Is the postal slowdown affecting you?

[newbury]

Twisted my knee so I ordered a knee brace Friday, USPS from Ca to Ms, got notification it shipped, expected delivery Sep 1'st. Apparently they are going to make it walk.

 

[Diggin It]

I don't get enough mail to notice. I all but eliminated ordering items that had to be shipped quite a while back. I still do it sometimes, but only about 10% of what I used to. I decided I'd rather support local businesses wherever possible.

 

[Fuddy1952]

We've not only noticed a slow down but lost mail also. Then there's talk about mail in voting. Really?!?!?

 

[TractorGuy]

We've not only noticed a slow down but lost mail also. Then there's talk about mail in voting. Really?!?!?

I have voted by mail for years. It gives me time to sit and reveiw all the candidate's positions and make a decision.

This year with talk of a slow down our supervisor of elections added drop boxes outside of the early voting locations. The boxes are supervised so people can only drop a single, signed ballot envelope.

By having early voting locations that are open on the weekends, mail in drop boxes, AND regular voting they have eliminated long lines on Tuesdays without compromising the results.

As far as the mail goes I haven't noticed any difference. Most of the time they do a good job and my carrier is great. No system is infallible and things sometimes get lost or delayed.

 

[fried1765]

I have voted by mail for years. It gives me time to sit and reveiw all the candidate's positions and make a decision.

This year with talk of a slow down our supervisor of elections added drop boxes outside of the early voting locations. The boxes are supervised so people can only drop a single, signed ballot envelope.

By having early voting locations that are open on the weekends, mail in drop boxes, AND regular voting they have eliminated long lines on Tuesdays without compromising the results.

As far as the mail goes I haven't noticed any difference. Most of the time they do a good job and my carrier is great. No system is infallible and things sometimes get lost or delayed.

I must be using a different US Mail service than you are!

 

[Ford850]

Seems about the same to me, but all shippers have slowed a bit due to volume. One thing I noticed is a several day delay from when a seller claims “shipped” to when they actually get it in the hands of a shipper. I have 3 shipments from Thursday and Friday, and all three said shipped but only printed a label so far. The shippers (USPS, UPS, and FedEx in this case) will all get the packages on Monday. That’s when I think the seller should consider it shipped. At this point it is only “packaged”.

 

[Diggin It]

Down the rabbit hole in 3 ... and 4. When will posters learn?

 

[newbury]

Seems about the same to me, but all shippers have slowed a bit due to volume. One thing I noticed is a several day delay from when a seller claims 都hipped to when they actually get it in the hands of a shipper. I have 3 shipments from Thursday and Friday, and all three said shipped but only printed a label so far. The shippers (USPS, UPS, and FedEx in this case) will all get the packages on Monday. That痴 when I think the seller should consider it shipped. At this point it is only 菟ackaged?

I've a separate thread months(?) ago ranting about them printing the label the moment the item is ordered, calling it shipped and packages taking a LONG time to actually get out their door. That's something different. Some places charge my card when they print the label. I had one site this spring email me the item had shipped and then when I checked on it it was on backorder and eventually took two months.
But I used to routinely get coast to me USPS deliveries in 3 or 4 days, not two plus weeks.
And I'm not ranting about politics.

 

[Thomas]

Haven't notice change but it may get little interesting month to come.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

We've not only noticed a slow down but lost mail also. Then there's talk about mail in voting. Really?!?!?

Yeah really... that is the plan; disrupt the postal service to dissuade from mail in voting. As low as low can go...

 

[Jim Nelson]

The only real difference we've noticed is less junk mail. We don't have a polling place for our area so have voted absentee ballot for years. I prefer it.

 

[duffer]

I hope all of you realize there is a HUGE difference between "Absentee voting" and "Mail in Voting".

For Absentee voting, YOU have to initiate the process, prove who you are with documentation.

For Mail in voting, a political party sends you ballots (unsolicited) to fill out. No proof of anything. Opens the flood gates for illegals, dead people, etc. 25% of the primary vote in Michigan was DQ'd because the ballots were from dead people. (I'm not kidding. It was in the news)

 

[Diggin It]

Down the rabbit hole in 3 ... and 4. When will posters learn?

