USPS sucks
DHL impressed me last week. I ordered something from the UK their time Sunday. I had it on Thursday!
Meanwhile, it took FedEx three days just to get from Salt Lake to Kansas City, and I shipment I wanted on Friday didn't arrive until Monday (almost 10 days after it was shipped).
Par4QC What exactly is a postage stamp used for these days? I was thinking it was being thought of in the same light as the penny.....outdated, get rid of them.
We don't use as many stamps as we once did but we do keep a roll of "forever" stamps that never expire and are good for whatever the current stamp rate is so we don't have to add additional stamps if the rate goes up.
Rickochet When I was doing a lot of selling & shipping Priority, I naturally was going to the P.O. daily. The only people I noticed buying stamps were little old ladies/men; the ones that never had internet, smart phones, etc.. The ones that pay bills by mail and still send cards to the grandkids. Today, everything is email, text/facetime, or automatic deduction. I really could see the 'stamp' becoming obsolete, as all those little old ladies/men pass on.
Par4QC I really could see the 'stamp' becoming obsolete, as all those little old ladies/men pass on.
These little old ladies go to the PO and buy two or three stamps at a time and mail them while there. Still lots of those people around. You would also be surprised how many people still go to the utility company and the like in person and pay bills every month. A golf bud younger than me, a retired engineer has never owned a PC, never had an email addy and just recently upgraded from an old flip phone. All of our reoccurring bills each month are set up for auto-payment of some form, but we still have an occasion for stamps. I do all of my package labeling online and just need it scanned by the shipper. If we could do away with stamps perhaps some of the smaller coins as well.
The USPS should charge the unsolicited advertisers double the rate of regular mail to cut down on the amount of BS they have to handle. Every week at my office I throw out a large amount of catalogs from various vendors. Some days I get 5 of the same catalog addressed to different people in my company. Who needs them anyway when everything can be accessed via the internet.
Well, they actually pay less than the regular mail rate for postage. But the USPS has never been known to run a business like a business. For instance, you can email them from their website and order up ALL the free packing boxes you want and the actually deliver those free boxes right to you at no cost as well. You would like to think their accounting team is banging their heads on the desk over that but.....
USPS - the most dissed organization by posts made by members here. Quite frankly, I'm glad it's being addressed and it may take some radical measures before Congress has to write a great big check that goes into the rabbit hole.
It may be time when 1st class and other mail is only delivered to home and business addresses 5, or fewer, days a week. The vast majority of business mail isn't opened until the following Monday anyway. Get something in the mail Saturday at home that needs immediate attention? Good luck finding someone on the phone that can help unless you speak with someone in India, for example.
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mikeintopeka I'm glad it's being addressed and it may take some radical measures before Congress has to write a great big check that goes into the rabbit hole.
There will be no check, of any amount, until Dems are in complete control of the whole gvt..
We are spoiled. In every facet of life in the U.S.. We get what we want, when we want it, and companies make sure of it, for the most part. Any type shipping service is fast; it only takes 4 days from coast to coast at the slowest, some places 5 days (in normal times). USPS needs to start over, using what they already have. Do what they need to do to cut their costs while raising prices. Like any other company we might deal with, we will either buy their 'product' or go elsewhere; there are other methods available to all of us, as with anything we might purchase. We will get used to things not being here in a couple days, but why the hurry to start with? If they go out of business then, so be it. But to give them billions of dollars just to keep going down the same route is not logical. We're coming to a totally paperless society anyway, and we'll all be very happy not to grab a stack from the mailbox that all goes directly into the garbage.
How much does UPS or FedEx charge just to send a letter?.....USPS should be able to charge the same, so why do they only charge a few pennies?? Gvt. won't let them?? Does that make sense, or show who is to blame? Giving them money is not the way out; letting them be 'competitive' is. Then again, look at the idiots that decide.
Don't worry, Amazon already has an enormous fleet of vehicles and planes, and warehouse everywhere. We will still get 1-2 day deliveries. We just won't get any junk mail.
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Yep...everything is just FINE at the good ole PO. See...... 45 miles from me and just sits for days. Wonder why ???
08/11/2020 1:43 A.M. Harrisburg, PA, United States Shipment Acceptance at Post Office
08/10/2020 12:40 P.M. Bridgeport, NJ, United States Package departed UPS Mail Innovations facility enroute to USPS for induction
08/08/2020 7:29 P.M. Bridgeport, NJ, United States Package received for sort by destination UPS Mail Innovations facility
08/08/2020 2:15 A.M. Ashland, VA, United States Package transferred to destination UPS Mail Innovations facility
08/07/2020 9:35 P.M. Ashland, VA, United States Package processed by UPS Mail Innovations origin facility
08/07/2020 7:12 P.M. Ashland, VA, United States Package received for processing by UPS Mail Innovations
08/07/2020 12:00 P.M. Suffolk, VA, United States Shipment tendered to UPS Mail Innovations
08/06/2020 11:32 A.M. United States Shipment information received by UPS Mail Innovations
I shipped a package Priority Thursday 13th to Clovis, CA, 160 miles away, expected delivery Monday 17th...damn m0therfuker!
I've got a package that has been sitting in a next door town 8 miles away for 5 days. Was shipped by ups and handed off to usps for final delivery. Its been sitting there since it was handed off.