Posted on 02/27/2021 1:45:09 AM PST by Libloather
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.
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.
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.
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
Use Zelle or Vemno. it’s free
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.
2020 or 2021?
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.
UPS and FedEx don’t have anywhere NEAR the structure. USPS delivers more parcels in a month and they do all year combined.
UPS and FedEx can deliver the important stuff. I'm fine with that.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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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).
Has Cliff Clavin been reached for comment?
I need my Dr. Squatch soap.
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.
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.
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