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Anyone have problems with USPS?

I have had good luck with them in my town. I used FedEx every single day for my job and they rarely make any mistakes.
 
I run a level 22 post office (42 routes). If you ever have an issue, feel free to pm me on here. I'll gladly help fix any issue or help find any lost package any of you have.
 
Some issues may related to geographic locations as well. Like stated above, I cringed 2 weeks ago when I ordered a part from Utah, then saw the usps tracking number. But, 4 days later (new years included!!) It arrived. I assumed it was a fluke. Well, ordered from same guy this past Monday, got it Thursday. I'm in Indiana, and in a small town fwiw.

Anyway, I just assumed that the restructuring or whatever they been doing the last few years to get business back, was actually working.
 
Other than during this Christmas season my customers are generally amazed at how fast they get their Flat Rate boxes. To be able to get them a 50 lbs box across the country in 3 days flat for $18 insured is simply impossible any other way. The same service with FedEx or UPS would be $80.
 
patooyee said:
It's a double-edged sword. They are the only logistics company that operates at a loss so there's no way to beat their pricing. I ship almost exclusively via USPS, hundreds of packages a year, because of Flat Rate. My packages are typically so heavy that a $18 shipment via USPS would cost the customer $50 to ship via either of the others. Over the thousands I have shipped over the past 4 years I have learned that UNINSURED packages get lost 10 times more often than INSURED. As a result I simply won't ship uninsured any more unless its something I don't mind eating the cost of. Generally the timing of an insured package has been as promised though.

The main exception was during the holidays this year. They got WAY behind. NOTHING I shipped arrived on time, NOTHING I had shipped to me arrived on time. Stuff would stall out for days to a week in one location and then just randomly start back up. It was frustrating from a customer service POV to tell my customers to just be patient, but all the packages eventually made it to their destinations anywhere from 2 days to a week late. They seem to be caught back up for the most part now though.
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THIS^^^^. Lucky for us our post lady lives across the street from our office and we know everybody at our local post office by name. We drop off packages at the loading dock as late as 6pm sometimes. They take care of us most of the time. Only issue Ive had is those dang magnetic koozies getting stuck to something and getting lost. At least Priority mail packages have insurance included in case they lose a camo hoodie or something expensive. They lose probably 1 package a month. But you can't beat their commercial pricing.
 
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Usps has lost packages of mine and caused all sorts of headaches.

FedEx we use a lot for work and they damage more stuff than anyone

Brown Santa is on time 98% of the time and undamaged.. heck sometimes I get packages faster via ups than tracking says

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Same for me on "sooner than calculated arrival time" with UPS. They just all around kick ass.

More praise for UPS...I ordered a billet grill for the wives Mustang and when I saw it at the front door noticed a hole in the box. Thankfully the hardware kit was still in there(was taped to the product). The next day the UPS drive was coming through the neighborhood and stopped at the driveway while I was watchin' the dog take a dump. He asked me if the box he left yesterday was OK. I told him yea and he said well that's good, I had a claim report written up just in case you were missing anything or something was damaged.

I wanna offer that guy a beer everytime I see him but don't want him getting fired either. : )
 
tonybolton said:
Same for me on "sooner than calculated arrival time" with UPS. They just all around kick ass.

More praise for UPS...I ordered a billet grill for the wives Mustang and when I saw it at the front door noticed a hole in the box. Thankfully the hardware kit was still in there(was taped to the product). The next day the UPS drive was coming through the neighborhood and stopped at the driveway while I was watchin' the dog take a dump. He asked me if the box he left yesterday was OK. I told him yea and he said well that's good, I had a claim report written up just in case you were missing anything or something was damaged.

I wanna offer that guy a beer everytime I see him but don't want him getting fired either. : )
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Give him a Coke, thats what I do! They will comtinue to take care of you!
We usually don't have a problem with USPS, our mail lady is a long time friend of my wife!
 
He finished off some taco's I couldn't eat any more of when I was doing the 14bolt shave in the driveway. Just a good damn human bein'.....
 
I have had to dynamite UPS guys in a row. It is hard to beat those guys and the level of service that they tried to provide. I never have the same Fed ex guy and they always put the packages in the wrong ****ing place or not at all. I know all of our mail carriers and live in a town of about 5000 people so I am familiar with most everyone in the postal service locally. I have had no bad experiences with the United States Postal Service on a local level.
 
tonybolton said:
Let me just start off by saying that I order a lot and I mean a lot of **** over the internet and it must be delivered to my home.....not a business.

Everytime I see a vendor send me something through USPS I automatically know that there's going to be some kind of ****ing drama or some kind of issue or some kind of delay with that ****.

There is only one time that I can think of that I got something that was right and I think I ordered it from Barnes 4 wheel drive or maybe it was even ruff stuff. But they still delivered it at something like seven or eight o'clock at night....when I went ahead and tore into the jeep on the "delivery date".

UPS is the number one around here that logistics company is awesome.. FedEx is a distant second and that sorry ass USPS can go **** itself.

I was supposed to have a vehicle title delivered here through certified mail on Wednesday I never even saw them at my door. I work 3rd shift so I know I'm here....at 3pm there's a note in the mail box that says sorry they missed me.

I take that note and go online to reschedule the delivery for today. Today is my only day off so I figured I would just sit around the house and wait on that truck to be 100%.

The truck just ran and I was going to meet her halfway in the driveway and she started driving off so I yelled at her and flag her down. I asked her if she had a certified letter for Me and she said no and I said well I have the letter here that I rescheduled it for a delivery today. She then proceeded to tell me or ask me if I rescheduled it online and of course I said yes and she said oh I'm sorry that systems been down for a little bit it won't be till Monday. The only positive thing is that she let me sign the card that was left to ensure that it will be delivered on Monday I told her in the most politically correct voice and tone that it better be.
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the day after you get your certified letter straightened out you should leave a small bag of m&m's in the box with the flag up. put a note on the bag that says something like thanks for your help getting my letter to me. I bet you won't have a problem locally again
 
I've had similar problems Tony... I could go on for hours about it but it turned out that this one carrier had a problem with me because I caught him turning around in my yard one day he didn't know i was home and he was spinning up the place, I politely told him theres a much easier way to do this. After a while I put together a good case with pics, dates and times and showed that this one carrier was an ass and all his substitute carriers had no issues delivering packages.. took that to the post master, to whom we'd been complaining to regularly and the issue magically disappeared and the carrier now delivers any size package without issue or muddying my yard... some people really suck... :****:
 
Here we ****in go again....

2 ****in packages to be delivered today. I get one then goto check on the other and find this....

No notice left anywhere. Notice the dates and times.

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I used to have really good luck with usps, lately it has sucked, but i think thats because my mail lady hates me. I work nights and she wouldnt quit laying on the horn in the driveway at 8 am while i was sleeping, i asked her nicely not to do it 3 or 4 times and she wouldnt take the hint. She lives about a half mile from me so every night for about a week, on my way home from work at about 2 am i would stop in front of her house and lay on the horn, havent had anymore issues with her honking the horn, but have more issues with the mail now.

Fedex sucks, period, but my UPS guy is great, he always wants to know what kind of project im working on now

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I've had lots of issues with certain mail delivery people. I once saw one pull a u-turn in my neighbor's front law. Like, not just a tire in the lawn, all four tires. I reported her.

The guy I have right now rocks though.
 

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