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USPS service went south!

alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
edited November 2001 in General Discussion
Since the 9/11 WTC incident the mail around here has slumped to a slow crawl.Priority packages that usually took three days to deliver has changed to 5-6 days.I dropped off a priority package 11/5 and it wasn't scanned for shipment until the following day and it still hasn't arrived at it's destination.When I have a letter or package that has to be signed for, the postman will not deliver it. He makes no attempt to knock on the door or ring the bell. He just leaves a card and i have to go to the post office to get it. This has not happened before.I can understand the slow down in letters because of the irradiation process but the boxes are not going thru this process so says the local postmaster.I was wondering if any of you have seen a marked decline in USPS service lately?Below is the PMG's statement about the mail which appears to be a line of B.S.!The mail has been sent to a facility in Lima, Ohio, where it has been sanitized with electron beam technology. The Lima facility has been irradiating 750,000 pieces of mail daily, or about 28,000 pounds, Jaffer said. The postal service has contracted with another company to help in the processing and cleaning of backlogged mail. The three-month, $2.4 million contract is with Chicago-based Ion Beam Applications Inc. to sanitize mail at a Bridgeport, New Jersey, facility. "It will enable us to begin working through the existing backlog," Jaffer said. He said mail is flowing smoothly throughout the nation, except in New York, New Jersey and the nation's capital.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry guys, I have no sympathy for you. That is the way mail service has always been in New Mexico. It is no different now though.
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  • yaneviyanevi Member Posts: 22 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I use Stamps.com to print out the IBI Postage and because it has the added security I have not run into any problems.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not here in West Virginia. But, as you know, we only have one post office in the state and when Miss Bonnie Pearl takes a day off ......wellActually no. I bought a gun part from a guy in CT and he mailed it Tuesday and it was here Thursday.Does this mean we can pay bills late and blame the USPS?Mudge the schemer
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • j2k22j2k22 Member Posts: 329 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    While your payments may arrive late, your creditor may not be particularly impressed by the reason for late payment. My damned insurance company sent me a nastygram on the payment due date, informing me that they were cancelling my auto insurance due to nonpayment. It's great to have such a sensitive provider!Next premium period, I go shopping for a new company.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    j2k22, try State Farm.
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  • oldsoldiersneverdieoldsoldiersneverdie Member Posts: 43 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Next time you go to the P.O. observe the efficiency of the employees. It's a miracle anything gets delivered. The USPS should be responsible for 1st Class & Int'l ONLY and everything else should be delivered by private companies. Also, and most importantly, no more guaranteed jobs for USPS. Perform or get fired. IMHO.
    Illigitimi Non Carborundum (don't let the bastards get you down).
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    My post office is using only one window clerk. The line is usually 20-30 people and the lady at the window takes her time so the wait could be up to an hour if the cutomers have parcels.To avoid this problem in town I go to Toledo where they have more than one clerk and they have a genuine pulse.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, I can understand some additional delays in the system as they try to implement some detection/prevention mechanisms. Kinda like the extra long delays at the borders after 9-11 which have been reduced considerably. Because it is the bureaucracy the public sees the most, the USPS has the worst image for incompetence & indolence, but really, they are no worse than the rest of the parasitical empires, and provide more value & less harm than many (hint: Waco). There are many hard-working, professional and decent folks in the USPS - unquestionably a minority group, but they are there. Without them, our mail delivery would be measured in months, not days. Goes to show that wages do not equal quality, though, to reflect on the discussions about security screeners. Nor that the being a government employee conveys competence or positive motivation.
