Mailed taxes out to the accountant by cert. mail, she's 40 miles away on a rural farmstead.

Asked Christine if the accountant had gotten the taxes ...
Went and checked USPS Tracking this past evening ...

From the USPS


Yup should be delivered in 47 minutes (160 miles and 2 more enroute postal centers to go. Perhaps AI could help them out???

According to USPS Tracking my package has been "Moving Through Network Processing at USPS Facility" in Groveport Ohio for the last 36+ hours.

Doesn't seem to me like that is any movement at all. SMH

Haven't got since last Friday so 7 days tomorrow without no mail. We are very lucky to get mail every 4th day.

I ordered my wife a new phone. Was shipped March 3. Still hasnt arrived, and it was shipped from a post office that is a 2-1/2 hour drive from me. It went back forth from Plainfield Ill to Chicago 4 times. Then back to original post office. Then back to Plainfield. Now I have just lost track of all its travels, and I have resigned myself to hoping it arrives eventually.

Travel like this is one reason why the post office says it will be broke by 2027. But then again DOGE was going to fix the redundancies in the federal govt. and maybe this is why the mail is ,?!’f|~#%€ backwards.

Are you trying to say this only became an issue since DOGE????

Carl, I just checked. Your return address is on the box still, but he did block out your zip code and made a line on each side of the barcode. I'll PM you a pic.

Keith

I hope that's not what he's saying because that would just be silly. This has been an issue with the USPS since long before anyone ever heard of DOGE.

This seems to be a regional issue, everybody back east hates USPS and likes FedEx. While out west it is reversed, if I see a seller ships FedEx, I will look for another seller that uses either UPS or USPS. UPS seems to be generally the same across the country, and while more expensive are usually fairly reliable (except for when our local driver was put on administrative leave a couple years ago, the replacements were horrible and they finally forgave him his faux pas and let him come back to work).

After sitting in Ohio for two days my package is back in the Lehigh Valley practically right next door.

I wonder if they'll ship it back to Ohio? LOL

No, I'm east of the river and absolutely prefer USPS to Fedex. UPS beats both hands down here. Fedex will literally mark a package as being delivered and NOT deliver it. Probably 7/10 times a package is shipped to me via FEDEX I have to call and usually have to end up escalating things to a manager in order to get my package. Completely ridiculous.

I WILL say though in the past 6 months or so I've not had problems with the couple packages that came via FEDEX so maybe things are improving??

how about prime?? they seem to be pretty reliable

Prime ships via USPS here....

ohh gotcha

I think Amazon delivers directly in cities and such but not out here in the sticks lol.

yeah that would make sense I'm most definitely not in the city but not exactly in the sticks either I guess lol

They are changing. I’m in the sticks and get prime from Quincy.

Dont even bother trying an insurance claim. This is the 3rd-4th one in 6 years that they flat out wont pay out on. I quit making claims from here on out-they can shove my money. I did everything they asked but showed them the box, thats impossible, the other guy has it. You would think they would throw you one every once in a while, but no, their greed is through the roof. It isnt like Im a liability, I ship 3-10 packages a week through them. Now I expect them to raise rates yet again over this oil compromise going on. Oh and I make it right with my customer within a day, you know, for the damage they did that I paid good money for.

Between USPS, UPS and FedEx, quality of service has really varied here. We put up with the worst mail carrier for years and no amount of complaining mattered. We would all get the wrong mail and drive around re-delivering the mail to the correct addresses. All decent people in the country. After that mail carrier retired, we now have the best mail carrier in history! He knows we cannot see the mailbox from our house in the woods, so he drives up and delivers all of our mail inside our screened porch every day - and waves "Hello" as he sets it down!

UPS has varied too. We have a great driver now who puts packages inside our screened porch out of the weather. Deliveries get here really fast too! We used to have a driver who threw packages in the snow alongside the driveway. UPS has now made it impossible to call the local office here directly, so if we have a good driver, we're in luck. If we have a bad driver, it's tough to correct it. They have a new union rule that it is up to a driver if he/she wants to reach inside a door to make a delivery. Right now, we have a great driver!!!

FedEx is entirely different. The thing to know about FedEx is that they are a franchise operation, so each franchise is owned and run by someone different. You may have a wonderful, well-run franchise in your area. We, however, do not. We have a pack of illegal aliens who do not speak English, driving for an owner from India - who is living in India - and trying to run his business from there! One of his drivers smashed the corner of our garage roof last fall and left without saying anything. We had him on multiple cameras here, and filed a report with the sheriff's dept. The deputy who came over told me that his wife was on a nearby highway a few days earlier and this driver stopped his FedEx truck in the middle of the highway, then threw his truck in reverse and smashed the car behind him! Then the same driver came back to our house to deliver another package the next day! We communicated with him through a translation app on his cell phone. He said he saw all of the cameras on him and figured they would catch up with him. He was supposed to report the accident the minute he got back to their distribution center, but he didn't. His truck was scratched and dented from every angle! After numerous attempts, we finally got through to FedEx and they started their claims process on their end. FedEx sent out an appraiser and, in the end, they sent a check to replace one side of the garage roof. The company that handles their claims says they just pay them out and check them off as quickly as possible. What a way to run a business!

I wish you all had the USPS mail carrier we have - but not ours!!! We'll keep him!!!!!