USPS

[O2HeN2]

I use FedEx Ground for the vast majority of my shipping needs and I think this incident will only cause me to do more so.

Happens to everyone. I had a FedEx package going from Texas to Colorado and it went to New Jersey, bounced around there a couple of days even hitting one facility twice at which point "Exception " appeared on the tracking page and I had it in my hands the next day with overnight stickers all over it.

Still took about a week for what normally was a two day trip.

Do have to give kudos to FedEx for upgrading it to overnight when they saw what was happening.

O2

[Aloha_Shooter]

In the 1996 elections, I was stationed in Maryland. I mailed my absentee ballot back to Colorado about 3.5 weeks before Election Day. It was delivered two weeks later ... to my townhouse in Maryland! So I walked the ballot back down to the Post Office, a mere 0.75 miles from the house, and mailed it out again, noting the TO address for the Clerk & Recorder's Office and my address in the FROM box. A few days after Election Day ... yep, found the same ballot back in MY mailbox.

[buffalobo]

I'd still rather use the Postal Service over FedEx or Brown. In my experience they are cheaper and FAR more reliable.

But, yeah...typical gov't agency in terms of efficiency of operation.

^This.


Sent from my electronic ball and chain.

[rbeau30]

So today I watched the postal delivery truck drive up to my mail box, and I watched the delivery guy put my mail in the box without even leaving the cab.

Then I went out to get the mail, and found an attempted delivery card in the mailbox, with today's date on it, saying that the delivery guy had attempted to deliver a package to us but we didn't answer the door.

While I was staring out the window, this USPS ninja escaped his running van, darted unseen to my door, ran the doorbell silently, and slipped back to the van where he filled out the card. All without me seeing it even right under my eyes. It was awesome.

This has happened to me 3 times with fedex. When expecting a package I was home ALL day and watching the tracking until the tracking showed up that they attempted delivery at 5:__ PM when I was home. Didn't even see a fedex truck drive by.

[kawiracer14]

This has happened to me 3 times with fedex. When expecting a package I was home ALL day and watching the tracking until the tracking showed up that they attempted delivery at 5:__ PM when I was home. Didn't even see a fedex truck drive by.

USPS always does this bullshit with me. Even if a signature isn't required they still won't leave any package at all at my house. The other nice thing is the post office is open from 9:00 to 5:30 in my hood which means I have to either drive back home at lunch or I have to rush home as fast as I can to get to the post office before they close.

FedEx also refuses to leave packages even though there is a safe place to leave them, I have explicit delivery instructions in my FedEx profile and they don't require a signature.

UPS guys run from truck to my door, ring doorbell, drop package and run back to truck, always.

[ChuckNorris]

Aren't stamps going up in price again?

That should solve everything!

[clodhopper]

I have had miserable luck with USPS. Lots of lost packages with no explanation or interest in tracking them down. UPS has gone down hill a bit too. FedEx is my go to for shipping, best online tools, tracking and error response.

Recently needed an overnight envelope sent from Colorado to Chicago. The wife said USPS overnight was a few bucks cheaper. I told her to use FedEx, but didn't want to fight about it. She sent it USPS. The guaranteed 24hr delivery took 5 days, and then it took another 4 days to get reimbursed for failure of service. Miserable, just miserable.

FedEx certainly isn't perfect, but of the options....

[RblDiver]

Love seeing "Photos - Do Not Bend." ...And USPS bends them.

As for FedEx, my mom sent a care package to my sis at college (probably ~7-8 years ago or so, so not exactly recent). This was from Colorado to LA. It went missing for a few days, only to turn up in Pennsylvania on the day it was supposed to be delivered. ...They then sent it back by _truck_, meaning it got there quite late (she was then home for the holidays). ...Brilliant!

[hatidua]

Well, I went to the main post office in town here this morning with my tracking number and was told "it's still in transit". Boulder -> Kansas -> Denver -> Dallas.....theoretically en route to Denver.

Last week the USPS driver tossed a laptop power-supply at my front door hard enough to put a dent in a solid wood door....even though it only weighed 9oz and was in a bubble envelope. While sitting indoors, it sounded as if someone had thrown a rock at the door. I quickly ran to the door, opened it, and the USPS van sped away. Just peachy.

[rbeau30]

Well, I went to the main post office in town here this morning with my tracking number and was told "it's still in transit". Boulder -> Kansas -> Denver -> Dallas.....theoretically en route to Denver.

Last week the USPS driver tossed a laptop power-supply at my front door hard enough to put a dent in a solid wood door....even though it only weighed 9oz and was in a bubble envelope. While sitting indoors, it sounded as if someone had thrown a rock at the door. I quickly ran to the door, opened it, and the USPS van sped away. Just peachy.

That is a good way to get shot around these parts.