Oh joy, new mail trucks...

No, they are not the issue, it’s the changes made at the top. Anything I’ve tracked is ping ponging back & forth all over the place cause delays. I can’t see how it’s cost effective to drive stuff around twice as long and twice as far just to go the same distance.

This is hurting businesses. Small businesses will not be able to manage dealing with postal issues for long, as they won’t be able to withstand the financial losses. These apparently “lost” packages are being refunded/replaced only to have the customer receive both shipments. Leaves businesses to eat the cost of the duplicate or the return postage. It’s shameful what has been perpetrated on the USPS and, in turn, the rest of us.

I am a huge supporter of USPS. But mail delivery has been f'ed up for a long time! I know it is worse now, but there have been some pretty major issues long before this latest fiasco.

The whole pre-funding of the pension plan has been a major detriment to the PO and things have been on a downhill slide since then (2006).

I used to be able to send local mail and have it delivered the next day. In some instances - the SAME day. Now it doesn't even get postmarked at my local post office. It has to take a trip around the state at least once before it comes back.
I used to be able to drop a letter in the slot. The postal employee picked it up and put it either in the locals PO box, or in the local route carriers sort pile.

Now I put a letter in the drop box, that goes to a local address. A mail contracter comes and empties that box late in the afternoon. It goes halfway across the state to Des Moines (if I mail it at the little town the other direction from my house it goes to Sioux City). It sits in Des Moines at least a day. AT LEAST a day. Then it gets sorted, goes back either on a mail semi to another sorting facility in a different town or to a mail contracter and back to my local PO and then on to the recipient. I have mailed something to someone local here and it takes up to 5 days for them to get it. This didn't just start happening. This has been going on for years.

How in the hell does this save money? This is what is wrong with our government! Who the hell figures this stuff out?

For a while, about a year ago, I was getting mail frequently that the stamps had not even been cancelled.   These were mail pieces with regular stamps on them, and no cancellation on the stamps.   I could have used those stamps again if I wanted to .  

My friend mailed Christmas cards in early December. I still haven't gotten mine and we only live 40 minutes away.

I ordered some pencils off amazon in early November. The first package was lost. The company sent me another and that too ended up lost. He then sent a third which miraculously arrived. About two weeks after the package arrived the one that was originally the replacement arrived. Two days ago I received the original package.

Well, there were some issues when they switch from mostly full time mail carriers to 3 part time carriers per route here but it was mostly mail being mis delivered with my neighbor - which I can fix if it’s not the asshole neighbor. And because it’s a part time gig there has been more turnover

But Last year something changed and it’s bat crap crazy. Mail is not delivered to the post office then suddenly there’s too much arriving at once according to one of my mail carriers the regular deliveries to the post office are not regular any more in timing nor volume.





But yes they did away with in town mail when they went to part time carriers a few years ago but mail was usually still sorted over night so that mail mailed Tuesday would get across town by Friday at the latest but usually by Thursday

Yes that they changed with the switch to 3 part timers not sure why

But my ‘local mail’ still went to either Teterboro or New Brunswick was sorted next day and delivered the day after. I never figured out when it went to which processing center because it seemed random. It wasn’t so bad for 50 cents

But now, since spring 2020 mail mailed Tuesday to somewhere else in NJ will go to New Brunswick then Teterboro BOTH, ( or some other random processing center in NJ ). then it might make a stop in Philly or Somewhere else in PA before going back to either Teterboro or New Brunswick THEN back to my post office then out to be delivered. Makes no sense.

I think this is going to be a good change. Those new trucks look like they are designed much better for package delivery which is what consumes a huge portion of a mail carrier's day these days. I'm glad they will finally get some air conditioning too.