View Full Version : Ever wonder why the USPS is having trouble?
this is why:
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Particle Man
10-17-2011, 08:38 AM
Oops :lol:
How hard its it to add a little extra code that updates the delivery date? Really how hard can it be?
Krypt Keeper
10-17-2011, 09:27 AM
I had a package shipped by them and it was also at the Capital Heights MD location. It stayed there for 5 or 6 days waiting to be delievered. I call them as it was past the date to be delievered.
Told me the package was right on time. Yeah 3 days ago. I only live a couple hours away. Yet its been sitting there for almost a week. Want me to drive up and get it, will be quicker I am sure.
Think their calendar is different than everyone elses. Hell they must also have a flux capacitor in one of their trucks for your shipment.
marko138
10-17-2011, 09:28 AM
I don't have problems with USPS. Always get my shit on the expected date. And I prefer to ship USPS Priority. It's cheap and fast.
tommymac
10-17-2011, 09:34 AM
I don't have problems with USPS. Always get my shit on the expected date. And I prefer to ship USPS Priority. It's cheap and fast.
yeah but youre one of them lazy guberment workers, btw how the hell did your city go bankrupt :lol:
Rangerscott
10-17-2011, 10:11 AM
Took them a month to deliver a letter two states over one time. Thats when they lost my business.
Particle Man
10-17-2011, 10:17 AM
Took them a month to deliver a letter two states over one time. Thats when they lost my business.
Was it a heavy letter? Holy crap.
marko138
10-17-2011, 10:50 AM
yeah but youre one of them lazy guberment workers, btw how the hell did your city go bankrupt :lol:
This city is a mess. Council sucks. The Mayor is a moron.
Was it a heavy letter? Holy crap.
I've had some mail take its time to get to me before, not a full month, but close to it.
Speaking of mail, ebbs, did you get that package I sent a real and a half ago?
Homeslice
10-17-2011, 11:22 AM
Compared to 5-10 years ago, a ton more Ebay stuff is sent USPS instead of UPS........So what have they been doing with all that extra profit? Inflating their already inflated benefit packages? Seriously, if they can't figure out how to stay afloat, then they are pathetic.
but the internet has destroyed large scale product mailings, and while ebay has picked up some of the slack, the companies that used to spend millions sending pamphlets and ads just dont exist any more
LeeNetworX
10-17-2011, 12:04 PM
Overall, my experience using them has been pretty good, although I've had a few issues over the years. About the best I could hope for from such an entity. Seeing all of the problems others have with them makes me feel one of the lucky few.
Particle Man
10-17-2011, 03:16 PM
but the internet has destroyed large scale product mailings, and while ebay has picked up some of the slack, the companies that used to spend millions sending pamphlets and ads just dont exist any more
Yeah, the few left are basically insurance companies and credit card companies.
fujimoh
10-17-2011, 04:21 PM
At least the site worked for you. Everytime I try to track USPS, the package is delivered before the site says the package was dropped off for shipping
Rangerscott
10-17-2011, 04:46 PM
Was it a heavy letter? Holy crap.
Just a regular envelope with a cashiers check.
Rangerscott
10-17-2011, 04:49 PM
At least the site worked for you. Everytime I try to track USPS, the package is delivered before the site says the package was dropped off for shipping
I enjoy that.
Smittie61984
10-18-2011, 12:39 PM
So fast you actually got your shit the day before. I retract my statements where I bash the government.
racedoll
10-18-2011, 07:52 PM
I don't have problems with USPS. Always get my shit on the expected date. And I prefer to ship USPS Priority. It's cheap and fast.
This has been my experience too - no issues with USPS and cheap.
We have more problems with UPS. Package was 30 miles from here and ended up in FL when it originally came from CA. Not sure how that happened.
G-Rex
10-18-2011, 08:18 PM
In my experience, USPS is a waste of my time and money.
I've had good luck 99% of the time with UPS and Fed-Ex.
I've had bad luck 99% of the time with USPS.
On more than one occasion, USPS has sent something from the west coast, bypassed me and send it to the far east coast, and then sent it back to me in the middle of the country.
I have no sympathy for the USPS complaints that they are out of money. No shit.
Rangerscott
10-18-2011, 09:38 PM
Their tracking wasn't working all day today.
When you don't keep up with times, your company goes down the toilet. I guess they just thought that they had the mailing business for as long as America is alive. Doesn't seem so now. I'll lmao if UPS/Fedex start doing letter deliveries.
