Anyone else having agonizingly slow usps delivery?
zas107
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I have about 14 packages that have been at the sort facility closest to my post office for anywhere from 5 to 7 days now including priority mail packages. Everything seemed fine until a week or so ago. Just wanted to see if anyone else was having trouble getting their coins.
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LOL- Call me in a month and then you can whine. Two separate 37 & 40 day deliveries here.
WS
Holy Cow! I've had that happen a few times over the years. Last year I had a package shipped in April and I received it in December. But out of 10's of thousands of packages delivery times usually at worst are a week over their estimated date.
Most of the time ok in Texas. Shipping (foreign medals) form Europe is another story. Germany is apparently impossible to the US unless one is willing to pay something like 50EU. Spain, special permit 30 days. Then shipped 25 days ago, not here yet. Italy was fortunate to ship thru their London office but still over 60 days due to COVID-19. Russia, special permit required which YOU have to get, I passed. UK is fine. The permit stuff has probably been there a while, but new to me as I'm new to that market. Shipping I attribute to the virus.
i almost made a thread asking about this and how it relates to the 2 big issues going on the past couple/few months and if there are places it may be too risky to try and purchase from/ship through or if we are at a place of enough stability to keep plowing ahead.
i have one from texas that is well behind schedule but for the majority, usps has been on point.
I've been told that the closest processing plant nearest to me is 5 days behind due to both a less than full staff and increase in package volume.
I did have one that took about 14 days from San Antonio to Dallas, but's that's unusual.
Waiting on one... Only two days overdue, but coming from Hawaii....Not worried. Cheers, RickO
It's gonna get even slower.
The Postal Service has a new Postmaster General.
He stated that to curb excessive overtime the USPS might hold undelivered mail over to the next delivery day.
I really believe that the Government is ruining the Postal Service so that they could privatize it.
If that happens.................if you think it's bad now, JUST WAIT.
Pete
Same as always.
I was about to post the same thing. Some are crazy slow and some are crazy fast these days. I would say half of my shipments have gone from 2-3 day delivery times to 10 days give or take.
Thank goodness so far all the buyers seem to understand...even European buyers who are waiting 4-6 weeks!
very unusual, likely a local issue of which I am sure there are others.
Hats off to all usps employees who are doing their best to get us our mail in these difficult times. Home delivery in a stay at home environment should be viewed as a blessing.
An "as long as it arrives safely" attitude is warranted considering the conditions under which they now work.
USPS is at the top of my list among faith in government services. I know they are semi government, but they do answer to the government.
The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong
I agree wholeheartedly with all long as it arrives safely. I have requested my voter registration card twice, and that has not arrived, nor has a replacement driver's license. Both ordered/requested 3 weeks ago or so. Haven't had a piece of mail in 4 days! You are right, it is probably a local issue. The USPS is a national treasure as far as I am concerned, despite the issues I have had over the years.
Yes...slower than normal delivery.
But here is the deal.
A facility has someone working there who tests positive for Corona virus. (This is obviously hypothetical and applies to any business today.)
The other employees (who may not have even been in any sort of contact with the infected person) run to get tested.
They know they cannot work until test results are back.
It is a mini-vacation for them.
Then you have those who wake up and sneeze (or pretend they sneezed or coughed) and call off work.
What can the employer do?
Run short-staffed and punish those who are willing to pitch in and take up the slack.
Eventually those employees tire of being overwhelmed and stressed out and they start calling off.
And around and around it goes.
Delay may very well be in getting it TO the post office for delivery.
The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong
No complaints about delivery times in SoCal.
My Wednesday relief driver almost never delivers an envelope, just the junk 1/2 size newspaper ads in one package. I usually get 2-3 envelopes a day from my regular carrier.
Everyone, including usps, would benefit if they temporarily suspended accepting and delivering bulk rate (junk) mail. Junk mail is a clog in the delivery pipes.
The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong
I have found that the efficiency of UPS varies by the area. I my area, I believe it UPS stands for "Unreliable Package Services," which I have mentioned to the UPS agents when things get lost. The worst part is sometimes the UPS driver has my package to deliver, doesn't deliver the package, but still notes that is was delivered!!
