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.
I’m gonna find out today. I ordered Jason Aldean’s new CD, “Highway Desperado” from Amazon. It’s the CD with “Try That In A Small Town” on it. That mean old song has really shaken up the “Country” princess set who were under the impression they were country music stars. One of those ahos “resigned” from C/W because of Aldean’s song, but quickly came back when she found out nobody even knew she left. ROTFL! What an idiot. The Disney princesses sure turned out to be a bunch of ditzy broads when they achieved the height of an adult.
Funny thing, I just got off the phone with my rural branch post office literally seconds before seeing your post because the carrier refused to deliver an Amazon package with “no secure delivery location” as the reason and I can’t get an explanation why. This is the second time this month that something like this has happened with the USPS, though the first one they eventually delivered.
No one will answer the phone at the main office. The dog was tied up and people were at home all day. It is an Amazon package so no signature requirement and my house are a little removed from our rural road so no porch pirates are going to take anything anyway. Never had a problem until the last month and I am especially pissed because only the rural branch office will answer the phone and she doesn’t know anything.
I am going to lodge a customer complaint with Amazon and maybe as a big customer they might have some traction with the USPS. USPS is the classic failing business model: reduced value and services for increased prices.
I requested some information from my life insurance company back in September. After a couple of weeks it hadn’t arrived, so I followed up and they said they had sent it. Just last week it arrived, with a postmark of September 21.
A friend in NYC ordered something from a vendor in Virginia. Tracking showed that it arrived in NYC and then left again for points south and west —and did that a couple of times — before it finally got to him.
“We used to have a fantastic mailman. You could set your watch to him. “
I used to hear that a lot when Amazon first POURED into our PO. There is no longer “setting your watch” to the USPS because you never know whether Amazon will dump two pallets or eight pallets in our small office. I bought small cars for my delivery “office” about 6 months before Amazon came on. I now must make extra trips as per the new normal.
We used to do 20-40 packages total, per day on average. Now my average is closer to 140 per day, and they’re BIG items. Many exceed our max weight limit, and max circumference limit.
Then comes the Christmas rush, featuring bad weather, snow, short daylight hours, and HUGE piles of packages.
Don’t even try to set your watch by the post man any more.
Yes. One of my orders got “stuck” in a processing center in the mid-West - I live in California - stayed there for a while then it completely disappeared off the tracker.
Fortunately it was EBay and I was refunded immediately.
It never did arrive and it’s been four months.
Most of our USPS, UPS, FedEx, & Prime deliveries are delivered quickly and correctly.
Some do get some left halfway up our 150 ft driveway...or at the bottom, near a bustling street.
We also have a trailer park near us with a similar address (1051 vs. 1501), and we get their mail constantly.
Any elves?
I’ve had this happen on my short driveway!
I had an expensive piece of furniture dumped at the end of my driveway right on the sidewalk - then the truck drove off!
Fortunately, I was home and had a construction crew here at the time - they were furious. If no one had been here, I doubt the package would have been there when I got home, there are scavengers all over my town.
There have been other packages dumped at the end of my driveway as well.
I’ve complained but the businesses tell me the shipping is through another company.
“’no secure delivery location’” as the reason”
“my house are a little removed from our rural road”
Laziness is the true reason.
It IS getting difficult to hire new rural carrier associates (RCA’s).
They start a little over $19/hour, must provide a suitable delivery vehicle, and may end up not working much if they land on a smaller route. Some routes the regulars are working 6 days per week, and the RCA only works vacations, and sick days for the regular.
It’s a tough gig to get started in. Some of our RCA’s have gone out and bought a $20k USED RHD jeep, only to work one day a week.
Meanwhile, burger flippers in our town start at $15/hour, don’t need a HUGE outlay of cash to have the job.
I get packages of ordered stuff on time.
I’ve heard of (and seen pictures of) LP record albums that were properly packed in appropriate mailers that were folded in half to get them into mailboxes.
My thoughts too, but there is no one to register a complaint with. The local office has been demoted to a branch for the nearest city and no one is answering the phone at the main office. Yesterday it would just ring and today they have the “office closed’ message even though the office should be open right now. Per the branch person, we recently had a new postmaster appointed and they are on vacation.
I tried calling the national number but there is no mechanism in that stupid system for getting a person and registering a complaint about services.
That right there is amazing.
Oh no! Is that dude still employed? Sure hope not.
That’s just sad right there! We didn’t receive an 18’ x 52” Index pool from Amazon a few years ago. How do you lose a pkg that big? You don’t! They used a third-party delivery service and I believe those guys stole it. Amazon sent us another one, but it took a couple extra weeks. That just raises prices for everyone.
Not normal, but oddly frequent in my experience.
Not to worry...USPS has more future employees flooding over the border as we speak. Man, it’s good to be older.
Yesterday, USPS guy put pkg right under sign that reads...”please place packages inside gate under cover...thanks.” Gate and under cover was 3 feet away.
I have ordered stuff on Amazon in the afternoon and received it the next morning. (Not expedited)
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