OT: Is the USPS severely dragging this week?
 

Are they experiencing a hangover from partying too hard on Labor Day? I've had a few items/checks mailed last week and nothing is showing up. Anyone else have some items in the mail that should've already been here?

opposite for me. I shipped something Tuesday morning via USPS Priority from Connecticut and was delivered in Washington (state) today. Unusually quick IMO.

Opposite for me as well. I shipped 2 packages to board members on Friday and one arrived on Tuesday and the other on Wednesday. I thought that was pretty quick considering Monday was a holiday.

Everything good for me too.
Joe

Will you guys stop shipping so much so I can get my stuff?!? :D

Thanks for the input, fellas. Guess it's just here.

Cards from Lower Burrell, PA to Calgary took 21 days, cards from Key West took 5. Its hit or miss to Canada

Memphis, TN to NJ, shipped on 8/31 arrived today, 9/8............

Hmm, guess it's hit or miss all over.

The secret is...
 

Tip your mailman...

Rumor has it that they are going out of business!CN

I was told by my mail person today that the hurricane from 2 weeks ago and all the other rain kinda put things behind a bit especially on the east coast. Flooding and a week of no electric is some areas the main issue. 6 days DE to FL.

I mailed a package from MA to NC on 8/22 - just before the hurricane. It appeared lost - no tracking updates after 8/23 - until it was delivered yesterday. So I think patience is key on the East Coast right now!

I've shipped stuff out everyday since last week (except Sunday and Monday) and everything has arrived in 2-3 days. I've gotten a few things as well and they arrived just as quickly, so no problems here.

Timely Discussion For Me
 

I've been shipping via USPS for decades and have never lost a package.

Until now :( Track this: 0310 3490 0000 2647 7002

I googled the sort facility and found that others have been losing packages there for a long time.

I guess if your even slightly dishonest and you see a RA number on the package and you like things that the addressee makes, then why not help yourself. Especially if the package is uninsured. And especially if you think you're going to get laid off soon.

Still batting in the high 900's, so it's not the end of the world.

Really slow to SLOWVANNAH this week. Been waiting for a package since 8/30...

The number didn't register on USPS. Where was the facility?

Verbatim conversation with my mail person right around 5pm today (she was closing my mailbox as I walked up):

ME: "Do I have have any packages today?"

HER (walking away): "Nope."

ME: "Are you sure?"

HER (still walking): "Yes."

ME (calling after her): "The reason why I ask is because I noticed on the website that I had a package out for delivery."

Moment of doubt on her part -- there's a website? She steels herself.

HER (reaching into her pouch to show me how very wrong I am): "You don't have any packag......wait, you have four."

Four packages.

As she starts to beep the packages with the 1963 Kennedy space program prototype scanner that never works for any mail person until he/she starts to bargain with it, because it's a scanner made almost entirely out of duct-tape and hope, another mailman walks up and informs her that she's working the wrong route today.

So she stops scanning.

HER (to the other mailman, because now I'm in a Marx Brothers skit): "Really, are you sure?"

HIM: "Yes, this is 1400 block."

ME (pointing at my address): "Actually, it's the 1500 block."

HER (to the other mailman, and is he really a mailman? -- he's wearing blue, but that's the only positive identifier) : "I'm not supposed to work the 1400 block?"

ME (tapping the address above the gate, because I'm tall): "It's the 1500 block."

HIM (to her): "No, you're not." (conciliatory, and sensing an opportunity to shirk) "Do you want to?"


I had the best mailman up until about 3 weeks ago. The guy was awesome. Then I received a notice in the mail informing me that the USPS was re-evaluating the postal routes in my area, in order to better serve the community. Since then, it's been an absolute shit-show. I'm literally expecting to find letters nailed to the tree out front.

It should, works here.

Label/Receipt Number: 0310 3490 0000 2647 7002
Expected Delivery Date: July 23, 2011
Class: Package Services
Service(s): Delivery Confirmation™
Status: Processed through Sort Facility

Your item was processed through our RICHMOND, CA 94804 facility on July 22, 2011 at 8:46 am. No further information is available for this item.

Richmond must be the Newark, New Jersey of the West Coast.

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Interesting that you would say that, the final destination was Newark, CA.

I suppose it's plausible that some dimwit actually routed the package to Newark, NJ. If that's the case, the package could well be in another dimension by now.

As an aside, and I hope this isn't inappropriate, the company that the merchandise was being returned to, credited my account even though they never received the package and verbally told me that they couldn't credit my account. Good business practice imo and I'll be a returning customer. The company is swimoutlet.com.

Yeah, hope it doesn't go to New Jersey. I swear, every package I've ever had go missing. Last place it was seen was Newark, New Jersey..........whether it be a domestic shipment or an International.

No offense, but Chicago has seen it's share of burning mailbags under viaducts as well over the years......the USPS is in trouble.....service isn't too bad even with all the issues though. $8.5B losses this year.......gonna run out of money by mid next year.....

Its been very slow I have had 3 trades take 2 weeks to get to it destination. I was starting to wonder if they were lost. I since changed the PO and the ones I sent on this past Tuesday got to their destination today.

Usps
 

Hate to reopen a old theard like this. But is USPS running real slow again. I am waiting on 2 package's still. One sent 10/3 stuck in Jacksonsville, FL since 10/7. The other sent 10/6 stuck in Kent, WA since 10/8. I know Columbus day might have slowed things down a day or two, but things just seem crazy the past few weeks....

It happens everywhere at some point. I guess it's your turn. :)

absolutely
 

I told someone this morning that I have been waiting for a few pieces of mail longer than normal. I think the USPS might be having more problems than we can see as outside customers.

Somebody shipped me a card this week and I received it by the end of the week. There are a couple of factors. The most important factors being the distance between origin and destination and method of shipment.

I shipped out three packages of cards on Tuesday. Two to PA, and one to TN. Two out of three make it on time, while one going to PA appears to still be at my post office according to delivery confirmation. The USPS does a pretty fine job 99% of the time, but that 1% sure can be frustrating to deal with.

Best,

Andy