USPS is the worst

[jhs5120]

Sorry, I need to vent. I dropped off around 20 bubble mailers at a blue USPS box on May 25th (6 days ago). Only a few of them have been scanned as of today. I have eBay messages (some not so pleasant) from 4-5 members asking me when things will get shipped and there is nothing I can do right now.

Hopefully it gets sorted out. Any suggestions?

[Yankees1964]

Don't drop stuff in mailboxes. Take it into the post office and tell them to scan it right then. Most post offices do that anyway. You can thank your congressman for all the consolidations and the way that they have slowed the mail down in the past couple of years. Lots of stuff ends up sitting. If I send something to my next door neighbor it goes on a 140 mile round trip before it gets to him. Taking it in OR doing a carrier pickup assures that it gets right into the pipeline. (Wife is a postal worker)

[bobbyw8469]

Never use the USPS Box...I learned the hard way not to use it when they "lost" one of my packages.....from now on, if I can't hand it to the clerk at the counter, I won't ship it.

[Donscards]

You can give packages to your mailman and he will scan them in his truck. I give him around 20-25 per week. Plus take care of your mailman at Xmas. My guy is a big help and saves me from going to the post office. I also get the 20 per cent discount on my eBay fees. As others stated,don't use the mailbox, sometimes the collectors miss the box.

[packs]

Last year I had to mail a Carl Horner photo I sold to a fellow board member. It was a Saturday and in NYC a lot of USPS places are technically "open" but that just means the door is open and the label machine is on. I was on my way to brunch and brought the package with me to mail. Then I was THIS CLOSE to just printing the label and dropping it in the box. But I decided that was a terrible idea and I made my girlfriend walk back home with me so I could put it back. She was pissed until I reminded her of the money I'd made and stood to lose if it got lost.

[buymycards]

If the carrier or clerk who picks up the mail from the blue box does their job correctly, the packages should be scanned as "pre paid acceptance" at that particular Post Office.

Talk to the Postmaster (not the clerk or the supervisor ) and tell the PM that you want to know which person collected the mail from the blue box on that particular day and you would like some disciplinary action taken against that person. It will take the PM about 3 minutes to get this info.

There is no excuse for this to happen.

[ibuysportsephemera]

What everyone said before about using the boxes..don't do it. I always give a Christmas tip to the guys who work for the PO. Not only are they nice guys, they go out of the way to take care of me if I need anything. I have shipped thousands of packages with USPS and only had a problem with 1 or 2. That is a great track record as far as I am concerned.

Jeff