Any happy ending USPS stories?

I wish I could provide one, but I haven’t really had any positive experience with USPS in the last five years or so. In my neighborhood, I don’t even think mail carriers look at the addresses; they just shove mail wherever. We now have a routine here where we neighbors just walk the mail to the proper homes. Complaining to our local post office is futile, and many of us have already tried.

The other practice I dislike is when USPS has to do the last mile delivery—the tracking will show the package as delivered and it’s nowhere to be found. Two days later, it’ll show up. Sometimes, it won’t at all.

I don’t send anything via USPS anymore. Most of the time it takes longer than seven days to arrive at the destination, if it arrives at all. There was a time I mailed documents from Chicago, IL to my brother in Peoria, IL that took over two weeks. That’s longer than when America had the Pony Express in the 1800s! I now use UPS exclusively if I have something important to send.

First off, I’ll agree that I try very hard not to use USPS. We live in a small town, and our post office is truly awful. Most of us drive to the POs in surrounding towns rather than use our office. That being said, last summer I mailed a flat rate priority box to my DD in LA. It wandered all over the 7 tied states, finally arrived in LA, went back and forth between regional centers in LA,and finally showed up at her apartment over a month later. So much for priority. But she did finally receive it. So there is hope!

I sent some die cuts to a Pea in Michigan, from Minnesota. They took a month! There is hope.

I mailed a package to my sister—a distance of about 250 miles—and it took six weeks. I kept checking the tracking and it stayed in one spot for weeks then about the time I gave up, it finally started to move.

I do have a happy story: We have a wonderful letter carrier. We live a couple of blocks from the main post office and our carrier walks his route. Apparently he is so good at his job that he has trainees with him almost every day. When we return from vacation, and have put a hold on our mail, he delivers it in a nice bundle rubber banded together and includes the printout of our vacation hold. On the hold paper he always draws a little mouse holding a sign that says "welcome back." Truly one in a million.

I actually have/had many relatives work for the post office and it is awful what has happened over the years.

USPS is great so long as i do delivery confirmation or signature confirmation.

I mailed someone some fabric priority with USPS. It took 9 months before it arrived. No rhyme or reason or idea of where it was all those months.

Last year. My son bought me a new iPhone and his wife helped me a lot setting it up, etc. I made her a beautiful card to thank her for everything. It never arrived. They live near Boston, I live in Texas. I send them stuff all the time.
Months went by and it finally made it to their house. She took a picture of the envelope. OMG. It had tire marks all over it. Ripped up. But, after 5 or 6 months, she got it. The card inside was not too damaged. But the envelope went through a war.