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One Rude Dawg Loc: Athol, ID

TriX wrote:

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Don't bother buying their insurance, they won't pay. Spent two tears trying to collect 185$ on a ruined lens and finally gave up. Save you money.

CWGordon

Grave slowdowns. Stuff gets here very late. 1 or 2 things never got here or to there. I could live w/this, but my medication deliveries are very worrisome. Cannot wait to see heavy volume in Fall and what delays we might see.
My nephew, a mail carrier, says they leave piles of first class mail behind every day. It adds up. There seems no real need for the slowdowns. Any ideas why it is happening?

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

alberio wrote:

Why do we have a Post Office and a Postal Service?
I've been told they are two different entities.

The "post office" is a literal building, the United States Postal Service is the whole entity: https://www.usps.com/

Maybe you can now educate whoever told you? 😉

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

TriX, a couple of months ago I tracked two packages shipped from amazon partners via USPS. One started in southern CA and came to central Washington via Minnesota (for those geographically challenged US residents, that would be the "scenic" route

). The other showed as coming into the Yakima sorting facility (origin: Florida), but then decided to take a 3-hour drive east to the Spokane distribution center before coming back for delivery.

My meds start with DHL (usually from Phoenix), then are delivered locally by USPS within two days of arrival in town. No problem for past couple of years, but I only get one shipment every three months.

I do bill-paying online, and paperless.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Linda From Maine wrote:

The "post office" is a building, the United States Postal Service is the whole entity: https://www.usps.com/
Maybe you can now educate whoever told you? 😉

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

alberio wrote:

I believe the "Post Office" was formed long before the "Postal Service". The Postal Service exists in a corporate venue and profit is its motive.
Read about the original intent of the "Post Office".

The history of purpose and name change is not what you asked. Today there is only one.

The USPS traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. ... It was elevated to a cabinet-level department in 1872, and was transformed by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 into the United States Postal Service as an independent agency.

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

I have 3 meds on 90 day supply and the supplier mails them 2 weeks in advance... I always get them before the previous RX runs out...

Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee

Dngallagher wrote:

Mail comes same time roughly everyday, no problems here...

Atary

What is the use of complaining? We used to receive mail at around noon some years ago but that has changed to deliveries anytime around four or five pm, sometimes as late as 8:15 pm. Despite the new facity built some years ago in Redding the mail now goes to Sacramento to be sorted. it makes no sense at all. In the '60s the cost of mailing a letter was 3 cents, now it is 55 cents and the service has deteriorated.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Atary wrote:

What is the use of complaining? We used to receive mail at around noon some years ago but that has changed to deliveries anytime around four or five pm, sometimes as late as 8:15 pm. Despite the new facity built some years ago in Redding the mail now goes to Sacramento to be sorted. it makes no sense at all. In the '60s the cost of mailing a letter was 3 cents, now it is 55 cents and the service has deteriorated.

What was the cost of gasoline in the '60s?
I remember the time when I handed a $5 bill to the attendant {remember them?}, asked him to fill up my car with its 16 gallon tank, and had to receive change because it wouldn't take that much even though the gauge was below empty.

Smudgey Loc: Ohio, Calif, Now Arizona

It might depend on if you are in a key state, and yes I am in AZ and we are in a key state and yes it is slower. Strange how that happens.

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

Smudgey wrote:

It might depend on if you are in a key state, and yes I am in AZ and we are in a key state and yes it is slower. Strange how that happens.

Mine is slower and I'm in Georgia...As I said before, it seems to depend on the state it comes from or passes thru. Stuff coming from some states I have no issues with, but New Jersey or California I do...

G. Crook Loc: Linden, TX

No problems/slowdown here in NE Texas.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Like Cany, I've had the same P.O. Box since 1971. I've not noticed any delays in delivery. My usual bills are delivered to my bank as e-bills. So, the P.O. isn't involved in that. As for late, I have no idea and feel it would be difficult to determine if they were late or not.
--Bob

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Latsok Loc: Recently moved to Washington State.

No problems where we live in Washington State.
I'd love to see fewer junk mail, adds, and political propaganda being delivered. That in itself would ease some of the burden weighing down post office workers and mail carriers.

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