USPS Sucks.

[Hummer]

In the small rural post offices I use in Ward, Allenspark, Clifton and Palisade I find good, friendly people who go out of their way to provide good service. It's when I go to larger post offices like Boulder and Grand Junction that I find aloof and careless workers not inclined as public servants. I expect it's the union work environment. I also think the Covid situation has aggravated inefficiencies particularly in the distribution centers causing delays and mis deliveries. It's probably widened the door for thieves both within and outside the postal service.

Last summer and fall I had two packages disappear that were sent to my second address in Palisade. One was from a cousin in California and the other from a friend in France, both worth about $50. They should have either have been delivered or returned but without tracking numbers the USPS can do nothing. If only I could have GPS tags inserted in the packages.... I'd like to visit the recipients.

[FoxtArt]

USPS UPS and FedEx all do not have guarentee on overnight at this time.

They all sucks.

Took FedEx express overnight priority 3 days.

I figured out if your filing anything that can get by without an original-in-ink signature, hire a local courier to print it out and bring it in. That's the only way for things to be on time anymore (clerk filings, document requests in some places, courts in rare cases, etc). So many times they aren't even looking if it's original-in-ink anyway.

Often cheaper than overnight shipping too.

[thedave1164]

Used to be you had to get a clearance to work for the USPS, the military could send classified documents through the post office up “Secret” classification

I doubt they can do that anymore.

[JohnnyEgo]

Not sure where you are ordering stuff from but just about every vendor I ordered from gives me shipping options.

My biggest problem is I?m kind of a cheapskate so when the option is $8 for USPS or $15 for UPS or $21 for FedEx I have a hard time justifying paying the extra money.

These were made by a guy who runs his single owner/employee hobby business out of his home and sells the grips in the parts and accessories section of a forum very similar to this one. We're not talking Amazon here. The option was 'here's the price, send me a check and your address and I will ship it to you'. I try to avoid USPS with most places that give me the option, but it isn't always an option, and I don't fault him for shipping in the way that has presumably worked for him to this point. Instead, I fault the Windsor Post Office and whatever dirt-bag neighbor found these in his box and decided to call them his own.

[Irving]

Instead, I fault the Windsor Post Office and whatever dirt-bag neighbor found these in his box and decided to call them his own.

I don't want to give you nightmares, but I can just imagine these grips duct taped to a universal tv remote, a push mower, or the steering wheel of a Chrysler Sebring right now.

[BladesNBarrels]

I don't want to give you nightmares, but I can just imagine these grips duct taped to a universal tv remote, a push mower, or the steering wheel of a Chrysler Sebring right now.

Or worse yet, tossed in the trash because the recipient did not know what they were.
I had a large check delivered to the wrong person who did not look at the address on the envelope.
He thought it was advertising and tossed it in a basket to read later.
Days later he opened it, saw the amount of the check, and sent it on to me, with a note of apology.
We were frantic trying to track it, because it was reported as delivered.

[ChickNorris]

Fwiw I saved the photo to my phone for reference. If I see them I'll see about them being returned to you.


[Edit] my husband said I needed to edit my previous reply because my ' body & grips' humor wasn't appropriate.

[MrPrena]

I saw one of usps conveyor had one package rolling, but I could not find a video similar below.

[JohnnyEgo]

So after several days of providing constant application of middle-aged dad rage combined with 20-odd years of employer-subsidized desensitization to the soul-crushing repetition of administration and bureaucracy on my part, Jeremy called me today to tell me that they recovered my package and it would be waiting for me on his chair in his office. The kid at the counter who ran back to get it apologized to me on behalf of the post office several times, so I suspect, briefly, I was the talk of the office.

Not a great picture because the sun had already set by the time I got home with them, but here they are:

[Irving]

Alright!