill payments were late.
I only pay attention to “it’s leaving” and “it’s there”. Everything else is weird random stuff I’d rather not know about.
It has become the norm for me. Been happening for some time. When I can, I use alternate shipper.
We get packages delivered by mail regularly. One package was in fact delayed to last Saturday from scheduled date of Friday delivery.
The package was being tracked and an email came late Friday advising the delay. A computer somewhere was keeping a close eye on the shipment. To me, that was a very interesting occurrence
Our mail has been delayed for a month or so now. The regular midafternoon delivery has now become 5:30 or so.
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