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Originally Posted by Superman
This differs from our service. I see the USPS truck go by (the actual mail box is not visible from my living room window) and sixty seconds later I am notified the delivery was completed.
As I say, when I see a First Class or Priority USPS shipping option, I choose it. Faster and less expensive.
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I get the same notification upon delivery. I don't think they actually
scan anything, however, I think they simply tap a touch screen on something that tells their system (and us) that they delivered
something. The assumption is that whatever was scanned back in the mailroom and posted to "informed delivery" is what they delivered. They do not verify each individual piece of mail or each individual package by actually scanning it in the mail truck before putting it in the mail box. It's simply an acknowledgement that "yeah, I delivered whatever it was that might have been in the tray for that address".
Interestingly, my missing package showed up in my mailbox today. I received no notification that it had been delivered, nor was it included in the image provided by "informed delivery" as something I should be looking for today. Of course not - their tracking website told me they delivered it to me on Monday.
Conversely, several rather important pieces of mail (tax documents) that showed up on "informed delivery" as being out for delivery today were not in my mailbox today.
Something is very, very broken at the Post Office. It must be, to have come to the attention of a Congressman or several.