Cards From The B/S/T Finally Arrived!

[toledo_mudhen]

Originally Posted by rjackson44

Hi timothy hope your well tracking was provided but the problem was the post office sending this package all over the country. Jim is a good person who acted to fast before seeing the facts. Its not the $15 he wanted the cards and that sucks they went in a whirlwind. In all my years here never has this happened. Sorry for delay my mom has dementia its been a tuff week , best octavio great day everyone…

Anecdotal but Relevant :

So today I receive from my local Post Office - 3 different packages - all containing car parts - all addressed to someone that lives in Washington State.

Over 1 year ago - I moved here to Central Missouri.

USPS should probably introduce a basic Reading Skills test for all potential employees.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by toledo_mudhen

USPS should probably introduce a basic Reading Skills test for all potential employees.

Won't be done. That would interfere with whatever DEI initiatives they have in place.

[Carter08]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Won't be done. That would interfere with whatever DEI initiatives they have in place.

Hilarious! Just kidding. It’s not.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Won't be done. That would interfere with whatever DEI initiatives they have in place.

Rubbish.

People don't read any of the letters or packages. It's all ocr.
For a while I was getting holiday cards intended for a different zip code, because the senders handwriting made the 2 at the end look like a 1. No real solution except to keep sending them back with a note, sometimes more than once for the same card.

[Brent G.]

The USPS processes around 320 million pieces a day -- the success rate is incredible when compared to other sectors. That we'd even consider sticking very valuable items — or in this case $15 in cardboard — in an envelope speaks to that.

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by Brent G.

The USPS processes around 320 million pieces a day -- the success rate is incredible when compared to other sectors. That we'd even consider sticking very valuable items — or in this case $15 in cardboard — in an envelope speaks to that.

I once read that USPS’s failure rate was lower than NASA’s toleration for failure in static mechanical parts and that’s always stuck with me. But it’s USPS, if they sold $.78 stamps with a $5 bill attached to it half of this board would complain about how it was folded.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Brent G.

The USPS processes around 320 million pieces a day -- the success rate is incredible when compared to other sectors. That we'd even consider sticking very valuable items — or in this case $15 in cardboard — in an envelope speaks to that.

Originally Posted by sbfinley

I once read that USPS’s failure rate was lower than NASA’s toleration for failure in static mechanical parts and that’s always stuck with me. But it’s USPS, if they sold $.78 stamps with a $5 bill attached to it half of this board would complain about how it was folded.

That's the problem with really big numbers. Even if you're successful 99.99% of the time, there's still a big number of mistakes (in this case it would be 32,000 per day if my math is correct). What's amazing is that is seems like all of the mistakes happen to people on this board.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

I once read that USPS’s failure rate was lower than NASA’s toleration for failure in static mechanical parts and that’s always stuck with me. But it’s USPS, if they sold $.78 stamps with a $5 bill attached to it half of this board would complain about how it was folded.

Is a month delay included in failure rate, or just pieces finally declared lost or irrevocably damaged? I've had a number of misadventures but I don't think anything I've ever sent didn't eventually get there, and the only packages lost were two from overseas.

[brianp-beme]

I don't remember anything getting lost that I have sent or received over the years, only the occasional unnecessarily long journey. A long time ago I sold a card on Ebay to a buyer who claimed he never received it. I gave him a refund, but got a message back from him 2 to 3 months later that he finally received it. Turns out the postal deliverer accidently delivered to wrong address, and that was to an office building that had been vacated, so human error comes into play, but honest people made it eventually happen, and even the buyer was an honest fellow too.

Moral...plenty of honest and decent folks out there. Don't let a rotten apple spoil your appetite for apples.

Brian