USPS: Here we go again

[Bill in Oregon]

It's getting to be a habit. This is the Buffalo Classic I had in the classifieds. Screen shot cuts off departing Las Cruces March 19, when I mailed it. USPS said it would be in Sarasota Monday. It made it no farther than Atlanta on Monday, then the postal geniuses decided to forward it to Chicago. What really chaps my tookas is that there is no accountability for this idiocy that I am aware of. That needs to change.

[.45colt]

" Ya pay your money and take your chances".... Our anniversary is in late February. Longtime Friends mailed a regular card to us from Florida , it took more than four weeks to get to Ohio arriving in March. My Wife Really gets upset about the mail service and lack of..

[marlinman93]

No accountability, and also impossible to file a complaint, or get anyone to look into these issues of misdirection of packages! I dread shipping or receiving anything valuable with USPS.

[ywaltzucanrknrl]

Yes, terrible customer service. Wait until you try to file a claim. I'm 0 for 3 on claims. Their claim system is terrible, I would pretty much call it a scam.

[GunnyMack]

From what I was told by an ex mailman usps has gotten rid of the "local" sorting centers. Instead of going to one in your state everything now goes to a central sorting facility in I believe Ohio. So if you mail something across town it now goes hundreds of miles out of the way to be turned around and go hundreds of miles back to where it started.

Ill give you one guess which political party came up with stupendously stroke of brilliance!

[Bill in Oregon]

Well, this morning it is in ... DALLAS!
Need an emoji for really, really foul language ...

[marlinman93]

Yes, terrible customer service. Wait until you try to file a claim. I'm 0 for 3 on claims. Their claim system is terrible, I would pretty much call it a scam.

My last claim for a stolen firearm that never even left my home town was denied. How they can deny a claim when their employees stole a package is beyond me? I appealed the claim and it got denied again, and their reasons for denying are vague, so you aren't really sure what else they want! I finally contacted my congressman's office via email and an aid said she'd look into it. Next day she told me what USPS wanted, and I sent the info, and got denied the 3rd and final time! I told her what had happened and that it seemed I'd gotten my final denial as they only give you 3 tries! She said she'd look into it again, and the next day my claim was approved! Two days later I got the check.
If I ever send anything USPS again I wont pay for insurance. It's a scam, and not worth the price. Instead I'll simply pay for Registered Mail as anything sent that way has to be signed for every time it changes hands, so a lot safer. At least that way if it has to be signed for, and locked up anytime it stays somewhere overnight, it wont be available to thieves to steal.

[Eddie Southgate]

I mailed a package on 21 March from Hillsboro Alabama to St Mary Pennsylvania , even paid the extra $1 and change for the faster shipping . On 22 March it was in Indianapolis and so far has shown no movement since . The USPS needs to be gutted by DOGE .

[jeepnik]

Here's a question. Why should you need to buy insurance if you have already paid to have something delivered? In accepting your shipment and payment for making that shipment the USPS has entered into a contract to provide not only the delivery but taken custody of the shipped item. Seems the USPS should be the one needing insurance to protect themselves in event of loss or damage.

[Grizz]

from the timeline of that package tracking it looks like it got scanned at every post office on the way. is this evidence that the post office doge targets are intentionally proving why there are too many of them? it looks like intentional delays

[Lassiter]

Here's a question. Why should you need to buy insurance if you have already paid to have something delivered? In accepting your shipment and payment for making that shipment the USPS has entered into a contract to provide not only the delivery but taken custody of the shipped item. Seems the USPS should be the one needing insurance to protect themselves in event of loss or damage.

I agree 100%!!

[Griff]

I have to say, their Postal Inspectors are kick butt efficient. I had a bunch of mail stolen out of my box, including a couple of credit cards that were getting replaced. Charges were made on another card whose bill was in the same lot. That got resolved by the CC company. The Postal Inspector came out, interviewed my wife, & did a great job following up, finding the individual responsible, prosecuted and got a conviction... mandatory jail time. IIRC it was like 10 years.

[Lassiter]

I have to say, their Postal Inspectors are kick butt efficient. I had a bunch of mail stolen out of my box, including a couple of credit cards that were getting replaced. Charges were made on another card whose bill was in the same lot. That got resolved by the CC company. The Postal Inspector came out, interviewed my wife, & did a great job following up, finding the individual responsible, prosecuted and got a conviction... mandatory jail time. IIRC it was like 10 years.

That's great! I'm glad you got satisfaction. I worked for the usps for 30 years. Our post office was broken into one night and the postal inspectors didn't even send anyone out! Said local law enforcement could handle it. Hopefully with the latest post master general stepping down (not a minute too soon IMHO) things will improve. My local carrier told me that there are days when they only deliver packages. The general mail facility in Little Rock doesn't even send letter mail, including 1st class mail, until the middle of the day. PATHETIC!!!

