Posted: 4/25/2008 9:27:10 AM EDT
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Why does the USPS tracking have to suck so bad? I've been tracking a package that I received almost 3 days ago, but according to the USPS tracking site it still hasn't left the State it was shipped from.  Maybe the USPS should spend some time with UPS & learn how to do this shit right. And to think that the Gov. could provide us with health care when they can't even properly perform a package tracking service.....I'll pass.  I'll go ahead and give them a 1/10, with the 1 being for their Flat Rate services. Other than that.......FAIL. |
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Lemme guess. You're talking about Priority Mail Delivery Confirmation, probably on a Flat Rate box. $8.95 to ship 25 pounds of lead from Miami to Fairbanks and you're complaining about the lack of real time tracking on your $0.65 Delivery Confirmation service? USPS kicks ass. They aren't UPS or Fed Ex, and they aren't even trying to be. I doubt that many other nations have a postal service as reliable and affordable as ours. If you need stop-by-stop real time tracking, pony up the cash and pay for it. |
No, it's a firearm that was shipped from MT to IN & the seller provided me with the tracking number. I'm just saying why even have a tracking service if it doesn't work. |
.gov doesn't run the USPS anymore |
US Constitution. Article IX The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of... establishing or regulating post offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office... |
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I typically receive my priority mail items about the time UPS is saying "shipping information received". Then, a week and a 1/2 later my UPS package will show up crushed, or broken open and half-assedly taped with rounds (12g, in this case), missing and a number of the rest just rolling around inside the replacement box (which was 5 times as large as it needed to be...) UPS is brown like .... I concur that USPS tracking is worthless, but the speed of Priority Mail in my area amounts to 3 days cross country. UPS tracking is like watching grandpa and grandma drive cross country in their RV. |
The USPS is legally defined as an "independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States," (39 U.S.C. § 201) as it is wholly owned by the government and controlled by the Presidential appointees and the Postmaster General. As a quasi-governmental agency, it has many special privileges, including sovereign immunity, eminent domain powers, powers to negotiate postal treaties with foreign nations, and an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail. In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the USPS was not a government-owned corporation and therefore could not be sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Av. |
Unless they delagate that power away, which they did in 1971. Av. |
HELLO NEWMAN! 
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I shipped some items I sold on eBay the other day. I went to the Post Office to get some of the clear plastic envelopes to put the postage that you print at home in and peel and stick to the box. They don't have any except behind the counter so I stand in line for 5 minutes to get them. Finally I get to the clerk, tell her what I need and she looks at me like this  . Since she is obviously confused I explain again and she looks at me like this again. So I see the envelopes right behind her in a big stack and I point to them and tell her that's what I need. She says oh, those are Customs Envelopes those are for International Shipping. By that time I'm looking at her like going I don't care what the hell you call them just give me two of the damn envelopes. She finally relents and says she's not supposed to give them to me for what I'm using them for but she will. I'm thinking I just paid my taxes so what's the big F'ng deal with not giving me the envelopes. I've never had that level stupid at Fed-Ex or UPS.So in short I agree with the OP. USPS = FAIL. But they are cheaper. |
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"Delivery Conformation" =/= Tracking USPS doesn't do "tracking" for most things, such as Priority Mail. They don't call it "tracking" because it isn't tracking. It's called Delivery Confirmation because their system will eventually tell you that your package was delivered. Just because an address label has a big barcode does NOT mean it comes with "tracking." -Troy |
I agree completely. But when the Delivery Confirmation never actually confirms delivery [they apparently forgot about it], never shows up in the first place, [don't know what happened there, package was received], or shows delivery successful at my house on a package I shipped to Alaska, that's pretty useless. |