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As USPS delays persist, bills, paychecks and medications are getting stuck in the mail
Washington Post (democracy dies with democrats) ^ | 2/26/21 | Jacob Bogage, Hannah Denham

Posted on 02/27/2021 1:45:09 AM PST by Libloather

Mark Currie of Virginia had three checks snagged in postal delays in three months. In New Jersey, Lois Fitton says she was forced to pay interest on a credit card balance because the bill never arrived. Jim Rice says two insurance companies canceled policies for his property management business in Oklahoma after the payments got lost in the mail.

As the service crisis at the U.S. Postal Service drags into its eighth month, complaints are reaching a fever pitch. Consumers are inundating members of Congress with stories of late bills — and the late fees they’ve absorbed as a result. Small-business owners are waiting weeks, even months, for checks to arrive, creating cash-flow crunches and debates on whether to switch to costlier private shippers. Large-scale mailers, such as banks and utilities, are urging clients to switch to paperless communication, a shift that would further undercut the agency’s biggest revenue stream.

The growing outcry adds another dimension to the agency’s myriad crises: a clogged processing and transportation network, severe staffing shortages and $188.4 billion in liabilities. The prolonged performance declines have eroded the reputation of one of the few government agencies that boast generations of broad public support.

**SNIP**

DeJoy is pressing forward with a strategic plan to combat years of “financial stress, underinvestment, unachievable service standards and lack of operational precision,” even as congressional Democrats clamor for his removal. That plan - which will include higher prices and slower delivery standards, according to people briefed on the details - will come out in March, DeJoy told the House panel.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: bills; coronovirus; covid19; goldbricking; goldbricks; mail; medication; usps
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To: who knows what evil?

I pay my bills online, with a small handful of exceptions. But I always want my statements mailed to me so that I can keep physical records (and so I remember to pay them).

I can’t rely on email to tell me when something is due, because I miss things in email due to the overabundance of spam emails and junk emails. Paper bills are how I keep track.

Perhaps it’s time to privatize the postal service and maybe start hiring on ability rather than any other characteristic.


41 posted on 02/27/2021 5:31:37 AM PST by meyer (I swear to protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic!)
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To: Libloather

I ordered a couple of pillows on special from My Pillow Guy. Delivery is still pending.

Waiting on important information about Hubs’ short-term disability ... packet sent on Feb. 9, still not here.


42 posted on 02/27/2021 5:34:12 AM PST by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Those lame-@$$ Amazon vans are everywhere. One of the kids’ friends was hit head-on by someone who swerved around the illegally parked van, into her lane. She is lucky to be alive and have both legs still. This was in September and she’s just now able to walk again.


43 posted on 02/27/2021 5:37:51 AM PST by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: SaveFerris

My sister, who lives near Boston, sent “Express Mail” to me still in West Palm Beach a week ago yesterday. By Wednesday, USPS tracking said it hadn’t left Boston. Since then, whenever she checks, USPS says it’s “in transit.”

For this she paid $26. (Just some documents, not several pounds of anything.)

ML/NJ


44 posted on 02/27/2021 5:38:43 AM PST by ml/nj (DITCH MITCH !)
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To: Malsua

Use Zelle or Vemno. it’s free


45 posted on 02/27/2021 5:39:29 AM PST by fedupjohn (Waiting for Trump's new Caribbean Resort "Club Gitmo" to open for business! )
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To: Libloather

Everything has been perfect for me. If it wasn’t for the “expect delays” notices on Netflix and Amazon I wouldn’t even know there’s a problem.


46 posted on 02/27/2021 5:40:21 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: EBH

2020 or 2021?


47 posted on 02/27/2021 5:43:12 AM PST by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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To: Libloather
I almost never use "snail mail". I pay all my bills online and have no need for even checking the mailbox anymore.

Moved into a condo community a couple years ago so I have to deal with those "cluster boxes" in the lobby. About once a month, I'll open my box which will be utterly jammed with junk mail. 99% of it goes directly into the trash bin, which is conveniently located in same lobby.

