… needs a long stay in the Whipping Spa and Salt Massage. Bamboo cane with wet split ends, if you don’t mind.
I wonder which post office. It has been 2 days and nada. I fear it is in another county and/or another state.
By Miguel.GFZ
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
It’s called “Efficiency Averaging”, which lowers the functional abilities of any and all entities involved to the lowest common denominator.
I had one of those UPS-to-USPS parcels spend a long weekend in limbo recently; for some reason, it (and two other parcels sent by USPS to begin with) got routed through the big post office in the next county, when they normally come to the lesser post office in this county, and then it took all weekend for them to travel from one post office to the next.
We’ve also had a couple of FedEx delivery screwups lately. I think this is a serious overload season for parcel deliveries.
They’ve had a busy year, and I imagine Christmas season will be even busier.
Even busier, yup. Around here, FedEx has sometimes been showing up in a rental truck; I think that started back in spring. They can only add capacity so fast….
UPS has, so far, always shown up in a brown truck. USPS, here, mostly uses a random assortment of relatively normal vehicles, commonly station wagons, without insignia (but with a flashing light on top), though Sunday parcels tend to show up in a regulation postal truck.
It appears that the local workers (again, in this particular area) are, with occasional lapses, dealing with the load pretty well, but there seem to be problems further up the food chain.
Well, UPS had been consistently using the big brown trucks. Today’s delivery (two small items) arrived by unmarked station wagon. Guess everybody’s short of delivery vehicles now.
I’m in the Pacific NW. It’s nice to see usps suckage is nationwide. Nothing like consistency! My driveway is 1/2 mile long so my packages get left without my presence. I have a mailbox, a medium sized locked drop, and a jobbox for the big stuff. UPS, Amazon and FEDEX have it locked in. My stuff stays safe and dry. I know when usps drops off packages because they walk past the 2 drop boxes (with labeling that says “package drop”) and dump the boxes over my 6 foot wrought iron gate. If it’s raining I get soggy fun times. EVERYTHING government touches goes to crap.
The logistics nightmare in our United States is not unexpected.
The confluence of Covid and commercial cuckery have produced a bastard offspring that simply cannot work.
Truth is gone. Without truth, no consequence. Without consequence, no accountability. Without accountability, no reason to change or, heaven forbid, improve.
USPS could screw up pouring piss out of about with the instructions on the heel. UPS was somewhat stable and even reliable until they succumbed to logistics industry limp dick. The conflagration that is those two “working together” has all the hallmarks of a(nother) great 2020 shitshow.
Wife just had a birthday present for her sister in St. Louis go from Boston to the USPS in Detroit, then Cleveland to Atlanta then back to Cleveland then to St. Louis then back to Cleveland where it sat for a week with nobody able to find it until a week later it showed up at the correct place n ST. Louis. Wonder what was so special about Cleveland that it went there three times.
I can’t tell you how many times they can screw up jobs. EDDM is one of the best ideas they ever had. You take bulk mailing and bypass all the machines, just go from counter to carrier, boom. Supposed to take one day to get delivered. How they can lose 3 whole damn tubs from the counter to the carrier is beyond me. But they have cost me customers in the past, despite my warning the customers that the PO delivery dates are not secure. I hate the USPS.
The two worst package carriers in the universe. USPS is utterly worthless. The employees don’t give two fucks about your mail or package. I can’t tell you the number of times we’ve received UPS boxes that looked like they’d gone through the Battle of Berlin…
I submit that DHL is worse by far…
Does that still exist?
Oh, yes.
https://www.dhl.com/en.html
They were bought by Deutsche Post some years back, I believe.
Went thru this with a SUPPRESSOR believe it or not… gotta luv “efficiency “. … remember the old joke abou ups and fedex merging call it FEDUP
But, the USPS did a perfect job of delivering the ballots on time.
Oh, wait. Sorry. My error.
Seriously, how did so many ballots show up late, when the campaign ads stopped the day before election day? Not kidding. Every other year, I get one or two ads after election day. This year? Nothing. Dead stop. All the campaign ads delivered on time, ballots late.
And do not get me started on the “package cannot be delivered” crap. that happens to me a bunch, but somehow, it makes it there when I complain.
