notjustair

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No wonder the postal service is in the red! Grrrrr!

I ordered new brake lines for the old grain truck from Jim Carter in Independence MO. I live a little over an hour west of them in Kansas. Usually it comes within about two days. Well, it didn't this time so I opened the email and checked the tracking. It left Independence, went to ATLANTA, GEORGIA, and is now on its way back across the U.S. to me. They will pass Jim Carter Trucks with it on the way. I don't get it. I'm a repeat customer - it is just slapping my same label on the package. Why Georgia I don't know, but it makes me want to yell at someone.
 
ALL of our mail is shipped about 2 hours south, before it is stamped, and then shipped back up here, even if it is going to my next door neighbor...

Make a lot of sense to me!
 
I had the same thing happen,bought the part in Washington State,went to Iowa,then to California and finally back to Illinois! They can't make money that way!
 
Ordered a fuel pump from a place in IL. They sent an email that it was shipped Dec 12. The mailman stopped in SUNDAY Dec. 14th and delivered the pump. Can't beat that for service.
 
Typical government run operation. USPO needs to hire a qualified CEO type to get things straightened out. Run US mail system just like UPS and FEDEX.
 
I bought a part in California and watched the tracking on the Internet. It went from California to the east coast and back to California and finally to Illinois with several stops on the way. It took just shy of 2 weeks. Deluxe
 
LoL. Kind of a little bit of a related story. Went on a vacation in Jamaica. While there a friend and a family member wanted me to send them post cards back home in the mail. So I did. Put them in the outgoing mail box at the resort where I was staying. Came back home. Post cards hadn't made it back yet. You know it was like over 3 months later when the post cards showed up. I am pretty sure the problem had to be there in Jaimaica, like the mail box was never emptied forever, but who knows. Had to laugh about it even not knowing for sure what happened.
 
macec3(TX),
UPS and Fedex are just as bad as USPS. Without question, it has taken 6 days including the weekend, to have 2 extra cutter knives for our meat grinder to ship to our address, from NC. This package weighs a pound (according to them). They charge a little over $7.00 for shipping. These little knives could have been put in a small box with a couple of stamps on them and they are off and away.

I know that the company made the way to ship them,their policy, UPS,FEDEX, USPS (speedy delivery) . We've had that happen before, had a small package that could have been put in an envelope and shipped with a couple of stamps, but oh no, they have to be shipped thru their various shippers per their rules. When that happens we do not order from them again, and oh by the way, I get my meds from the vets thru mail, within two days of ordering them.If they would come thru UPS, they would be three weeks after they are shipped thru Calcutta from Mn, and thats the truth.
LOU
 
UPS is not any better! Two very expensive Christmas gifts that my wife ordered have been delivered to the house next to us. My street address is in 6'' letters on the front of my house and they still can't find it!
 
Fed-Ex handles all of the USPS Parcel Post. It's not the Government this time. The transfer station I work out of has 3-4 Fed-Ex semi trailers come in every day this time of year.. It is already sorted, put on a pallet and shrink wrapped when we get it. We just load it on our smaller 16-26 ft. trucks and deliver it to the local Post Offices by the pallet. We serve most of Central Illinois from our location. We also pick-up from Post Offices and return items to Fed-Ex where they go though the whole process again.
 
A week ago today I ordered a part for my Drill Doctor from Chicago.Last Thursday I bought a part from Sweet Equipment in Kentucky.

The part from Sweet went thru 4 transfers and made it to the local drop-off late Friday afternoon.Around 400 miles.UPS

The DD part traveled 300 miles and I got it yesterday.USPS
 
I saw a USPS truck out making residential deliveries Sunday. Never saw that before. Is this something they normally do during the Holidays?
 
The direction the package comes from has something to do with it.
I live in east Arkansas and a North/South package arrives in about 3 days. An East/West package is a different story.
 
Ordered a new skate blade holder from Perani Sports in Flint, MI Mon and UPS brought it yesterday, the next day! I'm only about 50 miles from Flint, but I've never seen such good service!
 
Perfection is not possible regardless of how well-run an operation is. When you're talking millions upon millions of letters and packages, one of them is going to end up on the wrong truck sooner or later. It has to happen to SOMEBODY, why not you? Or me?

As for the mail traveling two hours away even if it's destination is next door, mail carriers don't sort outgoing mail. It all goes into a bin and is sent to a regional office where the big expensive sorting/stamp-canceling/tracking equipment is. It's sorted and sent back with rest of the mail coming in from everywhere else.

It's not like they make a special trip.

This is actually more efficient personnel-wise than having the local carriers paw through all the outgoing mail looking for local mail.
 
we ordered Queen bees from Hawaii several years ago, had them overnighted. found out 2 weeks later they went to Dallas not central Iowa. Had to wait several weeks on more, figured that fiasco cost us 2 or 3 55 gallon barrels of honey that year.
 
Just think about it..I delivered mail in a town of 30k. Everyday we would collect three semi trucks full of mail. Parcels, flats and letters. How could this volume be manually sorted. It couldn't be! Mail sorting machines cost millions of dollars. There are just so many of them. It is the only way to do it.
When you mail a letter, chances are the only time it is touched by a human being is when your carrier picks it up and when the carrier on the other end delivers it.
The reason the PO is in the red is political,if not saddled with a couple of unique mandates, the Post office would not only be solvent,but profitable!
 
I'll add to the list. I ordered a book from Amazon.com on Dec 8, they shipped it on Dec 9. It shipped from Indianapolis, IN. to Charlotte, NC to Jackson TN to Southaven, MS (just south of Memphis, TN). It arrived in Southaven, MS on Dec 13 and left there on Dec 15 "out for delivery". I called Amazon last night,Fed-Ex has it, even though it is supposed to be delivered by Dec 15 they won't consider it lost until Dec 20 at noon. So someone in the Memphis area is reading it. Oh, I live outside Dickson, TN., about 50 miles west of Nashville, TN., which is about 5 or 6 hrs south on Indy on interstate 65, go figure.
 
Ordered a tractor part from Alpena, Mi, was supposed to be shipped to Port Huron, Mi Two day priority. Did not show up, checked the tracking, it went from Alpena(East side of Northern Lower Michigan) to Grand Rapids (West side of Central lower Michigan), to Kingsford (Western Upper Peninsula, Michigan), back to Grand Rapids, to Allen Park, Michigan (near Detroit), then finally to Port Huron for delivery. If it had been shipped UPS, I would easily have had it in 2 days, this took 8 total. I refuse to order anything that is shipped us postal service.
 

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