Posted on 09/29/2021 6:59:59 AM PDT by Flying Circus
Do you drop a bill payment in the mailbox and wonder if it will arrive late or on time? Do you wonder why it seems to take the US Postal service so long to deliver a letter or package? Sending mail across your state or even the country feels like a game of chance with the USPS. Will my mail get there this week -- or next week? During the first quarter of this year, around 20% of first-class mail across the US was delivered late. And now snail mail is about to get slower for some of the 160 million residences and businesses that rely on the Postal Service.
Starting Oct. 1, the USPS will implement new service standards for its first-class mail and packages, lengthening delivery time for about 30% of its volume. That means some letters, parcels and magazine subscriptions traveling longer distances could take up to five days to arrive, instead of two or three days. The changes are part of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's 10-year Delivering for America plan to overhaul the agency and try to tackle its massive debt. The plan, which has generated controversy, would also reduce post office hours, raise postage prices for customers and kick in even more postage hikes during the holiday season.
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Lucky he isn't in private industry or he might have to cut costs, invest in automation, and layoff low productivity workers.
Unsurprisingly, Amazon deliveries will not be affected.
USPS and AmTrak should both be privatized after being sold to the highest bidder.
Amazon has it’s own delivery fleet.
I recently offered something that was shipped by Fed Ex Smart Post. Tracking showed the package arrived within 100 miles of my house in 3 days, then sat around in Fed Ex facilities for 2 1/2 weeks before being delivered by my USPS carrier 2 days after I got the first false delivery notice from Fed Ex.
FedEx has invested in automation,is not bound by government regulation, etc. - and their service totally sucks. Three times since 2020 they delivered my packages to the wrong house so they must not have invested in GPS, or literate drivers.
Same postal service as always - costs more for worse service. The more it costs and the worse the service get, the fewer customers. Late bill payments and bill notices is the reason I had to submit to this direct pay business. Which I do not like, but there is no alternate and no late notices and no penalty fees.
But I know my junk mail will be on time.
I just had a client invoice check show up after 1 month. They cut checks on Friday and I normally the the check on Monday or Tuesday, but many times on Wed, Thurs, or Fri. No ryme or reason.
My experience with FedEx has been that regular FedEx is good, quick, and reliable. On the other hand, FedEx Ground is an entirely different operation which uses subcontractors for delivery, and it is at best sluggish.
There are Amazon boxed delivered EVERY day here by our rural carrier. 2 sets of mailboxes-31 in all, and 2 larger recepticles for larger items. Amazon all the time in those boxes.
We all know why the USPS sucks. If I spelled it out here the FR would ban me as a racist (racist,no race realist, yes). Our post offices near us are so incompetent. Lost packages, slow mail delivery, wrong mail delivery. You can’t call the post offices, they wont answer the phone. They graduate from high school, would never get hired in the private sector, so the government hires them. Incompetence get them high wages, great pension.
The speeds they drive with on around my rural roads is awful.
They speed constantly...gravel roads with 25 MPH signs are driven by Fed Ex & UPS at 40 & faster.
The post office is too f&%king busy fixing elections to actually deliver mail!
“Same postal service as always..”
Uh, no. I used to sell vacuum tubes on ebay to vintage hi-fi owners and guitar players. Sold probably 500 tubes over 3 or 4 years. I shipped them all USPS First Class or Priority Mail, never had a tube broken, never had a tube lost in the mail. I talked with a guy who worked for an NFL team, he mentioned he shipped 25,000 season tickets First Class Mail, had something like 20 that got lost. All this was probably 15 years ago.
USPS mail used to be reliable and a really good value, but service has dropped off a cliff the past couple of years.
Who sends mail anyway these days. I don’t even own a checkbook anymore. I just pay everything online.
USPS mail used to be reliable and a really good value, but service has dropped off a cliff the past couple of years.
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You just validated my point - costs more for less service which, despite your experience, has been going on for many decades as postal rates climbed from $.05 for first class letters with near same day service.
. . . and yet they can create ballots in another state at midnight and drop in certain locations in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta or Phoenix by 3 am like magic.
“Unsurprisingly, Amazon deliveries will not be affected.”
Non Prime Amazonshipments can now take up to 2 weeks.
We have a couple of now generic and otc drugs and name brand hair salon items, we order from Amazon at a very low prices. Those shipments can take up to 2 weeks. These orders apparently get sent via a low cost shipper and stay in warehouses for days.
Other Prime products ordered at the same time often arrive here the next day or 2 days after the order.
Some days, we have 3 types of Amazon trucks on our 24 home cul de sac in the same day and sometimes at the same time. Throw in a couple of UPS and Fed Ex truck, private delivery vans and a US postal truck sometimes show up at the same time.
Our regular UPS driver is now making late afternoon deliveries for Costco and other suppliers. Apparently, he and other UPS drivers meet a bigger UPS truck in a parking lot in the afternoon to pick up these late afternoon deliveries.
As gas prices increase each day, we will see more delays and work arounds like using a local parking lot as a pickup spot for late afternoon deliveries.
Delivery truck traffic jam at Dave’s house! lol...
In our area, the delivery service you commented on, has some superb drivers who make the early morning and early pm deliveries.
My latest CPap machine, not a cheap one was delivered before 10 am and on time by our good delivery guy. I had some expensive charcoal grill parts that supposedly had been shipped and received. I asked him about them. He whispered, “Any neighbors on vacation?”
I said my next door neighbor. The driver just shrugged.
After he left, I called another retired neighbor and asked him if he was missing any deliveries from X. He said yes.
I told him to meet me at our mutual on vacation neighbor’s
home.
We both had several packages and many of the other neighbors. They were the heavy/bulky items.
So, I got my pickup, and we loaded our neighbor’s shipments and delivered them. Then, we got our loads and delivered them.
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