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I bought a small item off Ebay back on June 28th/29th. The seller, in So Cal, sent it to me on July 1st here in Florida. It's currently showing NOW on its third trip across North America. It arrived in here in my home town on July 4th (1st trip across). July 6th it was in Phoenix AZ. July 9th it was back where it started in City of industry Cal (2nd trip across). July 11th it was in Charlotte NC. Jully 15th its been through three local postal distribution center (3rd trip across) and am waiting to see just where it ends up NOW????? Fully expecting Minot ND next. AND they keep raising the cost. SMH

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No surprise. I was talking to my USPS mailperson who delivers my mail and she told me that the caliber of people now being hired to replace those retiring USPS veterans is far below what it used to be and will only get worse. To the new hires it's only a job.

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I ship a lot of my parts USPS Priority mail. A week ago I shipped a 40 Lb box of parts to Germany USPS Priority Express, it got there Monday. The week before I sent some parts to a friend in Marquette NE. about 80 miles away. It took a week. Several years ago I sent some merchandise to SO-CAL in Pomona Ca. For over a month according to my tracking it traveled back and forth between 2 post offices in Pomona 16 or 17 times before my local PM reached out and got it straightened out. 40+ plus years of shipping with USPS I could write a book. Still the best deal going so I'll keep using them when it works.

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You're not alone.Just happened to me .Daughter sent a small pkg from TX to me in France Jul 6th. It spun around Dallas then Ft Worth then Coppell then Rockwall the back to FW then Dallas then Coppell and 2 days ago appeared in Chicago and on its way to the destination.Thank god there is a bottle of Motrin along with 32 parts in that pkg to help ease the pain.The tracking history is as long as your arm!!

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I had this exact experience a few years ago when I shipped a package to another barn member.

Turned out the computer on the receiving end was reading the return label to return it to me because it was a printed label. It liked the machine printing better than the hand written ship to portion of the label.

The receiver talked to his local PO and they caught it on the 3rd trip east.

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Hey Krylon, we had a customer mail Us a check for his account back in November of 2023, he's about 20 miles west of Us. We never got his check by Mid January.....so he re-mailed a check and paid. End of February of 2024, the first check he send, post dated Nov23 arrived in our local mail delivery!!!!!

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Funny, in the vane, they never seem to miss getting bills to me....NOW that you bring it up!!!! AND Always early too!!!!

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ha!!!!:):)

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Most of my ups is delivered by the USPS here. I sent a return to Amazon and requested UPS pick up, I put it in drivers hand and a month later Amazon charged me again because they didn't get return in a month. Our fed ex is in a plain white truck that throws the boxes out at the front door after dark. Sad times.

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Before computers,right ?

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Stopped using the USPS a long time ago and switched to UPS. Don't have to stand in line and the package gets there in three days.

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Someone mentioned computers in a humorous way, but I think they're right. When I sell my condensers, they always go out in a Small Flat Rate box with a label printed by a commercial shipping software suite. We have never had a reported problem in over 300 shipments. I believe that is because the USPS is now highly computerized and designed to handle properly labeled standard packages efficiently, untouched by human hands. Anything else, and they have to be handled outside the system, which is where things go wrong. It's just the price we pay for efficient handling of 90% of the items. The other 10% that have to be handled manually suffer as a result.

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My mail carrier told me that they are considered part time and have to take a few days off periodically to break the cycle. A job that used to have good pay, benefits, and job security is now a low paying job without an incentive (except personal convictions) to excel. Multiply that scenario throughout the USPS labor force and you get what we have today.

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I’ve banned 2 accounts for posting politics on this thread. Be warned. I don’t host that shit.

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A couple months ago I had an original Ardun valley cover sent from St Paul, MN to Des Moines, IA. Literally went through DSM distribution center en route to Chicagoland where it bounced in/out of the facilities there before returning to DSM. That was a nerve-wracking couple of weeks.

At least my local post office hasn't been problematic.

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this!!

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I had a package bounce back and forth between the sender and a regional package processing center and it was because the destination address was only my 1st name, no city, state or zipcode. I suspect these get re sent and returned automatically. Remember they are dealing with probably a billion things a day.

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usps slogan charge more for less service

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Our mail has always been sent to Tulsa, that is where I get my mail. Now, all Tulsa mail goes to Oklahoma City after it arrives in Tulsa, then sorted and shipped back to Tulsa.

