And the Post offfice can't figure out why they loose money

[TallRider]

Get this e-mail from Honda Directline parts. See the add for blue tooth tire pressure sensors. Decide to order them. Get confirmation of shipment on the 16th. Rest is history. Remind you I live in Cape Coral 3 hr drive from Ft Lauderdale.

November 21, 2015 , 2:51 am   Departed USPS Facility   ATLANTA, GA 30320

November 20, 2015 , 7:21 pm   Arrived at USPS Facility   ATLANTA, GA 30320
November 18, 2015 , 9:10 pm   Arrived at USPS Facility   ATLANTA, GA 30304
November 16, 2015 , 11:04 pm   Arrived at USPS Origin Facility   MIAMI, FL 33112
November 16, 2015 , 9:49 pm   Accepted at USPS Origin Sort Facility   FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33351
November 16, 2015 , 10:10 am   Shipping Label Created   FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33351

[The emperor has no clothes]

I think you and Britman did something to piss off the Post Office somewhere along the line.   

[dreamaker]

I agree, some of the facilities are butt heads, not all of them though. I notice it seems to be certain ones that do it.
 I bought an item from EBay, I live in southeastern Michigan, the origin was either Indiana or Ohio from what I recall. OK, Shipping conformation, OK. Going fine, it gets to Allen park, MI, it should go to Mt Clemens, MI., No! But from there it goes to Little Rock, AR, from there it goes to some place in IN. then comes back to Allen Park, MI. Then finally goes to Mt Clemens, MI. and over a week of farting around and an extra 2000 mi, I got my item. The thing is, it just happen once in a while, it happen often

[solo1]

I used to get mail the next day after it was sent within my city New Haven.  Now it's two to three days because the mail is sent from New Haven down to Indy and then back to New Haven.

I asked about it.  'More efficient" was the answer.  it's more like ' make work'  for all those surplus employees and their great retirement.

[Grumpy]

I had an over night package shipped to me from Kansas, next day arrived at Tampa main post office, and for the next 5 days sat in the tampa post office, 8 miles from my house. Finally on the seventh day arrived here, I guess over night means one week WTF.

[old2soon]

Willow Springs Mo. is approximately 80 miles from Springfield Mo. If I mail something from my house to somewhere in Willow Springs it goes first to Springfield and then back to Willow Springs. An overnight package from Willow Springs to my brother about 500 miles away took 3days! Thank GOD my package to my brother wasn't THAT important!  I want it too go FAST I use FedEx.  RIDE SAFE.

[Patrick]

Well, I hope you get the package.

I'm still waiting for something to show up. Mailed from Florida sent to New York. Been over a month and they have no idea where it is.

[cookiedough]

What about the post office in our one horse town gettign a 3 fricking hour lunch closing their doors for business during that time, from 11:30 to 2:30 in the fricking afternoon.

Who the F gets a 3 hour daily lunch break, even if paid or unpaid,  still is B.S..

If you need to get something done at the counter, you are screwed.  

[WilliamRS]

What about the post office in our one horse town gettign a 3 fricking hour lunch closing their doors for business during that time, from 11:30 to 2:30 in the fricking afternoon.

Who the F gets a 3 hour daily lunch break, even if paid or unpaid,  still is B.S..

If you need to get something done at the counter, you are screwed.  

ARe they actually at lunch for 3 hours or is the counter just closed during that part of the day while they do other postal duties?  if it is a small  town they can't have that much manpower

[Patrick]

What about the post office in our one horse town gettign a 3 fricking hour lunch closing their doors for business during that time, from 11:30 to 2:30 in the fricking afternoon.

Who the F gets a 3 hour daily lunch break, even if paid or unpaid,  still is B.S..

If you need to get something done at the counter, you are screwed.  

ARe they actually at lunch for 3 hours or is the counter just closed during that part of the day while they do other postal duties?  if it is a small  town they can't have that much manpower

I wouldn't think it would make much difference.  A service to the public should be open when the public is most apt to use it.  Our local DMV offices do the same thing, they are closed during most folks normal lunch hour. Other tasks can be still be performed while a counter is open.

[TallRider]

What I cannot figure out is why they went to 2 different locations in Atlanta and took all that time sitting and then transfering before shipping out ?

[John Schmidt]

A couple years back I ordered something from Australia and on the same day ordered something from S. Carolina. The Australia item got here two days ahead of the S. Car. item. Seems it went all the way to Chicago before someone with third grade reading skills noticed it had been routed wrong. 

[dreamaker]

For the people that have shipped over night, I hope you demanded a refund, of course for principles only. Corporate gets wind of it, it doesn't make them happy. Our postal persons in our area, on the most part a pretty good. Its getting it to them that is the issue. I noticed that Priority mail usually has not issues for delivery, its the others that do. Another issue is tracking that you pay for, I noticed has sort of dropped off, at first they were great, but now sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

[Patrick]

I found out recently that the average wait in our local center was 4 to 5 days, and, one employee was just caught stealing gift cards.

[ataDude #62]

Allen, Texas here.  Two day priority mail here is non-existent even though this is a burb of Dallas.  Amazon shipments via two days are about 90%... all other shippers are 4-5 days. 

I've bit%%%ched at Amazon so much that their shipments seem to be getting better.  All others, not so much.  They have no leverage.

USPS does suck, doesn't it. 

[musclehead]

I used to get mail the next day after it was sent within my city New Haven.  Now it's two to three days because the mail is sent from New Haven down to Indy and then back to New Haven.

I asked about it.  'More efficient" was the answer.  it's more like ' make work'  for all those surplus employees and their great retirement.

most likely they are consolidating processing centers, fewer centers longer wait times for mail. but they are saving money on labor.

same thing happened to the small office I worked at in Oregon, we used to be a small processing center only two in the western region dictated by location and distance from the nearest processing center. now that office I used to work at is just housing carriers, no more machines for night ops.