Please help save the USPS!

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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,712
    https://apple.news/AS2xZHf_NQzGhlZm0Nk7qXQ
    Uhmm ok nothing unusual about this lol 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    josevolution said:
    https://apple.news/AS2xZHf_NQzGhlZm0Nk7qXQ
    Uhmm ok nothing unusual about this lol 

    Thankfully two thing:  It wasn't a USPS employee who did it and it was all bulk (i.e. "junk") mail.  But still, how odd!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,541
    An artist I like, Matt Leunig, did a piece to drum up postage sales to help save the USPS.
    Please take a look.

    Thanks

    https://scrapedknee.com/
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,650
    tempo_n_groove said:
    An artist I like, Matt Leunig, did a piece to drum up postage sales to help save the USPS.
    Please take a look.

    Thanks

    https://scrapedknee.com/

    thinking postcards sent to reps and senators is a good move......
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    tempo_n_groove said:
    An artist I like, Matt Leunig, did a piece to drum up postage sales to help save the USPS.
    Please take a look.

    Thanks

    https://scrapedknee.com/

    Nicely done!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,541
    mickeyrat said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    An artist I like, Matt Leunig, did a piece to drum up postage sales to help save the USPS.
    Please take a look.

    Thanks

    https://scrapedknee.com/

    thinking postcards sent to reps and senators is a good move......
    I like that idea!
  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/politics/usps-policy-changes-injunction/index.html
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    cp3iverson said:
    Well I did have movement on one of those records im waiting for today...after 34 days the tracking finally updated again. 

    maybe it’ll only be 22 days until the next update
    Slight update 7 days later...it’s now in TN somewhere.  I live nowhere near TN.   This LP is on such on a fascinating journey.   We’re on day 44 i think.   No one there seems to have a real answer for where it truly is or where its going next when they look it up.   
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,650
    important settlement today....


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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    Good job, Bullock! 
    That DeJoy needs to go DeJump in a lake!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,541
    I'm going to bump this as the USPS dispatching of packages is an absolute mess.

    Chaos would be calling it nicely.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    tempo_n_groove said:
    I'm going to bump this as the USPS dispatching of packages is an absolute mess.

    Chaos would be calling it nicely.

    I've been very fortunate to be more busy selling and shipping books than usual this last month or so.  I have not had a single complaint from any customers about time of arrival or condition of packages (of course the latter is because I package books well enough to survive unharmed just about anything a shipper can dish out, save maybe being run over by a truck).  In fact, in my 16 years selling books on-line and shipping them out via USPS, I have never had one package lost or damaged.  Not one!  The same is true as a buyer except in a few cases where the seller didn't know how to package properly (a common complaint of mine about other sellers).

    I am particularly pleased with how well USPS has done during this pandemic.  They are being simply hammered with work due to many people sending packages and buying goods on line in order to stay home.  At the same time, they have been hit with a number of set backs because of the chaos to the organization created by our lame-ass POTUS.  An on top of that, they have had to work understaffed to to COVID.

    MAJOR kudos to the USPS for amazing work during such hard times.  I send them positive feedback through the USPS survey at almost every opportunity. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    Yup. The USPS is a total mess at the moment, again... It seemed things were turning around a bit, but nope.

    I purchased a record from a shop in Detroit earlier this month (12/4). It sat at a post office in Dearborn for four days, then went to Pittsburgh, and is now in Virginia. I’m in Minnesota. Tracking hasn’t updated in almost a week.

    I really, really hope the Biden administration makes getting the USPS fixed a top priority. It’s a shame.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    I'm truly sorry some of you have had bad experiences with USPS.  That sucks.

    At the same time, I hope you at least appreciate the tremendous stress the folks who work for USPS are under- pressure from the public, confusion  caused by a dysfunctional government, over-worked, and short handed due to the pandemic.  Maybe put yourselves in their shoes and cut these folks a little slack.  You can always opt to not use their services.  Unless you are an unfortunate person who must rely on USPS for essential goods, no one is putting a gun to your head and saying you must ship via USPS.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,843
    edited December 2020
    Wildly inconsistent based on personal use this fall/winter, but I know to send anything I am worried about via UPS or FedEx.  
    I do see a huge change in the USPS delivering a shitton of amazon this year.  We for sure have to get the mail every day as if we miss a day and there was an Amazon shipment small enough to fit in the mailbox they might not have space to place anything new the next day.
    I do feel badly for the people working there.  Had a larger $ than usual amount in the mailbox for Ron, our carrier, this holiday.

    I still can't stand the people who work the local office, though.  :lol:
    I'll drive to another office if I need to go inside for anything 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Wildly inconsistent based on personal use this fall/winter, but I know to send anything I am worried about via UPS or FedEx.  
    I do see a huge change in the USPS delivering a shitton of amazon this year.  We for sure have to get the mail every day as if we miss a day and there was an Amazon shipment small enough to fit in the mailbox they might not have space to place anything new the next day.
    I do feel badly for the people working there.  Had a larger $ than usual amount in the mailbox for Ron, our carrier, this holiday.

    I still can't stand the people who work the local office, though.  :lol:
    I'll drive to another office if I need to go inside for anything 
    Oh man, that definitely sucks.  Our local P.O. people are like saints.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    For the hell of, I checked reviews of the two USPS locations near me. Both at 2.4%, citing mostly attitude and unhelpfulness from the staff.

    Our building has gotten much better though. For a while, mail was regularly misdelivered, mailboxes left wide open, etc. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    Four USPS post offices in our area are either closed or burned to the ground. All off the mail from those offices in being re-routed to our tiny P.O. in Diamond Springs. The employees there are totally overwhelmed with work but still giving excellent service and are very accommodating to many of the tens of thousands of people in this county who have been evacuated. I do not have a single word of complaint for these hard working folks, only good thoughts and gratefulness.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,650
    brianlux said:
    Four USPS post offices in our area are either closed or burned to the ground. All off the mail from those offices in being re-routed to our tiny P.O. in Diamond Springs. The employees there are totally overwhelmed with work but still giving excellent service and are very accommodating to many of the tens of thousands of people in this county who have been evacuated. I do not have a single word of complaint for these hard working folks, only good thoughts and gratefulness.

    no help from those postal workers displaced?
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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    Four USPS post offices in our area are either closed or burned to the ground. All off the mail from those offices in being re-routed to our tiny P.O. in Diamond Springs. The employees there are totally overwhelmed with work but still giving excellent service and are very accommodating to many of the tens of thousands of people in this county who have been evacuated. I do not have a single word of complaint for these hard working folks, only good thoughts and gratefulness.

    no help from those postal workers displaced?

    My understanding is that those displaced workers who can, are working at Diamond Springs P.O.  But some are struggling to find  a place for themselves and their families to stay.  Most of the shelters are full.  The section of the Walmart parking lot set up for campers is crowded.
    What our P.O. has done is set up a fenced off area with large tents as a distribution center and that's where most of the displaced workers are keeping busy.  But imagine working for hours outside where the air quality numbers are over 400.  I've only been outside the last two days for maybe a total of 10 minutes and yet still I'm coughing up shit and have a scratchy throat.  And we have an air cleaner running all day and night.  I don't know how those people are doing that work.  And then there are the fire fighters out on the line.  Fucking horrific.  These people have my total respect. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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