The @#$#*$#*....USPS !!

[Pappy!]

Not one....but TWO packages that were "confirmed" delivered to my house this week are not here!!!
One on Monday from SuperbrightLED
And one from JETSRUS..."delivered" yesterday.
The US Postal Service can kiss my A$$

[..]

Or you have  a local porch pirate following and stealing 

Any of your neighbors have cameras that might show someone stealing?

[Jess from VA]

I always leave instructions to put things behind the shrubbery (which can only be seen at the front door).

That assumes they ever actually delivered anything (but the delivery notice).

I have had an email confirmation of (Fed Ex hand-off to) USPS delivery, when in reality the item would not fit in the mailbox, and went back to the PO, where it waited for me to figure out where it went. 

[sandy]

 I once got a "delivered" notice on Package Tracking feature. That was on a Sat. It came on Monday.

[Pappy!]

The packages are the small yellow bubble wrap ones. Delivered to a mail box.

[old2soon]

go to the post office with the tracking number and let them figure it out. And as someone else pointed out see if there might be video of the date and time in question. Good luck there. RIDE SAFE.

[solo1]

Here in New Haven if you mail a letter to someone else in New Haven, the letter goes to Indy first and then back to New Haven, even tho we have a nice post office. Also, a few months ago, I noted that a package had been 'delivered', it wasn't.  I called the postmaster, a very nice person.  She came out and unlocked the door to the Apts concentrated mail boxes, it was in the wrong apt.  Some of our seniors would throw away mail if it wasn't for them. Substitute mail persons just don't have their act together.

[pais]

    We live in Kent, about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland. We used to be able to drop "local" mail at the PO. In a separate box, marked Kent mail. A while back some genius decided it was more efficient to send Kent mail to Cleveland, to be sent back to Kent! I absolutely dread having to do any business with the USPS. Really get nervous when I order something that has to go through the USPS.
     Good luck Pappy, I think you will need it!

[scooperhsd]

If you have looked at it from the other side - what the USPS is saying about not doing sorting at the local post Office makes sense.

However, like any human endeavor - mistakes will happen - and they are working to minimize them.

If you think your medium city has issues - try living in a SMALL town that is using rural contract delivery (this is what I get) for outside the town. About all I can expect on delivery time is "sometime today" - IOW not a very scheduled time.

[¿spoom]

Hopefully it wasn't really delivered, and will show up today. USPS tracking is the most unreliable thing since a blind weather bunny. I've had packages in my mailbox that the tracking number said were still 800 miles away, and things that came up as delivered even though they were still at the post office.

[MarkT]

We have contracters delivering mail.  Our mail lady agreed to lift the flag to signal she has delivered, as she comes anytime between 10 and 7. Of course I need to retrieve the mail quickly; don't want to leave valuables out there by the road very long.  Then she kept forgetting, I reminded several times, then she whined to her boss after she promised so I got a letter from the postmaster saying she didn't have to do that.  Apparently her word is worthless.  And the idiot left an unprofessional nastygram.  Wow - must not know the fallacy of that, in career terms.  Or indicating she hasn't management potential - pissing off a customer and giving me ammo to derail her prospects. So I made an automatic pop-up flag that opens when the mailbox door is opened.  I changed the license-plate to a flat plate with super-reflective tape so I can shine a flashlight when she's REALLY late and see it 300 yds away at night.

We frequently get mail mis-delivered.  Neighbors here are kind enough to redeliver it - or at least put it back in the box.  I took a govt check to an elderly neighbor's house; they were worried and effusive in their thanks; apparently quite dependant on it. Quality Control, not much of an issue at the USPS apparently.  Though our previous carrier was fired for incompetence and the postmaster too for being an Ahole (predecessor to the above postmaster).  My mail and pkgs used to get "lost" coming thru Franktown P.O. It might show up a month late smashed. Or just disappear. Customer checks disappeared.  My packages shipped out returned a week later as unaccepted or "insufficient postage" - all on bogus refusal claims of packaging standards.  I even showed them, they had a bogus ruler they measured pkgs with - it was a shrunk ruler they used to measure and reject pkgs. They wouldn't deliver boxes to my house but left "come get it notes" claiming it was over the 1/4 mile distance requirement from the mailbox but no, it's 300 yards. There were SO MANY complaints among my neighbors - I wrote letters to the postmaster's boss.  He was finally fired but meanwhile I had to go out of my way to not use Franktown for outbound, had no choice on inbound - but I put on my website the postmaster Frank Parker's name and to not mail me stuff of value.  Thank God we got rid of him.  I still don't want valuable stuff coming thru there.



Our front door step is obscured by a hedge - can't see any packages from the road - so pkgs via Fedex/UPS are relatively safe if we aren't here.  Sometimes if we are going to be gone for days I will give the garage door code to the delivery drivers, lock the inside door and change the code on return.  There have been no reports of porch pirates out here on our Nextdoor forum.  There have been mailbox pirates however.

Small things I order - Honda parts, ebay purchases, hunting equip - I prefer USPS if it's coming first class or priority mail - considerably faster than the other options, often free and I've had few errors on that.  Generally, any SNAFUs are recoverable anyway.  Outgoing small packages - ship priority mail as it's insured, cheap and fast.  I usually didn't use the Franktown P.O. as they were horrible with the bad postmaster but he's been fired.  I still request customers don't ship pipe cores to me via USPS as they don't deliver large pkgs, cost more and have more damage.  Fedex Ground is best on that.

[Pappy!]

Also have a rural delivery here.
I cornered the mail carrier this morning.
Lesa politely told me she thought I was a bit too direct. That's her nice way of saying I probably came off as an arrogant ass hole. I do my job and I fully expect others to do theirs.

EDIT - As I was writing this the mail guy shows back up. I walked out and he has one of the packages in his hand. The one that was supposed to have been here Monday. Delivered to the wrong address. He went and got it and brought it to me. Either the arrogant ass hole routine scared him or had a positive effect....don't know, don't care. It got results.

[old2soon]

My X O L hasn't lived under my roof for near 8 years. FedX U S P S and "other" delivery types STILL after repeated and Written instructions Continue to attempt to deliver "her" stuff here. Any shows up I just take a large felt tip and scribble-return to sender NO longer resides here.  Caught a "new" FedX guy the other day with "something" for the X and got him Before he left. On the other hand the Stuff I order shows up on time usually. RIDE SAFE.

[cookiedough]

my local post office in this dinky town must not work a full 8 hour day.  Open hours at the window is like 5 hours per day with a 3 hour lunch, no joke.  I guess one has to go OUT to eat as well as it probably does take 2-3 hours to sort thru the mail.

[Jess from VA]

Some years ago, there was a boy so little he had to stand in his wagon to reach in the boxes. (alone)

He was taking mail, then delivering it to others. 

It was OK though, I got someone else's mail.

I was laughing so hard, and he was working so hard, I didn't have the heart to go out and nicely correct him.

All the neighbors gave each other their mail back.

Fortunately, he only offered this service for one or two days. 

What do you want to be when you grow up? 

[Pete]

I am on a small rural contract route out of a small town.

The mail lady is great, very helpful and very nice, could not ask for better service, have not had any issues.