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    When I get shipments from the states I request USPS. I definately won't go UPS with their hiked up duties and brokerage fees. Now this is for cross border shipments but for me things get tied up when Canada Post get their hands on the package. Then again Canada to UK is lightening fast as compared to North America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tattoobradley View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallmarktex View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallmarktex View Post
    Call the postmaster at your local post office. Those guys are typically very good about helping solve the problems.
    Quote Originally Posted by Caradoc View Post
    Um, no. No, they are not.
    I would suggest that is hard to generalize about an organization so vast. I have never once had a problem and have always found the Postal employees I have dealt with to be friendly, polite, and helpful. I don't disbelieve Caradoc's experience, which was very unfortunate and wrong. People are like eggs, most are good but the bad ones can really taint things for you.

    I'd rather try to have some faith and hope for the best, rather than assume the worse.

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    USPS - Universal Slow and Poor Service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panache View Post
    I would suggest that is hard to generalize about an organization so vast. I have never once had a problem and have always found the Postal employees I have dealt with to be friendly, polite, and helpful. I don't disbelieve Caradoc's experience, which was very unfortunate and wrong. People are like eggs, most are good but the bad ones can really taint things for you.

    I'd rather try to have some faith and hope for the best, rather than assume the worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panache View Post
    People are like eggs, most are good but the bad ones can really taint things for you.
    My own experience with the United States Postal Service indicated to me that while there may be good people working for them, the organization itself is corrupt beyond redemption.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tattoobradley View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yaish View Post
    That's the thing. I did pay for it, but they didn't ship. BTW, USPS delivers Saturday's too.
    My delivery problems have mostly been with DHL, never the USPS. In fact, I had the USPS deliver a package on a Sunday because it had been sent for overnight delivery. I was totally confused when I answered the door and a lady was standing there with my package. I looked and said, "I thought this was Sunday". She said "it is, but when a package is overnighted, we deliver it, no matter what day it is". She wasn't wearing a postal carrier's uniform, but she was driving a mail truck. That is the service I've gotte from USPS. I won't even go into my DHL problems. And although they are less stupid and fewer in number, I've also had some problems with Fedex and UPS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike1 View Post
    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.
    Amen to that!
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