View Full Version : It's Amazons fault
steve B
11-20-2018, 01:38 PM
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/12/05/postal-workers-claim-theyre-being-forced-to-fake-package-delive/23298123/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00001389&fbclid=IwAR3-8dxRJouo4W8p5kaIitc2gptrhiJhC-H8eoxxbSC5Tx-cE2Seg9-GEQU
Republicaninmass
11-20-2018, 02:31 PM
Wow, and I always attributed it to the hit the wrong button when scanned as out for delivery
jchcollins
11-20-2018, 02:31 PM
Oy. If the USPS ever did that to me, we would have immediate big problems...
Republicaninmass
11-20-2018, 02:36 PM
Oy. If the USPS ever did that to me, we would have immediate big problems...
For instance? What are the repercussions for "scanning wrong"
jchcollins
11-20-2018, 03:15 PM
For instance? What are the repercussions for "scanning wrong"
Read the article. They were scanning as delivered, then not actually delivering the item for a few more days. There may not be any "repurcussions" - just saying that would be very noticeable as I get most of my cards delivered to my office.
buymycards
11-20-2018, 05:25 PM
I have been reading all of the threads about SGC being behind, and PSA taking several months to process orders, and Beckett being a year behind, and I have wondered about the uproar that would be caused if the Post Office declared - "We are short staffed, and due to the ever increasing amount of parcels that we are processing, so, even though you paid for 2 to 3 delivery for Priority Mail, it will be 6 to 8 weeks for us to process packages".
Can you imagine how the **** would hit the fan? It is funny how we keep paying the grading companies for this poor service, but we would never accept it from the Post Office.
My feeling is that the Post Office is not equipped to handle the vast amount of Amazon packages that are being delivered every day, and the Postal Service is losing a hell of a lot of money because of Amazon. They will never admit it, but for those of us who are/were on the front lines of delivering these packages, we know the truth.
Rick
Bocabirdman
11-20-2018, 05:33 PM
Since I have not had a "regular' Postal Carrier for about 10 years, I have grown accustomed to chicanery regarding faux Delivery Scans. Sometimes, after finishing his or her regular route, a Carrier will deliver to our bank of Mailboxes around 8PM. I sometimes see the eBay notification or just check on the tracking number because the package is "due". I will run over to the box, wondering. A Delivered Scan is literally a coin toss between actual delivery or a scan today and a delivery tomorrow. I have yet to have one not show up the following day. I do not know why the need to "fake a delivery" but it happens around here regularly.
I had a package a few months back showing as delivered. I was home waiting for it. The doorbell never rang and the mailbox was empty. I called the post office. They contacted the carrier. Turned out he was scanning all of the packages as delivered before he even left the post office. It showed up a few hours later.
Bocabirdman
11-20-2018, 06:03 PM
I had a package a few months back showing as delivered. I was home waiting for it. The doorbell never rang and the mailbox was empty. I called the post office. They contacted the carrier. Turned out he was scanning all of the packages as delivered before he even left the post office. It showed up a few hours later.
I go out of my way to avoid Signature Required Deliveries but sometimes they happen. A couple of weeks ago, I was home sick. The wife was in the Florida Room doing Laundry 10 feet from the front door. I checked and the package showed a scan as if there was nobody home. It was timed, by coincidence, 8 minutes earlier than I checked. I dragged my wheezing butt over to the boxes. There was an Orange Slip in my box and the carrier was still putting mail in the boxes. It sounds like a little thing but I work about 45 minutes from the local Post Office. It is a pain to go and retrieve a package. (The wife no longer drives).
steve B
11-20-2018, 08:20 PM
I have been reading all of the threads about SGC being behind, and PSA taking several months to process orders, and Beckett being a year behind, and I have wondered about the uproar that would be caused if the Post Office declared - "We are short staffed, and due to the ever increasing amount of parcels that we are processing, so, even though you paid for 2 to 3 delivery for Priority Mail, it will be 6 to 8 weeks for us to process packages".
Can you imagine how the **** would hit the fan? It is funny how we keep paying the grading companies for this poor service, but we would never accept it from the Post Office.
My feeling is that the Post Office is not equipped to handle the vast amount of Amazon packages that are being delivered every day, and the Postal Service is losing a hell of a lot of money because of Amazon. They will never admit it, but for those of us who are/were on the front lines of delivering these packages, we know the truth.
Rick
Odd you should mention that...
Today I saw a post on FB from a vendor in a different hobby who is in the UK. It seems there's a prolonged mail strike in Canada, and they were asked to not send any packages there until further notice as the backlog has gotten way out of hand.
I hate it when our postal person is too lazy to come down our driveway to our door for us to sign for something, instead putting the slip that we weren't home, in our mailbox (when we were home the whole time). It happens every now and then especially with temporary delivery people.
Our PO is about 15 minutes away so it's a good +/- 45 minute trip for no reason. It isn't Amazon's fault.
I go out of my way to avoid Signature Required Deliveries but sometimes they happen. A couple of weeks ago, I was home sick. The wife was in the Florida Room doing Laundry 10 feet from the front door. I checked and the package showed a scan as if there was nobody home. It was timed, by coincidence, 8 minutes earlier than I checked. I dragged my wheezing butt over to the boxes. There was an Orange Slip in my box and the carrier was still putting mail in the boxes. It sounds like a little thing but I work about 45 minutes from the local Post Office. It is a pain to go and retrieve a package. (The wife no longer drives).