Maybe it's a regional thing? I started a thread on this very issue when I was waiting over a week on a coin coming from DE... and I live in Baltimore. The holdup was a sorting facility not two miles from my house... it was there for 5 days!
More recently, I had to send Priority Mail to my son visiting in AZ. Both packages got from MD to AZ in 4 days...
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I was a Mailman for over 33 years. Never a letter carrier. But that's another story.
I could tell many stories about mail being delayed and or slow delivery. But the best one was about one of our guys who walked really, really slow. I had a couple of people tell me one day they were watching him and two trees passed him.
Here is my media mail route: 35 miles from seller to my address Aug30 > Sept 1 to a city 600 miles > Sept 2 back to a City 35 Miles > Sept 6 back to the city 600 miles ...... to be continued.
We’ll slow delivery times come w current landscape (get used to it) but 2 shipments to me lost in last 60 days none in last 25 yr b4 concerns me. Eventually 1 turned up bc put in wrong P.O. Box. Human element. The other one was $25 polo shirt - lost.
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@jt88 said:
Here is my media mail route: 35 miles from seller to my address Aug30 > Sept 1 to a city 600 miles > Sept 2 back to a City 35 Miles > Sept 6 back to the city 600 miles ...... to be continued.
This happened to me early this year.
I am curious how they sort the packages, human eyes?
@Samuel8 said:
I sent a Priority Small box from NJ to CA.
Not only it is late but also there is no scans at the regional distribution center.
Below are the only scans in the tracking history.
August 30, 2021
In Transit, Arriving Late
Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility.
August 26, 2021, 5:30 pm
Departed Post Office
Today is 9/7, no tracking update at USPS website, so I have to call USPS, used the call back feature, 40 min later, got call back, agent said they have to open a case to investigate.
I only send less than 10 in a year, but receive many. Below are two other cases I encountered this year.
I am in Wisconsin. It appears if I order something and it shipped from the west side of the US it comes at a normal pace. If it comes out of the east it seems to sit for days before it makes any movement.
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I just sent one Priority from the east coast to Hawaii...wish me luck
edited to say: This December is going to make last December look like child's play. In case anyone has forgotten, average delivery times were 2-3 weeks for just about everything. You send something Dec. 1, 2021, expect it to arrive by Christmas 2023.
@opportunity said:
I just sent one Priority from the east coast to Hawaii...wish me luck
edited to say: This December is going to make last December look like child's play. In case anyone has forgotten, average delivery times were 2-3 weeks for just about everything. You send something Dec. 1, 2021, expect it to arrive by Christmas 2023.
@opportunity said:
I just sent one Priority from the east coast to Hawaii...wish me luck
edited to say: This December is going to make last December look like child's play. In case anyone has forgotten, average delivery times were 2-3 weeks for just about everything. You send something Dec. 1, 2021, expect it to arrive by Christmas 2023.
Just for curiosity's sake-why to you say that?
Because if it's already getting bad now, imagine when the Amazon packages start clogging up the system.
At one time the Post Office had a contract with Amazon to deliver their packages. Amazon now has their own delivery system. The Post Office doesn't deliver Amazon packages any more to the best of my knowledge. If they do it's only a very small percentage.
I worked for the post office for 30 years. The post office does in fact deliver millions of Amazon packages daily. I know on my route Amazon packages increased my package load about 200 percent. I had same time limits as before Amazon but with a lot of extra stops. I was not the exception as almost all routes had a increased package load. This extra load of packages causes people to rush , which of course leads to mistakes. Especially by the newer hires. More misdeliveries, more missed scans and slower total delivery time as packages sit in a warehouse. Situation not getting better as post office has had a hard time hiring people and keeping them. Very stressful job at times. It is a union job with great benefits and decent pay but hell on your back.
