I’m running like 1/5 in packages actually arriving from a variety of sources. Obviously there’s unprecedented volume with covid, USPS changes and the holidays. But … What actually happens here? I’ve seen video of tractor trailers lined up, supposedly full of packages, in Detroit. But I’m still bewildered–packages simply stop moving through the system, stop being updated/scanned?
Will they ever work through the backlog or does the post office at some point decide, “let’s just burn it all down? Distribute all those packages to workers to take home, so we can start over? Dump millions of pieces of mail in a river?”
Wife just received a pair of gloves this morning that had been in transit with USPS since November. That’s the 2nd old USPS package that arrived this week. So I assume they’re going to slowly work through them.
I got a refund from Amazon for some boots that vanished, so I’m hoping they wind up delivered after all. I really wouldn’t mind taking a free pair of boots from them.
I think most of them will eventually make it to their destination but I’ve experienced a couple long delays. My wife had a package disappear so she got a refund and reordered the product, a week later the canceled order and the 2nd order showed up on the same day
My buddy sent me beer on 12/2 from Missouri. It ended up coming to Indy a couple days later, then it shipped to Delaware for 3 weeks, now it’s back here on the truck today.
USPS economy rate shipping, especially media mail, is processed at the lowest priority and will often just sit in a pile somewhere until somebody decides they have the time to deal with it.
I think they do have every intention of getting everything delivered. I’ve shipped out a lot of stuff over the past 4 months and some of it has stopped moving for weeks at a time, with 5 weeks between shipping and delivery being the longest. Nothing has ever completely disappeared yet though.
It also seems pretty random what gets delayed and what doesn’t. I dropped two packages in the package bin at the same time once (this is a fish move btw), and one of them was delivered before the other one even got its first scan.
The packages which have gone missing are being delivered to a PO Box, so no this is doubtful unless they were pulled out of the back of the truck. … I’m not so concerned with my individual packages so much as what appears to be a huge wave of this and how it will get dealt with.
I had a problem getting a new Comcrap modem via UPS earlier this year, did some research, and found a UPS sub on Reddit: Reddit - Dive into anything
Skimming through there the picture I got was that UPS has basically been buried since the start of COVID and have never been able to fully catch up. I imagine the holidays didn’t help with that. I don’t know if there’s much one can do as a customer to improve things unfortunately. Maybe it will get better in the months to come?
P.S. I ended up buying my own modem, and hand-delivering my two rented modems to return them to the Comcrap store. Recently passed the “break-even” point in the buy vs. rental equation and now it’s pure profit for me!
Then again, so was the CBD oil I ordered but it took 2 weeks to arrive. Guess they felt bad and gave me a free dime bag of “hemp” that I didn’t ask for. Would’ve smoked it if I didn’t need to fly that day.
One of my daughter’s most wanted Christmas presents has been lost in USPS hell since mid December. History shows it getting checked in to a CT facility 12/18 and nothing since. I guess that’s what happens when you sabotage the USPS to try and steal an election. At this point, I’m hoping it gets here for her birthday on 2/12.
