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re: Anyone have recent success with the USPS?
Posted on 2/28/25 at 9:31 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 2/28/25 at 9:31 pm to LSUFanHouston
I have not had any issues with USPS, Fedex, UPS, Amazon, or DHL.. Including packages from California, Pennsylvania, Texas, South America, etc. All while delivered in the expected delivery window or earlier.
I do know someone who seems to have issues almost every time from anywhere and I don't really feel bad because they somehow fricked up their own address several times while ordering.
Sucks to suck.
I do know someone who seems to have issues almost every time from anywhere and I don't really feel bad because they somehow fricked up their own address several times while ordering.
Sucks to suck.
This post was edited on 2/28/25 at 9:32 pm
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Posted on 2/28/25 at 9:43 pm to LSUFanHouston
My local office is good to me but I am
Missing a package
Missing a package
Posted on 2/28/25 at 9:51 pm to LSUFanHouston
5 Family passports submitted on the same day together, delivered 3 in week 4, 1 week 8, 1 week 9. The last two came to our hub 3 times before getting bounced to North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Tennessee. It was complete incompetence. That’s origin state, to another state to Mississippi, to our regional hub, then away to a state on the east coast…rinse and repeat 3 times for the last passport. All that transportation at our tax paying dollars.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 10:01 pm to LSUFanHouston
I got a new monitor for work delivered to my house from Amazon and they handed it off to USPS. Wasn’t ecstatic about that.
It arrived on time and and I saw the nice usps lady walking up my drive and interrupted her knocking on the door when I went to grab it as it was pretty big.
She was a bit surprised and said “it wasn’t packaged well to hide what it was and i didn’t want to leave it out here. Sorry to knock. I’ll be back with your regular mail here in a bit.”
Thought that was a step above and beyond.
I will say that our mail is pretty reliable but I live in a community where they walk their routes and they do not indeed come “rain, snow, or shine” in adverse weather.
UPS is the worse by far in my area.
I’d rank them
Amazon
FedEx
USPS
DHL
UPS
It arrived on time and and I saw the nice usps lady walking up my drive and interrupted her knocking on the door when I went to grab it as it was pretty big.
She was a bit surprised and said “it wasn’t packaged well to hide what it was and i didn’t want to leave it out here. Sorry to knock. I’ll be back with your regular mail here in a bit.”
Thought that was a step above and beyond.
I will say that our mail is pretty reliable but I live in a community where they walk their routes and they do not indeed come “rain, snow, or shine” in adverse weather.
UPS is the worse by far in my area.
I’d rank them
Amazon
FedEx
USPS
DHL
UPS
This post was edited on 2/28/25 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 2/28/25 at 10:16 pm to SantaFe
quote:
SantaFe
Postal employees ae complaining on YouTube videos that their current contract sucks.
They need to fire the entire staff at the Baton Rouge Regional Sorting Facility. I've had one package sitting there for 14 days and another for 9 days (lately seems like packages usually sit there 3-4 days but sometimes fly right through) I submitted help requests and they marked them solved telling me tracking showed they had arrived at the sorting facility. No shite they arrived, the whole point of the request was because they're still there several days later lol
Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:10 pm to 3nOut
quote:
UPS is the worse by far in my area.
Don't know where you are but I bought a super sized 4 pound kingcake and shipped it from Metairie to Boston suburbs on a Monday (via regular ground not overnight) and they had it on Thursday.
To me that was super fast.
Posted on 3/5/25 at 10:36 pm to Red Stick Tigress
Update. I mailed a package, priorty mail, from St Bernard Parish on Tuesday, Feb 25. Expected arrival to Birmingham, AL on Friday, Feb 28th. That... seems like a long time.
Well...
It "moved through the network" until it arrived at a processing center in Houston on Saturday, March 1st. Birmingham is NE of St Bernard but it took three full days plus to go... west... to Hosuton.
Sunday night, March 2nd, it left Houston.
Tuesday night, March 4th, it arrived at a processing center in Charlotte, NC. It left a few hours later, and arrived Wednesday, March 5th, at a processing center in Greensboro, NC, and left there a few hours later.
As of Wed night, March 5th... or 5 full days after expected delivery, it is somewhere between Greensboro, NC, and who knows where.
So from St Bernard to Birmingham, it went west to Houston, then over past Birmhingham to North Carolina, all taking several days.
Well...
It "moved through the network" until it arrived at a processing center in Houston on Saturday, March 1st. Birmingham is NE of St Bernard but it took three full days plus to go... west... to Hosuton.
Sunday night, March 2nd, it left Houston.
