Postal Packages

You poor baby! :rolleyes:

:D

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.
I'm not saying that's bad, but it's certainly not typical. It's one thing for an individual package to be late/misplaced, but I now have 5 packages all sitting at the same place (Denver Network Distribution Center Annex) without moving. THAT is complete BS! :mad:

I'm starting to think they're just not scanning the packages anymore. But you'd think that with such a massive constipation they'd use today, Sunday, their normal day "off" (yes I know they still deliver Amazon on Sunday) to get caught up. Doesn't appear to be the case. o_O Yeah, I'm annoyed now, as this likely means some gifts I still need to send out will likely not arrive in time for Christmas, unless I pony up for additional shipping speed. :poop:
 
I'm not saying that's bad, but it's certainly not typical. It's one thing for an individual package to be late/misplaced, but I now have 5 packages all sitting at the same place (Denver Network Distribution Center Annex) without moving. THAT is complete BS! :mad:

I'm starting to think they're just not scanning the packages anymore. But you'd think that with such a massive constipation they'd use today, Sunday, their normal day "off" (yes I know they still deliver Amazon on Sunday) to get caught up. Doesn't appear to be the case. o_O Yeah, I'm annoyed now, as this likely means some gifts I still need to send out will likely not arrive in time for Christmas, unless I pony up for additional shipping speed. :poop:
Not sure if it is still in place, but a while back in summer there was a freeze on overtime. Local employees may not be able to work more, just harder for the same pay. Hopefully the pencil pushers are realizing how big of a mistake this slow down was and are correcting the issues to get caught up.
 
I'm not saying that's bad, but it's certainly not typical. It's one thing for an individual package to be late/misplaced, but I now have 5 packages all sitting at the same place (Denver Network Distribution Center Annex) without moving. THAT is complete BS! :mad:

I'm starting to think they're just not scanning the packages anymore. But you'd think that with such a massive constipation they'd use today, Sunday, their normal day "off" (yes I know they still deliver Amazon on Sunday) to get caught up. Doesn't appear to be the case. o_O Yeah, I'm annoyed now, as this likely means some gifts I still need to send out will likely not arrive in time for Christmas, unless I pony up for additional shipping speed. :poop:
And to add, if you want to ensure delivery by Christmas, I wouldn't use USPS.
 
Not sure if it is still in place, but a while back in summer there was a freeze on overtime. Local employees may not be able to work more, just harder for the same pay. Hopefully the pencil pushers are realizing how big of a mistake this slow down was and are correcting the issues to get caught up.

If that's what is causing this SNAFU, there's going to be a LOT of extremely pissed off people when the media gets ahold of the story, especially when Christmas gifts don't make it in time. Guess we'll see. I'll hold my breath... :p

And to add, if you want to ensure delivery by Christmas, I wouldn't use USPS.
Yeah, I wasn't planning to. Unfortunately, that's going to make it $$$. :mad:
 
If that's what is causing this SNAFU, there's going to be a LOT of extremely pissed off people when the media gets ahold of the story, especially when Christmas gifts don't make it in time. Guess we'll see. I'll hold my breath... :p


Yeah, I wasn't planning to. Unfortunately, that's going to make it $$$. :mad:
Yup. It is. USPS is claiming it is covid. Before that it was election related. Now it is Christmas. Really though, back in the beginning of the year, major changes at the top of the post office took place. You can find the articles on the deliberate slow down. Hiring freeze, no overtime, removal of massive sorting machines from key hubs. My local distribution center had machines removed for no reason that the employees could see.

Lots of Christmases will be ruined this year because of this and it is not at all the fault of the people who will get the blame, which is the local postal workers. Their hands are tied.
 
Lockdowns and Retail restrictions pushed a ton of people online to buy everything. Amazon is killing it. Louis DeJoy's wisdom and experience in administering a Nation's Postal System is...well....suspect.

I think that a large part of the backlog is the Free Returns that Amazon offers - a good portion of the packages end up making 2 trips via USPS. My Mailman says that he handles Christmas returns well into March.

Up here, I stopped using Canada Post when Amazon packages overloaded the System back in April. I've used, FedEx, Purolator, and UPS exclusively since then. The rates are quite similar to Canada Post Expedited Parcel USA/USPS Priority Mail and they are FAR more reliable for on-time deliveries.

Amazon needs their own Delivery Service. They bombard the Postal System and pay heavily discounted rates - while other businesses and individuals suffer for their rising profit margins.
 
Amazon needs their own Delivery Service.
They have one. 9.9 out of 10 of my Amazon packages are delivered by Amazon. All the Amazon returns I've made were through ups. In my area, the first issues the USPS I had popped up in late October.

I'm starting to get the picture that the extent of these issues are quite regional.
 
