USPS Delivery Problems
 

It seems as though our Post Office is having a good deal of difficulty delivering mail these days. I've notice this since last summer, at least, where much of my incoming mail simply never makes it to my mailbox. We signed up for "informed delivery", which sends a preview to our cell phones of what is coming on any given day. More than half the time the items shown for today arrive at least two days later. About 10% of it never arrives at all. It seems we are not the only ones:

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Anyone else having trouble with their mail?

I've also got ID. Our mail is pretty good/stable, and ID is usually right on. Occasionally a package will show up a day late, but we also occasionally get them a day early.

I haven't noticed any delays here.....but I don't use 'informed delivery' either.
It's possible it's happening here and I don't know it.

What I do know is that the usps tracking system sucks. For small packages, the first notice I can get is usually on the day it's delivered....nothing earlier.

Any problems I have are generally attributed to the fact that I’ve got an idiot for a mailman.

The woman that delivered mail to my last house was a superstar. I got really good service from her, beyond what she was required to do.

But even here, with the idiot, I generally get everything. Last two days there have been no deliveries, because of an ice storm. Not too bothered by that.

We don't have a regular postal carrier for our route. Evidently if a carrier gets done with their regular route, and gets done early, that "get" too deliver our route next. The carriers all want to just go home, but they get stuck with a second delivery for the day.

I have the cell phone numbers of the family a block away with the same house number for their address, but on a different street. We get each other's packages all the time.

I'm going through this with an Ebay seller right now. I tend to do a majority of the purchasing of props on shows and have the stuff delivered to a warehouse as opposed to my home.

Warehouse has no mailbox and mail is delivered directly to the receptionist Mon-Fri. I get an email on Sunday 2 weeks ago that my package was delivered. Of course I go to work Monday and nada.

I try and explain to the seller that the package is missing, can I either get another shipment or a refund. He says that since only my name was on the package (not a business or production company) that I am SOL and there's nothing he can do about it.

Over 15 years of ordering this way, never a problem. But now I think USPS may be contracting out deliveries, never heard of regular mail being delivered on Sundays.

The other problem I found out from my home mailman is that they scan all Amazon packages before leaving the facility and then deliver them as they do their route. So a notification of "Left in Mailbox" doesn't necessarily mean YOUR mailbox.

You may actually be wrong about that. When we lived in the heart of Houston, because Amazon uses USPS for a lot of deliveries (besides Amazon delivery, UPS, etc...) we actually had USPS folks start showing up on Sundays in official USPS trucks to perform deliveries (only packages). That was probably 4-5 years ago. For the past 2 years we've lived in the boonies. For the past year, 99%+ of our Amazon deliveries have come via USPS. Starting this month, I was notified twice that I'd get a delivery on Sun from USPS. I thought "you're smokin crack, that's never going to happen." I was wrong, I've had a person in an official USPS delivery vehicle show up on 2 Sundays to drop off an Amazon package.

So that is why I see those Philippine guys scurrying about..

I think the point of this Thread has been missed by the intelligentsia of this Board...did you note that the missing mail are Ballots from the 2022 election?

I tell you the air is full of the smell of malfeasance,mendacity and corruption. You should hang garlic around your necks lest you succumb to the malady

I think one key to great mail delivery is a $30 gift card at Christmas time. I've known my current mailman for well over 5 years, could be 10, and always got decent service, started with $15 Starbucks cards, moved up to $30 gift cards a few years. Cheap thank you for the awesome service I get.

I am shocked that BRIBERY of govt officials is going on...and to think that it is to get better mail service.

When I buy something to be delivered, and there is a USPS option, I choose that. No complaints. Also, no conspiracy theories.

It’s the new democrat method. Take a voter list full of dead and inactive voters, send a bunch of ballots out to undeliverable addresses, have the post office collect them and return them to volunteers that are happy to fill them out in someone else’s name and use them in the election.

But that’s not what this thread is about, is it?

I prefer to put my garlic in the food I cook, you do you, though.

I've had issues.

