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Post by cbet on Jul 29, 2014 19:36:00 GMT
I'm lucky to have a fabulous mail carrier delivering to work, and the one at home isn't all that friendly, but our mail delivery is hardly ever messed up. But I don't like some of the tracking the post office offers - I've had packages delivered while the tracking still says that the PO has been notified to expect shipment. BUT - when you order from a company that uses SmartPost (or SmartMail or whatever UPS calls their version), that tracking and delivery isn't the fault of the post office until it reaches your town. Those are money-saving options that FedEx and UPS came up with, where they handle the early part of shipping but instead of delivering to your door, they deliver to the nearest post office. It was a MESS at Christmastime - if the Post Office was overwhelmed with their own letters and packages, they didn't always have personnel available to accept the drop offs from UPS, so that delayed everything. I'm lucky - I usually have packages directed to my work address, and when they hit the local UPS hub to be delivered to the post office, UPS recognizes the address as one that they deliver to every day and they intercept the package and deliver it themselves, so I've usually got it a day or two before tracking thinks I should have it
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Judy26
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Post by Judy26 on Jul 29, 2014 19:52:47 GMT
I actually love our USPS delivery guy. I can only speak for him but if I order something for school and it is going to be delivered over a weekend or break, he will take time to bring it to my house. He also knows the name of every kid and dog on his route and often brings treats for them. He can tell you who lives at every address in town. It's a great party trick.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 20:00:08 GMT
Most Priority Flat Rate mail includes up to $50 insurance.
Ah, yes, UPS. Those are the guys that have been video taped numerous times dropping electronics over fences, kicking packages, and delivering goods with holes gouged in the boxes, right?
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Post by hop2 on Jul 29, 2014 20:21:03 GMT
I may sympathize with workers who are overworked and underpaid, however, if what I regularly see is their best, I do believe that they need to maybe find some new workers. I appreciate your sympathy and hopes that I locate the missing package, however, as I indicated in my post, the missing package did show up at my door door later that night. A neighbor in whose mailbox the carrier had left the key for one of the larger package boxes was kind enough to bring it over. "find some new workers." This is the problem. I had an incredibly reliable mail carrier. A local guy who knew the area and delivered mail diligently and intelligently. Then we got a letter to bear with the post office as they *restructured* the routes and I never get my mail any more. (except the junk mail) We now have a combo of 3 mail carriers per week because *restructuring* the routes meant getting multiple part time employees (who no longer have to take the civil service exam BTW) to share the route, and only one of them is remotely conscientious. The other days we all meet in the street to exchange our mail. LOL. The post office was a highly reliable service, then they implemented cost saving measures required by congress and we the customers were screwed. Our new mail carriers may be fine people but they work our route so rarely that they will never become familiar with the route much less the people. It think what is happening to the USPS is a sad tragedy. The workers are being burdened with fixing an issue that doesn't yet exist and may never exist ( if it continues in this vein the USPS may not exist ) but even if they do exist part time employees will never be eligible for these pensions that are being set aside for them. Such a friggin waste.
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