[Griff]

I have to say, their Postal Inspectors are kick butt efficient. I had a bunch of mail stolen out of my box, including a couple of credit cards that were getting replaced. Charges were made on another card whose bill was in the same lot. That got resolved by the CC company. The Postal Inspector came out, interviewed my wife, & did a great job following up, finding the individual responsible, prosecuted and got a conviction... mandatory jail time. IIRC it was like 10 years.

That's great! I'm glad you got satisfaction. I worked for the usps for 30 years. Our post office was broken into one night and the postal inspectors didn't even send anyone out! Said local law enforcement could handle it. Hopefully with the latest post master general stepping down (not a minute too soon IMHO) things will improve. My local carrier told me that there are days when they only deliver packages. The general mail facility in Little Rock doesn't even send letter mail, including 1st class mail, until the middle of the day. PATHETIC!!!

My Dad worked for the Post Office for about 30 years also, and my B-I-L worked there for quite a few years, just retiring 2 years ago. Dad retired in '84, and I've always jokingly said that the PO went to pot when he retired. Maybe not so jokingly now...

[Bill in Oregon]

Well, it departed Dallas, but not sure where it is headed. Maybe back to Chicago?

[marlinman93]

Well, it departed Dallas, but not sure where it is headed. Maybe back to Chicago?

Hope it's headed to you, and not going to start "looping" as USPS calls it.

[Bill in Oregon]

Thanks Vall. I actually shipped it to a pawn shop in Sarasota, and hope it finds its way there some day.

[Bill in Oregon]

It's now in Tampa! So close! Please, Father, don't let them send it back to Chicago. They hate guns there.

[.45colt]

Well Bill, Did it ever get delivered......?

[gray1]

No

[Bill in Oregon]

Tracking says it is actually out for delivery today!

[JB]

I had a USPS insurance claim denied because "it's illegal to ship a firearm" according to the gentleman who handled the claim. I photo copied the USPS regulation on shipping firearms and filed an appeal. Luckily the person who reviewed the appeal could actually read finally approved the claim.

[Bill in Oregon]

It finally arrived and my buyer is happy. All's well that end's well.

[Eddie Southgate]

The package in my earlier post finally moved on the 6th and again today after setting in Indianapolis since the 22nd of last month.

[Eddie Southgate]

Package delivered yesterday . Only took 17 days using the Priority Express shipping.

[Bill in Oregon]

Geez. Sure makes those "Right on time" commercials the USPS is airing right now seem pretty hilarious.

[GunnyMack]

' neither rain nor snow nor dark of night or whenever we feel like it "
is the new motto!

[Eddie Southgate]

News flash : I now have a package hung up in Des Moines Iowa and a payment going to New Jersey that is way late . The USPS seems to have totally gone to pelosi since November . I'm thinking the Demoncrats have taken it over since they no longer control anything else.

[Eddie Southgate]

News flash : I now have a package hung up in Des Moines Iowa and a payment going to New Jersey that is way late . The USPS seems to have totally gone to pelosi since November . I'm thinking the Demoncrats have taken it over since they no longer control anything else.

Strange , I said " gone to S..." only I spelled the word and it substituted pelosi .

[Grizz]

News flash : I now have a package hung up in Des Moines Iowa and a payment going to New Jersey that is way late . The USPS seems to have totally gone to pelosi since November . I'm thinking the Demoncrats have taken it over since they no longer control anything else.

not just the PO. . . I am certain that Boeing Aircraft has been intentionally sabotaged, just like the postal 'service'. I think it's insiders who are totally free to put monkey wrenches where they can do the most harm.... . . those two airliners, the new ones that crashed several years ago? that was 100% pilot error with untrained pilots who were NOT certified to fly them. that fact came out in the immediate aftermath, but because it is true it was scrubbed right away, and the aircraft was faulted, which drug Boeing down into the mud. The pilots at fault ASSUMED that the new aircraft was exactly the same as the ones they had been flying. The God hating, America hating, Man hating "press" screamers infected the truth with their lying narrative. All aircraft can have glitches and anomalies, but trained aircrews are trained to deal with them, and skilled aircrews bring their passengers safely back to earth.... AND almost ALL plane crashes are pilot error, a very high percentage, and the DEI pilots are untrained and unqualified killers . . .

but, oh well, i am repeating myself again

[GunnyMack]

Not just guns but flyrods too.
On 4/21 I ordered a 4wt bamboo rod from Headwaters Bamboo in Idaho. It finally hit the distribution center here at 12am today. It hasn't moved yet. Ridiculous service...
I could have driven there and back with a stop to see friends along the way by now!

[Bill in Oregon]

Ooooh. A 4-weight bamboo!
I have a 4-weight Beulah, but it is graphite, so far fewer style points.

