Another USPS lost

[Wheels2]

Jim,
Had a similar issue with Fed-Ex.  They walked down the driveway, past the end of the covered porch and left a package in the driveway.  In the middle of a bad rain storm.
Their supervisor could not explain why the driver didn't leave it on the porch but actually walked farther to leave it in the rain.

[nek4me]

I shipped a 62" one piece recurve sold on here last year from MA to KS by USPS. The tracking showed no movement beyond Nashua NH. After the expected delivery date I went to the PO and asked if they could get an updated status or show any movement beyond NH. They couldn't come up with anymore info than I had. I contacted the buyer and the bow had arrived right on schedule so no news isn't necessarily bad news but it's a heck of lot less stressful knowing where the shipment is.

[md126]

Frankly, with the amount of volume and distance that some of these parcels go I'm amazed that it doesn't happen more frequently

[Woodpuppy]

Originally posted by md126:
Frankly, with the amount of volume and distance that some of these parcels go I'm amazed that it doesn't happen more frequently

This x 1,000!

It happens frequently enough.

I've had USPS Priority items get from Washington state to Florida in 2 days, and things from Georgia take a week. On another forum I frequent all 3 shippers seem to take a rifle packed in a made to fit wooden crate as a personal challenge to crush it. Boot prints and all.

I've also received a batch of 360' of 5" steel threaded well casing ($350@ 10' piece) with each bundle speared from the end by a forklift, bunging up the threads thoroughly, and then dragged long enough to wear THROUGH THE THREADS ON THE OTHER END. This was Fedex.

My last arrow order looked like they used the triangular shipping tube as a softball bat. At this point I'd rather drive to hand deliver or pick up a bow than ship it!

[The Whittler]

The sad part is it will continue and probably get worst until they make people be accountable for their actions.

[Killdeer]

Oh what stories..
I have a designated sub. I have trained two of them. It seems to be against the rules to use them on my route. Further, it seems to be against the rules (you realize that my cynical side is working ) to have the same person on a route (as a sub) more than once. I was off for the Tennessee Classic, and used five days of leave. My sub was on for one day, and I had a total of four newbies on it while I was gone.

So, where is the accountability? The ability to learn?

This stresses out the customers, and the new carriers, who do not know what to expect in their schedule, day to day, and me, as when I come back I have to clean up, mollify customers, and scream because the Post Office seems deaf to me and the ones coming behind me.

It is getting dumbed down, with speed taking precedence over accuracy, and the new people having to sort stuff on the street with no written information as to who lives here and who doesn't.

It is a grossly exaggerated clusterpluck that takes too long to explain and can only be fixed with unending patience and ignorance of the bottom line. The bean counters have screwed the public, and the mail-people.

Your good news?
No tax dollars go to this fiasco.

Killdeer

   

[Paul/KS]

I was a processing equipment mechanic at two separate facilities. One was a large central processing center, 1st class and letters mostly, and the other was a bulk mail center which was packages and big stuff. (bow staves sometimes..     )
"Mail Search" was a daily duty which meant, in the case of the BMC, walking along the big conveyor belts that actually carry your packages as they are "sorted". Picture a 5 acre building, 50'+ high with miles of inter crossing moving belts with chutes and gates. It is loud,dirty, dangerous and ,Yes, stuff gets hung up, jammed, miss redirected and broken. It is a massive scale operation and there are some good people trying to do their jobs as best as the idiots in charge will allow.
My buddy, who drives for UPS, says they suck too...    :rolleyes:

[Gene Wensel]

I mailed a case of 32 books to Three Rivers last year from Iowa. They received an empty box that looked like it was hit by a train. Tracking number showed the box sat in a Michigan facility for 12 days before they delivered the empty box. They did a three MONTH search and never turned up a single book, which I found very hard to believe.

[Biggamefish]

I was talking to a UPS driver and the rules and regs. they have for delivering packages are crazy. He told me they have 40 seconds to deliver a package from the time they turn the truck off!! He said if you want to really ruin a UPS drivers day do C.O.D.! all driving has to be continuous, meaning they can't turn the truck off get back in and back up. They have to do it before they turn the truck off. He had some other crazy regs. too. Make for a long day I bet.

[YosemiteSam]

I ship documents out for business.  I'll never use USPS for work.  I've had envelopes opened (especially around xmas time if it looks like a card) and packages fail to arrive with no explanation.  A chronic problem here is that the driver will carry a package to your door if it's from Amazon but will hold at the post office for every other sender.  When it's a minimum half-hour wait in line to pick up your package, that's a real pain to deal with.  Personally, I'll spring for the extra cost of shipping UPS or FedEx every time and for anything large, I simply won't order from a retailer who exclusively uses USPS.

The one exception is live animals -- they'll call right away and move me to the front of the line if we've ordered something live.

[Dao]

I've had mail from overseas go MIA, but USPS Missing Mail Search request has worked. Considering they didn't even have that few years back, and if mail went missing, there really was nothing you could do, they are working to make things better, not perfect, but better.  

so if mail is still MIA, may be you can try filing the search request.

The informed delivery notification, coming through to my email address daily through MYUSPS account seems to have greatly eliminated missing mail as well, as it puts responsibility squarely on the mail delivery personnel.

[Dao]

I've had mail from overseas go MIA, but USPS Missing Mail Search request has worked. Considering they didn't even have that few years back, and if mail went missing, there really was nothing you could do, they are working to make things better, not perfect, but better.  

so if mail is still MIA, may be you can try filing the search request.

The informed delivery notification, coming through to my email address daily through MYUSPS account seems to have greatly eliminated missing mail as well, as it puts responsibility squarely on the mail delivery personnel.

[ranger 3]

I think the feathers are on some shafts but they are not mine.

[eckterling]

Originally posted by TedOnTao:
I've had mail from overseas go MIA, but USPS Missing Mail Search request has worked. Considering they didn't even have that few years back, and if mail went missing, there really was nothing you could do, they are working to make things better, not perfect, but better.  

so if mail is still MIA, may be you can try filing the search request.

The informed delivery notification, coming through to my email address daily through MYUSPS account seems to have greatly eliminated missing mail as well, as it puts responsibility squarely on the mail delivery personnel.

Good idea. I didn't know they had this request. I just put in a request for missing package until I am able to replace them.