I know, trivial in light of recent events, but -- is USPS anywhere near back to normal in your area?

[eppur_se_muova]

Last edited Mon Jan 11, 2021, 03:32 PM - Edit history (1)

Everything (in north AL) seems to be going through Stockbridge, GA and/or Austell, GA, and taking days to move to the next stop. One package went from IL to GA in one day, then took 5 days to get to neighboring B'ham, AL. Now 5 days in B'ham and still not on its way. Two others 'delayed in transit' for 3-5 days. ETAs kept getting incremented, then no estimates given. I've even had regular letters delayed beyond the ETA.

The damage may have been done for the sake of the Nov. election, but it hasn't gone away after the election.

OTOH, we got a Sunday delivery on 1/3 -- letter, not a package -- and they made a Sunday package run, at least, today (just not for us). It seems like USPS workers are putting in overtime, but that's not enough if the system has been thoroughly sabotaged.




ETA: Now getting this banner message:

Alert: USPS is experiencing unprecedented volume increases and limited employee availability due to the impacts of COVID-19. We appreciate your patience.

Don't know if it was already showing on other pages or just now added. But I guess it figures.

[montanacowboy]

1. NO

Still missing package from December 4th. Just try and track it, good friggin luck. You fill out the form and nothing happens. Then they send you a message asking how well they have done in locating your package. What? what did they do? Nothing. You send another message and some pre-automated message comes back to tell them how great they did. It's round and round and nothing ever happens. I am more than fed up and sick and tired of this whole shit show.

[PJMcK]

2. We're in Northeast Pennsylvania on the Delaware River

We haven't noticed any impact in our mail over the past 10 months. We moved up here at the beginning of the pandemic and opened a post office box because it's so rural we don't get mail delivery. At the beginning, all of our mail was forwarded to us. As we changed our address with our banks, services, etc., mail started arriving at the PO box on time.

From all that I've read and heard, our experience has been unusual.

[brewens]

3. My mailman here in Idaho told me not much was different, but that was a couple months

ago now. A month or so before that, my Bubba Wallace t-shirt took forever to get here. That may have been from delays back east or high demand. I suspect a lot of guys like me bought his gear. I heard almost nothing of mail problems, but I wouldn't be surprised if Idaho was intentionally left out of the disruption campaign.

[rgbecker]

4. Waiting for Christmas package for my wife!

Tracing shows it got to Harrisberg Pa. from Ill. on Dec. 16th and then...Nothing. Fell off the truck I guess.

Waiting in Massachusetts.

[hlthe2b]

5. I have paid the approx $26 for guaranteed overnight mail three times in the past couple of weeks

NONE have been delivered on time, but rather at least 24-48 hours delayed-- and they are having to process refunds.

These were cross-country shipped envelopes. Local mail seems to be ok.

[cmeneer]

6. A small envelope-18 days!

My opera singing niece in NYC sent me a cd recording of her singing Christmas songs on December 17. I received it yesterday. Not normal!

[enki23]

7. The entire office is out for COVID quarantine.

They brought replacements in from elsewhere, but the place is reportedly almost literally swimming in undelivered mail and packages all over the floor etc. So... no.

[blueinredohio]

8. My husbands pension check was mailed out December 29th

He received it January 9th. So pretty slow here.

[wishstar]

9. Finally just got Christmas cards mailed 3 weeks ago, other mail taking about 9 days

Friends just got Christmas gifts mailed by priority mail over 3 weeks ago. One friend is still waiting for vital meds mailed 3 weeks ago from her Blue Cross CVS mail prescription service so she had to get doc to call into a local pharmacy.

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. Nope. Sent a defective eBay purchase back to the seller on Dec 9th, and it arrived Jan 4th.

Ordered something from Amazon a week before Christmas, and it still hasn't arrived.

[Mariana]

11. No. Not even close. nt.

[PassingFair]

12. No

Suburb of Detroit. Line out the door to mail packages. After waiting about a half hour, got inside to find ONE employee manning the counter.

[LisaM]

13. Stuff I mailed later seems to be getting there faster.

I sent a package Priority Mail on December 11th. It got there on the 24th.

But on the 22nd, I sent three packages (Express Mail) and they all actually got there on time, which I was hardly expecting. One made it from an island in Washington state to Maryland in two days and when I found that out, you could have knocked me off my seat with a feather.

[Butterflylady]

14. Got a flier from a local grocery store with a valuable

Coupon in it, $30 off a $70 order. I really could have used that. The coupon issued date was 12/15/2020 to 12/31/2020. I received the flier this past Monday. Yeah you could day the post office is a little behind. I'm in PA.

[spanone]

15. they didn't mess with USPS just for the election, it's been a lifelong wet dream of reTHUGS...

to destroy it.

[eppur_se_muova]

19. True that. And they created that Board of Governors to make it harder for Dems to protect USPS.

I don't believe the Postmaster Gen'l can be fired by Biden. He may have to be impeached, which he has certainly earned.

[in2herbs]

16. The workers at my PO are good but some of my mail was not delivered causing me to incur

$28 in late charges on one credit card. This has never happened and the bill was mailed 10 days before due. Also H bought gifts on line and they've never been delivered to PO, according to the workers there and they have looked for them. For almost 25 years and until Dejoy the mail service was impecible. Biden must push its restoration in order to be on time for mail in ballots in 2022.

[Initech]

17. Finally got my license plates after nearly 3 months after ordering them!

[Grasswire2]

18. no problem here in PNW city.

Packages that I sent priority mail on Friday arrive on Long Island on Monday. As always.

Mail delivery every day here by 4 p.m.

[LisaL]

20. No, it's slower than during the election.

NT

[Generic Brad]

21. Not even close

The Express Mail package of Christmas gifts I mailed my daughter on 12/6/20 is supposedly still sitting in Nashville and due to be delivered on 12/10/20. I insured it and submitted a claim last week and received no response. Yesterday I got a satisfaction survey emailed to me wondering how satisfied I was with the resolution of my claim.

This is beyond incompetent.

[Brother Mythos]

22. No. We're still waiting on a small packaged to be delivered from ...

the Lehigh Valley, PA to near Williamsport, PA. It was shipped to somewhere in Virginia, then to somewhere in Maryland, then to Harrisburg, PA, and it's still in transit four (4) weeks after being shipped Priority Mail.

On top of that, our regular mail delivery is typically three (3) weeks late.

[fleur-de-lisa]

23. Not in New Orleans.

[MineralMan]

24. No. Everything is taking at least a day longer to get to me.

Even first class mail.

[Ferrets are Cool]

25. It's better than November and December

but that isn't fair considering the amount of stuff they had to deliver during that time.

[Midnight Writer]

26. Worse. I talked to some local Postal workers who are friends. They are embarrassed.

Spent their lives working for the Postal Service and are now watching it be sabotaged from within.

Examples: Took me 16 days to get my water bill that was mailed at the PO less than two miles from me. Bank statement took 12 days. Utility bill-6 days. These are all things that used to arrive like clockwork.

[Wellstone ruled]

27. Not expecting service to improve anytime soon.

Thousands of USPS Employees pulled the pin and retired before New Years as per our Carrier. He was contemplating the same,but,decided to take all the overtime he can at his Station. Close to three hundred openings here in Vegas .

[eppur_se_muova]

28. I guess I can't blame them. Sure adds to the chaos though.

Plus, it's going to start drawing down the pension fund, which is the dead albatross Uglicans chose to hang around USPS's neck.