It's already an independent bureau. It can not be privatized any further as no private entity is going to agree to deliver daily to every backwoods town for the same price.
4th class volume is pretty small these days. On what do you base this statement?
I base it completely on the amount of junk mail I receive. Sometimes it even clogs the mailbox. LOL
The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong
my packages pre corona always arrived to the buyers in about 3 to 4 days max, so a package mailed on Monday would get there Wednesday 80 percent of the time and Thursday 20 percent of the time. now packages i mail on Monday are arriving on Friday, i had one package take 8 days about 2 weeks ago, slowest package was 10 days about 4 years ago
Slow
but still steady.
The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong
In the past 10 days I had to pay buyers for 4 tracked packages that were held up so long that the buyers filed with eBay & the cases were ready to close. I filed a trace for each one and noted when found they were to returned to me. All four were found and delivered instead to the buyers and not returned to me. Luckily for me they were all honest buyers (three were previous customers) who notified & paid me as I would have had no recourse through eBay.
I chalk it up to the Strange Days Syndrome we are in -- I too am a strong supporter of the USPS overall despite the individual employees that sometimes jump up and leave their mark on the system.
I had just the opposite. I shipped registered on Thursday July 2 expecting up to two weeks to get there. They had it Monday July 6. Chicago to Sarasota.
Yes, I notice the slow down or even shut down in the regular mail as well. The other couriers, UPS, FEDEX and Amazon, seem to be far better and more prompt. But in saying that, my brother is a mailman, he sez, the post office is handling a vast quantity of the couriers packages mentioned above. What?
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.For stuff I'm getting, I don't know since I don't look up the tracking info- it gets here when it gets here. For stuff I'm selling, I'm getting a lot of "where's my stuff" emails lately, primarily because eBay insists on telling buyers when the USPS is going to deliver their first class package. Of course, the post office doesn't guarantee delivery dates for first class mail, but that doesn't stop eBay from wasting my time having to deal with buyers who don't understand that.
Ebay's stupid algorithm tell buyers when to NORMALLY expect their item. All this does is upset buyers when the item has not yet arrived. Ebay needs to end this stupidity, especially when the mail has slowed. Listings clearly state handling time and method of shipping. Ebay provides buyers with tracking numbers. That is all a buyer needs.
The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong
I have a problem with the mailman here. He is so damn lazy that when he is supposed to bring the coin to the door for me to sign he just puts the little pink slip, that he’s supposed to put on the door, in the mailbox that says-Sorry I missed you-and moves on. He missed me alright cause he doesn’t come to the door! I had no choice but to file a complaint, for all the good that does. Two hours on hold. Yes TWO HOURS!!!!
So my answer to your question is a resounding yes.
late email is better than no mail. Anything coming from the East coast has been taking longer than "normal".
Postal carriers have been instructed to sign themselves for delivery when signature is required. He should however ring your doorbell while maintaining his "postal" distance. Persons making deliveries from numerous outfits are being instructed not to hand anything to a customer and then take it back such as the electronic box you sign. However they have been instructed to ring a doorbell when a signature is required and hand the package to the customer or set it down in front of the customer. It helps to know which local branch your carrier works out of (not always the closest one) and call a supervisor there.
The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong
I will state categorically that once the mail hits my post office, I have had nothing but great service from the locals - including one time a clerk brought a package out to my house on his lunch hour because he knew I was waiting on it, and was close by to where he lived. I've had clerks go back and sift through piles of mail for something that tracking showed came in but was not delivered yet.
And I remember that about twice a year I take a box of candy in as a thank you. And I leave bottles of hand sanitizer in the mail box.
I'm a huge fan of our local PO and our letter carrier. Unbelievable what they often have to put up with from the public. I was delayed 15 minutes the other day while our clerk tried to explain to some ignoramus why the USPS has no control over delivery within Turkey. He was amazingly patient, I couldn't do his job.
Agree 100%. eBay doesn't have the item, doesn't package it and doesn't deliver it to the shipper. eBay may not even know what arrangements the buyer and seller have made regarding shipping. They need to stay out of the way here.
