What's up with usps

Got a package that's been sitting an hour away for nearly 20 days with no updates since. Talked with others who have been waiting just as long. How can mail sit there for over 20 days and not move ?

Website says priority mail in by dec.19 for Christmas delivery - ain't no way, aint no way.

The new management has really slowed and confused mail delivery the past few months.
My business depends on it and in 35 years i have never experienced anything even close to this.

USPS is broken, I have had the same problems recently that you are describing.
Switch to UPS whenever possible.
Some people have good success with FedEx; not me.

Same thing here, been waiting for a package for my nephew (whom I will see this weekend) for two weeks now! From a reputable dealer on this site...darned shame!

USPS works hard to not deliver the mail no recourse for poor service they have ways to wear down anyone that dare challenge their system and will pay people more then just paying the claim.

When the chips were down and the new vaccine had to be delivered right and on time the Government went with UPS and FedEx what does that tell you?

USPS is outdated and no longer needed. It is a bloated government program that has outlived it need.

Yet, somehow, they managed to get millions of votes delivered for Biden. Amazing.

They got there ahead of time even.

So much for priority mail sent out on the 3 last update on the 7th "In transit arriving late" What i cant figure out is when i check traps i see 3 different usps carriers out in my township yes 3 different vechilies, for the last 60 years that i know of we had 1

Ups, fed ex and amazon are overwhelming the parcel system, there are other issues too

If they are overwhelmed they shouldn't be advertising that they can get something to someone by Christmas if mailed by the 19th. Paying for priority mail and getting something over 20 days later from one state away is like paying for a big mac and getting a cheeseburger then McDonalds saying sorry, deal with it.

Mudtracker. Don't bother explaining. Its like teaching a Pig to Sing, Not successful and It tends to annoy the pig.

...and some late!

This is the third thread on poor USPS service in the last couple of weeks.

In the last two I described a package my wife and I sent to Chicago to be forwarded by the military to our daughter in Austria. My wife paid an extra $50.00+ to get ity to Chicago in two days. Two weeks later (yesterday) she got a tracking update that said it arrived at their Chicago facility.

Meanwhile, my daughter messaged us that she received the package yesterday.

My wife was on the phone everyday but got no satisfaction.

I have a package sitting at a facility in Wisconsin for the lat week. USPS tracking says it will be delivered Friday December 11. Well that ain't happening. LOL

No updates for a week so far. And no package.

The USPS is officially blaming personal shortages due to Covid along with an unprecedented amount of mail.

What was their excuse last year? LOL

I used to work for the govt. until a few months ago. What I was seeing was a very reduced acceptable level of work starting in March with the shutdowns. I’m seeing the same thing with teachers in the local school system with their work with no students present. They’re getting perfectly comfortable getting paid through this. They’re not like the people who are struggling to get by because of this govt., both state and federal, over reach,

Awhile back Trump imposed changes on USPS because it is soaking up too many tax dollars. One of the changes to save money was no more overtime. So now a carrier will only load his truck with the amount of mail that can be delivered without staying out late. Google Trumps changes to USPS. Read the old dated articles. What we have now is more unintended consequence. There were other changes as well.

USPS has run its course..time to end it and let private enterprise run the mail system.Sorry to you gov. postal workers but it has become totally inefficient.Have a package of traps being shipped to me since Dec 6.Tracking # says in transit for over a week now..total distance from start to my house..200 miles...they are the height of inefficiency

Speaking to the choir but I find it somewhat amusing to hear people get fired up about the incompetent USPS when it comes to their Christmas presents but fully trusted them with the presidential election. Glad to see where their priorities are.

Sorry, marathonman but I have to disagree with you saying USPS has run its course and we need to let private enterprise run the mail system. The so called “business” person Trump appointed to run the Post Office was a disaster. Ever since this guy was appointed the USPS service went down hill. All this guy did was eliminate sorting machinery and eliminate o/t of the workers. There is no private enterprise that wants to deliver a letter or newspaper for what USPS gets paid to deliver it.

If anything more money needs to be pumped into the USPS to make it more efficient. It is one if not the only government agency that comes close to supporting itself. Yes, it loses money but I doubt there is a mail service in the world that makes money. We should be investing in people and sorting machinery to make our mail system the most efficient in the world.

Without USPS there would be no one to keep parcel rates in check. FedX and UPS rates would likely raise even more and faster than they do now.

The President doesn't appoint the Postmaster General.

The USPS had big problems long before Trump's administration.

I have a package I sent out dec4 and it stayed in PA for 12 days. It is now in S Carolina sitting in a facilty there. Im taking all kinds of flak from the customer on behalf of USPS- I got it to them in time. I will say most of the time they do great but Ive never seen a Xmas season go matrix slow like this one.

USPS, a government bureaucracy, staffed by union workers, need I say more ? My wife is a retired Postmaster with 33 years of service.

I went by the outside drop box at the post office yesterday afternoon to drop some Christmas cards and the two LARGE OVERSIZE drop boxes were full and I couldn't even get my cards stuffed into the drop boxes. I'll check again this morning. They are supposed to be emptied every day at 5:00 P.M.

