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1tommy1tommy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
I am on vacation in Garden Grove until tomorrow, so I had 4 coins that needed to be dropped off at our host.

I called PGCS and asked if they were going to have the open friday again and was told no. I asked if I could just drop them off at there front door no.

So I decided to just go to there PO on friday morning. I figured since this is the office pcgs picks up there coins in would go into there bin.

Didn't happen that way and reading from the bottom up you can see my coins (without ins) went on a trip.

Anaheim is where my coins were stolen years ago so I try to avoid that one......Oh well the coins are now back in Newport Beach waiting for mondays pickup........Just Weird to me...Enjoy image


September 26, 2015 , 11:10 am
Arrived at Post Office
NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658

September 26, 2015 , 8:33 am
Out for Delivery
NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658

September 26, 2015 , 8:23 am
Sorting Complete
NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658

September 26, 2015 , 1:07 am
Departed USPS Facility
ANAHEIM, CA 92899

September 25, 2015 , 9:43 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
ANAHEIM, CA 92899

September 25, 2015 , 12:25 pm
Departed Post Office
NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658

September 25, 2015 , 10:59 am
Acceptance
NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658

My bike for the ride home image

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That looks fun. The ride, I mean. Not that trip through the USPS. image
  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There is no sorting done at the local post offices anymore. All mail (even local) goes to the sorting center (Anaheim in this case) to be sorted and comes back to be delivered. I guess only the government can see a savings in this method.

    Have you noticed there is no slot for "Local Mail" at the post office anymore?
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,138 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>There is no sorting done at the local post offices anymore. All mail (even local) goes to the sorting center (Anaheim in this case) to be sorted and comes back to be delivered. I guess only the government can see a savings in this method.

    Have you noticed there is no slot for "Local Mail" at the post office anymore? >>



    Yup..it's been like that for a while now. All mail, even local mail, goes to a BMC- sorted and routed to a BMC that is assigned to a PO that handles the recipients zip code and then shipped to the PO for eventual delivery.
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  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,309 ✭✭✭✭
    you shouldn't find inefficiency 'weird'

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,255 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>you shouldn't find inefficiency 'weird' >>



    It's computerized and likely not worth the effort to figure in exceptions.
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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,989 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>There is no sorting done at the local post offices anymore. All mail (even local) goes to the sorting center (Anaheim in this case) to be sorted and comes back to be delivered. I guess only the government can see a savings in this method.

    Have you noticed there is no slot for "Local Mail" at the post office anymore? >>



    This is very true.
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    Interesting. I wonder if you could ask the postal worker to carry it over to the area for the box holder? I wonder what their answer would be, too.

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  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,049 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting. I wonder if you could ask the postal worker to carry it over to the area for the box holder? I wonder what their answer would be, too. >>



    How would you fare if you disregarded a directive from your superiors?
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Interesting. I wonder if you could ask the postal worker to carry it over to the area for the box holder? I wonder what their answer would be, too. >>



    How would you fare if you disregarded a directive from your superiors? >>



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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    People cost more to get work done than machines.

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  • IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭
    Before you give the Post Office too much grief about their sorting policies, you might want to check out
    how some of the private shipping companies (Fed-Ex, UPS, etc.) handle this. I know that at one time ALL
    Fed-Ex packages went through Nashville -- might still be the way it works.
  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Before you give the Post Office too much grief about their sorting policies, you might want to check out
    how some of the private shipping companies (Fed-Ex, UPS, etc.) handle this. I know that at one time ALL
    Fed-Ex packages went through Nashville -- might still be the way it works. >>



    I think you mean Memphis (not Nashville)?
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  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am not sure how big the PO is at Newport Beach.

    Many have 2 slots for mail - local and all others
    the local is hand sorted for their PO, al others goes to a sorting center and redistributed.
  • jomjom Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The only thing I find weird here is that someone is on vacation in Garden Grove.

    image

    jom
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    looks like a comfortable cruiser there
    be safe
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  • 1tommy1tommy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The only thing I find weird here is that someone is on vacation in Garden Grove.

    image

    jom >>

    Someone left there motorcycle there for 2 years and wants it back in Normal Illinois image And I did ask the clerk if she could just throw it in the PO box and she said nope. Flagstaff tomorrow night and coins will be in PCGS Hands.

    Enjoy image
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    Link to My Registry Set.

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  • The USPS isn't the most logical company in the world. It's probably automatic that everything dropped off at the post office goes to the regional sort facility as they don't do the outgoing sorting at the post office. I grew up in a small town and if you'd mail something to someone else in the small town, it would get a postmark of the larger city that was 30 miles away. That's just their process.

    In purchasing and selling coins via Ebay, I've more than a few times noticed packages taking strange paths and times. Recently I purchased a coin from a seller in Carson City, Nevada. It went to Austin, Texas before coming to me in Phoenix. Then a couple of weeks ago I sent out 2 packages on a Saturday afternoon. One was delivered to the buyer on Monday in Virginia. The second, to a buyer in Houston, went silent in the tracking for 7 days before showing up again in tracking and being delivered.
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  • Just like mine.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The issue is that the USPS is not run like a business....for too long it was a bureaucracy and cannot really change. It is a losing operation because it is run by entrenched bureaucrats who have not the faintest idea of how operations should be managed. Cheers, RickO
  • TomthemailcarrierTomthemailcarrier Posts: 657 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congress meddles with the USPS forcing them to keep opened small offices that lose money because their constituents complain. However universal service to remote regions is a money loser but it does guarantee that those people will be able to send and receive mail.
    I've occasionally expedited mail by cutting out the regional sorting center and putting it directly in the other carrier's bin. Can't do this on a large scale since it wouldn't be cost efficient.
    34 years of delivering the mail has been quite satisfying to me!

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