Out here in the country we have more and more issues with drivers just dumping packages at the road and not driving them in the 300 foot driveway. Gate is always wide open.
Increased theft risk as we don’t even know something is left for us.
We have had some major problems with items we’ve ordered getting lost in shipment. Several ordered from Amazon that “went astray”. Amazon reshipped and we received those, but where this stuff goes...?
Don't get me started. We moved to a temporary rental while we're having a house built. Did the mail forwarding. Wow...three weeks sometimes to forward mail. I think it's probably related to the fact that the USPS shut down local area mail sorting facilities and went to regional ones. For example the town I live in the mail is sorted in a city that's 3 hours away. That means that if something is sent to my old address it goes there to be sorted. It then hits my local PO where there is the forwarding notification but it has to go BACK to the main sort place and then resent back to the local PO with the right address.
I’m a UPS driver. It’s not unusual for one of our now severely overpaid part timers to load a box into the wrong trailer headed to a strange destination.
What in particular?
Car parts?
Books?
Explosives?.....................
I ship a lot of stuff I have out for sale on outdoor trader sites and track the shipments. Quite often I see the USPS regional centers playing “ping-pong” between themselves and end up seeing the original delivery estimate date being delayed 1 or 2 days.
I haven’t figured out why, though. I use printed labels and they are very easy to machine read. I can only guess it happens because of logistics (maybe a truck was full or they decided to pong it because they “hold” a package at a center waiting for the next truck to the correct place). It’s frustrating.
Yes. I have been getting a lot of spam from domains ending in .de and edu.pl. I filter them directly to trash.
You’re flagged as a Maga patriot so the routing is for the deep state to put a tracker in the item.
In all seriousness though that has happened to me several times over the last 3 months.
Years ago, my wife sent some gifts from California to home because she didn't want to carry the excess baggage. The package showed up about three weeks later with everything that was easily resaleable missing.
Yes—I have noticed how a lot of items are rerouted on the way to me-—instead of coming here—they get sent on crazy unnecessary detours.
Yes. I ordered a dog chew toy from Amazon. The first place it showed up in tracking was Theodore, Alabama. Great. That’s where it was supposed to be. Then it decided to leave there and go hang out in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. It stayed there a couple of days, then went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It stayed there for a couple days then started back to Alabama. It was in Theodore, my local distribution facility, on 10/26. I got it on 11/1 after its southeast tour.
I haven’t, but I did get a notice from my bank last week that was encouraging people to use autopay instead of writing checks because there were mail delivery delays taking up to 14 days for mail to be delivered and causing late fees because bill payments were late.
I only pay attention to “it’s leaving” and “it’s there”. Everything else is weird random stuff I’d rather not know about.
It has become the norm for me. Been happening for some time. When I can, I use alternate shipper.
We get packages delivered by mail regularly. One package was in fact delayed to last Saturday from scheduled date of Friday delivery.
The package was being tracked and an email came late Friday advising the delay. A computer somewhere was keeping a close eye on the shipment. To me, that was a very interesting occurrence
Our mail has been delayed for a month or so now. The regular midafternoon delivery has now become 5:30 or so.
Nope, here in NW GA I’m getting stuff pretty fast. Just bought a book on ebay, shipped Media Mail, and it got here today, 3 days from Illinois. Given Media Mail is one of the ‘economy’ shipping methods, that was pretty good. USPS, UPS, Fedex doing good for me.
It takes well over a week to get the US Post Office to deliver anything. I don’t even use them for cards anymore.
On an unrelated note, does anyone remember when their mailman was a white male, presentable in appearance, wearing a uniform that was actually a uniform, generally friendly, and at least somewhat conscientious of doing a good job? Where I live I haven’t seen one of those in a very long time.
I’m waiting for a “delayed” Amazon via USPS order. It’s a couple of little computer connecty things, probably come in a small padded envelope.
In the past I’ve had everything from books to a camera lens vanish and have to be re-ordered.
I always try to avoid USPS whenever possible for package delivery. I generally have problems with them. Fighting with them right now over a missing package in fact. UPS is only marginally better. FedEx, at least lately, is the better of the three.