@Larrob37 said:
I worked for the post office for 30 years. The post office does in fact deliver millions of Amazon packages daily. I know on my route Amazon packages increased my package load about 200 percent. I had same time limits as before Amazon but with a lot of extra stops. I was not the exception as almost all routes had a increased package load. This extra load of packages causes people to rush , which of course leads to mistakes. Especially by the newer hires. More misdeliveries, more missed scans and slower total delivery time as packages sit in a warehouse. Situation not getting better as post office has had a hard time hiring people and keeping them. Very stressful job at times. It is a union job with great benefits and decent pay but hell on your back.
They deliver all these packages currently? Really?? You sound like you're retired. How long have you been retired? I believe things have changed quite a bit in the last year or two. They do have their own delivery fleet now.
I worked at the PO for 33 years. But I've been outta there for 18 years so I'm sure you know better than me.
Been retired two years and i keep up with current situation at post office thru my friends at the po. Not every office gets Amazon but the majority do. Yes Amazon does have their own fleet as well as sponsoring people who want to be in the business of delivering Amazon packages. Problem is Amazon has grown so much they are not capable of delivering all their own packages. Koynekwest you got out when the post office was a fantastic place to work. Now with new mentality that po must be profitable, it has turned everybody into a micro manager.
@Larrob37 said:
Been retired two years and i keep up with current situation at post office thru my friends at the po. Not every office gets Amazon but the majority do. Yes Amazon does have their own fleet as well as sponsoring people who want to be in the business of delivering Amazon packages. Problem is Amazon has grown so much they are not capable of delivering all their own packages. Koynekwest you got out when the post office was a fantastic place to work. Now with new mentality that po must be profitable, it has turned everybody into a micro manager.
No-it wasn't too fantastic back then, either. We had plenty of a$$holes back then, too.
Another great delivery by USPS. Package left GC on Friday and arrived Tuesday. I was not expecting a delivery that fast with the Holiday weekend in between and just First Class postage. Keep up the good work.
Mail delivery here has been very light lately. Usually we get between 7-13 letters a day but these last few days we get like two and then today no mail at all. So looks like everything is slowing down.
Does anyone here know if Express overnight is still guaranteed one day delivery or has that changed and been slowed down too?
@Cougar1978 said:
We’ll slow delivery times come w current landscape (get used to it) but 2 shipments to me lost in last 60 days none in last 25 yr b4 concerns me. Eventually 1 turned up bc put in wrong P.O. Box. Human element. The other one was $25 polo shirt - lost.
A good government job w union representation is better than the garbage offered by corporations.
I don’t use usps whenever I have a choice. I much prefer Ups, which is not perfect but less screw ups in general. Just today my co worker was waiting on a passport, the expected delivery date was supposed to be Friday and it didn’t change on Monday. It still said expected delivery 9/20 until about 1pm today. it updated it was out for delivery and got delivered at 2:00. Their tacking is essentially useless.
@JBK said:
Last week I got two first class letters delivered ftom the other side of the country in 3 days.
Coast to coast delivery is often faster than mailing (much) shorter distances because flights between large urban centers are abundant. Many other variables affect mail delivery times more so than does distance.
@JMS1223 said:
Mail delivery here has been very light lately. Usually we get between 7-13 letters a day but these last few days we get like two and then today no mail at all. So looks like everything is slowing down.
Does anyone here know if Express overnight is still guaranteed one day delivery or has that changed and been slowed down too?
Same thing. Maybe something to do with the recent storms in parts of the country?
This Priority Small box was received after many days' delay.
In the meantime, my claim is "resolved"--"As a result of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Postal ServiceTM Priority Mail® products and First-ClassTM packages may temporarily experience delivery delays due to limited transportation availability. "
There is still no tracking updates. The tracking history is still the same as in the original post:
"In Transit, Arriving Late
August 30, 2021"
I do not understand why there were no scans along the path.
I have sent several packages this year from the east coast to California (pcgs).
On average the packages going to pcgs have been late taking about three weeks whereas, return packages from pcgs to me have been taking around three days.
