OT: Is the USPS severely dragging this week?

[Tsaiko]

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.

[rp12367]

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

[Anthony S.]

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.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Tsaiko

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.

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

[Tsaiko]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

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

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.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Tsaiko

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.

[DJR]

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[Tsaiko]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

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

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.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Tsaiko

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.

[autograf]

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.....