This kind of service pretty much boils down to the quality, integrity, attitude and work ethic of the employees. The system is old, but it works where the folks with "the right stuff" make it happen. We know our carrier in VA very well and she busts her ass to do her job right. On days she's off work, it's easy to tell. Our gal in Florida.....same deal. I occasionally use a different post office for some drop offs and feel like my package just got abandoned.
sdandrea1 This kind of service pretty much boils down to the quality, integrity, attitude and work ethic of the employees.
That helps for sure. But currently the issue is the biggest shipping season in history. You can only pump so much water out of a particular size pipe. All the services have plans for normal seasonal shipping seasons. This one is different. The system is just overwhelmed.
Well, you guys jinxed me. I've one I shipped on the 10th "delayed" somewhere.
I took a priority package for Canada to the PO last Monday. Tues it goes 30mi. east to Lexington then back the other direction 50 miles to Louisville. It sits in Louisville 4 days until yesterday and is on to the next stop to sit a another 4 days I guess.
Talked to a friend last night who works for the USPS. They are running at 50% staffing due to COVID, and was telling me they aren't that bad off compared to some. I think it is Nashville that has close to 100 18 wheelers full of mail and packages waiting to get processed.
Fed-Ex and UPS also have passed stuff over to the USPS as they are focusing on vaccine distribution.
I have a gerber knife set that shipped on 12/10 from Roanoke, VA never to be heard from again.
Yesterday I got the email from the seller where they were going to send out a new package. Then, this a.m., I'm seeing this, and it cannot be the 'new' shipment......
Dec 20, 2020
12:40am
PROCESSED THROUGH USPS FACILITY
KEARNY, NJ 07099
Dec 6, 2020
10:10pm
ARRIVE USPS FACILITY
DES MOINES, IA 50395
Dec 6, 2020
4:09pm
ARRIVE USPS FACILITY
DES MOINES, IA 50395
Dec 5, 2020
1:44pm
DEPART USPS FACILITY
KEARNY, NJ 07032
Dec 5, 2020
1:36pm
DEPART USPS FACILITY
KEARNY, NJ 07032
Dec 4, 2020
2:21am
PROCESSED THROUGH USPS FACILITY
KEARNY, NJ 07032
Dec 4, 2020
1:06am
ORIGIN ACCEPTANCE
SOUTH RIVER, NJ 08882
Dec 2, 2020
10:40pm
PRE-SHIPMENT INFO SENT USPS AWAITS ITEM
SOUTH RIVER, NJ 08882
Dec 2, 2020
10:03pm
SHIPPING LBL CREATED USPS AWAITS ITEM
SOUTH RIVER, NJ 08882
Dec 2, 2020
7:03pm
Tracking number provided
Par4QC Yesterday I got the email from the seller where they were going to send out a new package. Then, this a.m., I'm seeing this, and it cannot be the 'new' shipment......
The new shipment should have a different tracking number. If what you are showing is from the USPS website using the old tracking number it would appear that your original package was returned to Kearny.
Well, USPS still sucks. $55 to ship some iron heads to Canada via Priority mail. So after 10 days it has creeped from KY to NJ. I guess I should at least be thankful it hasn't gotten lost, YET. 
Rickochet Might be cargo in a new episode of Ice Road Truckers. 
. USPS might be trying hard to convince us they need more operating funds, but I think they are only making themselves more likely to be obsoleted.
johnnydoom but I think they are only making themselves more likely to be obsoleted.
And the other option is? My understanding is that they are over burdened by their retirement system, not because of lazy workers. Congress needs to deal with this and overhaul the system. I think USPS will always be here. It just needs fixing.
Rickochet I don't think it is lazy workers. I think it is more of a blue flu situation. I believe they (not every employee, but enough union management to impact everyone) are intentionally trying to make people feel the pain as a means to lobby the congress for increased postal rates and more federal subsidies. As for alternatives, without opening up people's mail boxes for competition we'll never know if there is a viable alternative or not.
I don't know what everyone's problem with USPS is! They work their asses off this time of year, and I have proof....1 day from NJ to my doorstep.....
December 23, 2020, 7:59 am
Out for Delivery, Expected Delivery Between 10:30am and 2:30pm
EAST MOLINE, IL 61244
Your item is out for delivery on December 23, 2020 at 7:59 am in EAST MOLINE, IL 61244.
December 23, 2020, 7:48 am
Arrived at Post Office
EAST MOLINE, IL 61244
December 23, 2020, 3:47 am
Departed USPS Regional Facility
MILAN IL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 23, 2020, 1:23 am
Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
MILAN IL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 22, 2020, 8:45 pm
Departed USPS Facility
INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46242
December 22, 2020, 4:46 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46242
December 22, 2020, 3:48 am
Departed USPS Regional Facility
JERSEY CITY NJ NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 21, 2020, 6:51 am
Departed USPS Regional Facility
KEARNY NJ DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 20, 2020, 12:40 am
Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
KEARNY NJ DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 10, 2020
In Transit to Next Facility
December 6, 2020, 4:09 pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
DES MOINES IA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 5, 2020, 1:44 pm
Departed USPS Regional Facility
NEWARK NJ DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 4, 2020, 2:21 am
Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
NEWARK NJ DISTRIBUTION CENTER
December 4, 2020, 1:06 am
Accepted at USPS Origin Facility
SOUTH RIVER, NJ 08882
December 2, 2020, 10:03 pm
Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item
SOUTH RIVER, NJ 08882
Par4QC That package must really hate Iowa for some reason. Got there and thought "No. Let's go back to the start and take a different route this time." Maybe it feels the same way about Iowa that Little Bill thought of Nebraska.
They have been sending a package back and forth between our PO here in Mason and the one in Middletown since 11/27. Reason, they said because my step daughter paid for it, but she had it shipped here to my address, it's on the fucking box!! She lives in West Chester and that's the address the payment is from. The Middletown PO is 18 miles from my house and 5 miles (or so) from hers. Mason's PO is about 2 miles from my house. How does the address of the payment have any fucking thing to do with the address on the box???
WTF is going on???
Plenty of lazy ass employees work for the PO. Ask their employees yourself, I have.
When you can't hardly fire someone, that's a recipe for a disgruntled workforce and poor work. Bosses become jaded, they take it out on employees. Good employees become resentful. Bad employees screw up and make everyone miserable.