Hmmmmmmm
i was talking to the mail lady and she said that some of the postal employees are out on sick leave as covid has hit hard the last 2 weeks. there are also some on out on loa because they don't want to work in dangerous conditions
@koynekwest said:
At one time the Post Office had a contract with Amazon to deliver their packages. Amazon now has their own delivery system. The Post Office doesn't deliver Amazon packages any more to the best of my knowledge. If they do it's only a very small percentage.
Amazon delivers themselves, around here. Every item we get from Amazon, Amazon delivers it to the house themselves. Their fleet is made up of trucks that are exactly like UPS's trucks, though they're purple, with the Amazon 'swoop'. There are a couple of huge (HUGE) Amazon distribution facilities near where I am, perhaps that's the 'kicker'. I'm an Amazon Prime customer, I can order something damn near up until 9pm for delivery the next day (Amazon Prime is the only way to go). I see more Amazon trucks than I do UPS trucks, around here, now (here being the Boston area)
@coinpalice said:
i was talking to the mail lady and she said that some of the postal employees are out on sick leave as covid has hit hard the last 2 weeks. there are also some on out on loa because they don't want to work in dangerous conditions
Reasonable delay is OK.
The problem is: no scans along the path. The only scan I see in tracking history is the one they did when it left my local PO.
There were no scan at my regional center, no scan at the destination regional center and local PO.
@koynekwest said:
At one time the Post Office had a contract with Amazon to deliver their packages. Amazon now has their own delivery system. The Post Office doesn't deliver Amazon packages any more to the best of my knowledge. If they do it's only a very small percentage.
Amazon delivers themselves, around here. Every item we get from Amazon, Amazon delivers it to the house themselves. Their fleet is made up of trucks that are exactly like UPS's trucks, though they're purple, with the Amazon 'swoop'. There are a couple of huge (HUGE) Amazon distribution facilities near where I am, perhaps that's the 'kicker'. I'm an Amazon Prime customer, I can order something damn near up until 9pm for delivery the next day (Amazon Prime is the only way to go). I see more Amazon trucks than I do UPS trucks, around here, now (here being the Boston area)
AMZN delivery is the BEST! They even deliver on Sunday.
I remember a while ago, they said if you own a AMZN truck you can make 200K a year. Not sure it is true or not.
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Has anyone used USPS lately for one-day overnight Priority Mail package/flat? Have you experienced any changes in the speed of this service? Is it still guaranteed or your money back? I know it costs a lot more but was curious about it since it was/is the only guaranteed service for speed.
I've seen some scary missed deliveries lately. Always get a tracking number. PS my friend who is a USPS letter carrier says jokingly: "I would go with UPS, because they can still get fired if they f**K up"... While he's being cynical, there is some truth.
Priority mail is still the best deal for anything over $50 in value. Go to Office Depot if you have lots of stuff to ship. Theres often no line and the price is the same.
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Maybe it's a regional thing? I started a thread on this very issue when I was waiting over a week on a coin coming from DE... and I live in Baltimore. The holdup was a sorting facility not two miles from my house... it was there for 5 days!
More recently, I had to send Priority Mail to my son visiting in AZ. Both packages got from MD to AZ in 4 days...
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I was a Mailman for over 33 years. Never a letter carrier. But that's another story.
I could tell many stories about mail being delayed and or slow delivery. But the best one was about one of our guys who walked really, really slow. I had a couple of people tell me one day they were watching him and two trees passed him.
I had a rather large book sent via media mail to me on August 25th and I received it on August 30th. I was thrilled to say the least.
Here is my media mail route: 35 miles from seller to my address Aug30 > Sept 1 to a city 600 miles > Sept 2 back to a City 35 Miles > Sept 6 back to the city 600 miles ...... to be continued.
I have a package delivered today. USPS open today?
We’ll slow delivery times come w current landscape (get used to it) but 2 shipments to me lost in last 60 days none in last 25 yr b4 concerns me. Eventually 1 turned up bc put in wrong P.O. Box. Human element. The other one was $25 polo shirt - lost.