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Thank you.

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Our USPS employees here in rural Iowa go above and beyond.

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It's really a gamble these days. A sign of the times we are in with our ever evolving culture. Some folks have great mail carriers. My last guy new me personally because he cared and paid attention to small details. He retired a few years back and the new folks who have replaced him have not been that attentive, I get my neighbors mail and they get mine. What a mess.

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My package is NOW on its 4th trip back across the country. It obviously has enough information present on the package to have made it here to its destination twice AND move through three different postal distribution centers with five different local zip codes per 6 centers here in town TWICE before getting sent back to the origin zip code....SO the "Hitch in the getty-up" seem to be here locally as once it gets here....then it gets returned. Like wait on your computer to "reboot" but never does. The little circle just spins and spins

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If you know locally where it is being sent back from, call them ask for the manager and alert them to the problem. It is obviously being done automatically and not by someone.

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I "may" try that the next return IF it does come back.....Part of the problem is out of 6 Local distribution centers its gone through locally, its only been to the same facility twice....AND six out of six times it has NEVER made it to my local zip code distribution center....SO I don't know till it arrives and is posted which center to call AND not sure IF it will be at that center by the time the info is available. ALL I can do is try when it comes back, right

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Same here.

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Same here in southeastern Michigan.

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Here in SoCal the mail carrier usually drives up to each house mail box at the curb. But last week in 100+ temp a carrier I had never seen before was delivering the mail on foot using one of the 3 wheel roller carts you rarely see anymore. And he was smiling and waved to me as he was delivering the mail. That's dedication in my book, and then some.

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I really appreciate the USPS and feel they get a bad rap. With over 100,000,000 addresses in their system and being required to deliver to them all, I think it's rather remarkable how well they do. Sure there are problems and things don't go right but the USPS doesn't control how much money they get from Congress. Then FedEx and UPS can just dump their surplus packages on the USPS during the holidays for free and expect USPS to deliver them all. Also, only USPS delivers to all addresses. Try using them for remote locations and your package will never get there.
I understand the complaints but we have it good in the USA. It cost me $4 US to mail a postcard from Australia to home in Virginia. The USPS delivered a package to Australia in 5 days, then it took 9 weeks for Australia to deliver it in country.
I send packages by USPS to my sone in Hawaii from Virginia and most get there in 3 days. It takes me a day or more to do it myself when I go visit him, so I think that's fantastic service. Just my 2 cents.

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I have great service locally in Maine.


Worst ever is when I was working in NC. Huntersville, NC was abysmal.

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Dave,

A quick fact check. The USPS is not funded by tax dollars. It is required by law to be self-funded. There have been some rare instances of one-time funding, but they are just that. Rare.

Like you, I am amazed how well the USPS does with all the addresses they deliver to. Try sending a letter to cross-country by UPS or FedEx for 73 cents.

Ken

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As well as Alaska and Hawaii.

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USPS hires a lot of injured Vets, good deal for them. A buddy retired postman was a wounded Navy brown water vet from Vietnam. Newc

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Our rural carrier will get out of her car and bring packages to the front door. Can’t beat that.

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I am a retired rural carrier, 33 years in central Minnesota. Retired almost 6 years ago. Only twice is all those years did I fail to deliver all the mail, once in the early 90's had a terrible blizzard on a saturday, got about 100 boxes delivered, been stuck 6 times. Took the mail home in my car and delivered it next day, Sunday. The only other time we had a snow storm and the mail truck never got to our Post Office, so had no mail to deliver. We have a small office--two full time routes and one "part time". When I retired it took my postmaster two years to get a person hired that stayed on the job. That is the main problem USPS has now--nobody wants to work, and those that do stay on, have no work ethic, as stated above. Even with all the automation, it still takes people. If you have a good carrier, let them know you appreciate them. At Christmas time, many of my customers left goodies in the mail box for me, which inspired my to do my best. I too have had packages go astray, and don't understand why as I follow the tracking. But there are a lot more important things in life, so I take a couple deep breaths and move on.

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swedishsteel, thank you for your dedication and happy retirement!

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Quite a few letter carriers in my kin including my dad. They all did their jobs.

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Thank you.