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USPS is a disaster in the making

Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:49 am
Posted by conservativewifeymom
Mid Atlantic
Member since Oct 2012
13046 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:49 am
First class letter from Crystal Springs. MS to West Monroe, LA took A MONTH to arrive.

First class letter from DC to Naples, FL took 2 weeks to arrive!

And so on!

People in Dundalk, MD haven't had mail delivery in over 3 weeks. Long lines at the PO to retrieve mail, people waiting 2 hrs or more. But their mail is not at the PO. No one knows where it is, Post Master only replies with canned, irrelevant responses.

Something is going on and it stinks.
Posted by dewster
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
25947 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:50 am to
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USPS is a disaster in the making



In the making?

They've been losing parcels for years.
Posted by conservativewifeymom
Mid Atlantic
Member since Oct 2012
13046 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:51 am to
Agreed, but I've also been having much more frequent package problems with UPS and FedEx. amazon deliveries are increasingly late (for prime packages) or lost.
Posted by supadave3
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2005
31108 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:51 am to
I’ve been waiting on two things since the 3rd of August but haven’t received any mail at all whatsoever in a month.

Something is going on.
Posted by ocelot4ark
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2009
12536 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:52 am to
USPS has been flawless for me for the last 20 years. In the last month, they lost a reel I ordered.
Posted by conservativewifeymom
Mid Atlantic
Member since Oct 2012
13046 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:52 am to
I am waiting for a first class letter from MS that was mailed Aug. 4. Still waiting......
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:53 am to
Massive vote by mail/absentee ballot fraud is GOING TO HAPPEN. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ARE GOING TO WIN. People need to internalize this now.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
78809 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:54 am to
Strange, I just moved and changed my address on USPS and have been getting mail regularly.

I think some of you are lying.

Oh and we get mail daily at work, we haven't stopped receiving invoices, same as always.

This post was edited on 8/20/20 at 7:55 am
Posted by conservativewifeymom
Mid Atlantic
Member since Oct 2012
13046 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:55 am to
Why would we be lying?
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
78809 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:57 am to
Because you mention mail from 3 different places, how do you know this? Do you live in MS, FL, or Maryland?
Posted by Quidam65
Q Continuum
Member since Jun 2010
20449 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:58 am to
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amazon deliveries are increasingly late


I had two packages that were "lost" by Amazon, so much so that they offered a refund.

In both cases, I accepted the refund.

For one item, two hours later I get an email that the package would arrive that day. It did and I still got my refund (around $81).

The other came around two weeks later (it was only a $4 item) but I got a refund on it as well.
This post was edited on 8/20/20 at 7:59 am
Posted by Chimlim
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jul 2005
17745 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:59 am to
I mailed a check to my children's swim teacher. She never got it. I drove to her house and gave her the check.

Many businesses who use the USPS have to accommodate customers around inefficiencies in the USPS.

I used to work in the USPS. shite gets lost. It happens.

There is no way in HELL I would trust them handling voting ballots.
Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
38862 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:00 am to
Posted by Alt26
Member since Mar 2010
32033 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:02 am to
Three weeks ago I ordered a product from a company in TX. It arrived in BR on time (actually a day early). THE VERY NEXT WEEK I ordered a product from THE VERY SAME COMPANY in TX. The shipping process looked fine. Tracking said it had arrived at the final post office to go out for delivery. But it wasn't delivered. In fact, it appears to have gone back to the regional processing facility where it apparent is just sitting, collecting dust. All the tracking report say is that the "package will arrive later than expected, but it is still currently on its way." That was 4 days ago.

I know the PO gets a bad rap, but over the years I have found them to be more reliable that not. But all of these current frick ups can't just be a coincidence.
Posted by AUCom96
Alabama
Member since May 2020
6104 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:03 am to
Gee, the left starts their newest "Trump did it" and all these posts start about how bad the notoriously bad US Postal Service "suddenly" is.

I'll give the left this...they're very organized and completely in lockstep.
Posted by greygoose
Member since Aug 2013
12687 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:06 am to
I had an 8:30pm return call from a supervisor at my local post office last night. For the last month, my carrier doesn't feel the need to pick up my packages (average about 30 boxes/week). I've called, and spoke to the postmaster several times, and just like last night, I was always told that they would "have a talk with the carrier". I told the supervisor, after she said she would have a talk with the carrier, that was what I've been told several times before , and nothing changed. Silence. They don't give a shite.
Posted by Pecker
Rocky Top
Member since May 2015
16674 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:07 am to
quote:

First class letter from Crystal Springs. MS to West Monroe, LA took A MONTH to arrive


Pony Express style
Posted by conservativewifeymom
Mid Atlantic
Member since Oct 2012
13046 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:07 am to
You ought to know better than to ask where I live, and your logic is very flawed. Think some more! Could I possibly have friends living there who are telling me these facts?!?! Possibly?!?!
Posted by td01241
Savannah
Member since Nov 2012
25092 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:09 am to
I think this is all on the local post offices and regional centers. I get medication from the VA USPS and UPS from Charleston to Savannah that takes 2 days every time for 2 years straight.
Posted by conservativewifeymom
Mid Atlantic
Member since Oct 2012
13046 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:10 am to
The processing hub in Greensboro, NC seems to be a constant problem. Items are getting held up there for days and weeks, and it also seems to be a black hole in which packages get lost forever.
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