Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

We had a similar symptom.
We had moved. Previous tenants moved @ a mile away, and filed a change of address.
And so it began.
We got their mail. They got our mail. Nobody got the magazines.
I went to their place @ every two weeks ro make the exchange.
Bills? We didn't the "white" envelope ones, we got the pink and yellow ones.
Complained to the post office, filed another change of address.
All our mail then got resent back to my previous address.
It took a year and a half and three formal written letters of complaint to get fixed.
We (wifee, previous tenant and I) talked to an officious denier for @ half an hour.
After being interrupted by an inderling, the boxes came in.TWELVE FEET of magazines for me, the previous tenant, and the folk who had moved into MY previous address. No explanation.
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The latest bozo (gig economy) business paradigm is indie delivery services.
According to their logs, this guy came to my apartment building at @ 1:00pm, and nobody answered.
Well, duh! Then he checks off "Delivery Refused" and goes on his merry way.
A week later the seller informs me I may get charged a "service fee" for not receiving the package. ?!?!
They could have robocalled me or left a text: "This is BigStore. You have a package coming tomorrow."
This is after I ask where my package went. They didn't know, then, either

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Yeah, even the "Informed Delivery" section of their website won't load today... And to think that some people want the Government to control our Healthcare...

Cookie223 Loc: New Jersey

I've had a number of packages go cross country. One package kept going back and forth between Elizabeth NJ, and the USPS distribution center in South Kearny, then went to NM, New England, and then back to where it was first shipped from New Castle De. at total of 8 weeks before I got it.

Bob Werre

Stories of old...my stepfather was the Postmaster in a small town in farming country/Midwest. Mail came and left via a daily branchline train. One small town maybe 20 miles away was on a different rail line, so the mail would have to go East well into the next state transfer trains then turn around and go West about 4 miles beyond the rail line. Obviously this took several days when one could drive it in 20 minutes!

However, once the Saturday train was late and several boxes of baby chicks arrived after the rural route delivery guy had left, so he boxed them up in his car and delivered them to the farmer--since it was a weekend they all would have died by Monday. Once a sapling tree also arrived late, so a claim was filed, but the tree was probably supposed to be destroyed--well that little tree, I think, is doing well at the old family home producing apples.
So delivery problems are nothing new!

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I am confused. Are there not jets coming to America every single day from Japan? I doubt they activated a jet either because there must be many that are already activated and on the way as I type this.

Dennis

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

One of the reasons I no longer order anything from the USA! 1) S&H costs are ridiculous, 2) Delivery time is unbelievable.

Japanese and Chinese items normally have free delivery and, even in Canada, arrive in 3-4 days...

bwa

Redmond Loc: Oregon

here when ups delivers, they are too lazy to walk to the door and ring the doorbell, go figure with the problem with porch pirates....

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

I should trademark this. "A lot of things are like a lot of other things!"
We be a bunch of oldie folk, and our memories don't always match the new realities.
Back in the olde days (about 40 years ago) I was involved in shipping things back and forth from Japan.
The cheapest way to ship things was a ship. and in a shipping container. The cheapest most profitable way to ship a shipping container was in a full container, so sometimes there was a wait until the shipping container was full enough to ship. Depending on the shipper, this could be a few weeks before shipping.
These days a lot of these items are smaller, the jets are bigger and more plentiful, the computers fill the containers more profitable, the containers fit the jets' holds waay more better, and various small vendors collaborate on efficiently shipping their products together. And it's not waiting for the weekly boat to come in, it's waiting for the hourly plane to leave.
I can order from eBay now, and the plane will be at LAX by morning. The labels already have any info the USPS needs preprinted on them. I should have it in three days from ordering. It still is cheaper to ship by ship, and those shippers will usually have a disclaimer that you have a 75% chance of receiving your shipment- in four to six weeks. Depends on the weather as to wether you get it late- or later.

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

i live on the eastern shore of maryland in salisbury..the post office had intended to send our mail to baltimore to be sorted ,then back to salisbury to be delivered...so much fuss was raised they droped that and have been sending our mail up to easton... none of this made much sense....if they were trying to save money,i think it would have cost more in transportation costs....post office should put in private hands....

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

I would just like to have the USPS serving our neighborhood to actually delivery mail, every day as they are scheduled. I'm asking too much, aren't I?

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

If yours are doingt the same as ours ...
They did a "head count reduction" policy.
They didn't mean all those $$$ supervisors, managers or HR folk, just the $ guys in the trucks.
My mailman and another are sharing the combined routes designed for three people.
His family kinda misses him, but they love the overtime money.
We don't get mail once a week, on various days.
Somewhere some ahole is going to whine about all this money worker bees are making.
THEN they'll hire more people. A few years later, the cycle will swing around again.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

You acquired this insight through what source?

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Yet!

RowdyRay Loc: MN

Just be glad it wasn't sent via Fedex Dumb Post. I'd rather pay shipping than buy from anyone using that service. I ordered a repair part on 06/10/18. NJ to MN. Hit the Fedex hub about 8 miles east of me on the 13th. OK. Went to two other places before being handed off to USPS for delivery on the 18th. Saved the log transcript because it was so ridiculous. Wasn't the first time.

Not really complaining, it was FREE shipping. And, as I said in another thread, it wasn't needed immediately. But.....what if it was? They didn't specify what service. Now I check! Spent more time in my own state, than it did to get here. Mind boggling.