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Can USPS shipping get any worse?
Their tracking is almost useless, I have had an item delivered when tracking said it was two states away.
Items sit in distribution centers for days at a time.
The Birmingham distribution center is where packages go to die.
Had an ACC crappie rod sitting 30 minutes from my house for three days :banghead
Yeah it's been bad here too for a long time.
Most recent for me was a set of decals for my dump trailer that I repainted took almost 2 months to get from the east coast to Michigan.
Here’s a good one for you guys, but drop off to UPS if you set packages outside of the box here they will not pick them up. They will either get rained on a rock to cardboard off. Icing boxes is wide opened with the merchandise side sitting there for anybody to pick up and they may sit there for weeks, but they will not pick them up unless you put them inside the drop off box.
Most stuff I get through them has to pass through Memphis. That’s when I hold my breath hoping it’ll make it.
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I have a small business and order regularly ...... you should see some of the tracking numbers I saved in the last couple years ..... some are so bad they are funny!
A few years ago I was sent rods from a company in Oklahoma. Twice the cardboard tube was broken . Third try was sent in a pvc pipe. Owner told me if this failed he would hand deliver next try.
I've had horrendous service from USPS over the years.
I ship up to 100 orders per week imagine all the e mails,text and phone calls i get near every day with folks wanting to know where their packages are usps has completely dropped the ball with timely deliveries i will say they usually get it there but it can take up to 2 weeks.....i still send replacements or refunds on 6 or more orders per month that just disappear without a trace and they make it virtually impossible to get reimbursed gonna have to do a better job or they are going to run some of us small guys out of business.I do ship ups when feasible but on some of the smaller orders it has to go usps or shipping would be more than the item being shipped they have put us between a rock and a hard place.
I must live in the most delivery friendly location on the planet. I've never had any serious issues with any of the big three, USPS, UPS and Fedex. There has been an occasional confusing routing issue that added a couple of unnecessary days to the delivery time. But that is the worst I've experienced and pretty infrequently. USPS has actually been the best of the three. I've had stuff get here to SC from the left coast in three days.
It can get better if it gets privatized IMHO
I’m very confused you would leave a package outside just next to a dropbox? You might just as well leave them on the sidewalk anywhere??Quote:
Originally Posted by snake River
That will never happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
I have watched packages take trips around the nation before getting to me. I have seen them put on a delivery truck only to be pulled off and sent on a state round trip.
I live in Lake Charles, La. about right between Houston and Baton Rouge. Many things come from Houston heading east past Lake Charles on I10 to Baton Rouge then west back to Lake Charles. If I would be looking out my back yard, I could wave at the truck. I10 is in sight across a pasture. I have packages come from Memphis south to New Orleans west to Houston east to Baton Rouge and finally west to Lake Charles also.
In a word, Sure can and will. Oh wait, that was more than one word. oopsQuote:
Originally Posted by jusanothajoe
I'm sort of glad to hear all this, I was beginning to think it was only here. I've had packages do all that. The local U.S. Rep. even went to the main local PO about a year ago and looked around. He said things were getting better :Rofl, He was back just a month or so ago looked around and said things were going to get better :Rofl, YEAH RIGHT, ain't nothing happened yet. :dono
Defiantly agree!! The tracking they have sucks half the time it shows up at random, had an okuma rod shipped from minnesota and the cardboard was all messed up but luckily nothing was damaged. A lot of the work force now a days is in it for the paycheck and not the integrity.
You can thank Louis DeJoy (former postmaster general) for some of the USPS ineffective service. He tried very hard to make reduced efficiency acceptable. David Steiner took over that Postmaster General position in July of 2025. He used to be the CEO of Waste Management and a FedEx board member. Time will tell how long it takes him to get things back on track, if that's possible.
I also have stories about idiotic performance by the postal service. My company used to ship time-sensitive samples overnight to a lab several states away. They were guaranteed to arrive within 24 hours so the testing processing could be initiated on time. Understand that (at the time) the USPS had a guarantee which stated; if the overnight package doesn't arrive in time, the sender is issued a full refund. We always made sure our samples were collected in a timely manner and were submitted to the USPS in time to arrive at the laboratory within the acceptable processing window. For any samples that arrived late to the lab, a portion of the testing was considered invalid, and we would have to explain to the client why. That meant that we had to collect samples that would be processed locally at a state certified lab, to ensure legitimate results. Of course, we'd have to eat the local processing cost. However, most of the out of state samples would arrive at the USPS processing center within 8 miles of their final destination laboratory before 8:00 a.m., yet the postal service couldn't get them to the lab in time, which meant we'd get a 100% refund on shipping. That ended up being ~ 4 times the cost of processing the expired/invalid portion of the testing, meaning that we'd get our samples shipped for free and only need to pay 1/4th the shipping cost to get all results. So, for every one of those jobs, we started automatically collecting separate samples to be processed locally, which wouldn't require us to make a follow-up trip to the jobsite (saving us time & money). It was an incredibly wasteful mistake by the postal service that cost them, but saved us money in the long run. BTW, before DeJoy took over, our packages almost always arrived to the lab in a timely manner (94% of the time), unless extreme inclement weather interrupted the process, which was rare (I have 25 years of documented proof). We have since retired and (thankfully) no longer need to ship anything overnight.