Those flat rate shipping boxes suck. I've never been able to use any of them because they're too small. I was able a couple times, but then I wouldn't have been able to put packing material in the box. To me, packaging is just as important as customer service if not more. It's a presentation of you (or company) and how you run things and how you treat people.
VatorMan
10-18-2011, 09:41 PM
I live in Gaithersburg. We had a time warp. So sorry.
tommymac
10-19-2011, 07:36 AM
Their tracking wasn't working all day today.
When you don't keep up with times, your company goes down the toilet. I guess they just thought that they had the mailing business for as long as America is alive. Doesn't seem so now. I'll lmao if UPS/Fedex start doing letter deliveries.
Those flat rate shipping boxes suck. I've never been able to use any of them because they're too small. I was able a couple times, but then I wouldn't have been able to put packing material in the box. To me, packaging is just as important as customer service if not more. It's a presentation of you (or company) and how you run things and how you treat people.
You never know with ups/fed ex. I wiorked at ups for 11 years and the guys running the business have their shit together They did great with all this internet shopping business where as usps got killed by it. I pay almost all my bills online now so before where I would mail out 6 or 7 bills now its only one or 2. I also thing people are going to e-christmas cards too which will further hurt them.
Just heard today theyre raising the cost of a stamp and ar eclosing a shitload of offices. I know theyre talking about doing away with saturday delivery too.
Just heard today theyre raising the cost of a stamp and ar eclosing a shitload of offices. I know theyre talking about doing away with saturday delivery too.
They have an multi billion dollar medical fund payment to make in november that they simply cant afford. Getting rid of saturday deliver I can live with, even making it a premium service for those folks that need it is cool. Hell they could go down to mon/wed/fri service and I would never even notice it. Closing a large number of offices seems like smart business sense, if they are not making their share then shut em down, who really needs to talk to a live person anyway? They can easily have a machine dispense stamps, calculate postal codes for boxes etc..., remote PO box locations sound great too, they can even save some more cash by having the building lit with a motion sensing light switch. Then have a regional or county postal office with real live people and have all the mail go through there. It might mean a 100% revamp of the current system but it NEEDS to be done because mail deliver is essential
Rangerscott
10-19-2011, 09:55 AM
You never know with ups/fed ex. I wiorked at ups for 11 years and the guys running the business have their shit together They did great with all this internet shopping business where as usps got killed by it. I pay almost all my bills online now so before where I would mail out 6 or 7 bills now its only one or 2. I also thing people are going to e-christmas cards too which will further hurt them.
Just heard today theyre raising the cost of a stamp and ar eclosing a shitload of offices. I know theyre talking about doing away with saturday delivery too.
Theyve been talking about no saturdays since my gramps was a post man 60 years ago.
Krypt Keeper
10-19-2011, 10:52 AM
Stamps going up $.01 to help with the hole they are in..
Just make it an even $1 and stop pissing around.
Smittie61984
10-19-2011, 05:22 PM
Stamps going up $.01 to help with the hole they are in..
Just make it an even $1 and stop pissing around.
They just need to say fuck it and allow private businesses to start 1st class mail delivery. Then take the dumbasses and put them all on Passports so you don't have to wait in hour long lines just to have permission to leave the country.
Corey
10-19-2011, 05:43 PM
Dealing with their shit right now. Package shows delivered as of yesterday. The tracking site went from no updates to delivered in about an hour. Problem is, I don't have the package. After calling the local branch, who told me to call the main number and dealing with the shit awful automated system that kept telling me that the package was delivered, I finally talked to an actual human being who put in a claim and will be having the local branch, who blew me off initially, look into the problem.
Any business that uses that many layers of automation before even talking to a human being needs a hasty bankruptcy. All it did was turn my annoyance and aggravation into burning hatred.
Rangerscott
10-19-2011, 07:58 PM
Should have said, "This is why all of you are getting laid off."
The ones that drive the gocarts (lol) are some lazy sobs. Men and women. They'll do everything they can with the vehicle so they dont have to get out of it and if they cant reach your your box then they drive off. I love it when we park in front of a mailbox while on a job site and thy give us that go to hell look. FUCK YOU YOU LAZY PIECE OF SHIT. My gramps walked his routes for 30+ years even when they made him drive one of those go carts. He'd just go park it some where.
Its super fun when they tske the time to tell me that its illegal to park in front of a mail box. We have a community box and those ass hats wont drop your package off at your door, they instead put that pink slip in your box that says come pick up your own shit.
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