Not sure what is going on. I do know that my carrier worked from 6am to after 6:30pm much of December. That can't help.

Of course you are denier..the conspiracy is fostered to benefit the side you are on...so naturally you will put the blinders on and deny deny deny that corruption is going on..

It helped his Christmas with all that Over Time pay..

It is just precious that you think this makes a difference.

Not just government officials, UPS too. The boxes my driver has to bring upstairs, honestly I should give him $100 at Christmas.

Interestingly, I get very little FedEx delivery.

For a guy that is being chased by dogs all afternoon one thinks that a kind word would be enough to suffice after all the invective hurled at him by people who are getting crummy mail service

My my you are a cheap SOB with all those heavy packages that he has to drag upstairs for you, you should be slipping him a few hundred..

The Fed Ex driver has gotten wise to you and is throwing them away..what you don't know won't hurt you.

Is this even okay in PPOT? I dunno, just wondering. I do not care for malicious lies, tabs.

I did not say this, nor would I, since I don't think it:

I honestly agree. The huge box with the hubs on top is about 100 lb. How he got it upstairs is beyond me. Whole suspension was in there and a ton of other stuff. Parts aren't light.

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I paid for and never got my renewal tags for the car. DMV had exact info on what day and from where they were mailed. So I run with one year out of date tags. No one seems to care.

But if I got stopped I'd just say, "They're in the mail." And DMV will back me up.

What you don't know, you don't know, that's for sure.

Now if one of the mods would clean this up, it might be a germane topic.

You will deny me 3 times before the Cock crows.. It is common for people to turn a blind eye to the malfeasance that is being done by their own side..We are on the side of angel and they are on the side of evil.

It is you who is making a personal issue into a political issue...lets be clear about that.. your feelings are hurt and you are striking out with PC..

The depths of depravity is that you would use PC as an excuse... and the powers that be let you get away with it..

My mail lady rocks. So does my UPS dood. Both have delivered here for years. No trouble whatsoever with them. No trouble with UPS at any level, ever. I'm now choosing them or Fed Ex over USPS when given the option.

USPS has now lost at least half a dozen packages since last summer. They have not yet lost any mail, just packages, but much of our mail that is shown as "delivered" shows up two to three days after that change in status. I think someone, or some sort of a systemic problem (software update?) in the mail room is doing this, not my individual carrier. She has delivered to our neighborhood for years, and has done a stellar job. I can't see her changing her habits.

My latest (and the incident that elicited this thread) is some rather hard to find parts for my 1993 Ducati 900 Super Sport. They were shipped last week, and the post office shows them delivered on Monday of this week. Interestingly, they show "Delivered, Front Desk/Reception/Mail Room" on their delivery tracker.

Well, I don't have anything like a "Front Desk/Reception/Mail Room" in my residential home. I would be curious to learn just how such a delivery notation got attached to this. System generated? Some lazy, unqualified gubmint worker hired under even lower standards than previously in place (I find that hard to believe... the possibility that they could have actually lowered them from where they already were... but I digress...)?

Just frustrating. It's not like they lost some run-of-the-mill something purchased at retail, easily replaced by the big box on-line store from whom I purchased. Nope, this time, it's no longer manufactured, pretty niche market stuff. The guy is sending another set (bless his heart), but I know this has to hurt him a bit. Not a super high dollar item (about a hundred bucks), but they ain't making' no more of 'em. Whoever actually winds up with them will just throw them away. Kind of a shame.

Because of Amazon all of the major delivery companies will be 7 days a week soon.

What did you get from Chris King? It has to be something quality.

I'd have to see who sent it tomorrow, customers just reuse boxes most of the time, the exception being large, sleeved TV boxes at Home Depot which were specifically designed to ship 911 door frames.

King makes the finest machined cycling parts available in my opinion. Works of art.

My experience has been that the performance of the USPS is a directly related to your mail person. We lived in an apt complex for ~7 years, and during that time we had several regular mail carriers. Some carriers were great (well, one was great, and some were good) and a couple were pretty moderate. We didn't have a huge issue with mail not arriving (there was some), but at times the mail getting into the wrong box was a big issue.

