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I've been waiting 10 days for a pocket knife that was mailed on the 14th of this month .This is not an isolated incident because it now seems more the norm than random. I was a mail carrier for 36 years and haven't seen anything like this. The Post Office can blame it on covid and whatever other reason they can make up but it all boils down to postmaster Dejackass. His policies at the P.O. are meant to put the Postal Service out of business . UPS and Fedex have had no problem keeping up with their deliveries.
 
Their excuse in the past couple days has been that the delays are excessive because they are "assisting with vaccination deliveries"......
 
Arathol said:
Their excuse in the past couple days has been that the delays are excessive because they are "assisting with vaccination deliveries"......
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While the United States Postal Service (USPS) will not play a role in transporting the vaccines, it has alerted customers that it is experiencing unprecedented package increases and limited employee availability due to the impacts of COVID-19. UPS and Fedex are doing the deliveries
 
Actually, it seems all of the carriers are experiencing delays. But the postal service has been lagging in their response. Just today I received a packaged that had been sent priority mail back on December 3rd. Which is probably understandable for an obsolete organization that has incurred huge and mounting debt. Perhaps it should be killed off. The only thing they have been doing for me is delivering parcels and junk mail and if they can no longer handle the parcels I certainly don't need the junk mail.

At this point it might make more sense to pull the plug on the postal system and instead nationalize social media.

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
Actually, it seems all of the carriers are experiencing delays. But the postal service has been lagging in their response. Just today I received a packaged that had been sent priority mail back on December 3rd. Which is probably understandable for an obsolete organization that has incurred huge and mounting debt. Perhaps it should be killed off. The only thing they have been doing for me is delivering parcels and junk mail and if they can no longer handle the parcels I certainly don't need the junk mail.

At this point it might make more sense to pull the plug on the postal system and instead nationalize social media.

n2s
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Actually I can personally say up until the past couple years my service has been commendable.
https://www.marketplace.org/2020/08/17/post-offices-financial-woes-partly-congress-doing/
 
As N2S pointed out, all the delivery services are having trouble keeping up.

With all that we've dealt with this year, a late package or two is nothing I'm going to get worked up about.

This topic has no business being in this subforum. I know it's where many of us spend a majority of our time, but there are other, more appropriate forums. This place isn't for slipjoint owners to ask or rant about any old thing.
 
Strange. Only took "two days" (plus an no deliver Sunday) for USPS to get a package to me in Idaho, sent from Tennessee, last week.
 
robertj298 said:
I've been waiting 10 days for a pocket knife that was mailed on the 14th of this month .This is not an isolated incident because it now seems more the norm than random. I was a mail carrier for 36 years and haven't seen anything like this. The Post Office can blame it on covid and whatever other reason they can make up but it all boils down to postmaster Dejackass. His policies at the P.O. are meant to put the Postal Service out of business . UPS and Fedex have had no problem keeping up with their deliveries.
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When you want to kill the dog , just say he's got rabies...
Never had true problems with USPS and most of time have been surprised by speed... never been asked undue custom fees.
I am currently waiting for a parcel sent from USofA on Dec 4th, worth less than $35, had to pay duties (asked €39!, paid €21) while there should be zero under €105, still waitin' for delivery, still in transfer from depot, said depot being less then 2 miles away from me... courtesy of UPS...
Fedex delivery no better, drivers must have vertigo, they refuse to take the lift to 6th floor, always have to go and fetch the parcel. :thumbsdown:
 
Sent a priority/insured/signature knife I sold here last Monday.
Sat in my locale for 4 days before it moved.
Finally landed on someone elses doorstep with no signature.
Thankfully the observant buyer was keeping an eye out!
Really glad I spent 27 frickin' dollars on that shipment...:(

USPS is having a tough time though and the package sitting for 4 days in my little town before shipping is proof of that, I've shipped hundreds and this is the first time there's ever been a delay.
 
For comparison I have had several FedEx packages delayed on top of the holiday surcharge. I was also notified that there will be ongoing delays due to diverting resources to the Covid vaccines.
 
Just FYI, I did a little searching recently. Ups and fed ex limit their large customers to x number of packages to prevent delays due to too many. The overflow goes to usps in both cases. Online shopping and shipping is up 14% this year over last. Combine that with usps being short handed due to quarantining due to COVID results in trucks sitting, sometimes days before being offloaded and sorted. Yes, it sucks, but it’s a function of current world we are living in. Hope this helps y’all understand it.
 
William Schrade said:
I mailed a package on 12/16 to NJ from CT and it's still enroute via Omaha NE.
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My mail has encountered that guy! Carolina to Cleveland via Olympia, WA. Cincinnatti to Clevland via Pittsburg, PA. Cincinnati to Cleveland via Altanta, GA. He do get around. Must have been COVID every time, even three years ago. Secret version of the virus. :rolleyes:
 
robertj298 said:
I've been waiting 10 days for a pocket knife that was mailed on the 14th of this month .This is not an isolated incident because it now seems more the norm than random. I was a mail carrier for 36 years and haven't seen anything like this. The Post Office can blame it on covid and whatever other reason they can make up but it all boils down to postmaster Dejackass. His policies at the P.O. are meant to put the Postal Service out of business . UPS and Fedex have had no problem keeping up with their deliveries.
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That guy is like a ninja, he managed slow down ups and FedEx to! I’m betting he deliberately put 800 million additional packages in the system and cooked up this whole Covid thing.:rolleyes:
 
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