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3000OH

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I'll say up front that this is one of those posts that will bring out those who disagree, but that's ok.

I buy a fair amount on ebay, often get tools (reason for posting here). A lot of it is shipped directly through the Post Office (and the
hackles start to go up). I've gotten excellent service from USPS; here's my latest example. Late Monday night, I bought a sub-$20 item
with "free" shipping. Seller is in a small (less than 1000 people) village in northern Montana. Tues morning just before 8, he generated a
USPS mailing label. At 12:15 that afternoon, the Post Office got it & logged it in their system. Today - Thursday - at 12:45 PM here in
southwest Ohio, it was delivered, all in one piece. 48-1/2 hours, and it was tracked every step of the way. Great service!
 

Our postal service in Australia was run by an idiot , he was paid 14 million Aus dollars plus bonuses annually .
During his tenure the only things he managed to do were sack hundreds , reduce the service to a snail's pace and raise the cost of a standard postage stamp to one dollar .
He left in disgrace after a few years , but not before collecting his multi million dollar severance package ! :shock:
 
I agree, while the post office has a well deserved rep for being slow and forgetful about packages that has changed in the last few years, but some have long memories. The BIG favor that the USPS did all of us on line shoppers was the upgrading of service while dropping rates which caused UPS and FEDEX to have to do same. Remember when it took weeks for a box to go cross country unless you paid $$$$ for upgraded next day or 2nd day services?? No more and thank you goes to the USPS, they forced the issue. Certain routes are VERY fast. Here in the middle of Ohio I can get boxes from the west coast faster than one that comes from anywhere else including in state. Two day service is the norm for a flat rate box. Same service we get now for $13 from USPS was $50 10 years ago via UPS 2nd day. And how about those free boxes?? and delivered to your door to boot.
All that being said EVERYONE including me has had a bad experience with a package, be it sending or delivery but I must say that in my experience it is a whole lot less common today than it used to be when a person uses the post office.
 

If I am given a choice, I always choose USPS. UPS is a close second. If Fed-Ex is the only choice, that particular company does not get my business.
 
My daily mail carrier is great. My local postmaster could be classified as the best in the world. It's just that the mail delivery in my state is sometimes bad.
Case in point: I'm waiting on a package from RockAuto. It was mailed about a week ago by USPS about two hours away from me. Checking the USPS tracking just a few minutes ago shows another delay. Looks like I won't get it today either. Good thing my auto parts were not needed for an emergency repair.
But overall, I like the post office. Where else can you send a letter for $.49 that could go from northern Alaska to the tip of southern Florida?
 
The one thing I hate about the post office. For a letter in this town to cross town. It has to go to Dallas 140 miles away to be stamped then sent
back. They claim they are saving money.
 
We have a postal hub about 35 miles from us and have items that took 5 days to get out of that hub. As for guys talking about Fed-Ex and UPS the Us Postal system ships through both of them. I have been to our local post office and both companies were in there. I asked postmaster why they were in there and he said they used both of them to ship some of the mail.
 
(quoted from post at 06:08:00 09/29/17) We have a postal hub about 35 miles from us and have items that took 5 days to get out of that hub. As for guys talking about Fed-Ex and UPS the Us Postal system ships through both of them. I have been to our local post office and both companies were in there. I asked postmaster why they were in there and he said they used both of them to ship some of the mail.

UPS Smart Post. UPS delivers to the local post office. The post office delivers it to me. Fed-Ex is supposed to have the same option, but is rarely used.

For what it's worth, I've seen Fed-Ex trailers and UPS trailers being pulled by a UPS semi-tractor.
 
The freight line I drove for at one time picked up mail from a large book manufacturer ( school books) and took them to post office. In the
busy season we would take three trailer loads a day to post office.
 
Y'know, one of the first purchases made from E-Bay was for a Pyrex? Bake-a-Round. Now this came from the Pacific Northwest and was not packed in a good manner. It's a glass tube and it was sent in a cardboard box with NO packing whatsoever. In our (rural) mailbox it came with both ends of the box GONE, yet it was intact! Not broken. Sure impressed me, and I discovered that many postmen are Veterans that take their job seriously.
 
I have no complaints about USPS, glad to have them. I also get most of my ebay purchases via USPS, quickly and in one piece.
 
You can still receive baby chicks with USPS, although I've already had to drive two hours to pick them up because they were misdirected.
 
