BTTT
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 !!!!!
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.
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.
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.
Right now....I have two bills, one to Sears and the other to ANEX that have not yet been received yet. They both were sent over ten days ago. I was going to cancel the checks and pay them electronically.....but I was told to stand pat. Both Sears & AMEX better not ever charge me interest or penalties for late payment. I have never been late on any bill payment...period!!! The USPS should be turned over to a private company...immediately!!!!
https://abc7.com/usps-coronavirus-slow-mail-delivery-louis-dejoy/6366308/
In an official statement to Eyewitness News, a Postal Service spokesperson blamed many of their recent difficulties on the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has led to heavy parcel volumes as customers continue to place online orders of essential items as they shelter in place,” said spokesperson John Hyatt. “U.S. Postal Service Priority Mail products and First-Class packages may require more time to be delivered due to limited transportation availability.
While I’ve been cheesed off about mail delays, I have another tale.
My mail lady is an older, hispanic, deaf person.
She’s a real sweetheart.
When I see her on my cameras walking up to my door, I answer before she hits my mailbox. We say, “Hi,” smile and are friendly with each other. Always have been.
She also sees that I have a gun on my hip most of the time. I home carry.
Sometimes, she needs to use my bathroom, and I always let her. She’s told me that my house is the only one she trusts.
Anyhoo, three days ago she’s bringing the mail up. When I greet her, she starts gesturing wildly with a frustrated face.
My sign language is quite rusty, so she grabs her pen. When I hand her the back of a piece of junk mail for her to write down what she’s saying, I get it back with a single word on it:
“BIDEN”
Yeah, she’s REALLY not a fan.
I just thought that was funny.
I sent a security deposit back to a renter. From NJ to NJ. It left on the 9th. It did not arrive as of yesterday so I stopped payment on the check and am going to wire transfer the money to the guy today. Both transactions are $35 each so I’m out $70 due to USPS incompetence.
I guess “the check is in the mail” is a valid excuse now.