usps

[badhoopty]

just a rant about the usps... i would have a c.l.a.w. winch in my hands right now if they werent completely undependable and lazy imho.

i'm sure service is better in more rural areas, but in downtown chicago i have nothing but problems with usps deliveries. i'm sure the volume in a big city is alot to deal with, but all the same i got a legitimate beef with them.

twice this year i have been told by usps that delivery attempts were made and nobody was present to sign for them. i get all my smaller stuff shipped to work. there is a BIG mail department at the building i work at that is open monday thru saturday and has a sizable staff. other than the driver just being lazy and lying about trying to deliver a package, i dont know how a delivery attempt could be made to a building that has its own mail department. its not like the 50-some story high building just sprung up overnight either.

another time i had bumpers shipped to my house for my 1:1, i waited all day and delivery man never came, but online it said an attempt was made. i suspect the driver just didnt want to carry something heavy...

and to add to the frustration, when i call usps they cant tell me the address to where the package is shipping. i have my name, my tracking number, and the addy, yet the person on the other end says they cant confirm whether or not the address i give matches the one they have.

just wondering if usps is crappy in other more metro areas as well.

 

[Scattman]

My local P.O. always takes care of me.

Helps that I live in between 3 towns with a total of 5 stoplights between the 3 of them. :ror:

 

[johnnyh66]

Man, when I lived in Rogers Park it was terrible!
But now, up in Evanston... the mail man delivers with a smile on his face "thumbsup"

If Norman Rockwell was still around... he'd paint Evanston ;-)

 

[badhoopty]

was promised the both times i called the usps that i was to get a callback before end of business day.

its now the end of the business day.

i flipping hate the usps in chicago.

 

[GRIMGREG]

I almost always get things 2 days before any tracking info says I should. Hell last week I ordered parts for work on a "3-4 buisness day" projection, I got the package an hour before the shipping confirmation e-mail.

UPS & FEDEX on the otherhand are terrible here, almost complete opposite of USPS. Broken, late, or lost is always the case with those 2.

 

[Charlie-III]

My local P.O. always takes care of me.

Helps that I live in between 3 towns with a total of 5 stoplights between the 3 of them. :ror:

I'm similar, I live in a "small town" in the NY Metro area. They just leave small stuff in the mailbox at the road, or up on my porch.
Tracking is usually decent and I tend to get my package when it states I should.

FedEx & UPS are similar to USPS.

 

[JeremyH]

The carriers at my home and office are both excellent and always show up at the same time. They both leave the packages in the proper location (the lady at my home will actually put the package over my side fence, then write a note on a piece of junk mail telling me where it is).

Now, the people at the USPS offices and who route the packages....that's a whole different story!

 

[sumquak]

I almost always get things 2 days before any tracking info says I should. Hell last week I ordered parts for work on a "3-4 buisness day" projection, I got the package an hour before the shipping confirmation e-mail.

UPS & FEDEX on the otherhand are terrible here, almost complete opposite of USPS. Broken, late, or lost is always the case with those 2.

X2 "thumbsup"

i live east of sacramento and my PO box is the place i ship to, USPS rocks.

i leave a note for ups to leave packages at my door but they still end up throwing them over the fence onto my patio. nothing damaged yet but only time will tell. saw a new driver last week but still don't trust them and try to avoid using them.

 

[johnnyh66]

My USPS guy is really good.
When I get a package, new body or bearings, he rings the bell and if I don't answer he walks around to the back of our place, past the neighbors insane rottweiler and up 2 flights of stairs to leave the package on the back porch.
I gotta give this guy a Christmas bonus "thumbsup"

 

[JeremyH]

I gotta give this guy a Christmas bonus "thumbsup"

Find out what he drinks and leave a nice bottle on the back porch. "thumbsup"

 

[ghtpdm5]

usps is the best way to get things here, second being ups. my ups guy knows to put stuff in the shed if its a materials order, or put it in the house for personal stuff. usps has never dropped the ball on delivery date for me, they're usually on time or early. ups has been late a couple times, and fedex is a damn nightmare. i live in a county of 16,000 people and 2 stop lights, i know all the drivers by name. i'm sure the volume of a city's mail would mean some packages slip through the cracks, its inevitable really when you're handling millions of letters and packages a day. rant all you want, but with the volume usps deals with daily, i can see why things happen.

 

[badhoopty]

i shouldnt complain i suppose...

...but saying an attempt of delivery was made when it obviously wasnt, and then having to deal with people who just dont care, gets to me.

 

[JeremyH]

...but saying an attempt of delivery was made when it obviously wasnt, and then having to deal with people who just dont care, gets to me.

File a complaint with the Postmaster General. I have in the past and the guy actually responded...

 

[badhoopty]

File a complaint with the Postmaster General. I have in the past and the guy actually responded...

how would i do that? usps website has a form of sorts and i already did that.

 

[neillarson]

Badhopty, I had the same problem when shipping to my Office. I am in the Chase Tower. Mail comes to the 48th floor mailroom and the mailroom distributes the mail. It always seemed to take longer to get it than having it go to the burbs. Plus, if your not at your desk, half the time the mail clerk ends up putting your package in a mail bin in one of our print rooms. Just found a package that was received 5 days ago in there. So now that just go to my house.

 

[JeremyH]

how would i do that? usps website has a form of sorts and i already did that.

I wrote a letter to him.

Patrick R. Donhoe
Postmaster General
475 L'Enfant Plaza SW
Washington DC 20260-0010

 

[LDogg]

USPS has been horrible lately for me. I have a priority mail package on the way. It shipped Tuesday, and got to Denver and was processed thorugh the sort facility yesterday morning at 3am. I am an hour away from Denver, in the 2nd largest city in Colorado, and its still not out for delivery as of 10am today.....the estimated delivery date was yesterday. Why does it take over 24 hours to go 60 miles? Some days it makes it that day, lately though it sits for a whole day in Denver. Pisses me off, ups, never have this problem.

 

[JeremyH]

USPS has been horrible lately for me.

Dont you guys have some huge wildfire going on over there right now?

That might have something to do with it...

 

[LDogg]

we do, but I don't think that would cause it. This isn't the first time it's sat for over 24 hours. it's happened several times over the last couple months. Sometimes it makes it in 2 days, and sometimes it sits for 24 hours in denver...

 

[BJoe]

I haven't had any issues here the Burbs, byt there was a decent length of time I wouldn't deal with the West Chicao P.O. because the guy who ran it was a prick and would just drive to neighboring Winfield and use their's (that one isn't too much farther away, just in the other direction) instead. Last couple times I've been to this P.O., it seems "different" and I haven't seen the "prick", so it looks as though he has either left or retired and things seem to have chanfed for the better there.