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Post by fuji on Jun 18, 2016 22:54:13 GMT
I sent a wedding RSVP about a week before it was due. They never received it and approximately12 others never showed up from people they absolutely knew were attending. The RSVPs had to go to a neighboring town, which is about six miles away.
The mother of the groom did some investigating and found that the USPS has changed how it does things. Previously, in our tiny town's post office (pop. 1300), there were two mail slots -- one for our town and one for everywhere else. Our town's post master would do whatever it was he needed to do, and you had your mail the next day.
Now, all mail, including the local mail, is sent to a city about three hours away and then goes through some sort of sorting process with a new machine. Apparently, this new machine is having major problems reading handwritten envelopes. It has been a huge mess.
WTF? The same day I sent the RSVP, I also sent several graduation and birthday cards as well as a a bill payment (they prefer checks). Now I have to figure out if any of those items made it.
I'm so pissed!!
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Post by PLurker on Jun 18, 2016 23:00:08 GMT
We did that in the post office I worked at years ago. But it had a population of around 10,000. The littler offices may have been told to send it all out for machine sorting but I know many saved it anyway if the amount of mail was do-able within allotted hours. Maybe you've had a change of management (postmaster) OR the higher ups are making them.
I'd just nicely ask someone there why the change and any can be kept in house.
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 18, 2016 23:02:56 GMT
I sent a wedding RSVP about a week before it was due. They never received it and approximately12 others never showed up from people they absolutely knew were attending. The RSVPs had to go to a neighboring town, which is about six miles away. The mother of the groom did some investigating and found that the USPS has changed how it does things. Previously, in our tiny town's post office (pop. 1300), there were two mail slots -- one for our town and one for everywhere else. Our town's post master would do whatever it was he needed to do, and you had your mail the next day. Now, all mail, including the local mail, is sent to a city about three hours away and then goes through some sort of sorting process with a new machine. Apparently, this new machine is having major problems reading handwritten envelopes. It has been a huge mess. WTF? The same day I sent the RSVP, I also sent several graduation and birthday cards as well as a a bill payment (they prefer checks). Now I have to figure out if any of those items made it. I'm so pissed!! Yeah, they call it progress. Hahahahaha....NOT! |
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Post by seaexplore on Jun 18, 2016 23:08:46 GMT
I sent out a bunch of christmas cards (domestic and international) the monday after Thanksgiving FROM THE POST OFFICE so I knew I had the right postage on them. I had ALL of the international ones returned to me. I checked with all the people who were supposed to get them and the addresses were correct. Postage was correct too. Took them to the post office to find out what happened. Apparently they didn't get STAMPED WITH A SPECIAL RUBBER STAMP! WTH??? I also had several domestic ones returned to me. Checked those addresses, they were ALSO correct. Took them back to the post office. Their answer- "Oh, sorry. Sometimes stuff happens." Oh really? And another friend got her card in FEBRUARY. She is less than 100 miles from me. WTH?  How many people didn't get my cards and how many cards did I not receive due to their incompetence??? Pisses me the hell off! |
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Post by suzastampin on Jun 18, 2016 23:16:41 GMT
Ours has been like that for a few years. Our daughter lived 2 miles down our same road and it took two days for the Halloween cards to get from me to them. Crazy!
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Post by LeaP on Jun 18, 2016 23:26:23 GMT
We went 92 days without mail when we moved back from Canada. There was a glitch in the system that automatically returned our mail to sender before we received it. It took me about 15 hours on the phone and in various postal offices to get it cleared up. It was a nightmare. I felt like Schwarzenegger in Total Recall. Erased.
I feel your pain.
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Post by Really Red on Jun 18, 2016 23:37:02 GMT
I can't even, with the USPS. I went to mail my MIL (who lives in EUrope) a paperback magazine, that was about 8x10. It was way less the the 3/4" max width and way smaller than necessary. They wanted to charge me small package, which cost nearly twice the amount as 1st class mail. I said that my envelope could easily bend and was way smaller than their regulations. I pulled them up on my phone. They did NOT care. They insistently pulled cards at me (people's cards they were mailing) and slapped them down on the counter and said "THIS is an envelope!" I was so frustrated I couldn't tell you. I said let me just show you the regulations and they slapped that envelope down again.
I wrote the the USPS and attached their own regulations. I got no response. I feel very frustrated and understand your pain.
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Post by librarylady on Jun 18, 2016 23:40:37 GMT
They made that change a few years ago when the small town post offices were closed.
I allow a week for things to go across town now.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jun 18, 2016 23:47:43 GMT
US postage is based on size AND weight. Over 13oz and it's a package no matter the size.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jun 18, 2016 23:50:32 GMT
The USPS has closed branches and consolidated sorting facilities here and it has been a mess. First class packages that used to take a couple of days for delivery have taken up to 10 days (these are my eBay sales so I am tracking them).
I had a similar experience. Needed to mail a quilt block to Ireland, but this time took it to a different branch than my usual one. The woman kept insisting that because it was fabric inside and not paper, it HAD to go as a priority package. She was going to charge me over $13 to mail a #10 envelope that was maybe 1/8" thick and weighed about 3 oz. No amount of reasoning with her would work, so I just took it and left. Went to my regular post office the next day and the cost was less than $4. When I told them about the other branch the guy just shook his head. I decided they must be on commission or something.
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Post by peabay on Jun 18, 2016 23:53:58 GMT
Ours does the same. All mail is sent to a larger city about an hour away, and then brought back. It's ridiculous.
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Post by lurkingsince2001 on Jun 18, 2016 23:54:43 GMT
Were we used to live recently changed the mail as well. Now the mail of over a million people is sent 200 miles away to an even larger metro area for sorting then shipped back. Things that should take one day are taking 4-5 according to people I've talked to.
I was discussing this with a woman who has been doing mail for something like 30 years and she said overnight mail doesn't exist anymore. I wanted to pay for 2-Day and she said I'd never get my money's worth out of that either.
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Post by M in Carolina on Jun 19, 2016 0:13:12 GMT
I posted before a few months ago at how it took 3 tries and over a month to send my SIL her birthday card.
Dh took it to the post office finally and asked why it was returned twice after I changed the wrong postage. They had no idea. I hand wrote the address in large letters that were easy for a human to read but probably got spit out by the machine.
Now I know, so I'll try writing the addresses like regular typed addresses.
I really like getting the pretty cards with decorative calligraphy. You'd think the USPS could get a machine that can read different fonts.
There are tons of bots on the internet that can beat those little weird letter "I am not a bot" quizes. I emailed an article from CNN today, and the bot quiz had animated, moving letters, so the bots are getting smarter.
The government should just go ahead and privatize the USPS.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Jun 19, 2016 0:49:44 GMT
I swear something changed in January. Something is mailed USPS but for some reason they no longer will show its progress across the country but will say it's not found, then about a week later it shows up as preliminary info sent to PO then it's days for days at the sorting facility then finally get to you. Things that used to take 3 days now take 2 weeks and only going across the country.
I have had packages sent back due to undeliverable address which took hours to straighten out. The address was correct and not handwritten but computer generated and a monthly subscription. Just recently I had s package that was undeliverable as the business was closed. We are a residence not a business luckily it arrived late the next day. Lots of packages going to neighbors or our packages going to them.
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How many people didn't get my cards and how many cards did I not receive due to their incompetence??? Pisses me the hell off!
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