UHHHG USPS Stinks!

**obuchiteck** · 3rd July 07, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Can you get in touch with the vendor? Perhaps they can try to track the shipment from their end.

Yea, I've e-mailed them and I'm just waiting for a reply. They are pretty good about communicating, never the less I’m still ticked at USPS!

**KiltedCelt** · 3rd July 07, 08:29 AM

The U.S. Postal Service is like must other Government Agency's... a huge debacle!!!

Cheers,

Mike

**hallmarktex** · 3rd July 07, 08:38 AM

Call the postmaster at your local post office. Those guys are typically very good about helping solve the problems.

**obuchiteck** · 3rd July 07, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by hallmarktex

Call the postmaster at your local post office. Those guys are typically very good about helping solve the problems.

Not in Chicago.. I’ve tired that but first the package was sent to about 4 different PO’s here. The other issue is that the only number I can get is there 1-800-USELESS number. I think I’ll get off early today.. I’ll swing by the closest one here and see what they say.

**Yaish** · 3rd July 07, 09:04 AM

Like all things, there is the good and the bad.

That freakishly fast shipping Jerry at Stillwater Kilts pulls off? USPS.

On the other hand, I had a Fedex order I placed a couple weeks ago, that was ordered overnight on a Thursday. The vendor shipped it Friday morning, Fedex didnt deliver it until Monday, despite having it within 12 miles of my house on Saturday morning.

**Tattoo Bradley** · 3rd July 07, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by Yaish

On the other hand, I had a Fedex order I placed a couple weeks ago, that was ordered overnight on a Thursday. The vendor shipped it Friday morning, Fedex didnt deliver it until Monday, despite having it within 12 miles of my house on Saturday morning.

Fedex is the only one that offers Saturday delivery. BUT, you have to pay extra for it.

**Yaish** · 3rd July 07, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Tattoobradley

Fedex is the only one that offers Saturday delivery. BUT, you have to pay extra for it.

That's the thing. I did pay for it, but they didnt ship. BTW, USPS delivers Saturday's too.

**Mike1** · 4th July 07, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Tattoobradley

Fedex is the only one that offers Saturday delivery. BUT, you have to pay extra for it.

Not so. UPS, DHL and the USPS all offer Saturday delivery. And the USPS does not charge extra for the overnight service they provide, 365 days each year. Overnight is overnight, be it the 24th of July or the 24th of December, it will be delivered the next day at the same price.

While it can be easy to get upset when a parcel ends up being delivered a day late, that can always be reconciled against the average 700,000,000+ pieces of mail that are processed for an average 145,000,000+ deliveries each day. 85,000,000 pounds of mail were delivered, per day, in 2006.

Take it from someone that has been using the services of all these companies for over well two decades - USPS is the most reliable of the bunch. And often the least expensive, to boot.

**RockyR** · 5th July 07, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by Tattoobradley

Fedex is the only one that offers Saturday delivery. BUT, you have to pay extra for it.

Not true... USPS delivers on Sat.

**Caradoc** · 3rd July 07, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by hallmarktex

Call the postmaster at your local post office. Those guys are typically very good about helping solve the problems.

Um, no. No, they are not.

A few years ago, our local mail carrier pepper-sprayed one of my dogs (she's the one who died last Friday) through a five-and-a-half foot tall chain link fence while she was in the back yard.

The USPS not only did NOT fire the carrier for misusing his pepper spray, they left him on the same route.

The USPS is no better than any real United States Government agency at solving internal problems. They're simply a privately-owned government subsidized monopoly, with all of the attendant problems that come with such a hairball.