(quoted from post at 05:50:44 09/29/17) The one thing I hate about the post office. For a letter in this town to cross town. It has to go to Dallas 140 miles away to be stamped then sent
back. They claim they are saving money.

They are because they don't have the sorting and canceling staff and equipment in your local office.

To intercept that in-town mail, someone (or someoneS) would have to sort through all the mail they get in and pick out the local mail. Depending on the size of the office, that could be a full time job for several people. Instead, they just dump it in a bag and send it to the regional office where a machine does all the sorting.
 
Charles in AU:
The US had it's very own Carvin Marvin 20 some years ago.
Long old article about how that worked out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1994/07/10/can-marvin-runyon-deliver/eadea551-2a89-4cb2-8a24-9b3280d18f2f/
 
I also have had no complaints with USPS and have been amazed with my luck on E Bay trans actions. Probably only bought about 70 items over ten years but only remember dealing with one idiot. Bought a 12 volt Dewalt battery a couple of weeks ago and received a new LG TV smart remote, seller told me to fill out a return form, filled it out about a dozen times during a day and technical issue kept popping up, try latter. Seller told me another thing to try which worked until it said I was a Paypal guest go to the resolution center, that said my e mail address was wrong, make a new password. By now I'm pizzed and I tell the seller he screwed up I didn't so he was cool and told me to keep the $50. remote and he'd send another battery. This guy wasn't the one idiot I referred to earlier though.
 
(quoted from post at 21:06:55 09/28/17)
Our postal service in Australia was run by an idiot , he was paid 14 million Aus dollars plus bonuses annually .
During his tenure the only things he managed to do were sack hundreds , reduce the service to a snail's pace and raise the cost of a standard postage stamp to one dollar .
He left in disgrace after a few years , but not before collecting his multi million dollar severance package ! :shock:
hy is it that the real theives as you just described never seem to go to jail but are paid even more as a bonus to simply go away? It seem's to happen pretty often in today's business world. Must be nice to have a contract that say's you must pay me millions no matter how bad I screw things up.
 
I agree completely.

I buy a lot of stuff for our shop on Ebay and today it's the first place I look when we need something. Most people that see the equipment and other items we have gotten are amazed.

I like the USPS as a shipping option and UPS. FedEx would be next in line and way at the bottom is DHL. Postal carrier is a great guy and he thanks us for using USPS to keep him on the road. The UPS driver is very similar and she makes things easy. The others, not so much.
 
Just walked out in the garage this was on the freezer, didn't her the mail man drive in, shipped Tuesday from Georgia to the top of Illinois.
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I drove For LaPorte Transit inc.(LPT) out of La Porte Indiana. This is the tractor I was driving when I retired.
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Exactly. There are times when the shortest distance between two points is far from being the most
efficient and the route that mail travels is a good example of this.
 
I prefer shipping by USPS if possible, much better than UPS in my opinion, and much cheaper than FED EX.
 
Thanks for responding. I worked for a small carrier out of Harrisonville, Mo. (KC area) and took early out at 26 years. It was an interesting and fulfilling job after I got away from KC and peddled/PU'd freight out in the country. gm
 
At one time we had over 60 drivers and dock men. We covered the northern 2/3 s of Indiana, lower 2/3 of Michigan, upper 1/3 of ILL, And about the lower 1/3 of Wis. We were a LTL freight line and hauled anything that would fit in a van body or ragtop trailer. We were a union carrier and I retired at 63 and put in 38 years with same company. I retired at 63 because at 38 years I could not add any more to pension so I got out. I peddled freight in Chicago for 6 years and bid out of it after 6 years (did not like Chicago).
 

Well 3000OH, I see the same result as I saw when this came up a month or so ago. Despite the OP expecting everyone to hate USPS, most appear be happy with them.
 
You are right, and thanks for pointing that out. I
wasn't trying to bait the haters - I'm still impressed
with this latest cross-country service.
 
B&H, who I drove for wasn't nearly that large; 9 or 10 guys in KC and that many peddling freight 80 or 90 miles east and south of there, mostly in MO. I was in local 41 and took 25 and out with 26 years,73--99. I'd gone to school at night over the years, got a couple of degrees, and wound up investigating child abuse and neglect for the state of MO. for 14 years until I retired in 2013. I second guessed that early retirement until the pension issues came up, now the small dab of retirement from the state job looks pretty big. gm
 

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