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Topic: U.S. Postal Delivery is Awful---REDEEMED |
Greg Johnson
From: Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 2:25 pm
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(B0b this may not go here, please move if it doesn't)
I purchased a part of a forum member and he shipped it with my agreement on Saturday, 'Priority 2 Day' U.S. mail. The tracking number provided said delivery will be on Monday 1/6. Well today's update said it was delivered on 1/8. Only 2 days late. But, it is not here. I called the post office this afternoon and they said they would have to talk to my mail carrier because when she is done with her route she goes home. So, my package may still be in here vehicle? Well maybe, they say. Anyone wonder way the Post Office is losing millions a year. Life Lesson, spring for Fedex! _________________ MSA CLassic SD-10
92 Emmons LII
79 Super Pro
Quilter TT
Evans FET 500
Fender Twin 65 RI
American Takimine
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Ray Montee
From: Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 2:35 pm Some insight into the postal service..........
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Some years ago, I drove semi's around this region carrying the U.S. Mail, from one post office location to another.
I inquired on one occasion why so many of the super-visors were of different nationalities. I was informed that the post office mission is to provide
well paying job opportunities for a large group of citizens who could not otherwise obtain gainful employment in the private sector.
This might explain why the postal service is going nowhere instead of some specific place. Many of the dock workers were college educated young men/women and their wages were considerable less since they were not 'preferred' employees. |
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Paddy Long
From: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 2:45 pm
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With the weather you guys are having I'm surprised the mail is being delivered at all _________________ 14'Zumsteel Hybrid D10 9+9
08'Zumsteel Hybrid D10 9+9
94' Franklin Stereo D10 9+8
Telonics, Peterson, Steelers Choice, Benado, Lexicon, Red Dirt Cases. |
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Greg Johnson
From: Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 2:59 pm
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"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." _________________ MSA CLassic SD-10
92 Emmons LII
79 Super Pro
Quilter TT
Evans FET 500
Fender Twin 65 RI
American Takimine |
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Larry Bressington
From: Nebraska
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 3:09 pm
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Yes, i lost a Sho-bud package this last year and it was never retrieved. _________________ A.K.A Chappy. |
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James Quackenbush
From: Pomona, New York, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 3:16 pm
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Sounds like the Post Office is trying to take the "America's Worst" award away from the jokingly called " Affordable Health " plan......
When will the government ever learn that they should stay away from anything that involves money or business ? ...... ......Jim |
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steve takacs
From: beijing, china via pittsburgh (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 3:47 pm Post Office vs. UPS and FED-EX
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Never had a problem with the Post Office when shipping instruments or having them sent to me and I've been using them since 1971. The Free Enterprise options of UPS and FED-EX, on the other hand, have been major letdowns. Just my experience but I always the the Post Office when it's possible. Apparently, I am not the only one who has had bad luck with the latter two, though. Do a Forum search for some horror stories or go to Youtube and have a look.
Larry, did you get compensation from the Post Office for your package? Did you have insurance on it?
Greg, hope your package arrives soon. Keep us posted. stevet
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steve takacs
From: beijing, china via pittsburgh (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 3:49 pm Post Office vs. UPS and FED-EX
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Sorry, double post.. stevet |
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Charlie Paterno
From: Westerly, Rhode Island, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 4:17 pm
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Spring for Fedex you say? Let me tell you about Fedex. I followed their tracking.Waiting on an empty Emmons case. It said delivered. Except not to me. Dropped at a house on a side street. I didn't see it.It sat on a neighbors doorstep 4 days before Fedex figured it out.My great neighbor never bothered to tell me it was there. All those shippers screw up. |
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Lane Gray
From: Topeka, KS
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 4:43 pm
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Actually, Greg, the USPS operates in the black, but GOP lawmakers saddled it with a requirement to prepay retiree benefits in full, something no other entity does (since investment provides most of pension and health funds). This they did to ensure their ability of pointing at the huge losses. _________________ 2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Greg Johnson
From: Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 4:49 pm
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Lane, I believe a few Dems, voted on that too. But hey lets leave Politics to the other sites. I just want my pickup _________________ MSA CLassic SD-10
92 Emmons LII
79 Super Pro
Quilter TT
Evans FET 500
Fender Twin 65 RI
American Takimine |
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Dave O'Brien
From: Florida and New Jersey
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 5:09 pm Usps
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I disagree with all the negative comments. I've been getting excellent service from USPS and Bobbe uses them too! _________________ Dave O'Brien
Emmons D-10, CMI D-10, Fender Deluxe Reverb, PV 112, Fender Pro Reverb
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Ron Whitworth
From: Yuma,Ariz.USA Yeah they say it's a DRY heat !!
