The USPS SUCKS

[jlhoots]

What really sucks is UPS Mail Innovations. UPS is supposed to take packages to the post office for final delivery. Cheap is why vendors use it.

I've had 3 packages from different vendors disappear forever.  Never got to the post office.You then have to go to the original vendor to have them reshipped.

Look it up.

[Dan Gould]

I've never had those packages disappear, but DHL does the same thing and they are slow as molasses. 

[Aggie87]

1 hour ago, jlhoots said:

What really sucks is UPS Mail Innovations. UPS is supposed to take packages to the post office for final delivery. Cheap is why vendors use it.

I've had 3 packages from different vendors disappear forever.  Never got to the post office.You then have to go to the original vendor to have them reshipped.

Look it up.

That is frustrating for me as well, for a different reason.  In my town, the USPS does not deliver door to door.  So everyone gets a PO Box for free (and the post office is only about 2 miles from my house, so mostly no big deal).

However, every other service (Amazon, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc), delivers to my door.  So if something ships by UPS, I generally use my street address for delivery.  But if they swap it out (like UPS Mail Innovations does) and give it to the Post Office for final delivery, it sometimes gets returned to the sender because it has a street address on it, and not a PO Box.  

Usually I can figure this out in advance and it's not a big deal, but occasionally it messes up.  A package from Amazon UK did this - started with Amazon in England, used some other service for transport to the Royal Mail, transported to the US, picked up by UPS Mail Innovations in California, and then brought by UPS to my USPS box in Arizona.  So 98% of that trip worked fine with my street address, but then needed a PO Box number for final delivery.  

Luckily I was able to intercept it at the Post Office and convince them to let me have it before they returned it to the UK. 

[Dan Gould]

You would think that if the post office gives you a PO box for free they'd know the street addresses of the owners and automatically put it into your box.

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

You would think that if the post office gives you a PO box for free they'd know the street addresses of the owners and automatically put it into your box.

But that would make sense. 😜

[Tom 1960]

I had 2 small parcels/cds expected to be delivered on Thursday. Only 1 was in the mailbox Thursday night. That parcel was scanned about 610 pm. The other parcel was scanned delivered but nearly an hour earlier. That makes no sense.  Went to post office Friday and carrier admitted package was misdelivered. I'm hoping the CD will arrive still but not holding my breathe. Nothing in mailbox Friday night.

[Ken Dryden]

In our first house, one day I received a bundle of CDs in padded envelope, along with one that had a book. It was not addressed to me, anyone on our short street, or even anyone in our subdivision, but it had a delivery confirmation sticker.

I stuck it in my maiblox the next day and hoped they would get it to the right addressee.

[JSngry]

I had a human head misdelivered to me.

[ejp626]

On 12/12/2024 at 11:46 AM, Aggie87 said:

However, every other service (Amazon, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc), delivers to my door.  So if something ships by UPS, I generally use my street address for delivery.  But if they swap it out (like UPS Mail Innovations does) and give it to the Post Office for final delivery, it sometimes gets returned to the sender because it has a street address on it, and not a PO Box.  
 

I'm in a sort of similar bind.  UPS and FedEx absolutely refuse to deliver to P.O. Boxes.  But if you are mailing a passport to the US for renewal, they only give you a P.O. Box.  Well, as you may or may not have heard Canada Post workers were on strike for 3 weeks and they were forced back to work (and are seriously unhappy about that).  Due to the backlog, they simply refused to accept mail to the States for another week or so.  (Apparently, Canada Post can mail to P.O. boxes...)  The FedEx folks said I was completely out of luck.  UPS looked up the street address and hopefully the passport will get to the right place, but I have serious doubts.  🥺

[mikeweil]

This time I had a weird experience with UPS. I had ordered the Loren McMurray double CD from amazon.de, as this was much cheaper than having it sent from the US, but it turned out they had it shipped from the US branch, which used UPS. The tracking mails I received indicated it would be delivered by Hermes. Next was the infor it couldn't be delivered (although I was at home) and it would be delivered to aneighbourhoof pick up post which was to be located in the town of the delivery bas about 15 miles from where I live. Recepted was signed by some character MILOS. Thus the package was classified as delivered, but I had no idea where. Tracking number was unvalid at the Hermes tracking page! It should have revealed the adress of the pickup station. AI operated help pages at amazon or other sites ended in limbo. 

Then last night I searched my e-mails and found an obscure one leading to a UPS tracking note. On the UPS tracking pages the number was valid and hinted at  kiosk run by some guy named Milos a mile from where I live.  I went there today, hoping it had not been returned, and it was still there. The guy was amazed when I told him about the contradictory info I had been given. No hint at the amazon tracking page this was delivered by UPS, and it indicated the wrong town and did not identify the post where it had been deposited. I had amost given up on the package. He could have put it in my mailbox. Usually the services do when the package is small enough to fit in there. The number of dumba....... among delivery services has reached a new high point. I know the pay is as low as the stress is high, but still .....