really done had it with the USPS

Nice....another way to test the friendliness of a USPS is to ask about passports lol

I think my wife recently went to Bryn Mawr and they were nice. I once went to Broomall once and they were not nice, and I get it, because the line was really long just for passports...

Interestingly, we had mail delivered on July 3, a Federal holiday.

So USPS still delivers anyway on July 3, but not July 4.

Was waiting for a credit union refund check, and it came.

For once I was off when they were not lol

If you work shift e.g. Sat, Sat is your holiday not friday

After reading through all these USPS screw-ups, do we really want USPS determining who gets a ballot????

RT

I can say one thing about the USPS, it's never ceases to amaze me. I make, sell and ship model police cars. I've sold a few to folks in Puerto Rico. I use "Ground Advantage" for all my shipping and my package will be delivered in PR in 3 days or less, 4 days to Alaska. It takes longer to go to California and sometimes even New York from my part of Pennsylvania.

We ordered medication on September 30. It was shipped USPS 'Advantage'. Took 8 days, 3 of which it was sitting in the Phoenix Distribution Center (it didn't move from October 5 @ 3:00AM to October 8 @ 3:49AM). Was it sitting in a building or a truck? We don't know, either way it's not good to leave medication sitting in the Arizona heat for 3 days. Had to return it.

This isn't the first time this has happened with USPS 'Advantage'! Several months ago I ordered a Capacitor from a supplier in California. Again, took USPS 8 days to Phoenix Metro (380 miles - UPS or FedEx delivers from California in 2 days). This time it sat in the USPS Phoenix Distribution Center for almost a week. Pony Express was faster than this, going approximately 1800 miles in 10 days (St. Joseph, MO, to Sacramento, CA ).

Needless to say, we don't trust the Post Office for anything, let alone handling our completed ballots. They went into a ballot drop box.

I did mail-in voting just once, during COVID when they simplified the procedure. I didn't like the whole thing, the instructions seemed needlessly complicated and I wondered just what would happen after mailing.

Aside from that one time, I always just vote in person in my tiny rural town's city hall (which isn't much larger than my living room, LOL). Have done this for the past 20 years and don't recall it ever taking more than 5 minutes, I am often the only person there.

door is torn, has a small hole.

What does the USPS carrier do? He stuffs a piece of mail through the hole, leaving it there in the hole, enlarging it.

Where do they find these folks.

Seriously, 20 years ago, UPS would put tires, of all things, in large plastic bags, if it were raining.

At work, last month, I've lost $5,400 of equipment over 3 deliveries--completely lost. It's a crazy world of delivery today. To my employer they don't even blink, cost of doing business. But how about you and me? Those deliveries could have been a $185 ECU repair, or a $250 ABS pump repair, and when lost, cost us over $5k each. Luckily earlier this year the turnaround was so fast on the ECU TCM repair that I didn't have time to worry.

and share this perspective.

I believe the USPS is TRYING in many aspects. They are TRYING to become more efficient and not run a deficit every year in spite of Congress trying to micro manage them and having an assigned leader who seem to want to make them less efficient.
They are TRYING to you because the cost keeps rising and mail keeps getting lost or misdelivered.
You can't really blame the machines, because without them, ppl would never be able to handle the volume increase that has occured when ppl did it without incident - which I am sure was never true - it was just on a lower volume of mail so it didn't happen as often. = 15 error on 100 = 1 on 1,000,000 = 10,000.
Why some routes have more problems than others, however is a good question to ask. Like why does it repeatedly take 2 weeks for a church flyer to go from one town to another 10 miles away.
I once had a missing package and somehow managed to get the phone number of the local postmaster (wasn't easy). He checked the GPS (modern machine) record of the delivery and found that it wasn't my mailbox coords and it was redelivered the next day.
Yes, nothing is perfect, even you. But when things go wrong you figure out how to get them fixed.
Changing to online bill pay is not perfect either.
As mentioned above, I also had an issue with mailing a bill payment to AMEX. The mail was received by Amex in time and posted b4 midnight on the due date and they charged me a late fee. It took much argument with Amex b4 they gave me a "courtesy" credit but would not remove the late pmt flag from my credit report. They could not admit there was an issue with their computer programming.

Informed delivery indicated letter from medicare on monday. Nothing on wednesday. Suspect nothing today as well. Will have to call medicare to see what they sent.

Damn usps to hell!!!!

I think I get several mailings from Medicare annually. I don't think a single one of them had any significance to me. I don't need mail telling me the Medicare Open Period is about to start or equally mundane mail.

I signed up for Informed Delivery a year or two ago. I think that about an average of two pieces of mail a month arrive one or more days later than predicted. I don't obsess over things like this. Sorry.