A good government job w union representation is better than the garbage offered by corporations.
This happened to me early this year.
I am curious how they sort the packages, human eyes?
Today is 9/7, no tracking update at USPS website, so I have to call USPS, used the call back feature, 40 min later, got call back, agent said they have to open a case to investigate.
I only send less than 10 in a year, but receive many. Below are two other cases I encountered this year.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1062069/your-item-was-returned-to-the-sender-because-of-an-incomplete-address#latest
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1057564/i-still-do-not-receive-it-after-it-was-shipped-28-days-ago-what-should-i-do#latest
The last scan on my package was 4 days ago.
I am in Wisconsin. It appears if I order something and it shipped from the west side of the US it comes at a normal pace. If it comes out of the east it seems to sit for days before it makes any movement.
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I sent a registered check out the day after the ANA auction.
Not there yet...WTH?
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I just sent one Priority from the east coast to Hawaii...wish me luck
edited to say: This December is going to make last December look like child's play. In case anyone has forgotten, average delivery times were 2-3 weeks for just about everything. You send something Dec. 1, 2021, expect it to arrive by Christmas 2023.
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Just for curiosity's sake-why to you say that?
Because if it's already getting bad now, imagine when the Amazon packages start clogging up the system.
Early American Copper, Bust and Seated.
What does Amazon packages have to do with the Post Office?
Quite a bit...they send tens of millions of packages by USPS every December.
Early American Copper, Bust and Seated.
At one time the Post Office had a contract with Amazon to deliver their packages. Amazon now has their own delivery system. The Post Office doesn't deliver Amazon packages any more to the best of my knowledge. If they do it's only a very small percentage.
I worked for the post office for 30 years. The post office does in fact deliver millions of Amazon packages daily. I know on my route Amazon packages increased my package load about 200 percent. I had same time limits as before Amazon but with a lot of extra stops. I was not the exception as almost all routes had a increased package load. This extra load of packages causes people to rush , which of course leads to mistakes. Especially by the newer hires. More misdeliveries, more missed scans and slower total delivery time as packages sit in a warehouse. Situation not getting better as post office has had a hard time hiring people and keeping them. Very stressful job at times. It is a union job with great benefits and decent pay but hell on your back.
UPDATE on stuck in Teterboro, NJ: It's still stuck there.
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They deliver all these packages currently? Really?? You sound like you're retired. How long have you been retired? I believe things have changed quite a bit in the last year or two. They do have their own delivery fleet now.
I worked at the PO for 33 years. But I've been outta there for 18 years so I'm sure you know better than me.
Been retired two years and i keep up with current situation at post office thru my friends at the po. Not every office gets Amazon but the majority do. Yes Amazon does have their own fleet as well as sponsoring people who want to be in the business of delivering Amazon packages. Problem is Amazon has grown so much they are not capable of delivering all their own packages. Koynekwest you got out when the post office was a fantastic place to work. Now with new mentality that po must be profitable, it has turned everybody into a micro manager.
No-it wasn't too fantastic back then, either. We had plenty of a$$holes back then, too.
DeJoy has taken da joy out of USPS mail delivery?
I have a package scanned in at Teterboro on 9/3 no movement since. One of the N.J. processing centers damaged on 9/1
This is gonna make a slow processing center even slower. https://ocscanner.news/2021/09/01/mail-distribution-center-in-kearny-collapsed/
Another great delivery by USPS. Package left GC on Friday and arrived Tuesday. I was not expecting a delivery that fast with the Holiday weekend in between and just First Class postage. Keep up the good work.
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Received my package today. 670 miles in 10 days.
Maybe the USPS should revisit this idea from 1959, 62 years ago. Mail could certainly reach the destination a little faster.
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Mail delivery here has been very light lately. Usually we get between 7-13 letters a day but these last few days we get like two and then today no mail at all. So looks like everything is slowing down.
Does anyone here know if Express overnight is still guaranteed one day delivery or has that changed and been slowed down too?
Not a government job.
