What's with the U.S.Post office these days?

[TonyK]

Tracking showed a package arrived at the post office yesterday morning at 9 am. The post office is 1/2 mile up the street from me. Today it still shows "waiting for acceptance". Say what?!

[TECHMAN]

UPDATE

In being fair:  Package showed up this morning, and all in perfect shape.   ? to USPS

DJ

[TonyK]

My update- Package to be delivered Monday by 7:15 PM. Again, they are 1/2 mile up the street. I could've walked up there and got it!

[Tim W. SoCal]

On 11/1/2024 at 1:58 PM, TonyK said:

Tracking showed a package arrived at the post office yesterday morning at 9 am. The post office is 1/2 mile up the street from me. Today it still shows "waiting for acceptance". Say what?!

That indicates that your package was scanned when it arrived at your local post office, but has not been sorted to your carrier's delivery route, and then scanned again. With USPS taking on a LOT of Amazon.com deliveries, THOUSANDS of packages, large and heavy to very small, arrive at the local post offices every day. It is currently not uncommon for the mail sorters to be a day or two behind. This will get worse with the Christmas Season rapidly approaching...

[Ace-Garageguy]

They're logisticking again.

A shipment of Christmas gifts for women in my life left Woodstown NJ on the 5th, and arrived at the Atlanta regional distribution center at 12:30 yesterday afternoon. Not bad.

Normally it takes half a day to two days to make it from there to my abode in the Atl. suburbs.

I just checked the tracking, as delivery was estimated to occur today, it didn't, and my package is now in Mobile, Alabama.

I'm impressed.  

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 11/8/2024 at 10:07 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

They're logisticking again.

A shipment of Christmas gifts for women in my life left Woodstown NJ on the 5th, and arrived at the Atlanta regional distribution center at 12:30 yesterday afternoon. Not bad.

Normally it takes half a day to two days to make it from there to my abode in the Atl. suburbs.

I just checked the tracking, as delivery was estimated to occur today, it didn't, and my package is now in Mobile, Alabama.

I'm impressed.  

Now it's in Montgomery, Alabama.

Musta sent it to Alabama when it was already in Atlanta because of all of those closed facilities elsewhere, right?

[MrMiles]

i got a funny one. i had a package arrive and leave the local hub for 4 days, finally it left to get to my local post office 15 minutes away from the hub, and it only took 4 days to go those 15 minutes

Edited November 22, 2024 by MrMiles

[Dave Van]

My latest with some news........

 

I ordered a model part, it shipped from Mexico. I figured it would take a while. After only one week it showed up in New York Dist center. WOW....

It has now been sitting in Charleston WV dist center since Friday......arriving and departing gaily but not really going the last 100 miles to my house.

Kinda SOP....sitting for a week is common  now with USPS.

But I get a e-mail from Squadron Hobbies today......They will no longer use USPS for ANYTHING. Per a memo on their site USPS is having major system problems at hubs......so they just sit on packages for a week......some have been sitting 2 weeks. Total failure that if they bank I worked for did this, computer outage for more than 3 hours, we'd be shutdown and taken over. 

FYI

[Tom Geiger]

My eBay orders... I just got an envelope back in the mail yesterday.  It said  "Not Deliverable", I get these on a regular basis as their stupid AI cannot read zip codes properly and rejects it. There is no longer anyone actually looking at these pieces to confirm.  But they let them sit.  Average time back is 3-4 weeks, the one I got yesterday was sent out in FEBRUARY!  Where the heck was this all this time??

And the funny part?  The buyer never complained!   Unlike the cry babies who are filing "Item Not Received" 5 days after they pay.  

[Fat Brian]

A package I ordered last week has been taking a little longer than normal. I've ordered from this place in the past and shipping can take as little as two to three days, it's just a quick jaunt from Maryland to Charlotte, North Carolina. It's been about a week since I placed my order and still no package so checked the tracking. My package has been on a tour of the eastern half of the US for the last last week. Starting in Maryland it went to St Louis, then Knoxville, on to Grand Rapids, and is currently sitting in Atlanta and I have no confidence that that will be it's final stop before heading to me.

[Miatatom]

I ordered from a place recently with a usual delivery time of about 5 days. Same order took 10 days this time. It's the Christmas season. The work load is exponentially higher. Delays are going to happen. 

[Dave Van]

Little update on my post above........

The one package took 7 days to get the final 100 miles.

Another package took THREE days to get here from Los Angles, CA to WV 3000k MILES

There is ZERO logic

thx

[Tom Geiger]

I mail a few hundred pieces a month with my little eBay store.  I recently had a guy in England receive his package in a week... and it even went through eBay's International Hub in the USA!  

In the meantime, left coast can take 2 weeks.  I had 2 envelopes go to the same guy in Texas mailed same time, arrived a week apart.  Then I had one to Alaska arrive in a few days.  Most collectors will message me rather than filing a "Did Not Receive" through eBay. I explain and they are 99% cool with it.  I did have one clown in New York City, a 3 hour drive from me, complaining after 4 days... and he bought it on a Friday evening.  I have 3 day shipping which doesn't include weekends so I had until Wednesday to ship.  I mailed on Monday and he was having a conniption.  Left me nasty negative feedback and fortunately he called me the F word so eBay removed the feedback!   I have blocked him.

