I sent a priority package to MI on the 28th of July and it just left Denver last night, 10 days to make it less than a 1 hour drive. It should be interesting to see how long it takes to get to the recipient.
As someone who has a remote based business that relies on the USPS, I am not impressed with the recent changes to how our mail is moved.
Steve
Have you tracked it to see where it got hung up? The packages I send all over the country via first class seem to be moving normally.
Those changes are not new, MI has been a bear to get packages to all year. I’ve got family there and everything gets hung up getting there.
I have had a number of priority packages delayed in transit by USPS in the last few weeks. They are definitely having some issues.
Check out the links, changes are new, my package has been in Denver for 9 days.
Shipping has been helter skelter ever since the virus hit our shores. Just more of the crazy times we're living in.
Then add in the fact that USPS has become a political hot potato and you have a real mess. It really doesn't matter what shipper you use now days because it will boil down to when you slip your package over the counter you've lost control of it in the big shipping crap game.
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For the last 5 years the USPS has been hiring part time people with no benefits to replace full time people who have retired. They don't have any real loyalty or have to do a great job for a system that is based on a computer game management with no idea what the actual job is, pushing them for more more more. Add in having UPS and Fed-Ex doing a lot of the transport and USPS doing the final point of delivery. There are too many people looking at computers and asking for more data to look at to justify their job and not doing a thing to move the mail. It can and should be fixed buy it never will because there is too much money involved in keeping it running as it is. The USPS is supposed to be a universal service for all Americans It is not and shouldn't be a seperate buisness run by gov't employees who couldn't get or keep a job in the private sector.
...They don't haveThe USPS is supposed to be a universal service for all Americans It is not and shouldn't be a seperate buisness run by gov't employees who couldn't get or keep a job in the private sector.
I’d bet a large percentage of them wouldn’t last a week at UPS.
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...They don't haveThe USPS is supposed to be a universal service for all Americans It is not and shouldn't be a seperate buisness run by gov't employees who couldn't get or keep a job in the private sector.
I’d bet a large percentage of them wouldn’t last a week at UPS.
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You are most likely correct. I believe at UPS you a required to lose, steal or destroy a certain percentage of packages you come in to contact with.
I have had tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise damaged or stolen before I stopped using UPS.
The problems with the USPS started in the 90s when a compliment resulted in a sexual harassment charge and quotas on hiring etc. had to be met. The P.O. became a big political football managers and supervisors where taken early retirements and being replaced with quotas not qualifications. The P.O. dept. in the mid 90s wanted a few thousand managers and supervisors to retire and the flood gates opened they couldn't get out quick enough.
Just saying
I sent a priority package to MI on the 28th of July and it just left Denver last night, 10 days to make it less than a 1 hour drive.
At least it wasn’t lost, stolen or damaged. Think positive.
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How the heck does UPS make 6 billion a year?
Must be doing something right. Up almost $11.00 today.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UPS/
Another factor is that tracking information may be misleading. I had a 3-day Priority package headed to me in Montana from Alabama two weeks ago. Tracking showed that it was still in AL six days later, then that day it appeared on my porch. Go figure!
This totally off-topic and non-double gun related thread offers another prime example of exactly why we need to RE-ELECT OUR PRO-2ND AMENDMENT PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.
As pod has noted, the U.S. Postal Service has been a hot mess since the Bill Clinton regime. Neither competition nor repeated postal rate increases has made it better. It has gotten much worse. Post Offices have been shut down and hours have been reduced, and it just gets worse.
DONALD TRUMP obviously could not fix all of the damage that was done over several decades, but he was doing a damn good job until the Covid19 crisis hit. He needs four more years to continue Making America Great Again. We can only imagine how bad it would have gotten with an inept George Soros socialist sock-puppet like Obama in the White House.
I just wanted to say that before this totally off-topic thread gets deleted!
I had two packages lately take 32 days and 41 days that were express packages. Hate to see the slow stuff. I try to not use USPS anymore but sometimes I do not get a choice. Worse is their insurance claims are even worse than their service. Decline and try to wait you out.
I suspect it is more the particular postal or parcel stations that you interact with and their personnel. Here, the USPS office is wonderful. Great people who will go the last mile to make sure the guns, bees, ducks, geese, and other crazy stuff we receive or ship are all handled extremely well.
FedEx shipping and delivery as always been very good or excellent if occasionally surly at the counter. They have been helpful and easy to deal with when shipping ammo and firearms.
The UPS drivers have been very good, particularly the one that most commonly has our delivery on his route. But UPS hub station, where I would have to go to send a gun by UPS, is stunningly bad in temperament and service. That local operation has a very toxic, for lack of a better word, environment and selection of personnel.
Shipping services are something like airlines. You have a bad experience, damn the whole corporation, and move on to the next one. Sooner or later, the process repeats. For me, USPS is the gold standard here. I expect if I lived in Ames or some other town, it could very well be something else.
I'm seeing no problems with UPS, right now. We can order a part from Amazon and have it in two days, most of the time. If not, it's here in three.
Haven't used USPS lately. Thanks for the heads up on it.
SRH
We have been on a good streak in recent years with all three of the parcel services. We have even had a few positive surprises. There have been past times when a package is tracked as out for delivery, then the status changes to its location being two states over and I watch the tracking work it’s way back to where it is supposed to go.
We have noticed what appears to be consolidating, parcel sit at a distribution center until there is enough to send a full batch to a destination. Are you trying to sneak in a stealth mail in ballot dig?
No Craig, nothing to do with ballots, though I do find it interesting that you would make the connection between the changes that the newly appointed PostMaster General has made to operating procedures and the upcoming election. My comment was in regard to how the changes to operations will impact my business which relies heavily on the USPS.
After 11 days my package has made it to Indianapolis, some progress to report.
More good news, de-funding of social Security and medicare is coming soon.
....More good news, de-funding of social Security and medicare is coming soon.
I thought your gang was going to disperse this up front in a three T sky is falling package? I don't tend to click on links, but I did on one of yours, maybe it's just my virus thingy program acting up. Let's see if your package will send text updates of its first birthday party.
....More good news, de-funding of social Security and medicare is coming soon.
I thought your gang was going to disperse this up front in a three T sky is falling package? I don't tend to click on links, but I did on one of yours, maybe it's just my virus thingy program acting up. Let's see if your package will send text updates of its first birthday party.
Still waiting for my decoder ring in the mail so I can understand your post