I don’t use usps whenever I have a choice. I much prefer Ups, which is not perfect but less screw ups in general. Just today my co worker was waiting on a passport, the expected delivery date was supposed to be Friday and it didn’t change on Monday. It still said expected delivery 9/20 until about 1pm today. it updated it was out for delivery and got delivered at 2:00. Their tacking is essentially useless.
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Last week I got two first class letters delivered ftom the other side of the country in 3 days.
Coast to coast delivery is often faster than mailing (much) shorter distances because flights between large urban centers are abundant. Many other variables affect mail delivery times more so than does distance.
Same thing. Maybe something to do with the recent storms in parts of the country?
This Priority Small box was received after many days' delay.
In the meantime, my claim is "resolved"--"As a result of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Postal ServiceTM Priority Mail® products and First-ClassTM packages may temporarily experience delivery delays due to limited transportation availability. "
There is still no tracking updates. The tracking history is still the same as in the original post:
"In Transit, Arriving Late
August 30, 2021"
I do not understand why there were no scans along the path.
i put in a service request yesterday for a package that is 2 days late of estimated arrival. this service always works for me
My case is about 7 days delay and no tracking, that was what worried me.
I have sent several packages this year from the east coast to California (pcgs).
On average the packages going to pcgs have been late taking about three weeks whereas, return packages from pcgs to me have been taking around three days.
Hmmmmmmm
Wow I sent a Priority mail box 2-day to Virginia and it was delivered the very next day. It just luck I guess.
Get used to it. It’s a sign of the times.
i was talking to the mail lady and she said that some of the postal employees are out on sick leave as covid has hit hard the last 2 weeks. there are also some on out on loa because they don't want to work in dangerous conditions
Amazon delivers themselves, around here. Every item we get from Amazon, Amazon delivers it to the house themselves. Their fleet is made up of trucks that are exactly like UPS's trucks, though they're purple, with the Amazon 'swoop'. There are a couple of huge (HUGE) Amazon distribution facilities near where I am, perhaps that's the 'kicker'. I'm an Amazon Prime customer, I can order something damn near up until 9pm for delivery the next day (Amazon Prime is the only way to go). I see more Amazon trucks than I do UPS trucks, around here, now (here being the Boston area)
Reasonable delay is OK.
The problem is: no scans along the path. The only scan I see in tracking history is the one they did when it left my local PO.
There were no scan at my regional center, no scan at the destination regional center and local PO.
AMZN delivery is the BEST! They even deliver on Sunday.
I remember a while ago, they said if you own a AMZN truck you can make 200K a year. Not sure it is true or not.
I paid my Citi card by check on 8-21. Never made it.
Just stopped payment, cost me $31.
Thanks USPS.
Got a registered on Monday that had been sent from Spink in London on the previous Friday. Expected it to take a couple of weeks, was just floored I got it so quick with my auction win!
My bills are apparently immune from these issues. They certainly arrive regularly.
Being a very, very small seller here are our sept shipments..
.from NYC... USPS all gold ... 10's and 20's
1)8/30 - 9/09 Texas Registered
2)9/01-9/13 ND priority - 3 day
3)9/3 - 09/07 Colorado Priority 3 day
4)9/3-9/13 PA registered
5)9/08-9/10 Michigan Priority 3 day
6)9/20-09/22 ND priority 3 day
What happens when a nut is in charge of a squirrel ?
Has anyone used USPS lately for one-day overnight Priority Mail package/flat? Have you experienced any changes in the speed of this service? Is it still guaranteed or your money back? I know it costs a lot more but was curious about it since it was/is the only guaranteed service for speed.
I've seen some scary missed deliveries lately. Always get a tracking number. PS my friend who is a USPS letter carrier says jokingly: "I would go with UPS, because they can still get fired if they f**K up"... While he's being cynical, there is some truth.
Priority mail is still the best deal for anything over $50 in value. Go to Office Depot if you have lots of stuff to ship. Theres often no line and the price is the same.