USPS Vent (Long)

I'm sorry you are having such issues. But just to put the record straight. The usps is not losing billions. They are actually very efficient and have one of the best track records out if all delivery services in the world. They are being forced to fund retirements for employees they don't even have yet by congress and that is where the in the red numbers come from. It isn't from their actual operations.

I find in cases like this it is sometimes better to go to the post office and deal with it in person although I know that isn't easy.

Carriers are extremely overworked and underpaid (well CCAs anyway, less than $16/hour). They do the best they can.

I hope you find your package soon.

I wish I could say that I have never experienced anything like this.....

At least twice a month I receive other people's mail - different last name and different house or street numbers. We live in a neighborhood where each street has a group of locked mailboxes and we have the locking package boxes too. This month USPS left a package at my doorstep for someone with a different last name and a totally different house AND street number. It was delivered earlier in the day than our regular mail so I flagged down our mail carrier when they showed up in the afternoon and gave the pkg to him. This month I also rec'd someones renewal notification for Playboy magazine...really don't want that crap in my mail as my kids sometimes get the mail for me and look thru it to see if they got any new Lego catalogs.

We have also rec'd packages in the mail that were missed delivered when we have been out of town. The packages just sit there until we get back and realize they don't belong to us.

Your life must be very stressful, indeed, because these kinds of things happen all the time. Yeah, it was stupid, but I just don't see USPS as a standout in employees with the stupid. I have just as many hassles with FedEx and UPS. And then there's the retail stores.

What's with the gigantic font size?

What irritates me the most in your post is the fact that you held for 1 hour and 13 minutes and were disconnected, only to call back and be told they were closed. I have had that happen before it is really piss poor customer service to do that to people. Oh and I should say it was the USPS that did it to me too.

Sorry for all your hassle!

I will I ship a lot for work UPS and USPS and between the two UPS is usually the only I have the most problems with.

I thought of that, but then figured that anyone who needed larger font than the default would need to adjust their screen settings anyway to read all the other posts, and then the gigantic font would be ginormous. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with this. It has happened to me before multiple times (with Verizon and some others I can't even remember now) and it's beyond frustrating.

People, People, People!

What did you all do in the years before there were tracking numbers? You were just in a state of suspense wondering when your item would be delivered to you. Surprise, the box arrived. Hooray!

...When most things took 4 to 6 weeks to be delivered to you because they waited on the "check to clear"...all before the electronic age.

I do not get this constant checking of tracking numbers (unless it is some type of medication).  If I need an item by a certain date, I order it enough in advance that I will receive it in time. I don't get my "knickers in a twist" about stuff like this, but that's just me.

Ugh. Glad you got your package though. But I can totally sympathize. I once ordered something from Amazon and although I have Prime they sent it via something called "Smartmail" or "Smart...something". Which isn't very smart.   When it didn't arrive in the promised two days I checked the tracking on Amazon. It referred me to the USPS tracking page. That page said "en route" or something. Two days later it said "delivered, front porch" my address and street. Um... my front porch was empty of packages. 

So not having been born yesterday (as my mother always said) and having had many prior bad experiences with out local post office, I went up there in person. Asked for the supervisor. He came out, heard my story, said something about how "delivered" just means it arrived at the post office. I reminded him that "delivered front porch" with address is very different from "delivered to post office". He went to the back to check, came back and insisted that it was not there. I insisted that I get his supervisor's name, rank and serial number, and I left. Three hours later there was a knock at my door. It was that supervisor with my package.   If I hadn't been afraid he would sabotage my mail delivery I might have mentioned that he had insisted to me that the package was nowhere to be found. 

Another time a neighbor put a stop on her mail while she went on vacation. This was during a very rainy week. Unfortunately her front porch is shielded from view by some bushes so none of us saw what was happening. The mail delivery guy was just dumping her mail on the front porch. At first he'd been putting it in the box, but when that overflowed he just dumped it on the porch. It was not a big porch and rain blew in. She came home to find wet mail! Seriously, this showed us all that the mail guy was totally stupid. I mean, stop order or not, logically if mail is piling up shouldn't you do something about it? Like not deliver it? or knock on the door? Or even call the police because maybe someone is lying dead inside and can't open the door. 

We have very poor delivery here in my area, "in the shadow of the nation's capital" as they say, so I could go on. But I won't. 

I feel for you. I always have the worst luck with the USPS, whether I'm waiting for something or it's something I've sent. 

I've come to accept it as a part of my life. I will say, though, that the folks who work at my local office are very nice people.

I wondered more than anything. So sorry you saw that as complaining. Although I am a titch surprised that, had it actually been a complaint, you would be bothered by that in a complaining vent thread. With the lack of clarification in the thread title, I didn't realize that this was strictly a [HASH]PVM thread. My deepest apologies for not realizing that sooner.

While I'm fully aware of why the USPS is "losing" money because of the retirement funding issue (which is total and complete CRAP in my opinion and solely the blame of one administration), and I know there are hard working people there as well - I loathe the USPS.

I've not had good luck with them at all in the recent couple of years.  It completely aggravates me that I can send a package for $16 priority flat rate and it doesn't include insurance?!?!  Seriously, I can send the same package for less via UPS and Fedex and by default it's covered at $100.    I sent this particular package via USPS on purpose because of the person/place I was having it delivered and of course they lost it.  Never to be found again.  I've NEVER had that problem with UPS and Fedex.  Not that they're perfect, but just saying I've personally never had any issues with them.

And while I'm definitely pro-Union, this Union seems to be the worst run Union around.  The mail carrier at my last address had had that job for 25+ years.  She was the WORST carrier ever - untold amount of complaints against her to the Postmaster, yet they refused to correct her behavior or do anything about it.    If I did my job like she did, I would have been fired long ago.

So it doesn't bother you when the tracking says that your package was delivered but it wasn't? You will wait around and see if it happens to show up in the next few days?  Sure, tracking numbers are something that has not be around for years and years and not long at all with the USPS for all packages, but when I am expecting something to arrive and I check the tracking and it says it was delivered but it is not in my box, on my porch, etc, then I am going to start making calls to find my package.