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  • zombiedawgzombiedawg Member Posts: 21 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know where most of you have been, but the post office has always had the slowest service of any industry, not to mention the hiring of some of the most incompetent personel. Most of these people would not qualify to flip burgers, but they are making a killing at the post office. NO pun intended!I think the illiterate president of the postal union that they keep interviewing in NY is a prime example of the class of people they hire. I think it is ridiculous what these people are getting paid. I guess that job doesn't seem so cushy now. I really don't have too much sympathy for most of those workers.Especially now that they will just use this to hike rates again. It seems to me that if they cut out some of the dead wood and make some of these people actually earn their pay, that they would not have to consistently jack prices up. Hell they have two people working the window and 50-100 people in the back not doing a whole hell of alot except just riding the clock. You always see people walking around in the back with no particular interest in the growing line of people, including what looks like supervisors.
    RANGE ME[This message has been edited by zombiedawg (edited 11-13-2001).]
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    I worked at the general mail facility in Miami, Fl for a short spell back in 95. I have never seen such a large group of paranoid, self medicated slackers in all my life, especially the one's on 2nd and 3rd shift. I agree with the privatization theory, monopolized anything sucks for the consumer.Gun control is hitting your target!!
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  • usmc2498215usmc2498215 Member Posts: 82 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Heres my personal experience:Sent a Cashiers check to a dealer in Indiana, from my home in California. I personally delivered it to the Post Office on 11-02 (post marked), shipped Priority mail. My dealer got the letter today 11-14. So I figured I spent ten times as much on postage to have it arrive 3 to 4 times as slow...oh well
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't disagree with anything said above, BUT I still like USPS about 10 times better than UPS. Nothing but grief from those people, including a package literaly thrown in the yard from a passing truck to our street address, but on the wrong side of town!
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  • 22WRF22WRF Member Posts: 3,385
    edited November -1
    Ya, USPS service is great!!!!I mailed a MO from FL to PA for gun bought on BG on 11/2 it was received on 11/9 and the gun was shipped to Fl Priority mail 11/9 and still not here. What better service could one ask for?
    Home of the Blue Angels, P'colaSemper Adveho AbsconditusNever miss a good chance to shut up (Will Rogers)
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sent a money order 11-5 Ks. to Co. haven't heard anything from anybody. E-mailed to advise money was on the way-nothing. Trying to be patient.
    " Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects" Will Rogers
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    Our mail here in NJ is in quarantine. It has been locked in a post office for the last 3 1/2 weeks waiting to be sent to Florida to be santized. Guess they'll send it UPS, lol.
    It's the stuff dreams are made of AngelMember: NRA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2AMPD and the AARP. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • ref44ref44 Member Posts: 251 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was taught growing up that, to be successful in a career, I needed either an education or a skill/trade. Anyone want to show me where either of these applies to postal workers, amongst the highest paid of government employees?
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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    Isn't it because of the NEW "waiting period and background check" imposed on the mail?
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Actually, the USPS is no longer a federal agency but a federally owned corporation. The empolyees are no longer civil service, as they were in the days when my dad was a mailman. Wonder if the swell service is connected to the change?
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  • zombiedawgzombiedawg Member Posts: 21 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the '80s I went to see about applying to the USPS and was told I either needed to be a veteran or a student. I looked around at the useless crap there applying and thought to myself if any of these people had ever attended school at all. Including the waste that was telling me this. What kind of requirement is that to sling mail?
    RANGE ME
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  • Guns & GlassGuns & Glass Member Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    USPS Next Day Express Mail service had been "sold" to Fed X sometime ago. They (USPS)will not guarantee next day service from smaller suburban/rural P.O.'s even though you pay for it. Because they say "Fed X is partial. Fed X does Fed X first, and then USPS Next Day second".Makes a lot of sense that Fed X will sort deliveries by Fed X vs USPS, and not by the delivered address where their trucks are going. After all they only pay for the fuel, and driver.Handed, no, tried to hand a first class letter to a USPS window clerk. She refused, stating that "it must be put in the slotted windows because,......that way there is less chance that it will get misplaced".So, I walked around the lobby, deposited my regular first class letter, after she took a Certified letter, and a Priority package.Asked her, "what guarantee there was that the Certified, and Priority wouldn't get lost"? She shot me a nasty look.
    Happy Bullet Holes!
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