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This isn't your fault, don't take it personally. No need to defend USPS.
Predicting this would be the biggest online holiday shopping season in human history did not take a leap of faith. Other companies are adapting. USPS has done the opposite because of the way it is run. I don't want to get political so hopefully people can understand what I'm saying. Lots of facts out there about what has happened to the postal system in the last 6 months. The problems we are seeing now are the result of a deliberate slowdown. I feel bad for the workers like you who have to take the brunt of all the poor decisions at the top. Again, not your fault and there is nothing you can do but work thanklessly harder in order to try to make up for what has happened.
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So one of my priority packages made it ok, 2 days late but there
The other is stuck and was a week late yesterday. It’s most likely in a backup of contested mail as it’s in Detroit distribution center. So hopeful that it’s only a matter of time.
I will say this is only my second issues with USPS in many years of shipping.
The other is stuck and was a week late yesterday. It’s most likely in a backup of contested mail as it’s in Detroit distribution center. So hopeful that it’s only a matter of time. I will say this is only my second issues with USPS in many years of shipping.
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- I’m sorry, I have to disagree. There was NEVER a deliberate slowdown. Well, unless postal workers getting sick is deliberate and not coming to work. I do feel the need to defend the post office. We have a bunch of guys and girls busting their asses for their customers every day. While some of you are working from home - we can’t! Rain, snow, or COVID we are out walking our routes bring the public what they need. I’m sorry you have poor service. Maybe move on my route!!
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I do feel the need to defend the post office. We have a bunch of guys and girls busting their asses for their customers every day. While some of you are working from home - we can’t! Rain, snow, or COVID we are out walking our routes bring the public what they need. I’m sorry you have poor service. Maybe move on my route!!
So, the new boss didn't do any of this? "
"The harms that were done have not yet been undone.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/usps-post-office-mail-slowdowns-louis-dejoy
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And for the record, I have no problem with my route driver, or local post office. But, they sure can't deliver something they aren't receiving.
All right then. Something tells me the slow down has not been as bad in your state as it has mine. This is the last all say on the subject of a deliberate slow down and then I'll just continue to complain like normal
I do feel the need to defend the post office. We have a bunch of guys and girls busting their asses for their customers every day. While some of you are working from home - we can’t! Rain, snow, or COVID we are out walking our routes bring the public what they need. I’m sorry you have poor service. Maybe move on my route!!
If you take a look around there are countless articles documenting the slow down. This is a known thing and well documented. Besides cutting overtime, a hiring freeze, and most embarrassingly, the removal of sorting machines at key hubs, there are other things at play in this slow down. Most of this gets too political for this are so I won't go further. We've had local news stories with interviews of postal workers describing what is going on. Maybe things aren't as bad in certain states but in my State, the slow down is obvious and the reasons are obvious. While the private companies have been able to adapt to the pandemic, the USPS isn't being allowed to do the same, in fact their jobs have been made harder because of the factors I mentioned above.
Not a bit of this is the fault of the average Postal worker. This is a mess created from the top down at the worst possible time. I hope no permanent damage is done to the USPS and they get back to delivering the best service, like I had come to expect in the past.
That is a forlorn hope. This is a highly visible part of the season and we can almost guarantee that people and companies who end up burned will find alternative shippers for their packages, which will relegate the USPS to delivering only junk mail. I wouldn’t be surprised if people start taking down their mail boxes.
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There is hope! I finally had a package get delivered. The shipping label was created on November 12. I’m sure people have stopped buying items that need to be shipped at least till after Christmas.
There is indeed hope! I got the ever so exciting "out for delivery" email for one of my long delayed packages, shipped 11/21. I have complete faith that my local PO and carrier will get it the rest of the way. Like was said earlier, the local boots on the ground can't deliver what they don't have. Looks like the distribution center was finally able to send a truck load of packages out.
And they did! Delivered! Only took 21 days priority from Oregon to PA. Also, my other outstanding package showed up at my local Distribution center after no scans since 11/25! Here's hoping it won't sit there for 5 days like the last one!