Tuesday night, March 4th, it arrived at a processing center in Charlotte, NC. It left a few hours later, and arrived Wednesday, March 5th, at a processing center in Greensboro, NC, and left there a few hours later.
As of Wed night, March 5th... or 5 full days after expected delivery, it is somewhere between Greensboro, NC, and who knows where.
So from St Bernard to Birmingham, it went west to Houston, then over past Birmhingham to North Carolina, all taking several days.
Posted on 3/5/25 at 10:47 pm to LSULaw2009
quote:
They need to fire the entire staff at the Baton Rouge Regional Sorting Facility.
I sent an envelope via certified mail to a PO Box in Baton Rouge. The envelope was mailed on February 19 and was scheduled to arrive by February 22. The last update was on February 23 that it was in transit and moving through the network. No updates since then. I submitted a request and got a call from the Baton Rouge post office. I didn’t answer because my phone said the number was a Spam Risk. They left a message, but merely repeated the tracking information. They left a number to call, but every time I have called, it rings and rings until it finally disconnects. No one answers, no way to leave a message.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 6:57 am to LSUFanHouston
14 days on a 1st class letter from Shertz, Tx, suburban San Antonio, to Madison, Ms. 16 days on 1st class letter from Madison,Ms to Nashville.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 7:29 am to LSUFanHouston
quote:
Birmingham is NE of St Bernard but it took three full days plus to go... west... to Hosuton.
AMTRAK and USPS seem to operate under the same distance optimization model.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 7:41 am to LSUFanHouston
If your USPS items go through NOLA sorting center 100% guaranteed to be late, if it gets there at all.
No idea what is going on down there. Up until Covid I never had any issues. I guess the mail sorting workers are still working from home. (Sarcasm)
No idea what is going on down there. Up until Covid I never had any issues. I guess the mail sorting workers are still working from home. (Sarcasm)
Posted on 3/6/25 at 8:11 am to sabbertooth
quote:
mail sorting workers
The sad thing is that the machinery is supposed to automatically handle everything that is a normal shipment (ie, square envelopes cause it to choke and need to be manually handled) until it hits the local PO.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 9:05 am to LSUFanHouston
quote:
On Tuesday I shipped three packages to three diferent places... one in AL, one in GA, one in WA. Three identical packages with the same thing in each and all sent via USPS Priority Mail, all in the same size priorty mail flat rate box.
USPS Priority Mail says it will deliver in 1-3 days. It seemed odd to me that from NOLA, going to AL, GA, and WA would all take the same time. Expected delivery date for all three is today. All 3 days.
I tracked all three. They all say "moving through network in transit to next facility". They all say expected delivery by today 9 pm. None of them have hit the "preparing for delivery" much less the "out for delivery" stage.
DId I just set $135 of items and postage on fire?
Straight line distance is not a good barometer.
For example, all FedEx shipments move through Memphis, regardless of origin or destination.
I don't know what the USPS package shipment network looks like, but most likely the package does not go straight from NOLA to Birmingham.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 9:27 am to LSUFanHouston
Bought some custom lathed bullets from a company that I've bought from in the past with no issues. Took three days to get from BFE Montana to BR. Been sitting in BR for five days now. Tracking website says "processing through facility, arriving late".
Posted on 3/6/25 at 9:30 am to LSUFanHouston
My mail carrier is working her arse off. Sometimes things get delivered later in the evening because of the extra workload. She has been great, and has been our carrier for the last 7-8 years.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 9:55 am to LSUFanHouston
Late last week I placed 3 separate orders for random goods. All arrived within the 3 - 5 day window that they were supposed to.
I believe that “real-time” tracking that they try to do does more harm than good. They need to just state the expected delivery date range and leave it at that.
I believe that “real-time” tracking that they try to do does more harm than good. They need to just state the expected delivery date range and leave it at that.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 1:16 pm to Someone
That's been my experience trying to call as well. I got an email and no call with the tracking info as my "resolved" response.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 1:23 pm to LSUFanHouston
Mailed a package on priority mail Feb 18 to Atlanta.
Still in transit
Still in transit
Posted on 3/6/25 at 1:28 pm to LSUFanHouston
Living in remote Alaska where Amazon took 30-40 days for delivery has cured me of the expecting things in 3 days. Get it to me in a week and I am happy.
Posted on 3/6/25 at 1:31 pm to LSUFanHouston
Recently bought something online. Shipped via UPS across the country just fine. Was given to USPS for local delivery. They claim they put it in my mailbox.
They did not, in fact, put it in my mailbox. Which I know, because I was home when the mail lady came by.
They did not, in fact, put it in my mailbox. Which I know, because I was home when the mail lady came by.
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