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Well I made a sell a while back and it was for 7-8 pens and I needed to mail them to the guy. So I package them up and sent them on their way, the date was July 27th. (YES JULY 27th). The pens needed to travel up the highway about 40 miles. Well at the end of a few weeks and the pens still hadnt made it I excepted the facts.... Its been multipul weeks and he hasnt seen the pens and they havent come back to me so somebody in the post office or somebody in the area got some nice handmade pens[}:)] Well guess who called today to say they got a package!! The postage on the package was for the 27th of July, it was in perfect condition and only took 39 days to go 40 miles. Unless they took a wrong turn and headed east then it was about 25,000 miles depending on the route.:D Makes you wonder dont it? Just glad to know they got there as I was just about to gear up and build them again.
 
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Glad they got there!!

The USPS sometimes does some strange things. Last week I mailed a package about 100 miles--I mailed it First Class with delivery confirmation. After a few days the purchaser asked if I'd mailed it. I checked the delivery confirmation and it showed it was delivered. I let her know and gave her the phone number for her local post office. They called and the package was at the post office---the recipient had not been notified. Seems they pulled the trigger on the del. conf. a bit soon!!!
 
I hate the post office. That's one of the reasons I don't pay any of my bills by mail anymore. When I was in college I lived in an apartment next door to the campus. They would send me letters which the post office returned as undeliverable, they then put that envelope into a larger one and send it to my mom 500 miles away, she would then put that in another envelope and send it to me. When I would take the original envelope with the undeliverable note and my mom's envelope to the post office and show them the addresses were identical and ask how come they couldn't deliver the first one, they couldn't answer.

Now they're sending my mail to my son in another state and I can't get them to stop. They keep saying my carrier knows I haven't moved but my mail keeps going there. Now it's even showing up on my credit report that I live somewhere else. And this isn't the first time they've done that. they did it before when he moved. My bank even froze my ATM card because the PO told them I had moved and the bank didn't know where I moved to.

Do as little business by mail as possible or the po will screw you.
 
I guess I must be lucky. I use the PO a lot to mail pens, Priority Mail, insured, delivery confirmation. Not one has ever gone astray. I never ship anything important First Class, only priority mail. The people at the PO know me and they're all good people. We've had the same mail carrier in our neighborhood for the past 6 years. I have no complaints whatsoever.
 
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<br /> I have no complaints whatsoever.
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No complaints here either just amazed at the time it took and the box hadnt been destroyed or anything like that. I mail tons as you can very well guess and as of today only lost two packages so far. One about 6 months ago and one about 2 weeks ago, funny thing as the last one I shipped 2 boxes to the same person on the same day one makes it the other doesnt[:(]
 
Nolan,
The last year I lived in California, I lived in Sunnyvale and my daughter lived in Campbell with her biological father... everytime I mailed something to her, it first had to go to San Bruno to be "sorted" and then trucked back to Campbell... always took 3-5 days.. I could mail a letter to my mother in Oklahoma at that time, she would get it in 2-3 days.

Recently, I had similar event, I mailed 3 game calls to Fort Worth to a guy, and forgot to send his lanyard with the calls, so mailed them separate 4 days later.. they got there first... the calls were insured, but I didn't get a delivery confirmation... the buyer called re getting the lanyards, but not the calls, so I started a trace... they were at the post office in Fort Worth, but not delivered.. no notification to the buyer.. and he had never bothered to go check with the post office.. seems that an insured packaged must be signed for at the door and they will not leave it without sig....

I worked for a major airlines a few years ago and saw a lot of the inner workings of the post-office and how they handled mail.. Mostly, with the amount of mail that travels via the USPS and the amount of junk mail that travels vis the USPS.. I think they do very well.
 
My immediate next door neighbors frequently have to meet at the corner and 'sort; out the mis-delivered mail. Complain and the mail is even more mixed up. We figure that it is far easier to do our own sorting and get the mail to the right folks. This happens at least once a week and has for months. About the only thing that gets delivered correctly is our tax bills. [}:)]
 
If you are need to get pens to a customer, engraver or else in a timely manner, don't rely on USPS. I have had the same thing happen to me, over three weeks for some 60 miles - a pigeon could have walked that in the same time. I use UPS for such cases - it might cost a bit more than USPS, but insurance is much cheaper than postal service'.
 
All the delivery outfits have their 'misfits' working in them. Had a package going less than a hundred miles and the USPS took two weeks to deliver it. It was priority. FedEx here is worse, paid for overnight delivery once. It took a week for it to get to the person. And even them it was delivered to the wrong address and that person hand delivered it correctly. As for UPS, they hit and run so fast you couldn't catch them at your door to okay a package if your life depended upon it. So ya take your chances, no matter.....
 
I tried all the mailing options...none of them are perfect but all things considered, I am happiest with USPS.

For me the worst is UPS...they break almost everything! They do have the best tracking but that is useless if the item you get is damaged anyway.
 
