Rant on shipping

[Jstpssng]

I now currently have three packages lost at the same time, in USPS purgatory. It’s so bad, news stations in Indiana have been contacting politicians about why their constituents are waiting 30+ days for packages.

What do you expect though, when for the past 5 years the USPS has been run by somebody who openly says he plans to have it privatized. It's reminiscent of Sears, Roebuck and Co.

 

[thepumpguysc]

Mine has been lost there for A WEEK.!!
I just received an update that it will be delivered between 11:00 and 3:00.
We shall see..

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Mine has been lost there for A WEEK.!!
I just received an update that it will be delivered between 11:00 and 3:00.
We shall see..

Yah, I'm going on no scan for 16 days

 

[Oaktree]

Invoices often say if paid by mail allow 10 days.

All well and good until the invoice arrives 3 days before the due date.

But when was the invoice mailed? No postmark on a lot of bill sent by larger companies who save on postage by pre-sorting. IMHO a lot of companies are giving you a smaller payment window to force you to use some sort of direct or online payment.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

I had one package get so close I could have rode my bicycle to pick it up. Instead of being delivered, it ended up out in Iowa somewhere.

I had a package ship from Darby Montana, which is an hour away via US93, to Hamilton, Montana, then on to Missoula, to Spokane, to Seattle, to Portland, to Boise, to Twin Falls, to Salt Lake City, to Rigby Idaho, and finally to Salmon Idaho. There is a daily truck from Missoula to Rigby.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

What do you expect though, when for the past 5 years the USPS has been run by somebody who openly says he plans to have it privatized. It's reminiscent of Sears, Roebuck and Co.

I never will understand why Sears, and JC Penny, both of whom had extensive catalogs, formatted in HTML, didn't manage to survive and thrive in the roll out of the internet, which heavily leveraged HTML.

 

[Jstpssng]

I never will understand why Sears, and JC Penny, both of whom had extensive catalogs, formatted in HTML, didn't manage to survive and thrive in the roll out of the internet, which heavily leveraged HTML.

As near as I can tell, they were taken over by managers who valued their assets more than the product.

Kind of like DeJoy (less).
I honestly don't understand why he was hired.

 

[ponytug]

As near as I can tell, they were taken over by managers who valued their assets more than the product.

Kind of like DeJoy (less).
I honestly don't understand why he was hired.

Personally, I think he was hired to run USPS into the ground so it could be nationalized, and the mandates to deliver to every address could be removed. It seemed like a pretty clear goal of his during his appointment hearings.

 

[scootr]

USPS pkg from CA to MO in just 18 days.
It was estimated to be a 4 day delivery. After 3 days it had not left our distribution hub where it was on day 1. It remained unaccounted for. On day 8 I filed a lost mail report.
17 days after it was picked up it scanned in MO and out for delivery the same day.
Good ole USPS.

 

[ruffdog]

Personally, I think he was hired to run USPS into the ground so it could be nationalized, and the mandates to deliver to every address could be removed. It seemed like a pretty clear goal of his during his appointment hearings.

He was making the USPS more efficient by getting rid of sorting machines. Sorting by hand is more efficient? No wonder some people wait a long time for packages.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/usp...bring-back-removed-mail-sorting-machines.html