[rossim92]

I mailed a package on 21 March from Hillsboro Alabama to St Mary Pennsylvania , even paid the extra $1 and change for the faster shipping . On 22 March it was in Indianapolis and so far has shown no movement since . The USPS needs to be gutted by DOGE .

+1

[GunnyMack]

Ooooh. A 4-weight bamboo!
I have a 4-weight Beulah, but it is graphite, so far fewer style points.

Last year I tried a second hand bamboo and caught the bug !

[Eddie Southgate]

Took 33 days for a postal money order to get to New Jersey from North Alabama.

[Eddie Southgate]

Ooooh. A 4-weight bamboo!
I have a 4-weight Beulah, but it is graphite, so far fewer style points.

Last year I tried a second hand bamboo and caught the bug !

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 Bamboo Fly Rods.

[Bill in Oregon]

Eddie, as Groucho Marx said to the guy with nine children: "I like to smoke a cigar but I take it out of my mouth once in a while."


Ever the optimist (or is it fool), I just mailed a shotgun to a dealer in Michigan, but I sent it priority mail. Hope it gets more respect than ground disadvantage.

[GunnyMack]

I only have the 1 that was given to me, IF this new one ever shows up I'll be a happy camper!
I'm guessing you collect them, any particular brand or do you collect all?

I stopped at the post office this morning, gave the clerk my name, address phone number and tracking number who said he would give the info to the post master and the pm would get back to me. I'm the mean time it's been sitting for 39 hours 20odd miles from here!
NOTE :
Pay for expedited shipping when going usps( Useless Slow Pathetic Service)

[jeepnik]

I found out a few years ago that expedited delivery is nothing more than a suggestion best ignored by the USPS. And, even when they take two weeks to deliver an expedited package they will not refund your money. Now in the world I live in taking money for a service not delivered is call fraud. But apparently it's ok when the government does it.

[GunnyMack]

Well it has now left the distribution center, en route to the next destination - wherever that is.
I'm not sure but I think the tracking used to show each and every step as it moved along, this didn't.

Yeah I know, paying more isn't the answer, sure wish it did though.

[GunnyMack]

Argh- tracking shows it has actually moved! About 10 miles to a different processing center! Was really hoping to try this rod out this weekend...

[GunnyMack]

Well usps finally got my package delivered! Only took 12 days, one quarter of that time was in my home state.

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[Eddie Southgate]

I only have the 1 that was given to me, IF this new one ever shows up I'll be a happy camper!
I'm guessing you collect them, any particular brand or do you collect all?

I stopped at the post office this morning, gave the clerk my name, address phone number and tracking number who said he would give the info to the post master and the pm would get back to me. I'm the mean time it's been sitting for 39 hours 20odd miles from here!
NOTE :
Pay for expedited shipping when going usps( Useless Slow Pathetic Service)

I have a bunch of different brands , some new customs but mostly older ( 1910's - 1970's ) rods . I don't really consider myself a collector , just buy what I like to fish . I own one of most of the models made by HL Leonard rod company , a Payne from the 40's , some Edwards rods , a few Heddons , a hand full of FE Thomas rods , a Thomas & Edwards , and multiple custom made copies of older rods that cost too much for me to buy originals of . I got a ton of reels also .

[GunnyMack]

Sounds like a nice collection!
I'd like to find a more period correct reel to go with this rod but I can't stand click and pawl drag systems .

I did however manage to catch a rainbow on my second cast. Landed 1 other bow, lost two others.

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Look at the lower gills and gill plate, hit by a great blue heron.

[Bill in Oregon]

Beautiful rod, Will, and it seems to work.

[samsi]

I've experienced a bunch of this nonsensical Postal routing in recent months with at least 3 Priority Mail packages going far wide of their destinations and taking about 10 days in transit vs. the expected 4-5. The old saying Never attribute to Malice what can be explained by Incompetence comes to mind, but who's to say. I figure there's got to be some not so well thought-out procedures at work.

[jeepnik]

I've experienced a bunch of this nonsensical Postal routing in recent months with at least 3 Priority Mail packages going far wide of their destinations and taking about 10 days in transit vs. the expected 4-5. The old saying Never attribute to Malice what can be explained by Incompetence comes to mind, but who's to say. I figure there's got to be some not so well thought-out procedures at work.

Actually one of the biggest problems is some not so well thought out hiring procedures. Just as my dad was retiring from the USPS so were a lot of other WWII vets. The folks they hired to replace them were what the private sector called then "unemployable". They simply didn't meet the standards the private sector would accept. So, the government made a concerted effort to hire them into "civil service" at all levels of government. Then of course those government levels mandated promoting folks that as stated wouldn't ever be hired in the private sector (civil service regs, you know).

The sad thing is the government started mandating that the private sector hire certain quotas. So the cancer from "civil service" has spread to the private sector.