UPS delivered something like 160# of ammo (several years ago) to the nice older lady across the street. TDW-Mark II grabbed the hand truck, traipsed over there, and dumped for me, at the bottom of our steps.
That worked, for me.
Hey, pissedoffprinter, it looks like we have some common interests, in addition to the subjects of this blog. We’re also printers and mailers. Perhaps Miguel would be willing to give you my contact info, and give me yours, if you’re interested.
Ivan, alas I have been out of printing since my move to South Carolina, but it is stil in my blood and hope to get back into it, if this covid-crap ever lets up. I’m good if he can share it.
I’d you both join the discourse you can send PMs without admin help. We might have to bump your trust level but any moderate can do that for you.
Ah, someone has never heard the tale of when USPS took a package of cookies, shipped from Texas to New Jersey… and they wound up in Guam.
You couldn’t even ship a package to Guam normally under the options the original shipper had selected. But somehow, they ended up in Guam.
The tale is here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krishrach/this-story-of-a-box-of-cookies-ending-up-in-guam-is-the
And while yes, it’s funny… it raises some -questions- regarding the competency and sanity of the USPS.
No real question: the answer is simply “same as any other government agency”.
A store near me (that I sometimes go to during my lunch hour) offered free USPS shipping so I took the offer. My package went from Houston to Dallas to IOWA to Dallas to San Antonio to Houston. At least it arrived. sigh.
I just heard from a buddy of mine that a buddy of his had ordered a Sig through GunBroker, and of course it had to ship to his local FFL. The store was closed when USPS attempted to deliver it. Guess what this mailman did? Yup. Left it at the door EVEN THOUGH IT SAID SIGNATURE REQUIRED. The gun, of course, is long gone…
UPS and USPS, for the most part, most of the time, do a reasonable job. Or at least they do in my experience. Granted the approximately 5-10% problems are a high enough rate that they aren’t outliers … but nor are they that common, if I’m honest.
UPS and FedEx seem to alternate years when one is notably worse. This year, in our area, FedEx is “winning.”. (Hint: if you ever have a choice, DO NOT let a shipper request FedEx have an adult signature to leave the package…)
DHL has had a 100% rate of heartburn-inducing package delivery for me for the past 5 years. Every. Single. Time.
In our area, UPS is king for reliability… EXCEPT for stuff handed off to USPS.
Fedex usually works fine, although it’s not quite up to standard.
USPS, for both internally shipped and handoffs, sucks rocks. We’ve watched packages bounce around the country for weeks, or get lost. Worse, when our regular mail lady is on vacation, we’ve had packages marked as delivered that were not, ans only managed to be “found” once we reported them stolen. Seems they have a thief that fills in on routes, and likes to keep packages for herself. She’s come by at 7 or 8 pm to deliver stuff we reported stolen, in her personal vehicle, with her boyfriend driving, to get out from the disciplinary actions more than once. They either cannot or will not fire her either.
Same fill in driver has taken to driving up to our gate and leaving “sorry we missed you, come by the post office to get your stuff” notes out of spite. She’s done this with me working outside in full view of the gate. Or she’ll leave the note in the mailbox and claim a signature was required when it wasn’t, after I called her boss on the gate shenanigan.
We’ve had similar issues with a stand-in USPS delivery “person” in out area.
My favorite is tje scanned in at unknown where it languishes for days. Or how I live in a town with a sorting center but all mail I receive is sent to a sorting center out of state then to me, i to never goes through the local one….
My extra favorite was receiving registered mail direct to my mailbox no signature required! Who knew registered mail could be so convienent! /sarc
It is also amazing how many lost packages show up and problems are resolved quickly and efficiently when you suggest involving the postal inspector…
Ah USPS . . . a very recent service to draw my ire.
Sent a package to a buddy in Tallahassee, USPS Priority. 350 mile trip from North Alabama to Tally. Sent it December 2nd and right now all it says is “In transit, arriving late.” The pick up scan and the “In Tranist, Arriving Late” are the only two entries in the tracking.
Last month, my mother sent us a package with some stuff for our little one. Central Illinois to North Alabama. Took over a week. Turns out, the USPS decided the best way to route that package was to send it to Billings, Montana before sending it to Birmingham, Alabama.
And we won’t even discuss the watch that was returned for service with Signature Required that the postal employee just signed my name for, dropped in the box, and drove off.
I fucking hate the post office.