Mail delivery slow, Many times late, or very late. But always arrives eventually. Under the current circumstances, no complaints from me.
In general, I am very pleased with the USPS service level and use it almost exclusively. However, there are exceptions. I just shipped three high end CC Morgans out on Monday via Priority Mail. Two of the three shipments arrived in the normal 2 - 3 day time frame. The third package took five days to travel from Oakland to Ft Meyers.
In speaking to APMEX Logistics yesterday, they mentioned they were having lots of issues with USPS and are using UPS as their preferred carrier.
There are highs and lows to just about everything...the post is no exception. My USPS Priority mail package made to Anaheim, CA (still a little ways to our host in Newport Beach, approx. 20 miles) from OKC in a day. A First Class package is struggling to get to an East Coast address...a week later. It depends on the route, I reckon.
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I have a package coming from the mint via Memphis.. It took 3 days to arrive from Tennessee to my small city in Central California. So far it's been here for 5 days without being delivered. It has been scanned everyday for the last 5 days saying it's on it's way to the next facility (we only have one facility in town).
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I've had a few this year that have been over 2 weeks. First time ever, but I live in Southern West Virginia and have most always received packages from California in 2-3 days max. Indiana is the worst for leaving packages sitting for 7-10 days at several of their sites. Thank goodness I don't get many from there. When a coin is late, the fear hits your stomach most times, at least it does mine.
Jim
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Dunno about coins, but I've been seeing about a two to three weeks for books (no big deal - media mail,) and art (first class in decent size boxes,) that I sent out. One piece of art was worth about $3k and I was getting more than a little worried there...
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And then a piece of framed art I received in the past week had its glass in about, oh, seven hundred pieces although it left North Carolina for Nevada in one piece.
Last tracked coin I received never showed as "delivered" on the tracking. (I guess I could have screwed a few people, but I just assured the eBay seller that I had it in hand, and there is no issue).
Now, I have a coin coming down from Oregon, and it spent 3 days in Portland for some unknown reason. (That is....if you can trust the tracking, which I don't due to the above....
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Definitely a drop in efficiency recently....
It’s really hit and miss. So far everybody on eBay has been really patient and I return the favor. Sometimes I can get a coin across the country in three days other times it takes three weeks. Tracking numbers only show the insanity of a package checking in and out of the same distribution for weeks on end.
Seems like it has now gotten worse. Packages from less than 50 miles away are taking well over a week
. Hopefully everyone is having better luck than I am! Have numerous packages that over 2 weeks since shipped, including priority.
Perhaps a dumb question but the service at my previous home improved dramatically when I gave him a holiday envelope. Is your person on a holiday list?
I've encountered a couple of irredeemably deplorable carriers in my time.
BTW my first job after service was letter carrier in NYC. It's a really tough job so I'm sympathetic when appropriate. I quit after a month...
I have one express package to France. Shipped on July 6 and it processed on Jul 7, 2020
5:03pm
Processed Through Regional Facility
SAN FRANCISCO CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
Never heard from it again. Don't know what happened to it. I bet it is still in US somewhere.
USPS, three weeks in transit between L.A. going to Kansas. 10 days for another package to get to L.A. from San Diego-90 miles. I've discontinued USPS if the package is connected to an auction internet sale. Priority mail now looks like 4-5 days in conus. Poor customer service to boot.
Living the dream.
Hmm.. I did not know that USPS was in the buisness of delivering mail........
I have a large envelope with auction wins from the Lyn Knight paper money auction back in June that were mailed on the 6th of July and have seemingly dropped off the face of the earth. Per one of the postal clerks at my local post office, Priority Mail is a complete disaster because of shipping logistics issues. DO NOT use priority mail for now.
I sent a package to a board member on Tuesday that ordinarily I would have shipped priority, but I ponied up for the extra $15 and went with overnight for the peace of mind knowing that the buyer got his item.
I have a purchased item that was supposed to arrive on Monday. Here it is Friday. And Monday was actually supposed to be the slower delivery date.
Update for August 1st... another week goes by and STILL NO DELIVERY.
A Barber Quartet is made up of Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, and Halves.
Yes! Amazingly slow and few updates in the system.
K