USPS the BAD

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u812

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Well I am still waiting on a package that was sent from CA via priority on Dec 22this one got here,with the weather problems in Ca it had gotton wet and the address was unreadable
Now today I find out that they delivered my Sebenza from another deal to a company in Knoxville TN :confused: :mad:
I think I might start useing UPS only.At least you can track everywhere it goes.
 
I just got back from a 100 mile round trip to pick up my Sebenza. :mad:
 
Hey bud... I feel your pain. Lost packages are the WORST. The terrible part about USPS is that they don't bother checking into Priority packages until they're lost for 31 days.

I've had Priority packages arrive after 28 days. :)

Though IMHO UPS is far worse... They drop packages, "lose" packages internally, break stuff... Fully 1/2 of all my UPS packages are a day or two late. The UPS depot near me has NO public phone number so you have to drive there to get anything.

At least you got it. I've had several things "lost" by UPS and marked as "delivered". They don't bother coming by the house (I was in all day), and instead "lose" it and say it was "delivered". When I called to find out where it was, they said they gave it to me!

I've had packages delivered to my house that were addressed on the label to a different city. When I called to have them pick it up from my house to deliver to the real addressed place, they sent the driver to the other house to pick it up!!!

UPS are among the most dishonest and unreliable delivery companies ever.

-j
 
December and early January are horrible for postal shipments (especially international ones sent INTO the US, i just had one of my mails sent to the US take 1 month and the other one a month and a half).

Curier services like UPS (FedEx, DHL, etc.) are even worse though. And it's getting worse every year, as if they didn't know that December is extremely busy month so they don't hre extra help and rent extra freight capacity aboard airplanes/trains ... oh well. If somebody set out and actually made a decent curier service with reasonable prices (if Ryanair and Easyjet can ship 200 lb people across Europe for little more than a couple of beers worth uit can't be that hard to ship a frikkin 5 lb package for same price).
 
I live in a great area for delivery. USPS and UPS always do right by me. UPS tracking even tells me when it will arrive and the only miss lately was the time I had packages due on two consecutive days and they delivered both on the first day! :D

Having said that, I know what can go wrong. I'm a retired USPS manager. When the volume picks up, hiring extra help is not necessarily a great idea. It costs A LOT to bring new hires on board, and it takes time to get them in place and train them and get them productive.

Since backlogs don't last long -- however long it seems to someone aching for that package -- new hires are an expense, not a help. Any you will pay for it in real rate increases, too.

faramir, a few hundred passengers is nothing compared to 10,000,000 pieces of mail in New York City every day. Project that around the country and around western Europe, and around the world.
 
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