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Nick

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USPS Delays
« on: December 18, 2021, 10:22:43 pm »
Everyone else out there experiencing major delays?

I won an engine out of Ohio that was in my state the next day, but then it sat in the some location for 8 days… Finally had some movement, but now it’s been sitting for the last 2 days.

We have not had any mail (letters) delivered for the past 3 days and I ran into the mailman at the gas station. Our local post office that covers a town of 1400 and the surrounding area is down to one driver! The postmaster has been delivering packages late into the night… he stopped here with a package the other day at 4pm and his minivan was still full. The mailman that I seen at the gas station said they have well over 500 packages at the post office, but nobody to deliver them. I just now heard on the news that a nearby larger town (Rochester, MN) is emailing people to come pick up their packages because of the same problems. They were interviewing people picking up and they were waiting well over an hour in line.  :-\
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Re: USPS Delays
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2021, 10:44:00 pm »
Its a terrible situation here as well , our delivery gal told us they deliver mail one day then rotate to packages the next day , not both the same day. I have seen packages sit at our distribution Hub for several days before moving , & often times it moves from Indy right past us to Cincinnati & then right back to Indy because they cant handle the volume. My sister is a recently retired postmaster & she told me they are shuffling the mail around because they don't have the room for it. I usually sell many things at Christmas time on Ebay & just gave up on it this year do to the abysmal service from the post office & the potentially upset buyers that would get their packages very late....or not at all !
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Re: USPS Delays
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2021, 04:23:17 am »
It is interesting to observe that even in your country, in the US, the postal and parcel service is getting worse and worse. Here in Germany, the quality of delivery and the delivery time are also getting worse and worse, although the statements and the advertising of the delivery companies tell us the opposite. However, it's not (yet) as bad here as it is in the US. But the big companies have shown us time and again in recent years that they are capable of improvement😂. Perhaps the whole thing also has something to do with the staff. First of all, there is a shortage in the management of the postal companies and then there is a shortage of delivery staff. If the delivery staff were paid an appropriate salary, then more people would try to get a job as a delivery person again. In our case, however, they save on the salaries of the delivery staff in order to pay out the money they save to the shareholders. But what happens when the companies no longer earn anything?
I'm afraid I can't judge that because I earn less money than the bosses of the postal companies and as a result also have a much smaller head.😂
 
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Re: USPS Delays
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2021, 09:31:12 am »
This very problem is why I have been avoiding online purchases. I am fortunate enough to live in an area where most items and services are readily available. On Saturday mornings my wife and I go out for breakfast together, then run errands and go do our shopping. Since I spend so much time away from home for work, we look forward to our Saturday mornings together each week.

My sister is a postal carrier, and she says that the postal service is suffering from the same labor shortages as every other industry, and Covid infections just make it worse especially if they end up with more than one person gone at the same time for their 14-day quarantine. She also says that delivery issues within the postal service seem to affect some areas more severely than others.

At the same time that the transportation industry is having people shortages, Door Dash seems to be doing well. We were out to a local Mexican restaurant for supper last night and the Door Dash drivers showed up five times in one hour to pick up meals for delivery. I was quite surprised.
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Re: USPS Delays
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2022, 09:57:27 pm »
It’s that way in a variety of jobs right now.

A couple of weeks ago an accident had traffic backed up and ugly for two hours in front of my house. Police simply had nobody to send.  911 operator tells the driver “if you don’t need an ambulance, direct the traffic yourself”. Finally a wrecker came, two hours… when I saw a cop two days later, he said over half their uniforms were out sick or quarantined.

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Re: USPS Delays
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2022, 10:57:00 am »
  I don't want to make folks jealous, but here in Brooklyn the delivery services
for both mail and packages are pretty good.  I guess the workforce is so large
and the distances between deliveries are pretty small that it all works out.
And, I recently had items shipped from Germany and China that were delivered in
a reasonable time.  Even Morphy's got my engines to me before Christmas (after a
couple of calls).

  That said, they are delivering packages into the night, something that wasn't
done in the past.

  My newspaper hasn't been delivered in ten days.  I call a complaint line, but
they are not employees of the NY Post and neither are the delivery company or the
delivery sub-contractors.  So, nobody cares.  I'll probably be ending my subscription
soon and stop reading the paper.  It is $2 at the newsstand which is 4 times the
subscription price.  I'd rather spend the $$$ on steam engines, of course.

Good Luck,
Wayne