Just to add some good review for USPS. I have gotten a few packages early in the past week or so. I have shipped one thing out that arrived a day early, and I have gotten a package a day or two early. Luck of the draw I guess!

Unrelated but I ordered something that was shipped via FedEx on Friday morning and it got here saturday afternoon. I didnt pay for express and it was scheduled to be delivered tuesday of this week. I was shocked how fast it was from across the country.
 
Well I am still waiting on several packages. None has moved anywhere during the last 48 hours and one has been stuck in Ohio for at least a week.

n2s
 
Two arrived Friday, and 3 others show that they reached my local P.O. today, so should be delivered tomorrow.

So even though 3 packages reached my local P.O. on Sunday, only 2 were delivered todayo_O
 
The last one I had in the hopper arrived today. Paid postage says 2-days lol!

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Some medication departed Cincinnatti on 12/8 and arrived in Columbus on 12/9, and there it remains with zero recourse as of 116 hours later. It's a three hour drive to my PO from where it sits.
 
Had two purchases the previous Saturday that both went USPS Priority on Monday morning from different parts of the country, both scheduled to arrive Thursday. It was curious how both took a parallel path in the tracking system to get lost at the same time and regional facility and then magically join forces at my mailbox Saturday.

The Syderco UPS order was/is slow molasses as well, they did a split ship and still waiting on one from them.

I am taking a "learning moment" approach and getting all holiday orders in ASAP. It might even be too late now, but later this week is a forgetaboutit situation.
 
Some medication departed Cincinnatti on 12/8 and arrived in Columbus on 12/9, and there it remains with zero recourse as of 116 hours later. It's a three hour drive to my PO from where it sits.
I recieved a priority package today that was shipped on 11/29. It arrived in Columbus on 12/2 and there it sat. Im a little over an hour from Columbus. Everything going through there seems to just sit.
 
There are a bunch of distro centers that packages are sitting at unfortunately, on the shippers end of things USPS is a nightmare right now due to the unpredictable delays. We'd like to tell customers that if they ordered priority today that it'll be there for Christmas, not likely however.
 
As to my medical supplies and drugs stuck in Columbus for six days +, a Google search reveals claims that, in areas of Columbus, the local POs are closed and there is no delivery taking place.

I tried calling the center where my packages have stalled, per USPS Tracking, but, like our local PO, calling the number gets a 120-cycle busy. Either their service has been interrupted or, more likely, they have "busied out" their telephones to stop the annoying ringing.

After absolute funding cuts seven out of the last ten years, IRS was grossly understaffed BEFORE the Congress dumped distribution of COVID wefare checks on them. With 1960's computers and 1950's software, can IRS collapse be far away? They had seven total systems outages last year. The bills they send out (mere "suggestions" they say) have the same fictional quality as USPS Tracking.
 
That little fat guy someone put in there to tear up the Po and slow it down let mail pileup, ie, tear out sorting machines, lay off a bunch of people. Yes that should speed things up, I believe I've heard he's going to be investigated for some reason.
 
"The USPS has had a history of budget deficits dating back to a 2006 law [Trump's fault] requiring it to prepay retiree health benefits 75 years in advance, a provision to which no other government agency or private corporation is subject.[8] This law, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, was passed during a lame-duck session, and shepherded through the Senate by Senator Susan Collins of Maine.[9] According to Tom Davis (the bill's sponsor), the Bush administration threatened to veto the legislation unless they added the provision regarding funding the employee benefits in advance with the objective of using that money to reduce the federal deficit.[10] The agency's struggles were compounded by the financial crisis of 2007–2008 [Trump's fault] and subsequent recession, which caused overall mail volume to fall by one-third, and again by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects.
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Hundreds of high-speed mail sorting machines were dismantled and removed from postal facilities,[18] raising concerns that mailed ballots for the November 3 election might not reach election offices on time.[19] It was later explained that such machines are taken offline every year [Trump' fault] in response to diminishing volumes of letter mail [Trump's fault], and that 671 of the machines (about 10 percent of the total) in 49 states had been slated for removal this year, 618 of them by August 1.[20] After DeJoy's announcement that he would suspend his changes, the Postal Service's director of maintenance instructed employees that "they are not to reconnect/reinstall machines that have previously been disconnected without approval from HQ Maintenance, no matter what direction they are getting from their plant manager."[20]

Mail collection boxes were removed from the streets in many cities [our's in 2010 - Trump's fault]. However, the Postal Service has been removing mail collection boxes as a cost-cutting measure for years — between 1985 and 2011 [Trump's fault], the number of mail collection boxes was reduced by 60% — so it remains unclear if the removals are connected to DeJoy's changes.[21] After photos of boxes being removed were spread on social media, a Postal Service spokesman said they were being moved to higher-traffic areas but that the removals would stop until after the election.[22]"
 
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