Meanwhile, knifecenter got this stuff to me in five days using Fedex (which I've never seen them do, and I've ordered large stuff like this before). Normally fedex is my last choice in shippers but 5 days seems like overnight compared to what USPS has been delivering.
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It took 10 days, but my parcel of items shipped 11/28 made it the fourteen miles from my local PO to my mail box. Tiny envelope. Never scanned after arrival at local PO, per USPS "TRACKING."
Three of our four rural carriers over 26 years have been great - nice people who do the job 100%. No 3, our carrier for eight, long years, was not a happy man. Mail, including First Class, was dumped in the street, on our driveway in the snow or rain, and in the roadside, water-filled ditch. (A neighbor brought us a sealed, padeed plastic pouch with mail-order medications from half a mile down-stream.) All tracked parcels were scanned as loaded in the truck, 4-6 hours defore arriving at or near our roadside mail box. Often we got a "pink slip' to pick up an item at the PO 28 roundtrip miles away when no effort had been made to deliver. Every week we got mail for people up to several miles away, including Social Security checks and other important-looking First Class mail that I promptly delivered. (One lady insisted on giving me a plate of cookies when I delivered a third SSN check to her, two miles away on a different, but parallel, road.) Since he never stabbed his supervisor, he remained on the job until retired due to medial reasons (He was easily 150 pounds overweight.) I try to forget him when thinking of USPS, but it's hard. That they "busied out" their telephone at the local PO two weeks ago does not help.
What I learned working for the old telephone company was that telling the 1% that 99% of the customers got good service does not help much with the customers or the regulators. Bad news is across the state before good new has its socks on.
Three of our four rural carriers over 26 years have been great - nice people who do the job 100%. No 3, our carrier for eight, long years, was not a happy man. Mail, including First Class, was dumped in the street, on our driveway in the snow or rain, and in the roadside, water-filled ditch. (A neighbor brought us a sealed, padeed plastic pouch with mail-order medications from half a mile down-stream.) All tracked parcels were scanned as loaded in the truck, 4-6 hours defore arriving at or near our roadside mail box. Often we got a "pink slip' to pick up an item at the PO 28 roundtrip miles away when no effort had been made to deliver. Every week we got mail for people up to several miles away, including Social Security checks and other important-looking First Class mail that I promptly delivered. (One lady insisted on giving me a plate of cookies when I delivered a third SSN check to her, two miles away on a different, but parallel, road.) Since he never stabbed his supervisor, he remained on the job until retired due to medial reasons (He was easily 150 pounds overweight.) I try to forget him when thinking of USPS, but it's hard. That they "busied out" their telephone at the local PO two weeks ago does not help.
What I learned working for the old telephone company was that telling the 1% that 99% of the customers got good service does not help much with the customers or the regulators. Bad news is across the state before good new has its socks on.
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I have 4 packages still delayed. One was "out for delivery" yesterday, and still has not arrived. Another that went "out for delivery" this morning, showed delivered at 1:47pm today. However, our mail did not get delivered until after 7pm this evening (luckily the package then arrived at that time).
At this point, everything is overdue, by as many as 3 days. All stuck at the Denver hub.
At this point, everything is overdue, by as many as 3 days. All stuck at the Denver hub.
I have been using 'Informed Delivery" just to keep tabs on all my late packages. I did discover just today that after a certain point there is an 'expiration date" for packages and they simply fall off of the Informed Delivery program and cannot be added back on. They will still be in tracking but will no longer show up on the Informed Delivery page at www.usps.com
My package label was created on Nov. 22nd, mailed on Nov. 24th and is no longer part of the system so roughly 3 weeks or 21 days is the limit.
Just an FYI for anyone using that system
My package label was created on Nov. 22nd, mailed on Nov. 24th and is no longer part of the system so roughly 3 weeks or 21 days is the limit.
Just an FYI for anyone using that system
You poor baby!
My last remaining delayed package is at 19 days in the system, priority from FL. Tracking this morning says it has arrived at my local PO, this usually means I'll get it tomorrow!
If I average out my last 7 packages (all but 2 Priority), time in the system comes to 15.14 days.