No wonder the USPS is going broke

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

Geez guys, my original post was a light-hearted tongue-in cheek jab at a silly situation. You took that and turned it into the Great Postal Debate of 2015. I never figured to elicit such deep seeded, impressive, expressive responses, both Pro and Con. Hot Damn!

By the way...it looks like it was a cyber transcontinental trip. It was scanned into my local Post Office less than two days after the Washington State scan,,,

Shipping Label Created
Dec-29-14, 18:50 PM, ONTARIO, CA 91761

Arrived at USPS Facility
Jan-02-15, 17:14 PM, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32099

ACCEPTED AT USPS FACILITYu
Jan-03-15, 07:25 AM, POULSBO, WA 98370

Arrival at Unit
Jan-05-15, 02:41 AM, BOCA RATON, FL 33428

This whole thread is bogus. Poulsbo, WA is a suburb of Daytona Beach, FL.

[ALR-bishop]

Too late Mike, you lost control a long while back

[Bocabirdman]

One would have better luck carrying a hundred pound sack of coconuts than "controlling" a thread around here.

[lharri3600]

Lol

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

One would have better luck carrying a hundred pound sack of coconuts than "controlling" a thread around here.

Lord of The Flies - The Sequel.

[ALR-bishop]

"Always carry two large sacks of something around with you. Then, if someone asks you to lend a hand, you can say you would like to, but you have these two large sacks"...Jack Handey

[buymycards]

There really isn't a good reason why packages are delayed or damaged or lost, except when you look at the scope of the process. During December of 2014, the Postal Service delivered 524 million packages. If the USPS was 99.99% successful and only had problems with .01% of packages, that would mean that 52,000 packages were lost or damaged, and those 52,000 are the ones we hear about, not the 523+ million that were successful. How many of you are 99.99% mistake free at your jobs?

Rick

[ullmandds]

If only I could have videotaped my experience at the USPS yesterday morning...as evidence as to why the USPS is bankrupt!!!!!!!


3 customers myself included...2 ahead of me being helped by 2 USPS employees.

1 of the employees excused herself to take a phone call...and in the 15 minutes I was there never returned...leaving the customer alone at the desk livid...wondering what the hell was going on. Meanwhile the other customer had a stack of papers that had to be sorted and put in envelopes which she should have done at home. The teller suggested she step aside until she was ready...but she claimed that she was indeed "ready" and proceeded to shuffle through her papers collating them frantically.

Tick tick tick...smoke was coming out of my ears!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is the USPS's lack of educating and penalizing customers for being stoopid that contributes to this problem!

They should teach all new citizens and children how to act at the Post office!!!!

[Theo_450]

Originally Posted by buymycards

There really isn't a good reason why packages are delayed or damaged or lost, except when you look at the scope of the process. During December of 2014, the Postal Service delivered 524 million packages. If the USPS was 99.99% successful and only had problems with .01% of packages, that would mean that 52,000 packages were lost or damaged, and those 52,000 are the ones we hear about, not the 523+ million that were successful. How many of you are 99.99% mistake free at your jobs?

Rick

How many of those successful delivers were pointless junk mail and advertisements that I have no desire to receive and go straight in the trash. I don't even get my bills through the USPS. I Recieved a total of 11 Christmas cards, 14 birthday cards, three letters, 7 packages I wanted, and about 5000 useless wastes of paper in my mailbox in 2014. I haven't bought a stamp or sent a single item via USPS for 10 years.