USPS Issue

Ive actually never had a problem with USPS. I use mostly the priority mail flat rate shipping which often times gets there before I expected. UPS isn't to great in my area, pretty slow. As with everything though I'm sure its all about where you live for how good it is

I also am a fan of the USPS. Longest they ever took to get something to me was 10 days...we were have a level three gal named Isabelle visit us for a time. Atleast they don't burn the piles of undelivered mail after a strike.

Throw I wouldnt be worried yet. If you dont have them manually scan it in when you drop it off the packages will sit for a few hours before they do get scanned in. At least by my they dont ship out until midnight anyway so sometimes they wont scan it in till then. The tracking system isn't the greatest though I've had things not show up for a day or two then all of a sudden all the info is there and its almost to its destination

Leave off the last three words. All delivery confirmation does is confirm that it was delivered somewhere, not necessarily to the addressee. The only way to confirm delivery to the addressee is with restricted delivery in which case the addressee himself must sign for it (Someone else can not sign for him) and provide proof of identity. This costs considerably more.

Actually the USPS gets a bum rap. The service they give is really rather amazing especially at the cost they charge. Yes sometimes things get delayed but in general most everything is delivered in a very timely manner. And while you may hear of mor losses of regular packages with the USPS than with the other carriers, the USPS also handles more than ten times the volume usually at lower rates and they visit every household every day, somethings the others don't have to do. For those of us who ship coins they provide insurance, the other services don't. And there is no safer way to ship small valuables than Registered mail, ind it is inexpensive as well.

The reason the Post office is going broke is because they are told to act like a business, then they are given the work rules they have to operate under but are not allowed to charge rates that would pay for the services demanded. Other rules such as when you hire a new employee they have to assume he will work for them till retirement determine how much they would pay into his retirement account over that many years and then pay that whole amount in as a lump sum the first year. No other business has to do that. Here is another good one A lot of USPS employees are retired military. They will have a military pension and one from the postal service. Now if they got a job in industry the military would pay them one pension and the industry would pay them the other. But if they go to work for the Postal Service, the Post Office has to pay BOTH pensions.

This is why they are goiing broke.

Well, the post office just sent my package back saying I no longer live at my current address, yet somehow I still manage to get the junk mail... Odd that.

I've had this happen more than once. I once shipped a coin from Arizona to Texas and had it bounce back and forth between several stops in California for over a week before heading to Texas.

yea there has to be a more cost effective way of mailing something. no wonder they cant afford to stay open