Posted on 12/21/2020 3:21:38 PM PST by ConservativeInPA
100% of my gifts being delivered by the USPS are late. 100% of my gifts being delivered by FedEx and UPS have arrived on time.
The tracking info for the USPS also has a big lie. They say that they could not reach my front door because my driveway was not clear of snow. That was on Saturday, and my driveway was cleared hours after last week's storm.
Everyday I see UPS and FedEx drivers hustle through my neighborhood. They are working their butts off. They are also seem happy, at least the guy who just dropped off a package. I heard his truck and I rushed to the front door to greet him since he usually drops the package and rings the door bell. I had a gift waiting for him as I really appreciate his effort. I put the gift together Saturday after seeing him hustle so much. He was taking short cuts through the snow to get to front doors. I thought to myself at the time that his feet must be getting cold if he was doing that all day. He could have taken his time and run up people's driveways, but apparently that wasn't his plan.
A UPS or FedEx driver who marked an item ‘delivered’ when it was not would be suspended or more likely sacked.
Yet USPS has taken to doing this on a regular basis to meet deadlines, quotas or merely to get the public and their bosses off their backs. They typically deliver the item the next day and most people don’t want to pursue it further.
But it’s an intentional, knowing falsehood. It’s fraud.
They are messed up - I got one notification that a gift was delivered a week ago, so I had the recipient looking around to see why she couldn’t find it - turns out if you click on another link, it is still in transit a WEEK later.
Better than a porch pirate, I suppose.
I was surprised when my package (shipped cross country) took 4 days just to leave Ohio (each day was a different city). It took a week to get my package this summer.
And we used them as polling stations.
To quote President Trump: are we this stupid?
U.S. Post offices are some of the most depressing places on the planet.
I bought an item on Ebay via USPS priority mail. It was accepted at the originating postal center in Oregon on Dec 2. I just received it in Rhode Island today.
we have several USPS smaLL packets late, too
I guess they’re still too busy delivering truckloads of SorozNazi fake DNC ballots?
I’ve got one totally lost package (Christmas gift). It was shipped Dec. 1 - as of today, the seller/sender is going to declare it ‘lost in the mail’ and give me a refund.
A 2nd package “disappeared” for a couple of days before popping back up on tracking. It was a 2-day priority package & took 3 days after it left the PO where I mailed it to show being received at the 1st distribution center. That’s a trip of maybe an hour. After that, I was getting vague ‘your package is in transit to the destination’ rather than the specifics I usually get, like it’s at a certain distribution center. It finally did arrive where it was supposed to be after 7 days. I’m just thankful that package wasn’t lost - it had a handmade item in it, being given as a gift, that would have been hard to replace.
Sent a priority package Thursday from Tulsa. Was supposed to be in NC Saturday. Tracking showed it left Tulsa 3:30 am Monday! Today.
They need workers alright, they have plenty of employees though...
I've never had problems with USPS, even this year when they're obviously dealing with a lot more deliveries due to increased online shopping this year. UPS and Fedex are also reliable here, but they don't put my packages inside the porch like USPS does.
Maybe the problem isn't with USPS, but that you live in an area with exceptionally lazy workers. Maybe they should eliminate USPS in your area and leave my area as is.
Actually, if you can backdate the deliveries, nothing is ever late! You don’t have to to worry about improving your on-time deliveries when you can control time itself.
How does the old joke go...
What do Thom McAn and the United States Postal Service have in common? 10,000 loafers.
I have gotten everything that was sent FedEx. An Amazon item came USPS on time but nothing else has. Ordered Dec 8th and still waiting.
It’s the holidays! What do you expect?
I worked at a UPS Store franchise for awhile, and deliveries by any carrier during the holidays are never guaranteed for their estimated arrival date due to the system being so full. Postal deliveries, all year long, are also not guaranteed; it says so right in the CMS when shipping costs are calculated. Even “Express” deliveries via USPS don’t come with a guarantee for an exact delivery date.
The Post Office has never guaranteed a delivery date; ever. Only estimates. It’s even worse this year with people shipping their gifts thanks to the hysteria surrounding COVID.
I never recommend that someone sends something by USPS unless it’s a letter or media mail, and it doesn’t matter when the item arrives. Even when I buy online, I contact sellers and ask for delivery by UPS, because I don’t know if or when a postal shipment will arrive.
No problems with the USPS here
Are they waiting 72 hours at each destination before moving it on ?
How well they perform varies from area to area. In SC my sister was on a rampage about UPS delivering late for the whole month of November, a cousin is cussing FedEX where he lives, and you’re railing against USPS.
Crap management can skate most of the year but not when the system is stressed. UPS is unionized, USPS is unionized, and FedEx isn’t unionized.
Look through the comments, people complain about FedEx just as often as they do about the USPS or UPS.
It’s a management issue and it’s a management issue because Federal Pols can futz with anything the PO tries to do to be better at what they’re supposed to be doing.
UPS is far superior.
All their guys are very pleasant.
They take extra steps to leave things securely on my back porch.
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