Posted: 11/5/2016 3:33:04 PM EDT
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Case of cast bullets is supposed to show up today! Mailman didn't have it though. Now I can't start load development for my new 2011 that I've had since Tuesday and haven't shot. Lazy ass USPS doesn't want to carry around my 68 lb flat rate box full of lead   |
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suburban. Postman drives, drops all the packages out of his little van thing, grabs all the mail for the street, and then walks the letters and stuff. I spoke to him, and he doesn't have it (hoping that the tracking website hadn't updated, which happens frequently around here). |
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Quoted: What's the matter? You don't like a "tracking system" that features as many as THREE actual scans, and often shows packages "in transit" several days after they've been delivered? C'mon, this is efficiency par excellence. No, I just want to shoot my damn gun. |
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First class mail, which includes Priority mail must be delivered every day. Your carrier doesn't have a choice and neither does his boss. If either party delays it's delivered it's a firing offense and they may even be prosecuted in federal court.
The USPS has an ongoing business relationship with FedEx whereby FedEx picks up the packages and transports them for final delivery by the USPS. Their trucks usually arrived at my facility around 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on any given day. Long after any carrier would be in the office and close to 14 hours ahead of the night shift clerks that sort the packages for delivery. Your package is probably listed as being "at the USPS" but it missed 09:30 leave time by 4 or more hours. I spent 37 years sorting and delivering packages as well as unloading/loading semi's and box trucks with mail. If even one outgoing letter or package was missed the supervisor would be obligated to drive it 35 miles after hours to the distribution center. Leaving first class mail, priority mail or even bulk rate political advertisements intentionally behind is a criminal offense. The only mail that can be delayed even one day in an emergency is bulk rate advertisements. I have heard BS complaints from all sorts of people over the course of that career and behind every one was: 1. False claims by one or both parties in an effort to explain why payment was late or never received. 2. Somebody put the wrong zip code on the mail (all mail gets sorted to the zip code first, high speed equipment optically scans each piece faster than any eye can see) . 3. People change addresses several times each year, mostly because they get evicted everywhere they live. They are pissed because the USPS takes several weeks to get mail through their self-created maze of inefficiency. 4. Some customers like to scapegoat the USPS blaming them rather than the sender or other carriers involved in the process. We have had lots of complaints regarding late packages that started out in FedEx custody, but took longer than expected to their door. I'm approaching my third year in retirement and don't miss you crybabies one bit. The USPS makes mistakes too. Once, when rebuilding the lobby section of our office we found a letter that was several years old that had fallen behind a loose piece of wood trim. Occasionally we catch a thief. They are usually, but not always temps. I saw four USPS employees arrested over the course of my career. Two of them had succumbed to drug addiction and two were just thieves. That's out of a workforce of close to 150 people. We have an excellent security system and professional law enforcement that conducts investigations. They work inside the building as well as on the street. They investigate and prosecute anyone involved in illegal activity, including members of the general public. Surveillance is built into every facility, even smaller rural offices. If the Inspection Service discovers any intentionally delayed mail someone will be held accountable. |
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Thanks for the insight. Last tracking was departed Amarillo at 3:04 AM yesterday morning. That's a less than 4 hour drive from here. All it says currently is "
which is completely useless. Every time I order bullets, there's a day or 2 of that, and if I go to the post office (which is closed on Sat ) it's magically in the back. |
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Amazon got in bed with the USPS. So far this year I have had about six packages marked as "delivered" be nowhere near my mailbox or front door.
Contact Amazon and they contact USPS for me, each time its the same bullshit answer -- "there was a technical issue and the package was accidentally scanned as delivered and is currently at the sort/distribution facility." How does that even happen? Doesn't the mail carrier scan it upon delivery? So how does a computer somewhere not close to the final destination scan as delivered? And how does it happen multiple times? What's the point of paying for faster shipping to be here by X date when it doesn't show up on X date? Fuck USPS. |
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Are you a urban or rural customer? My heavy packages get delivered later in the day because I have a walking post women. That's kind of dumb. I deliver the heavy/big stuff before or after I do the swing, depending on where the address is in relation to the beginning of the swing. |