Rant on shipping

[ponytug]

It was mentioned another thread, and is now TDSTSNBN.

I have literally had to tell a couple of shippers that any issues with material sent via TDSTSNBN is 100% on the vendor. My bottom line is "It didn't arrive." What TDSTSNBN says about where it might be or what the address challenges aren't my problem; they chose TDSTSNBN, not me. Ergo it is on them. I think that they are aware that they cheaped out and selected TDSTSNBN; they get to deal with TDSTSNBN.

Interestingly, I have never had to escalate problems with TDSTSNBN to my credit card company, which leads me to believe that the vendors know that TDSTSNBN is a problematic shipper.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Dftodd]

If it is anything like my daughter's new neighborhood, better check the HOA rules. Pretty strict. Would drive me crazy to live back in suburbia.

No HOA. We are talking small city in Arkansas. Now I could see checking with the property manager though since the home is a rental.

 

[Jstpssng]

It was mentioned another thread, and is now TDSTSNBN.

I have literally had to tell a couple of shippers that any issues with material sent via TDSTSNBN is 100% on the vendor. My bottom line is "It didn't arrive." What TDSTSNBN says about where it might be or what the address challenges aren't my problem; they chose TDSTSNBN, not me. Ergo it is on them. I think that they are aware that they cheaped out and selected TDSTSNBN; they get to deal with TDSTSNBN.

Interestingly, I have never had to escalate problems with TDSTSNBN to my credit card company, which leads me to believe that the vendors know that TDSTSNBN is a problematic shipper.

All the best,

Peter

For a few years I was telling vendors the same thing about UPS; starting when I lived on a state highway, they never could find my house. That was many years ago, they've gotten much better.

 

[Oaktree]

DeJoy was determined to wreck the postal service, and it looks like he is succeeding.

Quoted from a different thread.
I don't know much about DeJoy's qualifications, but let's be real. He faces an impossible task, and I doubt anyone else could do better. He took over a quasi-government agency that's been grossly mis-managed for decades and receives an odd combination of neglect and micro-management from congress, not to mention having to deal with a strong union that resists every attempt to streamline operations.
Every time anyone so much as suggests curtailing Saturday delivery or closing some one horse town post office the public cries to their congressman and that gets squashed.

I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Quoted from a different thread.
I don't know much about DeJoy's qualifications, but let's be real. He faces an impossible task, and I doubt anyone else could do better. He took over a quasi-government agency that's been grossly mis-managed for decades and receives an odd combination of neglect and micro-management from congress, not to mention having to deal with a strong union that resists every attempt to streamline operations.
Every time anyone so much as suggests curtailing Saturday delivery or closing some one horse town post office the public cries to their congressman and that gets squashed.

I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.

So his genius move is to cut rural mail deliveries, when everyone in town can walk to the post office for their mail?

 

[Jstpssng]

So his genius move is to cut rural mail deliveries, when everyone in town can walk to the post office for their mail?

I live in one of those rural towns, our PO serves several hundred people. From a cost standpoint delivery is much more expensive here than in a heavily populated area.

 

[Doofy]

Personally, we do not want or need Saturday delivery and we tell USPS that each time they ask. We have a rural route box up on the highway and are 21 miles away from the post office. Our postal route is 175 miles RT and ending Saturday delivery would be a significant savings.

 

[Jstpssng]

Personally, we do not want or need Saturday delivery and we tell USPS that each time they ask. We have a rural route box up on the highway and are 21 miles away from the post office. Our postal route is 175 miles RT and ending Saturday delivery would be a significant savings.

Many people still work for a living and Saturday is the only chance they have to get to the post office.

 

[Doofy]

Many people still work for a living and Saturday is the only chance they have to get to the post office.

Our Post Office closes at Noon on Saturdays. Proper Planning by people makes it work.

 

[goeduck]

Many people still work for a living and Saturday is the only chance they have to get to the post office.

The Post Office being open on Saturday makes sense to me but delivery to mailbox routes on Saturday, not so much. I could do without that and without junk mail which is 90% of what I get. I have both a mailbox and a Post Office box and get the same junk mail in both. At least at the Post Office I can toss the junk mail in the dumpster inside the lobby. These days with so much on-line, almost nothing goes in my mail that is urgent.

 

[Doofy]

I understand that a lot of folks depend on the USPS for getting their Meds and Social Security checks but then again, proper planning can ease the burden of Saturday closings.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I understand that a lot of folks depend on the USPS for getting their Meds and Social Security checks but then again, proper planning can ease the burden of Saturday closings.

Didn’t SSA go to direct deposit only? If not, they should.

 

[Diggin It]

Personally, I wouldn't object to home delivery on only four days; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, IF they worked those days regardless of any (most) holidays.

But that might not work for everyone.


As far as 'the guy' ......


... lips zipped.

 

[Doofy]

I write and mail 3 checks a month. Everything else is done online. Junk mail has dwindled to almost nothing and Life is Good.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I just wish the USPS would deliver the mail they claim to have delivered.

 

[Jstpssng]

I understand that a lot of folks depend on the USPS for getting their Meds and Social Security checks but then again, proper planning can ease the burden of Saturday closings.

How about closing Wednesday or Thursday instead? Not everybody lives in a city next to where they work. Saturday morning makes sense, although in a previous life I still had to scramble to get there when coming home for the weekend.

 

[Dftodd]

I understand that a lot of folks depend on the USPS for getting their Meds and Social Security checks but then again, proper planning can ease the burden of Saturday closings.

I have one med delivered by UPS. I wouldn't rely on the postal service to get it to me before it goes bad since it's packed in a cooler carton. UPS picks it up from the depot a couple states over and has it on my door step the next afternoon.

The one time my maintance drugs were mail order and shipped USPS, they would take 4 days at the earliest,, usually 6 to 7 days from two states over to get here. That shot would be bad by the time I received it.

And at $15,000 a dose....... who's gonna pay for another dose???

Insurance as well as the pharmacy would both tell me to get bent if I demanded another shot.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

2nd USPS Amazon delivery this week not delivered. Now it doesn’t even appear on the Amazon order list. Something weird going on.

 

[Pixguy]

UPS got new trucks in my area.

 

[Oaktree]

2nd USPS Amazon delivery this week not delivered. Now it doesn’t even appear on the Amazon order list. Something weird going on.

Sounds more like a problem on Amazon's part, not the USPS. They can't deliver what they don't have.