Ahh this recalls a memory of a time at that University in CA by the Sea and the Beach that the Dorm RA and his friend walked past me lieing face down, dead azz drunk, half in the room and half out. in a pool of my own vomit..saying "It is best just not to see things like that." as they walked into his room. that has left me to ponder that if I had been face up I would have pulled a Jimmy Hendrix and more over what higher purpose that I have been saved for in this life. Perhaps it has been to extol the gospel of living a virtuous moral life and the pitfalls of consuming prodigious amounts of Tequila.. At least at any one time..

It was the UPS man who delivered a shotgun to the same address on the wrong street...

It was a UPS Counter Man who took it upon himself to open a package containing a SW mdl 27-2 to check it before shipping..which was legal because it was FFL to FFL..

It was the UPS that delivered a rifle with the barrel poking through the package..

Most of my problems are with "last mile" deliveries for UPS and especially FedEx.

This is such a small county we know our route carriers by name (Pam and Scotty). Pam lives about 1/4 mile down the road and Scotty is a car guy. He delivers on Saturdays and comes down the drive to say Hi and shoot the breeze for a minute or two if he sees my shop door open. They take care of us.

I have no problem with FedEx 2-day Express mail.
I ordered a camera out of NY, NY on Friday @9:30AM local time.
Got an email saying it was shipped by noon my time.
It arrived Tues @10-11am, I forget the exact time there was a lot going on here that day.
Free 2-day shipping so I'm not complaining at all.

The last time we had a 'regular' mail carrier on our route was probably 15 years ago or more. I think we've had 10 different ones in the past 5 years, maybe more. No one bids our route for some reason. Probably too many 'Smiths' on it, makes it hard to sort.;)

It was a USPS Counter man who didn't give a package to a customer because the label had fallen off in transit, claimed that the shipping had not been payed and the customer had to repay the shipping cost to receive the package..Meanwhile the package was sent back, getting
to me 3 months later... Where it was reshipped on the USPS dime..

It is the stuff that is broken in transit by FED Ex that I like.

It is a Flintlock Long Rifle that I bought in FL that arrived broken at the wrist. Put the claim in through GB as they were the ship agents... Meanwhile I located the maker of the rifle in Ohio..Larry Bryner who was 78 ..I call him up where he said he would restock the rifle for 500...a couple of weeks later I received the money from GB. Tried for a couple of weeks to call Larry Bryner...with no answer. Then his wife answered and told me that he had an accident with his tractor where it rolled over him causing all the ribs on his left side to be crushed...The MD told his wife that he had never seen anyone suffer an injury like that and survive..Larry was in the ICU for 6 months living for another 7 or 8 years after the accident. I tlaked to him once after the got out of the hospital where he said he was through with building rifles..

The new UPS restrictions on shipping modern handguns is that it has to be sent 2nd Day Air..which adds 150 to 200 onto the cost..Rifles can go Ground

I believe the USPS doesn't ship handguns anymore..but will ship rifles

FED Ex I think will still ship handguns 2nd day air as well. Rifles can go Ground..

Part of the reason is that there is so much theft..and being PC.

This goes back to what I posted when my mail carrier told me that they scan all the packages at once at the mail facility and then deliver them. Perhaps some don't get delivered that day or put in the truck, they figure they'll deliver them at their leisure.

I give mine homemade beef jerky. They love it and I get great service.

That sounds like it is exactly what is happening. Nobody is "scanning" anything at delivery, when they are actually putting it in the mail box. I've actually stood there and watched as our mail lady delivers to the three boxes on our stand - she grabs from a tray, stuffs whatever it is into the box, then grabs the next stack for the next box. No scanning involved.

It sounds like there is a possibility that not everything that gets scanned at the mail facility even makes it onto the truck to go out for delivery that day. I can see where that would lead to sorting and delivery problems - if it's "scanned for delivery" and doesn't even make it onto the truck, where does it go until it does make it onto the truck?