Jim
Amazon has contracted their Prime 2 day delivery services mostly to USPS. I cancelled my Prime account because Amazon's former 2 day delivery service now is handed over to USPS and they aren't bound to a specific delivery date. My packages now take a minimum of 3 days to a week to be delivered Prime. No thanks US Mail Service dudes!
I had a pkg coming from Slabanator jigs in Ky and Im in Indiana , it went to Tn then all the way out to Arizona then back to Indianapolis now in Terre Haute Indiana to be delivered to my post office in Rockville 30 miles away. They suck anymore yet keep raising prices, them and Fed Ex are the worst though Fed Ex seems to be very slowly improving.
Well Fed Ex isnt much better and if Waste Management is the same one thats around here they really suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yak Fish
I had packages getting stuck in the Jackson, MS post office for 2-3 weeks at a time this time last year.
This explains a lot. Thanks for sharing this info.Quote:
Originally Posted by happycaster58
My Amazon prime that I get daily is rarely late .... usually the next day .... BUT when they don't make it, it is ALWAYS on something I needed real bad and then I have to order another one to get here quicker!Quote:
Originally Posted by happycaster58
Weird, mine come in 1-2 days unless its not a “prime” item. Quite often lately they come the next morning at 5am.Quote:
Originally Posted by happycaster58
[QUOTE=J White;4526330]Most stuff I get through them has to pass through Memphis. That’s when I hold my breath hoping it’ll make it.
I feel your pain.
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For us here in Springfield, Mo, it don't matter where it started at, (even right here in Springfield, like cross town mail) must go through the reginal sorting center in Kansas City. Crazy. I am now on Ozempic shots I get through the VA. They have to come out of Dallas, Tx. They put them in an insulated cooler with re-freezable cold packs and usually it's an rush Item. Well, this time someone goofed and instead of coming to Springfield, Mo, it went to Springfield, Ill, over to St. Louis, Mo where it sat for a couple of days, then over to Kansas City, Lenexa, Kansas to here. Did I say we have a reginal distribution mail hub, a city mail hub, before it gets to the mail hub that puts it in a bin for the mail carrier to get it and deliver it. No dang wander the post office wants more money again to mail anything. If they would fix all this they could lower the cost at least 25% or more...
All shipping is really a crap shoot now days.
Open packages, damage, delays, you name it.
Wait till you get tracking that says “ orange conex “ …. That’s when it’s coming on a ship from China. It might be a week , might be [emoji638]-[emoji639] months.
These usually show up out of the blue when you’re not home, after you’ve about given up.
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Supposedly Amazon is cutting ties with USPS
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...rs/ar-AA1TPps3
Only thing prime does for us is tv and movies..;) two day shipping rarely happens.. I wonder how they plan to get all there items shipped with out USPS? Are local UPS drops a couple of sacks of Amazon stuff off at the USPS every morning;) During the holidays are rural USPS has go back and refill his vehicle part way through the route because of all the Amazon packages….
I've gotten used to it. I live in the country in a heavily wooded area. Driveway off the road 1/2 mile through the woods to the house. Large mailbox on the road. If USPS, UPS, FedEx, and Amazon can't see your house from the road, they're not delivering if the package doesn't fit in the box. Packages are routed to a distribution point locally where we pick them up. That's fine because always secure.
I had a cooler full of venison jerky leave southern Illinois bound for central Illinois. By car it is a 4 hour trip. It sat in St. Louis for 2 months. Boy did it taste good :puke
government run stuff has a tendency to not be the best case scenario .....
if you have been watching the news lately , it might not get any better .....
the postal dept. has been a train wreck for a very long time ....
I used to mail letters to Florida and then about 30 miles up the road ....
4 to 5 days local , 2 to 3 to Florida .....go figure :banghead
I can't imagine a private company being managed like the usps is staying in business long.
Get ready to pay more as of 1/18/26. Shipping rates increased 5-8%.
What’s not increasing?
Never had horrible service from any shipping company.
Stamps. Stamps are staying the same. And eggs and gas.Quote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
Ordered a 2oz pkg of glitter on Etsy, from an outfit here in Missouri. USPS sent it out at 3:15am this morning in Winfield, Mo. it went to St Louis distribution center for mail, About 50 miles away. It took till 11:35 to get there, 8-1/2 hours to go 50 miles. Yet it's supposed to be delivered here by their estimation tomorrow with my mail. It still has to go to the mail hub in Kansas City, through Olathe Ks, and two distribution centers in Springfield before my mail carrier even gets it to deliver it. The Postal service needs to revamp this debacle they have now...
And they wonder why they constantly lose money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesdean
I think Pony Express would be faster and more direct...
Wonder why customers complain their service leaves much to be desired. It arrived at 11:35 Am, its now 3:31pm and still there. It will be a miracle to go through their system and arrive to me by Friday, let alone tomorrow in the mail, which leaves the carriers center at O6:30...Another Package delivered after the promised/suggested delivery date...Thank useless, I mean USPS...