I can't remember a piece of mail I've received from Medicare that much mattered to me.

I manage someone else's health care, so this letter may not be some generic notification. I recently completed a form from the ssa, so it's likely a response to that form.

I mentioned it before, I started getting robo calls related to medicare Parts A and D, and it's been going on for 3 months now, every day. Yes, Do Not Call, filter, and block and report. Doesn't matter the numbers constantly rotate into new ones. Sometimes, the old way was better (snail mail), at least it wasn't that intrusive other than generating waste.

I can't see how it can go on forever, but then again, maybe it can.

Oh yeah, I'm not old enough to have Medicare, so the calls are scams.

I had the same problem and sent a letter of complaint to the Post Office (Postmaster), The Inspector General & the Postmaster General, all got back to me no solution but plenty of excuses. I ended up getting a PO Box in a neighboring town and throwing my mailbox away.

I have the impression that someone sells lists of phone numbers that are rich in older people. I believe I am on some of those lists. I'm afraid you may get even more spurious Medicare-related calls when you cross the line.

I think a possible answer to spam calls is a charge per call. I bet 5¢ per call will stop them.

The response is sold. busy signal, person answered, went to voicemail, and at some point the bot transfers to a live body if there is a person. I tried it and I messed with the person. I said no I'm not in PA I'm in AR, but I'll be in GA tomorrow. When asked for my zip code I stated I am 85 years old I don't remember it. Then the person said can you find any letter or paper that might have it? So I said I'm driving my motor home right now so I can't. And the person hung up. This was the wrong thing to do as all that info is being sold too, but after months I wanted to see if there were a way to dissuade the calls. It's only worse with AI imho.

Many of the calls are all the same robo dialer, fake rining call center in the background, "Hey, can you hear me?" What kind of legit call uses, "Hey!"

On the postal front we got served with papers and some notice to appear in Phila court. Not us. Some shell co used our address. It's simply amazing how rampant fraud is now. And I really think as we age we're not going to have the wherewithal to resist scams. many of which are part of our normal lives now.

btw there was once a time when caller ID could not be faked, remember, it was not that long ago. But as far as me using your mailing address, that's a tale as old as time.

I don't normally have an issue with the USPS in this rural area. Recently however, I had a problem with an Amazon order shipped via Maersk from Australia. It arrived in Port Newark just 4 days after the order was placed. It was transferred to the USPS in Newark, NJ. and forwarded to a postal facility in NY. From there, it bounced back and forth between NY and NJ for 2 weeks until it fell off the radar.

I contacted Amazon, who investigated the problem and the expensive package was finally delivered by the USPS 6 weeks after the order was placed. Not sure what I would have done without Amazon's help. They seem to have ways of dealing with the USPS not available to the public. Due to their shipping volume, they have a lot of clout.

Looking back, the only problems I've had with the USPS in the past have been with international orders. Not sure why.

I mentioned this, the person 2 houses down must work for Canon, as FedEx dropped off a repair part at my house. But I was lucky to get him while he was walking his dog and give him the package.

I know the drill--you say you never got it, and the driver's delivered status is proof, no signature needed. During the pandemic a box was missing with contents about $3700--vendor ate it, FedEx claimed delivered. However, didn't add up--some other boxes came in the morning, this said evening. Home delivery no matter what they say, isn't coming to my house more than 1X per day for ground.

We're never going to win when we fight city hall. Within last 45 days lost 2 packages UPS at work and my employer ate several thousand. You and I can't afford that. If anyone has ever had a successful claim with UPS, please step forward and tell us how you did it.

I suppose our user experience of the various services is strongly driven by the question of whether the people who handle our shipments for one service happen to include someone unusually incompetent.

I had an extreme case of this some years ago with FedEx. I had four shipments misdelivered to the house of my neighbor across the street in a three month period. By bad luck, he dropped the packages at a door to their house they did not use or check, so until I caught on a package could sit there, with declared status as delivered but nowhere I could see for well over a week.

I'm convinced that was a single FedEx employee, who eventually stopped serving my route.

At a nearby Conoco, one can routinely see FedEx ground employees in the parking lot, doing nothing. Someone working for them may say, I'm a contractor paid a flat rate, per day, so whether you get your package or you don't, is not my concern.

What has always been curious to me is why they say teamsters at UPS make $180k--that is highly unusual to me, to include benefits. I understand they pay $0 for healthcare. But why would their number include it (what I think of as loaded). Everybody knows healthcare is worth $30k/yr whether you make $200k or you make $45k, but it isn't added to your compensation. You can't buy a corvette with it