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.
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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.
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Don’t pay ANYTHING by mail if you can possibly help it.
Even when it costs me more I’ve been having everything shipped UPS or Fed-EX. Since before Bi-dumb took over, I’ve been buying ammo probably like everyone else. When I can find the ammo, I can get it in a couple days, three at the most. I ordered some mags and they were shipped USPS, not by choice. Still haven’t gotten them after 2 1/2 weeks, but they show “in transit”.
NEWMAN !!!!!
Three weeks to ship a small parcel from somewhere in Georgia to Portland (where my freight forwarder is, 3 days to the Philippines on DHL)
Unfortunately, the company only uses USPS to ship domestically.
Tell me about it. Cost me $100 in late fees and Fedex charges to unsnarl my credit card account last month, on accounta it took two weeks+ for a letter to go 200 miles. Package sent to me from 80 miles away = 11 days. Won’t bore you with the rest.
Anything of any kind of value to either sender or recipient, must now have a tracking number - USPS Certified Slip, preferred.
Even with that USPS Certified Slip, “normal” cross-country transport is now 2 WEEKS. (In Jan. 2020, that cross-country transport was 5 days.)
Speaking for a friend, USPS regulations are overwhelming USPS.
There are not enough people to process both, those regulations and the mail.
Received a Christmas card this week.
Yup.. and I’ve already had 2 orders disappear, and 3 orders 3 weeks late :/
Yes, medication, including all the veterans’ medications refilled by mail, from one place ... in Tennessee!!!
What IS ridiculous is that the balance due is double the normal payment ... because I never received a bill in January for the February 1st payment.
Fortunately there is no late charge on this.
It’s pissing me off, big time, from here in Asia. Aye. Somebody needs to hang high from the yardarm for this. I have my suspicion who had tampered with our mail.
And junk mail sails through.
I actually went to the USPS site and, sure enough, they have a page of the usual boilerplate about environmental commitment blah blah blah.
This is an operation whose primary source of revenue is now junk mail. And almost all junk mail is (plastic) coated paper and/or paper with inks, dyes, chemicals. Nearly 100% of it goes in the trash and, subsequently, into landfills.
Official hypocrisy is nothing new but these people are so out of phase with their original purpose it’s a joke.
I can’t take credit for this - it’s from a Disqus user at Instapundit. He asked well before the election:
‘If envelopes were marked CASH and sent through the mail how many of them would make it to their destination undisturbed? Now apply that to envelopes clearly marked as containing election ballots.’
Ya think? I had an insulin prescription that needed filled, and it took two weeks. Most of my meds are only covered by a mail-order service at the moment. I finally had to call the pharmacy, who blamed everything on the USPS, and they had to overnight my shots to me. Via FedEx. Thank God it wasn’t a heart med. I’d have croaked at my keyboard.
I have received four Christmas cards in the past two weeks, all mailed out late November or early December.
I ordered a Christmas present for my wife back on Nov 2, 2020 and shipped via USPS. It had a postmark of November 5 and finally arrived last week.
And not to mention that I mailed two sorely late Christmas gift to my sisters because the USPS took what seemed like decades to get them to me in December - they finally arrived in January. One sister received hers in three days, but the other one is in limbo somewhere, and I’ve gotten no tracking updates in two weeks. I’m about to file an insurance claim, and I’m wondering how long that will take to get a refund. The whole system needs overhauled, stem to stern.
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