There is really no more need for a government postal service. UPS and FedEx have the infrastructure to deliver regular mail (currently prohibited by law). Shut it all down and put all those surly Democrat-voting postal workers into retirement.

48 posted on 02/27/2021 5:43:32 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: SamAdams76

UPS and FedEx don’t have anywhere NEAR the structure. USPS delivers more parcels in a month and they do all year combined.


49 posted on 02/27/2021 5:47:16 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu
I can do without the junk mail.

UPS and FedEx can deliver the important stuff. I'm fine with that.

50 posted on 02/27/2021 5:51:03 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: Libloather

A few good supply chain managers could probably sort this all out in a couple of weeks if it weren’t for the unions, the politicians, and scads of lazy mofo’s who insist it’s their right to get paid for doing nothing. The. USPS is screwed and it’s the way the gov wants it as it’s just another way to control what the plebs receive.


51 posted on 02/27/2021 5:53:04 AM PST by The Louiswu (....................................................................................................)
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To: SamAdams76

You can, but the fact of the matter is it works. And UPS and FedEx quite simply CANNOT handle the important stuff. Not even close. Hell UPS can’t even handle the work they’re getting now. The covid bump went past their infrastructure. I’m still getting UPS deliveries from UHauls. If their business multiplied by 10 they’d just crumble.


52 posted on 02/27/2021 5:56:14 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: Libloather

In the FedEx side of things, I ordered new seats for my pontoon boat on Thursday. They are being delivered in about an hour to my house by FedEx. Unbelievable! Now I have to hurry and make room in the garage for them...


53 posted on 02/27/2021 5:56:33 AM PST by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: Libloather
Post office was too busy fixing an election to actually deliver mail.

They will NEVER return to anything LIKE an efficient organization.

Have you noticed that ALL businesses now have the disclaimer: “due to Corona virus our (fill in the blank) is experiencing delays...”

Ha... now we ACCEPT the long-standing Liberal approach to ‘work’ !! We have an institutionalized rationale for an unreliable, inefficient, sloppy, and p#ss poor work ethic!

The virus is just an excuse for a lot of indolent and incompetent losers to take the upper hand in American business and by extension, in American life.

Stupid and otherwise unemployable idiots now get to play God with our lives.

54 posted on 02/27/2021 5:58:28 AM PST by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: Libloather

We’ve been noticing crappier service than usual with USPS since last fall. Stuff just gets stuck in distribution centers for days, stuff goes out of distribution centers and mysteriously returns to the center — back and forth sometimes several times in one day, wrong stuff gets put in wrong mailboxes, tracking is more useless than normal.

But yet, we put our ballots in their hands...

I can’t think of any terminally ill patient that needed the plug pulled more than the US Postal Service.


55 posted on 02/27/2021 5:58:53 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Cloverfarm

Amazon vans are everywhere. One of the kids’ friends was hit head-on by someone who swerved around the illegally parked van, into her lane


Sorry to hear about your friend but it could have been any delivery service van...

But you comment is not on point. The article was on how messed up our postal system is, my comment was that there are companies that are able to deliver items around the world in a timely basis. Perhaps the postal service should be brought into the 21st century.

(Actually Amazon uses the US postal service for areas that are sparsely populated).


56 posted on 02/27/2021 6:06:37 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Libloather

Has Cliff Clavin been reached for comment?


57 posted on 02/27/2021 6:09:41 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: Libloather

I need my Dr. Squatch soap.


58 posted on 02/27/2021 6:12:34 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: Malsua

Thanks, I can sympathise. The Memphis hub must have really taken a punch. I guess I’m just surprised that FedEx has not communicated more effectively. They are a top drawer organization, and not reaching out to customers seemed a bit out of character.


59 posted on 02/27/2021 6:19:08 AM PST by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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To: Libloather

UPS too.

Ordered something off of ebay almost three weeks ago. It’s been sitting in Earth City MO, less than 100 miles from me, for 10 days now.


60 posted on 02/27/2021 6:31:42 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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