I swear some folks hit the "Buy It Now" button, then go out to their mailbox to see if it has magically appeared!  🙂  

[Ace-Garageguy]

8 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said:

I mail a few hundred pieces a month with my little eBay store...

I swear some folks hit the "Buy It Now" button, then go out to their mailbox to see if it has magically appeared!  🙂  

Buying from eBay idiots is bad enough.

You must have 10 times the patience of Job to sell hundreds of items a month.

[LennyB]

Our mail carrier left a holiday card in our box during the week fishing for a tip.  It’s going to be a cold day in hell before that happens considering how bad her service is.   Once or twice a week we get mail for other people in the neighborhood.  Sometimes she is one house off on everyone. We get the mail that belongs to the people on our left and our mail ends up with the people to our right and so on down the block.  To make it interesting she sometimes changes things up and we get the mail for the house on the right instead.  One time when she did this I was in the front yard and went to the box right away to retrieve the mail. Saw it wasn’t our mail but the people next door and she was still in front of their house. I walked it over and handed it to her to point out the error. She started yelling at me that it was a Federal offense to have mail that doesn’t belong to me.  But you put it in my box. And for this she wants a tip, it’s 8 degrees out now, still not cold enough.  

[Dave Van]

49 minutes ago, LennyB said:

Our mail carrier left a holiday card in our box during the week fishing for a tip.  It’s going to be a cold day in hell before that happens considering how bad her service is.   Once or twice a week we get mail for other people in the neighborhood.  Sometimes she is one house off on everyone. We get the mail that belongs to the people on our left and our mail ends up with the people to our right and so on down the block.  To make it interesting she sometimes changes things up and we get the mail for the house on the right instead.  One time when she did this I was in the front yard and went to the box right away to retrieve the mail. Saw it wasn’t our mail but the people next door and she was still in front of their house. I walked it over and handed it to her to point out the error. She started yelling at me that it was a Federal offense to have mail that doesn’t belong to me.  But you put it in my box. And for this she wants a tip, it’s 8 degrees out now, still not cold enough.  

Not sure asking for $ is even allowed.......'d ask postmaster

[Tim W. SoCal]

1 hour ago, LennyB said:

Our mail carrier left a holiday card in our box during the week fishing for a tip.

According to USPS policy, mail carriers are not allowed to ask for or accept cash tips as it is considered a violation of federal regulations; however, they can receive small gifts valued at $20 or less per customer per occasion.

[LennyB]

Maybe I should get her a set of cheaters from the dollar store so she can see the addresses better👓

[Ace-Garageguy]

I currently have no gripes with the USPS.

Somebody has apparently noticed it doesn't make sense to divert deliveries to my zip through several other fairly local ones, rather than just put them on the right truck to the correct local distribution point.

And my old standard local driver is still on the job, doing it perfectly, and his new route partner can apparently read English and understands street numbers too. PLUS...they're delivering on Sunday over the holiday rush period.

AND...all the Christmas stuff I sent all over the country arrived in plenty of time for the big day.

Pretty cool whan stuff works the way it's supposed to.   

Edited December 22, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[OldTrucker]

Sent two packages south, one to southern IL and the other south-Central Mo. Both went to the dist. center in Champaign that night and the IL one was in St Louis the next morning.

The one to southern IL. got there the next day early enough to make delivery.

The one to about 70 miles southwest of St Louis found its way to Chicago the night it was mailed and was in St Louis the next morning. Two hours later it was scanned out of St Louis, 10 hours later it was scanned into Chicago! 3 hours later scanned out of Chicago and 7 hours later scanned back into St Louis. and scanned out a hour later heading to destination. now two days saying headed to destination but late.

[Ace-Garageguy]

42 minutes ago, OldTrucker said:

Sent two packages south, one to southern IL and the other south-Central Mo. Both went to the dist. center in Champaign that night and the IL one was in St Louis the next morning.

The one to southern IL. got there the next day early enough to make delivery.

The one to about 70 miles southwest of St Louis found its way to Chicago the night it was mailed and was in St Louis the next morning. Two hours later it was scanned out of St Louis, 10 hours later it was scanned into Chicago! 3 hours later scanned out of Chicago and 7 hours later scanned back into St Louis. and scanned out a hour later heading to destination. now two days saying headed to destination but late.

I'm sure one of our 'logistics' experts will say it's working the way it's supposed to...or that...reasons.  

[peteski]

On 12/21/2024 at 12:45 PM, Tom Geiger said:

I swear some folks hit the "Buy It Now" button, then go out to their mailbox to see if it has magically appeared!  🙂  

You're supposed to be like amazon - same day delivery (soon by a drone).

[ranma]

Logistics at work??? A H.O. scale kit I bought on ebay left Sacramento Ca, Completely missing Ohio and now on the east coast in Boston Mass!

[ranma]

And now it's shown as being delivered in CAMBRIDGE, Mass! Picked up at the Post office by someone.....

[michelle]

the nut in charge of the post office is and has been purposely slowing down mail sorting and has removed lot of the sorting machines from the regional hubs were the mail goes before being forwarded on the the local branches and everything has to be hand sorted and scanned  he also removed a lot of those blue drop off boxes 5 years  ago so people have to go further to drop letters or other first class mail into if they need them to be sent out at particular time if they do not get picked up from their own home mail boxes  cause of no incoming mail