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 5:18 pm
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My take on this -
I hate using the Post Office -
I have yet to be able to track a package coming to me.
I can easily track UPS or Fedex packages.
My wife just received a Christmas packaage from Germany yesterday..It was mailed on 2 Dec from Germany.
The package was totally destroyed, was wet & was wrapped in brown paper & covered with plastic -
not the way it was shipped & about 1/2 of the contents
were missing.
She told her relatives in Germany do not ship anything else to her -
this is not the 1st time this has happened to us - mail carrier said he was sorry & that was it.
Ron _________________ "Tone is in the hands. Unless your wife will let you buy a new amp. Then it's definitely in that amp."
We need to turn the TWANG up a little
It's not what you play through, it's what you play through it.
They say that tone is all in the fingers...I say it is all in your head
Some of the best pieces of life are the little pieces all added up..Ron
the value of friendship. Old friends shine like diamonds, you can always call them and - most important - you can't buy them. |
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Chris Lucker
From: Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 5:24 pm
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What is 2nd Day Priority Mail? I have heard of Priority Mail, but nothing that guarantees second day delivery. Priority is usually 1-3 day delivery and the receipt provides a tracking number with an expected delivery date.
I did not see the origin of the shipment, but I have had FedEx Priority Overnight take four days during bad weather and backed up transportation. _________________ Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Greg Cutshaw
From: Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 5:33 pm
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The USPS pension fund situation is exactly as Lane says. Furthermore the government uses the money it has absconded for the USPS pension fund to pay off debt in other unrelated government departments. Very unethical. One of my local post offices has a postmaster and one clerk who are so mean and abusive that I don't go there very often. The other post office near my house (yep there is one every few miles in any direction) is extremely courteous and helpful.
Greg |
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Glenn Uhler
From: Trenton, New Jersey, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 6:18 pm Mail order catalogs
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The only things the USPS seems to deliver efficiently are the hundreds of mail order catalogs my wife gets every year. If the USPS doubled what they charged to mail these catalogs, they wouldn't have to keep increasing the letter postage. _________________ 1974 Marlen S-12 1968 Tele 1969 Martin D-35H |
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Bobby D. Jones
From: West Virginia, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 7:09 pm
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There is problems at times with all delivery services,. Put trucks, machinery, weather and people in the mix and things can and will happen. I worked for 14 years sending my reports US Mail to my Sgt., Who only lived 20 miles away. But the letter had to go from Cowen WV,to Clarksburg WV. To Pittsburg Pa. to North Carolina, back to Charleston WV, to Fenwick WV. He called me and chewed me out once, He had not got my reports. I had to make a copy and hand deliver the report to a meeting point we agreed on personally. Over a year later He apologized, He got your reports, Postmarked when I had mailed them. It had been lost in the mail for over a year. UPS delivered a package for me to my neighbor just last night. He came over in the cold and snow, Knocked on my door, and brought it to me, Good Neighbor. Bad information in the GPS system is causing problems to. |
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Doug Earnest
From: Branson, MO USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2014 7:52 pm
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The Post Office has generally done a very good job for me.
When we had snow and ice on our hill a couple of weeks ago our rural carrier came walking down the road with a big armload of packages and mail for the five houses down the road. |
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Eric Philippsen
From: Central Florida USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2014 1:51 am
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Well.
I worked for the Postal Service for 32 years and rose through the ranks to District management. Then, during my last decade with them, I was a postmaster of a very large office near home. Although retired a couple of years now, I guess i know a little about this subject.
In reading the posts here I see there are many different views and stories, some of which are based on mistaken information and/or assumptions. Others are on the mark. Let's see if I can help a little.
Greg, your concern is certainly legitimate and well-founded, especially since there was a "delivered" scan recorded for the package. You should continue to call the office, ideally before 9:00 am, and insist on talking with either the supervisor or the postmaster. They can then go directly to the carrier and ask him or her. You must be persistent in getting a definite answer regarding what the carrier says happened to your package. Do not accept "we don't know" as an answer. File a written, formal complaint online. Importantly, you must remain courteous and calm.
