Anyone ever experience significant USPS delays?

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USPS delays

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The branch where my business PO Box is located has a 1.5 star rating on google and yelp.

I had several payments not arrive when they should have. All were mailed on the same day at the same post office. I had to go back and ask them to look to see if they were misplaced somewhere in the P.O. They said they couldn't find them anywhere; four letters gone with no explanation. Close to two weeks went by and I had made other arrangements for payment.
Miraculously, 3 or so days after I had them look, all the letters reached their destination. Someone screwed up and didn't want to admit it.

I manage the shipping portion of a family business and so I have very good data on USPS packages. The business ships ~10K packages a year with USPS. A little better than 99.9% are flag with what we call no errors, delivered within 1 day of expected delivery and no customers complaints of misdelivery or damage. Of those most are just 2-5 days late. We do get about 2 "lost" packages a year which we replace when the delivery window is missed by more than 7 days, we don't attempt to track them past that point and let the customer know if they receive two just keep both of them. I did have one customer a few years but let me know the original item we sent arrived 9 months after it was shipped.

Once in a long while we have an entire bag of packages seem to sit in a sort center for a couple of days but they "always" get moving. I would contact the vendors and let them know what is going on and specify a time to recut checks. My experience with USPS is great overall but we are shipping from business to business address so there is less likelihood of misdelivery which is often peoples complaints about USPS.

When we lived in New Orleans, I ordered a pre-cooked Old Virginia ham. It was USPS 'delayed' and never did show up. The shipper mailed a second ham, also pre-cooked. It was also delayed, and never did show up.

The third time, they used UPS, it wasn't pre-cooked and it came in a timely fashion.

More recently a check mailed to me from my broker in Houston didn't arrive for three weeks. They sent a second one by Fed Ex overnight. Arrived the next day. that first check? Arrived six weeks after it was mailed, but it hadn't been crushed or mutilated in transit, it looked as pristine as the day it was mailed. I still wonder where it vacationed?

The USPS sucks balls. I’m in Ascension Parish and if you mail anything to certain parts of the parish the frickin’ mail HAS to be routed through New Orleans. Let that ignorant shite sink in. So, if you’re mailing something from, say Geismar to Sorrento, chances are good it has to go all the way to New Orleans just to be sent all the way back to the same area it just came from.

Typical federal government bullshite that’s a waste of time and taxpayer money.

At my business, we’ve had mail marketing materials sent out and finally returned to us because the customer moved, not exaggerating, 6-8 months later and it was addressed to someone in Ascension!!

Pathetic to say the least.

Mailed something to North Carolina June 23 that arrived July 18.

Never!

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I have to go to a post office soon to renew my passport (apparently that’s the only way you can renew, someone please let me know if there’s another option)- and i’m already dreading it.

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Where do you live? There’s a passport office in the LSU Student Union. By appointment only.

There’s also a Cox Communications ... with none of the trash at a regular Cox location.

So much so that now I expect it.