I see some of these threads and I understand the inconveniences this may have caused. I also beleive people just need to relax and give these delivery people/companies some slack.
I have also had some packages take many weeks to month's to arrive but it is what it is now.

If you have a package that is "stuck" you need to contact the post office directly. They will do a internal search and get things moving. I ship more packages then most as a eBay, Gunbroker seller and have had this several times over the years.

And just accepting it is why it will never get any better. Accountability is needed and should be expected.

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This is a completely unacceptable level of service.

The USPO has been a joke for many years but you blame Trump what a surprise. LOL Just look at what they did to flat rate pricing it was a deal at one time now it has almost doubled. The red tape mess and lack of accountability makes for poor service they charge high prices and can ask for tax money to help with their loses. Ask yourself how UPS and FedEx do the same job and profit from it.

USPS was busy enough but the precious private companies couldn’t handle the volume so they put quotas on how much they would pick up from certain big shippers. Result was a huge influx of packages to the USPS. They don’t have the option to tell Amazon or anyone else your shipping more than we can handle so we are not going to pick it all up like the private companies do. Our carrier went from his standard car load a day to several carloads a day and he is supposed to get it done in same amount of time because of no overtime.

Don't order anything online, go drive some place and buy it off the shelf. Same day and have your item in hand and no waiting. Problem solved! Then if all did that, the processes would speed up for the rest us.

A lot of the cheaper options have been eliminated and replaced by “faster” more expensive options that are no faster in any way.

Throwing more money at it will fix the problem. That always works. Ask Amtrak.

probably full of absentee ballots headed to Georgia

Problem is you drive to store and they don't have it !!!

Well I got my own horror story. I an one that earlier was saying cut them slack as the hundreds of more packages because of online shopping. BUT now I have a story. My nephews birthday was Dec12 . He lives 70 miles away so I mailed it. He still hasn't received it. It first went to Memphis tenn 381 miles. Going right past the town he lives in. It left there Tuesday ( 5 days past the delivery date) to Cincinnati Oh . (481 miles ) and has been sitting there for 4 days.

If last months mail was handled like this months mail Trump would have won

Christmas rush I’ve been waiting for a dozen Jakes for 10 days now,hoping tomorrow or Monday we’ll see

LOL! There might be something to that!!

USPS shipping at least(we use UPS and Fed EX much less) varies greatly regionally. We shipped a package that was picked up on our rural route afternoon of the 16th headed to Parkersburg Iowa that passed through Sioux Falls SD and Des Moines Iowa on the 17th and was delivered today. However, according to my post mistress, the Chicago regional facility is just jammed and USPS is rerouting attempting to get past that facility. A package that we shipped on the 14th to Illinois passed through the Kansas City office where it normally would not go in order to bypass the Chicago facility and delivery is expected yet today or tomorrow. I suspect that if one has stuff that has to pass through several of these overloaded facilities it appears that everything is just at a total standstill. Then if we add in the packages that get tossed into the wrong bins because workers are rushing which results in the package heading off the wrong direction, it explains about all of the current mess.

The drop box I was whining about had been emptied this morning. It's all good.

This is the message in my USPS Informed Delivery.

They have been screwing the pooch for decades Covid is just another excuse for them, at times they run well but then the wheels come off over nothing.

Trump told the post office if they wanted any money that they would need to get rid of brennan and appoint dejoy. brennan was forced into retirement.

Brennan served her full term and on October 16, 2019, announced in a statement that she would be retiring upon fulfilling her five-year commitment as Postmaster General. However, on January 6, her retirement was delayed until a successor could be found.

trump told the postal board either dejoy becomes postmaster general or they will get no money.

“When I was appointed Postmaster General, I made a commitment to the Board of Governors that I would serve for five years and it has been my absolute honor to do so,” said Brennan.

Not only did Megan Brennan serve her full term, she served an additional two months until a suitable replacement could be found. She served three of of those years during Trump's administration. It doesn't sound like anybody got rid of her. she simply served her term and retired at that position.

Dejoy didn't become Postmaster General until six months ago.



Do you have any links to, or proof that Trump told the USPS to "appoint Dejoy or no more money?

Because your story is sounding a lot like the same old "Orange Man Bad crap we have been hearing for years now.

It doesn't add up.

I bought a pair of coil spring setters from Dave Sheldon as a gift for the neighbor kid. He shipped them around the 4th or 5th of December. According to the tracking number they've been in transit ever since.

Ordered some 2" fender washers from amazon prime. They were shipped and arrived in St. Louis on the 3rd of December. The shipping warehouse is 20 miles from my house. Still haven't seen them yet. lol

ol'dad

If I had listened to the Google GPS gal I'd still be stuck in Atlanta myself 2 weeks later.

Way over their head! I have a pkg that was mailed in another state that had not moved in 12 days! I opened a “ case” and started getting updates. I now get updates “ new dates” that the pkg is on its way to a facility. Doesn’t say where the pkg is in transit. So someone has been scanning the pkg and it’s on its way supposedly.