The Postal Service does a pretty damn good job overall. It really does. There are those, though, who disagree for the sole reason that it's a government agency. Consequently, in their mind, that automatically qualifies it to be next to worthless, including its employees.
Ron's disappointment with the package received from Germany is based on the assumption that the damage must have occurred in the US and not its country of origin. However, regardless, items do get damaged in all shipping businesses. No, that's not OK.
Never accept or tolerate poor attitude, discourtesy or rudeness from any postal employee. Never. Go online and file a written, formal complaint because every one of those must be personally handled and resolved by the office's manager or supervisor within a short period of time. That response time is monitored. Still not satisfied? Keep going higher. But be cool, calm and courteous in doing that.
Tired of all the "junk mail" you get? That's not the Postal Service's fault, is it? Know this: businesses wouldn't mail the stuff unless they made money doing it, would they?
I could go on and on. I'll spare you and won't. So, let me leave you with my perspective. That is, I am truly the Postal Service's worst critic because I know how it all works and how it's supposed to work. I can smell BS a mile away when spoken by a postal manager or employee. I also firmly believe it's the BEST way to ship just about anything. Nevertheless, I often do ship pedal steel guitars via UPS because their cost is substantially lower for such a large, heavy item.
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Tony Prior
From: Charlotte NC
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Posted 9 Jan 2014 2:05 am
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we all need to consider that the services, Postal, UPS, Fed Ex etc cannot keep up with the internet shipping these days. When we have Internet sites offering 2 day service on millions of packages each day how is it remotely possible that a service such as the PO, Fed EX or UPS keep up ?
Kinda like you are at your desk writing a report, planned, your day is set, then all of a sudden your boss comes in and drops of 50 more reports for you to write before the end of the day . They just suddenly arrived and were promised before the end of the day. But, your job is to complete reports before the end of the work day.
Now think about tomorrows work... _________________ Emmons L-II , Fender Telecasters, B-Benders , Eastman Mandolin ,
Pro Tools 12 on WIN 7 !
jobless- but not homeless- now retired 9 years
CURRENT MUSIC TRACKS AT > https://tprior2241.wixsite.com/website |
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 9 Jan 2014 2:54 am
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Have had about a 99.99% success rate using the US mails. There can be problematic carriers (ever had an employee that wasn't working out?)It's one of this great country's greatest services and a fore-bearer of free communications for all people, granted if you can afford the stamp. |
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Greg Johnson
From: Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2014 5:11 am
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Eric Thanks for the advice. I called this morning and I was told that the carrier yesterday was a Substitute and there of course is the chance that it was mis-delivered. So, my normal carrier will look for it on the route today. I fear it is lost. _________________ MSA CLassic SD-10
92 Emmons LII
79 Super Pro
Quilter TT
Evans FET 500
Fender Twin 65 RI
American Takimine |
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Kevin Lichtsinn
From: Minnesota, USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2014 6:42 am
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USPS is a very complicated machine. Sometime things happen and it ain't a perfect system. But they do a great job most of the time. Wanna do without 'em?? And Lane is correct.....our lawmakers saddled USPS with bills that makes them look bad. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From: Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 9 Jan 2014 6:53 am
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Eric P, i appreciate your post
i use the postal services from various countries as much as possible
Overall the Post works well
Rates are better too
perhaps a bit better in Europa but satisfactory all way round
like all services, it's the human element that has it's shortcomings
i never use the 2 to 4 day delivery for international postal shipping
7 to 10 day is best imo
Why ?
Customs !
they hold things up - they rip up the packages & mess up the goods |
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Roger Rettig
From: Naples, FL
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Posted 9 Jan 2014 8:01 am
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Sometimes it's good to stand back and evaluate what it is they usually do with a pretty high rate of efficiency. Getting a letter delivered anywhere in the USA for less than .50c is an amazing deal, in my opinion.
I've used USPS to ship instruments to London from Florida - it's about a quarter of the price of the other carriers and, so far, nothing's gone wrong for me or the recipient.
I've sometimes found Priority Mail to be a bit of a racket (not much better than First Class) but I certainly appreciate the high-quality packaging that's included in the cost.
I wonder how the USPS will react to the undeniable downward trend (caused, perhaps, by the upsurge in digital media) in the sending of Christmas cards. This last Holiday brought us far fewer cards and we didn't send any... _________________ Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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