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United States Postal Service

I've had good luck with my local USPS, where I used to live any envelope that looked like a holiday or bday card would have a little tear in one side of the sealing flap EVERY. TIME. Where someone was checking to see if it was worth stealing.

USPS is consistently the fastest where I live, usually beating UPS by several days.

If a package hasnt been accepted then it's not on USPS, that's on the shipper. And EVERY carrier is totally jacked up this time of year.

It has to be someone soul crushing to work for USPS now and realize that 99% of what you deliver is just junk mail that no one wants.
 
enkriss said:
You think the post office is bad? Try fedex! They are terrible!
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I concur. Fedex is the worst. Have had multiple packages delayed or held up at various facilities for seemingly no reason throughout the years.

I have probably a 99.9% success rate with USPS and UPS. Actually USPS has been 100% reliable for me. I actually had an issue where I shipped something to a wrong address (what was on their paypal account), called the local USPS office where the package was shipped, gave them the skinny, and they sent someone out THAT DAY to pickup the package and take it to the right address. I was quite stunned.
 
I’ve honestly had great luck using USPS. Guess I better knock on wood.
 
In all of my years ordering and shipping merchandise. I try to order from the east coast if I can. (I live on the east coast) The less a package travels, the less chance it has to get lost or damaged during shipping. I have received packages and wonder how the item is not damaged. I have shipped packages and the box makes it but the item inside doesn't.
When you order an item you have to look at the weather at the time of your purchase. Bad weather slower shipping, good weather faster shipping. And sometimes crap happens like the 64 car pile up here by the house yesterday. That will delay anything. LOL
 
@Murph4028 mailed a package to me from North Carolina to Michigan back in February, the package according to the tracker was loaded on a truck in Fayetteville NC on February 19, after that it just vanished, I don't think the tracking number is viable anymore it's been so long.
 
mattsteg said:
From what I can tell, usps and UPS both deliver about 6-7 billion packages a year, with revenue of 70 billion or so. For that same budget, the USPS also delivers almost 60 billion letters and 80 billion pieces of junk/marketing mail.

The cheapest i get in ups rate calculator for deliveribg across town is about 10 bucks. I can go anywhere in the us for 55 cents for a letter, up to 8 bucks or so for a flat-rate box.

I'm not sure what you'd expect from brown, other than reduced service levels and higher prices.
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I wonder how much more efficient they could be if we simply outlawed junk mail. Nobody wants it, it's horrible for the environment, and does nothing but take up space in postal vehicles and waste time.

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Miboy86 said:
@Murph4028 mailed a package to me from North Carolina to Michigan back in February, the package according to the tracker was loaded on a truck in Fayetteville NC on February 19, after that it just vanished, I don't think the tracking number is viable anymore it's been so long.
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And to be truthful about the whole thing after almost a year of searching and filing the claim that I filed (my postmaster called several times I even had other managers call around to the Fayetteville distrabution centers) including pictures of the contents USPS finally contacted me the bad news they have no clue where it went and are currently not even looking for it.
 
Retired letter carrier 27 years ship all over the world and never had an issue but my wife had a box opened and gift cards ripped off. Have had issues with FedEx as far as delivery times but st recieved items. When I lived in metro Detroit area had some UPS deliveries made to bushes along the outside of my house. All these delivery systems employ humans and some are reliable and some not so much. If you saw the volume of parcels that the USPS moves daily especially after winning the Amazon contract you might have a little more compassion (unless of course it's your parcel in question).
 
Navy Chief said:
I wonder how much more efficient they could be if we simply outlawed junk mail. Nobody wants it, it's horrible for the environment, and does nothing but take up space in postal vehicles and waste time.

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I generally dont like the idea of banning stuff but I dont think it would be too hard to make a solid case for banning unsolicited snail mail.

I forgot which site I used but I signed up for the "do not mail" list and I hardly ever get junk mail anymore. It's pretty awesome.
 
I posted this over on Crossbownation but thought it applied here.
"My Scorpyd Velocity 165 crosbow was delivered today. Around 11:30 AM a knock comes on the door. It seems an honest man delivered my crossbow. He said he saw it fall off the back of a UPS truck around the corner. So see, when the driver says it fell off the truck he is not kidding. My friend, who was a truck driver had a garage full of stuff which fell off his truck. The UPS man usually comes about 1:30. He
stopped, and went rooting around in the back of his truck. I went out, told him the story and I already had my package. I guess I was really meant to get it.It did not turn out to be my nemesis.
I unboxed it and got my short cocker and tried a few times but I finally started singing "You can't cock this".
Then I remembered about making an extra short cocker so I tied a few knots about halfway and she cocked very nicely with no hernia.
:)
 
Personal note:
My wife got a letter a few weeks ago that was addressed to our old house in her maiden name. We moved over 16 years ago! I guess its a perk of a small town though as we only moved about 6 miles away.

E.W.O. business note:
I'll also say, besides a few packages being delayed here and there, lost packages are a very, very, small percent of all my packages (less than 1%). I realize I may not hear about all the delayed packages so can't comment on actual percent that get delayed.
 
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