Post Office is overwhelmed

[Thud]

I have sent some packages out to people from the beginning of the week They are still sitting in the P/O according to the tracking numbers.
Talked to the Post Master and they stated due to the storms a huge backlog is staged and with Columbus Day on Monday.
The backlog grows.
I understand this. So please all be patient waiting for your stuff.

 

[tmwinds]

I wonder what their excuse was last month and the month before.
I mailed several 3 day priority packages. The average delivery time was 8 days.

 

[WSnyder]

I just had a package sit at my local office for 8 days before it showed "In possession". I'm guessing someone emptied the bin and the packages sat forgotten and weren't scanned till later.

 

[Bill K]

If my PO did that to me, I would not be whining about it, I would just stop going there and go to UPS or FedX.

 

[Big Mc]

I have sent some packages out to people from the beginning of the week They are still sitting in the P/O according to the tracking numbers.
Talked to the Post Master and they stated due to the storms a huge backlog is staged and with Columbus Day on Monday.
The backlog grows.
I understand this. So please all be patient waiting for your stuff.

I have said this in the past the usps S U C K S . Tommy mc

 

[cmysix]

BS, USPS is inept, there having a hissie fit because the taxpayers are no longer on the hook for 20 billion a year to shore up there bloated pension, so they drag there feet, ship on a Sat. from any of the PO's in my area, it does not move until Monday, just like other unions they are going to kill the golden goose.

 

[Kyle Schultz]

I have sent some packages out to people from the beginning of the week They are still sitting in the P/O according to the tracking numbers.
Talked to the Post Master and they stated due to the storms a huge backlog is staged and with Columbus Day on Monday.
The backlog grows.
I understand this. So please all be patient waiting for your stuff.

Same situation with me Lew. I mailed a barrel Priority Mail on Tuesday to Mike Bryant up in the Panhandle. Tracking only shows "In Possession". Don't quite understand why storms on the East coast affect mail movement in Texas but then again, I'm slow. Really feeling good right now about paying $34.35 for the privilege of being pissed off.

 

[Thud]

Klye,
You got away cheap. So far I've spent over $300.00 on priority shipping. Just in a holding pattern.

 

[Barrelhorses]

About three weeks ago I mailed a stock to a fellow from another forum. I sent it on a Monday and it was estimated to be delivered on Thursday. Tracking showed the post office had possession of it as of the time I dropped it off. But that's where it sat for days on end. I went to the post office twice and they informed me that no packages stay there overnight. They said the Cincinnati hub was short staffed and it might be a couple of days before they even scan it again. Long story short, tracking never updated until the following Thursday when it arrived in Alabama. It was finally delivered a full week after the estimated delivery date at the time i dropped it off at the post office. But there were 8 or 9 days of worry and fretting over whether me or the buyer would ever see the stock again. That was before the first hurricane, so the storm had zero to do with it.

 

[Rwfish]

Sent package out today and was informed that “Holiday Rates” Will be starting next week for all packages.. In other words, rates will increase permanently again because we still can’t manage our operations…

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

I wonder what their excuse was last month and the month before.
I mailed several 3 day priority packages. The average delivery time was 8 days.

I mailed a letter from N. Texas to Oklahoma. We thought the letter got lost. Finally arrived 3-4 weeks or more.

 

[lawman29]

 

[Just Say Moe]

I just had a package sit at my local office for 8 days before it showed "In possession". I'm guessing someone emptied the bin and the packages sat forgotten and weren't scanned till later.

The guy whose job that was was attending the postal union meeting in Vegas......

 

[DocBII]

Good day,

On top of the problems send first class mail, I just experienced the problems at Smyrna for local delivery. On Tuesday, called GaPower since I had not received a bill by the fourth, as is their custom. GaPower rep states bill generated and mailed on 9.30, but would be happy to mail a new one to me.

Both arrived today. proof is in the informed delivery app, showing both items arriving today.

Regional processing of mail really screwed up the USPS,
DocBII

 

[freebird22/250]

I wonder what their excuse was last month and the month before.
I mailed several 3 day priority packages. The average delivery time was 8 days.

I mail my packages Advantage Ground it's just as fast & cheaper!

 

[Lance21]

I've got a check for a load of cattle for $47,000 that was mailed 17 years ago through usps that's never been found. Yes, I stopped payment, still, you'd think it would have shown up somewhere.

 

[WSnyder]

I mail my packages Advantage Ground it's just as fast & cheaper!

Unless they don’t scan it for 8 days and move it on it’s way

My above referenced package was ground advantage.

 

[Jr solocam]

The logistics of what they are tasked to do are daunting. BUT, better management and employees that can actually read and actually give a shit could go a long way in fixing it....

 

[urbanrifleman]

Sent package out today and was informed that “Holiday Rates” Will be starting next week for all packages.. In other words, rates will increase permanently again because we still can’t manage our operations…

When I was a kid my good friend's Dad was a postman. Back then, all of the people at the postal centers were vets. All men. His Dad was in combat in Korea and Vietnam and retired as a drill instructor at Fort Sill. All of the guys he worked with were vets. Most of them combat vets. Pretty much 100 percent.

My post offices here have almost no men at all. Maybe one in 10. My post man is a nice guy, but I'm pretty sure he's high every day. Here in Oklahoma, where weed is called "medicine" (and essentially is nearly free for anyone to buy) a large percentage of people you encounter are high all the time. I'm not joking. I mean highhhh... I had a lady nearly fall asleep at the Braums ice cream halfway through making my banana split. Every stoplight smells like a Grateful Dead concert.

I mean really? Is this all that shocking considering what is happening in the world?

 

[Liven The Dream]

Fly over Oregone. Post Office No Help ! Some days No Delivery.
Track a package "10/10/24 states out for Delivery" 9:00 PM on10/11 Delivered to my door.
A Nice Man from South America in old red Toyota ?

Just think we Vote By Mail ? What could go wrong ?
We Vote Early in Person.................