also, since when has DOE, EPA, GSA etc, reported a profit???
We use Priority Mail for our Ebay and Amazon biz too, especially Amazon and their anal “sellers must provide tracking numbers to customers or else” rule.
They can deliver for $5 bucks because they are using my tax dollars to subsidize your package. f-that. You are on Mailfare..
How. Interesting I had to mail USPS package today, of course they PO is only open from 10-3.
An 11.3 ounce envelope cost $5.39 and that was with zero extras, that translation took 20 minutes.
The curse of the USPS is they are not allowed by the Federal Government to adapt to the changing market.
They need fixing but I’m OK with the postal service for the most part.
Granted they have union issues but it didn’t help that congress set an impossible pension funding goal. Hell they can’t even raise their rates without congressional approval.
I had three packages somehow disappear when they were sent to me via USMail. Three packages within five months. I will not use them anymore.
I still call UPS “The Big Brown Truck Of Happiness”
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I regularly order from vitacost.com and keurig.com. Recently they have both switched to using Smartpost. They transfer their items from UPS to USPS. Since then, our orders take significantly longer to get here. FU USPS!
I just wish my Postmaster would take her nose ring out. :-)
I used to ship a lot. Never had Fedex or UPS lose a package. Misdelivered? Yes, and they went back, picked it up, and deliveried it correctly. Temporarily lost? Yes, but always found since they actually track it in real time, not where it was yesterday like USPS.
Only USPS seems to have the unique ability to completely lose a package into thin air. I’ve had it happen too many times.
I now receive a fair amount. For me, there’s no price cheap enough to take that risk again. I don’t purchase from sellers who will only ship USPS.
I’m not sure where you are coming from here. DOE, EPA, GSA should all be disbanded. At least the USPS does something useful.
Too many other things to curse - haven’t worked that far down the list yet to get to USPS.
This would be the same USPS that failed to hold my mail when I was out of town for ten days despite the fact that I set that up well in advance? Or the same USPS that will deliver a priority mail package from several days to several weeks late, but seems to get it right (usually) when I pay for express? Or the same USPS that sent an overnight package back to a client as undeliverable and destroyed but untraceable for three weeks. Or the same one that holds packages from Amazon on the freaking delivery truck for three days, even though they deliverd other stuff?
Sorry that kind of service is too expensive at half the price.
Mail that tube.
I like USPS very much. Very few problems in the last 30 years or so of mail service to me as an individual. UPS? They would call me, and hang up before I could reach phone to buzz them in, then put sticker on outside door which I would find lying in the street or the grass. Fedex? TWICE has tried to deliver things to me which weren’t mine and weren’t addressed to me nor on my street. For whatever reason, I appreciate USPS more than the private carriers.
When is the last time the Post Office made a profit?
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Side note, my “mail girl” sometimes wears tank tops and short shorts. :-) thank you God for females......
My poor USPS woman has begin dragging case after case of Two If By Tea to my distant front porch this whole miserably hot summer.