Where I live, every time a package is sent to me via Fedex I cringe. They have a different driver every time, a lot of houses, including ours don't have numbers and our dirt road has no sign on it. Fedex once delivered an overnight package sent to me to a someone about a mile away. UPS has had the same delivery person in our area for 6 years, he knows where everyone lives. Even DHL manages to get it right, but Fedex rarely does. They are supposed to deliver a new camera lens today, but nobody will be home. I hope it requires a signature so they won't just leave it somewhere.

I guess there's an advantage in leaving in small town. When I lived in Denver, mail from a person in Boulder, about 30 miles away, sent to someone in Boulder first went to Denver to be sorted and then back to Boulder. I guess it was one of those "efficiency" things.
 
I'm not a fan of anything connected with Big Gov, including the USPS, which is now a semi-private/Gub'mnt entity. But, I have to admit, I have excellent success shipping and receiving. I use the 'click and ship' labeling method and my packages are picked up from my front porch. Deliver and receipt is always prompt. My wife is a bell collector and her purchases are usually by UPS and usually boxes are crushed, not so with mail. Problems with USPS should be reported with a no-nonsense (but polite) complaint.
 
My local PO is the pits. They will not deliver in town (1800 people) to street addresses. They will not notify of a package if it has a street address and no PO Box #. Many companies will not ship to or even let you put a PO box in the address line (Amazon does this on some items.) The MS Drivers License Bureau have stopped putting P.O. Boxes. But most ship via USPS.

So Lets see - Ship via USPS, but no Box numbers allowed. Local USPS will not deliver to street addresses or notify if a Box number is not included. Danged if you do, danged if you don't. All the local USPS people knows everyone, but they are too proud to do a little work!
 
You guys know that UPS is owned by the German Post.. maybe that why there records are so good??[;)][}:)]

There was once talk of privatizing the USPS to a company much like UPS.. don't know where that went. Since everyone has gone to a "HUB" system, all packages are sent to a central sort station somewhere in middle America, then flown or trucked back to destination... a package going next door via FEDEX will first make a trip to Memphis.. UPS to OHIO I think, USPS uses local sort centers in origin area, but there was a joke going around a few years ago... "Last week I cudn't even spell postman..now I are one."

Another story from my days with TWA... we had a trunk that a soldier shipped to himself from San Francisco to Germany... when he went to claim his trunk in Germany, it was a no-show... so we started a trace and traced the trunk in an all stations trace for at least two weeks.. no luck anywhere in the world... my job was load master on the cargo planes, so I checked each plane when it arrived before loading.. we were scheduling a flight and this particular plane was cycled back through SF and when I checked the cargo belly .. there sat the soldier's trunk.. it had been around the world no less than 5 times and wound up back where it started..
 
A friend of mine ordered a canister vac off the net. It was shipped ups. She ran the tracking number and it was to be delivered at a certain date. The day it was suppose to be delivered, it never showed. She then ran the number again and it showed it was in Seattle Washington. And she lives in Kalamath Falls Oregon. So, supposedly, it was 2 states away. She called UPS and asked where her package went, and they said it is on time to be delivered today in Seattle. She says, "How can that be, I live in Kalamath Falls, Oregon" The guy on the phone looked at the rest of the info in his computer and went silent. After a half hour of fighting with them, she gave up and hung up. About an hour later, there was a knock on the door. It was UPS with her shop Vac.
 
My experience with USPS is I shipped a package Global Priority. It was going to the UK. Now, I can't totally blame USPS on this one. I'm at partial fault. I shipped out the item bought from my wifes business and it was supposed to take 7 to 10 days to arrive. After about 2 weeks the customer emailed us asking if the items had been shipped. We told her Yes and shipped on this date. She was ok with that and said she would wait another week. After 4 weeks had passed, she said she would re-order the items and I wasn't responsible for the lost items. She did re-order and we shipped them out the same way. They arrived in 5 days. Customer was happy. A month went buy and we end up with a yellow card in our PO box. Knowing I didn't have anything ordered, going to the po box. We were curious. We had them put the item in a locker and when I opened the locker, there was the long lost package. Naturally, we refunded the cost of the package to our customer. But the problem was, the package had gotten wet and the UK address had been smeared. luckily, the return address had tape over it and didn't. Live and learn. I now make sure there is packing tape over all addressed packages. But, to take 2 months to get the package back to me, was a little ridicules.
 
I am very happy with USPS Priority mailing. They have improved there processes over the last couple of years so more can be done online. The only problem I have is some addresses don't work with their system. Sometimes, things as small as an unexpected space can cause a problem.
 
I can top that i sent my dad a letter for father day. I sent it 2 weeks early to make sure he got it in time. Well it took nearly 3 years before he got it. I then had my elated dad writing to say thank you for such a special lettler and I did not know what he was talking about...LOL so AUstralia post beats you and this was within the same state. It takes 6 hours to drive there..LOL..[:D]
Toni
 
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