Thread: The *&%$@# USPS fails again.

I live in a rural area,and your experiences may differ. But if the postal driver has been given the option of leaving a little card in your mail box rather than disrupting his route,drive another half mile to actually deliver the package,then , human nature says he will just leave the little card. Again...The service you get from the USPS depends on where you live. In my case the service is atrocious .If the item is sent by UPS I receive it. If it comes via Fedex I receive it. When it comes courtesy of the USPS, I must RETRIEVE It.

Originally Posted by Wirm

I live in a rural area,and your experiences may differ. But if the postal driver has been given the option of leaving a little card in your mail box rather than disrupting his route,drive another half mile to actually deliver the package,then , human nature says he will just leave the little card. Again...The service you get from the USPS depends on where you live. In my case the service is atrocious .If the item is sent by UPS I receive it. If it comes via Fedex I receive it. When it comes courtesy of the USPS, I must RETRIEVE It.

I think your being a harsh on the USPS,Driving a half mile extra to deliver a package is a tad over the top for The USPS.
If the sender paid USPS 6 bux to deliver a flat rate box to you, Fedex or UPS charged alot more.get what you paid for.

I have watched tracking and have the package go right past my post office to another post office then the opposite wayto one it passed along the way to finally be delivered a day or two later.

I shipped all over the world with USPS for the last 7+ years and have had only two things go wrong. One, the box got caught in the mechanisms; I got the invoice and the customer got the box remains, and the janitor got the parts. I also got an envelope with the hole in the end and no razor. That is not to say things do not go wrong but those often are caused by poor quality help. Compared to thousands of dollars in damaged goods sent by UPS...it is now USPS all the way. There are a few countries, of course, that I would not ship to. Some times for heavy/ bulky shipping, I use the national bus companies package service.
YMMV and probably does!
~Richard

Try this one out.

I work for a sewage treatment plant. We have a billing P.O. Box and a separate shipping address, and of course there is no mail box at the shipping address. Most of the time we order something it 99.9% of the time it is UPS, FedEx, or hauled directly to the plant. Many times the usps catches it if for some reason an item goes through their office labeled with the shipping address to place it with the P.O. Box. But one time I ordered something, a book of federal regulations, and had it shipped like normal expecting to see it in a couple of weeks. After a month I looked at the tracking and noticed it made it to my post office but because we do not have a mail box at the shipping address it was sent back to the west coast. A year laterand and few phone calls to the company I still have never seen it. The company I ordered from was just so bad when it comes to cust service I just decided to not deal with them and call it a lost cause. To make matters worse the company a year later called me and asked if there is anything I would like to order. but like I said normally my post office is good at catching when this happens, but that must have been an off day.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

I think your being a harsh on the USPS,Driving a half mile extra to deliver a package is a tad over the top for The USPS.
If the sender paid USPS 6 bux to deliver a flat rate box to you, Fedex or UPS charged alot more.get what you paid for.

Harsh ?? NO Pix , I am POSTAL !

Originally Posted by Wirm

I live in a rural area,and your experiences may differ.

Your delivery is being subsidized by those who live in urban areas where the large volume in dense locations makes it far cheaper. If you get your wish for USPS to be privatized you'll likely have to pay higher fees commensurate with the real cost of service to your door.
Plus the carriers are usually local, so your problem isn't a big corporate entity but one of your 'neighbors' who dropped the ball. After all the rest of the system up to that last leg seem to have carried your package quite successfully.

Some day in the future this will be done with even more robots, it will be even more reliable, the rates will be comparatively lower and those current middle class jobs will be gone as well.

In any case I'm pretty sure if you'd asked the seller to use UPS or Fedex at your expense they'd have probably done that.

Correct.But that last leg is crucial. And I would gladly pay a rate commensurate to UPS or Fedex for comparable service.

If I were you I'd simply ask the sellers I buy from to use UPS or Fedex and pay for whatever extra it costs. The best part of having choice is using it

Sometimes the choice is not ours.But I like your suggestion.