USPS - Upped the game to a new level.

Eguller · 2024-01-07T16:06:07+00:00

i did just watch a Twilight Zone marathon....maybe that triggered this debacle... Problem is that it arrived AT MY PO at this earliest notation on Jan 6th...

Weirfan

USPS handles some 7 billion plus packages a year, there will be a few issues .
Even if they were to get 99% perfect that leaves 70 million packages annually that are not.

Eguller

Weirfan

True. I should play the lottery as I'm one in 70 million.

It arrived at my smallish PO which was the FINAL destination - and then sent out again. Now that's efficiency.

darpar

Weirfan there will be a few issues .

Ya think!

[deleted]

In my are USPS has a distribution center about 40 minutes away. 3 years ago when items landed there in the early a.m. I would get product that afternoon. Now it's 2 business days. What is acceptable out of workers today is much different than it was 5 years ago.

Par4QC

darpar "Damage due to shipper's failure to package properly...Claim denied!!"

😉

darpar

Par4QC

Luckily it was a "Lag Shot" sw....even USPS couldn't screw one of those up!

Spartan

I had a package coming to that was within 20 miles of home (Near St. Louis) within 2 days. From there it went to New York where it sat for a while. It finally got to me after about two weeks where it went into the trash since it was perishable.

Par4QC

Eguller Checking with FedEx tracking I find this.....

Jan 7 6:21 AM · Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
On the way
Jan 6 2:57 PM · Bloomington, IL, United States
On the way

I'm about 100 mi. from both.......right in the middle!!! And there is a depot right here. 😲

Eguller

Par4QC On the way

🤣 Just like my package...."on the way"

Par4QC

USPS announced new rates for anything shipped on or after January 21st, 2024...

Here's what's going to change on January 21st:

Priority Mail Flat Rate secret discounts are back, with rates up to $2.34 cheaper than Commercial Pricing 🎉
Priority Mail continues to be the best service, getting up to $16.01 cheaper for packages that weigh less than 20 lb, depending on the size of your package and distance it's traveling 😃
Ground Advantage is getting up to 29 cents more expensive for packages that weigh less than 1 lb. For packages that weigh 1-20 lb it's mostly staying the same rate, though it's getting cheaper for shipments to the farthest distances.
Media Mail rates are increasing by up to 21 cents.
Signature Confirmation is increasing to $3.50.
International shipping rates are increasing around 5 to 7% on average. Simple Export Rate continues to be the cheapest way to ship internationally!

Typhoon

Par4QC I’ve just been selling shit either locally to friends or local on marketplace/Craigslist. Can’t deal with the shipping BS.

Par4QC

Typhoon Can’t deal with the shipping BS.

😅 There is no shipping B.S.!

Only 1 area/region of the whole U.S. has problems, that I've noticed when my packages pass through there (I check tracking every day/twice a day when shipping). They are just f'n slow. Or don't care. And it is the area that @Eguller is complaining about. Something about PA is just not right. Within USPS that is.😉

And as for any rates......in my case, as it should be in everyone's.....buyer pays. Just don't charge it that way....incorporate it into the asking price. "FREE SHIPPING"..... is very loud when being read on the 'net. 👍

btw....Life, is what you make it.😲

Eguller

Outcome. My PO just had blank stares and no explanation as to why my package arrived and the went out again in a circular voyage before returning to my home PO. Hope they follow up.
😵‍💫🦅

bad9

Back in 2015 Dana Upshaw sent a couple of putter heads to me in Labrador. This is their journey:

Warner Robins GA
Macon GA
Miami FL
West Palm Beach FL
Louisville KY
Philly
Cologne, GERMANY
Madrid, SPAIN
Miami (again)
West Palm Beach (again)
New York
EASTERN NASSAU, NY
Macon GA (again)
Miami (again)
Detroit
Toronto
St. John's, NL
Labrador

Took about 3 weeks.

Eguller

Here we go again........ I know it is busy now, but WTH ? 😡

Processing at Destination
Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
LANCASTER PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 13, 2024, 8:53 pm

In Transit to Next Facility
December 13, 2024
Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
HARRISBURG PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

December 12, 2024, 6:09 pm
Departed USPS Regional Facility
LANCASTER PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 12, 2024, 4:53 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
LANCASTER PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 12, 2024, 4:04 pm

Accepted at USPS Regional Destination Facility
HARRISBURG PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 12, 2024, 2:49 pm

Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item
HARRISBURG, PA 17107
December 6, 2024, 12:30 am

ode

Eguller back to Harrisburg tomorrow I suspect🙃

They just fucking with you now😉

Taki27

To be fair, if I’m reading it correctly, it looks like the big wait was the initial period after the Shipping Label was created but before it was dropped at the Post Office.

Eguller

Taki27

Bouncing back and forth between Harrisburg and Lancaster PA. 🙄

colej

ode

Where packages go to die. I’ve had several held up in that facility.

fatshot

Going through the same BS right now……son ordered a gift for his 5 year old son, but it was delivered here (near Toledo) by mistake (his). I took it over to the Post office Tuesday to ship it to him in Cleveland….they told me he would get it Thursday (yesterday).

I proceeded to follow the tracking online, and noticed it got sent to the “Regional Distribution Center" in Detroit,
an hour in the wrong direction. So it sat there for a day, then found its way to another “regional Distribution Center” in Cleveland, where it sat all day today!

Hoping it will be delivered tomorrow…..only TWO days after it was scheduled…! Geezzzz!!

Typhoon

USPS sucks. Bunch of assholes too.

ode

My last package went from.Az to Wi in 3 days and tracking showed acceptance and delivery, NO other tracking updates.