And 10, 11 and 12.




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[rswyan]

Twisted my knee so I ordered a knee brace Friday, USPS from Ca to Ms, got notification it shipped, expected delivery Sep 1'st. Apparently they are going to make it walk.

Order placed Aug 8, picked up in Crestwood, IL by USPS on Aug 10 @ 12:48, departed the post office in Midlothian, IL at 19:59 on Aug 10 ... as of Aug 14 tracking shows "In Transit, Arriving Late" ... with no further updates as to when it might arrive.

Bang up job our new Postmaster General is doing ... :thumbsup:

:laughing:

 

[newbury]

I hope all of you realize there is a HUGE difference between "Absentee voting" and "Mail in Voting".

For Absentee voting, YOU have to initiate the process, prove who you are with documentation.

For Mail in voting, a political party sends you ballots (unsolicited) to fill out. No proof of anything. Opens the flood gates for illegals, dead people, etc. 25% of the primary vote in Michigan was DQ'd because the ballots were from dead people. (I'm not kidding. It was in the news)

Look I was trying to keep politics out of this BUT
from USA.gov

Coronavirus and Voting by Mail-In Absentee Ballot

Absentee and Early Voting | USAGov

Each state has mail-in voting, but some allow you to take part only in certain circumstances.

Your definition of "mail in" is different than the governments.

 

[Bird]

So far I have not noticed any changes in our mail service. However, that might be changing. My wife ordered some PennyDellPuzzles 5 days ago. She's ordered such in the past and they usually came within a week. But this time, the email order confirmation also said "Currently there are significant delays in processing and shipping orders.
Although we are asking you to allow 8 to 10 weeks for delivery, we are working around the clock to shorten this time frame and your order may arrive sooner.
Thank you for your patience." Fortunately, it just isn't important.

As for voting, we've always voted in every election, but changed from "in person" voting to "mail in" voting a few years ago. Will our votes get counted? Who knows?

 

[ericm979]

I hope all of you realize there is a HUGE difference between "Absentee voting" and "Mail in Voting".

For Absentee voting, YOU have to initiate the process, prove who you are with documentation.

For Mail in voting, a political party sends you ballots (unsolicited) to fill out. No proof of anything. Opens the flood gates for illegals, dead people, etc. 25% of the primary vote in Michigan was DQ'd because the ballots were from dead people. (I'm not kidding. It was in the news)

The only difference between mail in and absentee voting is that each voter has to get specific permission to vote absentee (and the county election commission or state can set rules to restrict who can vote absentee). The actual voting part is the same.

We have had only mail in voting in my part of the county for years. The county elections office sends in an official ballot, identical to the one that you'd fill out in a voting booth except it's not got chads to punch out with a voting machine but circles to color in like a multiple choice test. It's not sent by a party and it's only sent to registered voters. You sign the envelope with the completed ballot sealed inside and the election commission verifies the signature against one already on file. In some places that are new to mail in voting there have been large numbers of signatures rejected but that appears to be yet another attempt at disenfranchising people. Studies show that the amount of voting fraud is very low (mostly due to people delivering ballots for others, which has it s own set of rules and an additional signature), and that using mail in voting does not affect the partisan balance.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

So far I have not noticed any changes in our mail service. However, that might be changing. My wife ordered some PennyDellPuzzles 5 days ago. She's ordered such in the past and they usually came within a week. But this time, the email order confirmation also said "Currently there are significant delays in processing and shipping orders.
Although we are asking you to allow 8 to 10 weeks for delivery, we are working around the clock to shorten this time frame and your order may arrive sooner.
Thank you for your patience." Fortunately, it just isn't important.

As for voting, we've always voted in every election, but changed from "in person" voting to "mail in" voting a few years ago. Will our votes get counted? Who knows?

Would you like for your votes to get counted? This does not need to be blue, red, or political... it is VOTING.

 

[/pine]

LoL...The only peeps that are not leery of mail in voting are the ones whose party will most likely benefit from fraud etc...

 

[Citydude]

A friend sent me a T-shirt from Washington state. It took 3 weeks to get to Wyoming.