Try mailing anything from or to Memphis. Theft is incredible. Nobody does anything about it. Thugs just earnin.
1st class mail from Tucson to Tucson goes 100 + miles to Phoenix to be sorted and then back to Tucson. No wonder they are losing millions.
Funny you should post this...we were supposed to have received an item ordered through amazon and carried by the usps yesterday that not only had tire tracks on both sides of the envelope...the envelope was torn open and the item we ordered was missing.
The usps delivered an obviously empty shipping envelope.
HOW STUPID IS THAT?
How many were stolen?
By Porch Pirates?
By Postal employees?...............................
I can’t remember ever having something I mailed not get to its destination, or something I expected to receive not being delivered. That includes USPS and the private carriers.
Didn’t Tom Hanks do this in Castaway?
Just had one tale two weeks to get from OH to MO. Could have driven there in 7 hours.
We also have a USPS center here in Earth City MO that is evidently a black hole. If something ends up there, it’s never to be seen again.
I bought a roll of “forever” stamps about five years ago. At the rate I am using them they should last me the rest of my life.
UPS and Fed-ex also don’t care where they leave the packages anymore. They leave them at the wrong address all the time. I have often gotten other peoples packages, and have to deliver them to the proper person. And vise versa. Calling UPS or Fed ex to report the error is a pointless exercise. They simply don’t care.
I lived and worked in Ottawa, Ontario for a year. Great city….. A number of times, I had priority mails going both ways, north to south and south to north. Both government post offices and FedEx were used.
Priority mail via government post offices (USPS and Canada Post) had completely different results depending on if the US or Canada was the starting point. If the US was the starting point, tracking number followed the delivery well and it took 2 or 3 days. If Canada was the starting point, all bets were off on how long delivery would take. Tracking would follow the priority mail from Canada then over the border to a USPS customs facility in New York. At this point, tracking was canceled and delivery would be 7-14 days. This sucked and caused me some problems. So, I switched to FedEx and all was well. Always 2-day delivery and functional tracking.
One time in Canada, I needed some replacement parts for industrial equipment and the only stocking was in California. My purchasing told me delivery would be 2 weeks. Not acceptable. I spoke with the CA company directly and verified that if the order was placed by 3pm west coast time they could package and have it to FedEx for next day delivery to Ottawa. Kicked my purchasing in the knee to get them working and had the material early enough in the day to get it installed and the production unit back online.
My father used to work at the Post Office and he said NEVER send a package through the USPS unless it’s insured. Otherwise, it may very well be stolen.
I foolishly forgot ONE time. That package, sent to a judge at the Orange County, Florida courthouse did arrive, but it had been opened and the contents destroyed - probably when the thief didn’t want a model railway car. I had to refund the judge his money.