USPS Sucks

[Tnerb]

Or Why is it so Difficult to get a Package from Point A to Point B?

 

I am really tired of the USPS. I tend to watch very closely when my package is going to arrive. Today I get an e-mail that the item is available for pickup. Why would I get such an item? I wanted it delivered. I decided to call the post office and find out.

 

At first the agent was confused but then realized that it was because the item came in after the mail carrier already left. That to me is a stupid answer, the mail always comes in so its common sense that the carrier would leave before items came in. I had many packages arrive in my home city before at around the sane time and arrival at unit would be displayed, which it does for the third one down. So does that mean the USPS for those rounds had his route already to go and out the door at six twenty six am. I doubt it.

 

Then later that evening I have the tracking say a notice was left. If the postal employee left before the package came in, how would he know that the package arrived to leave the notice. They do realize that package is insured fir three thousand dollars. You would think that they would want to get rid of it as soon as possible. I have work today and I know at least that this package should make it to my fathers today, but honestly with the thievery running rampant and no one being held accountable in the USPS my greatest fear was never the book dropping a grade it was the book never making its way back to me.

 

And in a side note, another package is making it back to me and I can't fathom why when I checked USPS for a mailing option, it is coming to me through UPS. I think I might look into getting a Fed-Ex account, because so far they have been the only one reliable. Does anyone else have a problem like this? Could someone out there ease my mind?

 

Thanks for Reading

 

Tnerb

 

http://ashotofcomics.blogspot.com/2013/03/marvels-season-one-roundabout-review.html

 

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[Doc Joe]

 

The Hope Diamond

 

Beautiful and dangerous, with a lurid past as stormy as the queens who once wore it, the Hope diamond at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History is almost a compulsory stop on the family visit to Washington D.C. The National Postal Museum has the package it was mailed in. Yes, mailed in.

The Hope diamond’s allegedly cursed reputation is as well known as the gem. The diamond gets its name from London banker Henry T. Hope, who purchased it in 1839. After Hope’s death, the diamond passed through the hands of various owners. In America, the gem was feared lost in a shipwreck, but the rumor was refuted when the diamond appeared at a public auction in Paris on June 29, 1909.

 

Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, a Washington D.C. socialite and wife of the former owner of the Washington Post, acquired the diamond in 1911 for $180,000. She, too, suffered the curse of the diamond: her husband died in a mental institution, her eldest son was killed in a car accident, and her daughter overdosed on sleeping pills. Although she believed in the curse, she continued to wear the diamond and would not sell it for fear of bringing the bad luck to someone else. She wore the diamond on trips to visit convalescing soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital during World War II. The wounded soldiers persuaded her to lend them the diamond during her visits, at which point they would play catch with it and fling it across the medical ward to each other. After Mrs. McLean’s death in 1947 the diamond was found, along with $4 million worth of other jewels, stored in shoeboxes in Mrs. McLean’s bedroom.

 

Henry “Harry” Winston, a leading American jeweler and gem dealer, bought the diamond from Mrs. McLean’s estate in 1949. In November 1958 Winston donated the diamond to the Smithsonian Institution, intending it to be the foundation for a National Jewel Collection. With his years of experience in shipping jewelry all over the world, Winston chose to have the diamond delivered by registered mail. He told a reporter for the Washington Post that “ . . . [registered mail is] the safest way to ship gems. . . . I’ve sent gems all over the world that way.”

 

The diamond was placed in a box, wrapped in brown paper, and sent by registered mail, traveling down from New York in a Railway Post Office train car. In Washington, it was immediately taken to the City Post Office (the building that now houses the National Postal Museum), where it was picked up by postal carrier James G. Todd.

 

Todd drove the package to the National Museum of Natural History. The diamond was handed over in a ceremony including Leonard Carmichael, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Mrs. Harry Winston. The transfer was completed when Carmichael signed the receipt for the registered package. The price paid for shipping the gem, valued at $1 million at the time, was $145.29, most of that for package insurance.

 

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So they are not wetting themselves over $3,000.

 

Registered mail takes longer as it has to be checked and logged at each step, then it's stored in special lockers at the PO.

 

You will get your package.

[Udidar]

I think Tnerb once had a package delivered that he signed for, unfortunately he was at work that day, so I can understand his concern. It may have been someone else here but since I read it in a journal I will wager it was him.

I have been pretty lucky with packages in the mail. Only one lost one in the past fifty or so. ( if anyone got a package of some superman family cgc comics, they are mine!) What's slightly amusing is that I get my packages faster living in Australia then I did when I lived in Canada. Of course they get flown over then driven on land so its understandable. Also I get far fewer cracked corners now too. It seemed like every other CGC I used to buy had a cracked corner by the time I got it. ( side note, I have 30 pgx comics and not one cracked corner) I hate fed ex as they always charged a brokerage fee of fifty bucks which I could never understand and after the second time refused to ever use them again. Anyways I hope you get your package tomorrow, well today here because by the time you get the parcel tomorrow, that will be yesterday for me! Ok gotta go to bed, I am meeting up with William Shatner tomorrow at the Oz Comic Con in Adelaide. He is one of the few celebrities I actually would go try and meet and my wife has set it up as a birthday present!

Oh and cool story about the diamond!

[Tnerb]

I still fear it not arriving. I have followed the steps and sometimes they are logged backwards. The last time I had a package attempted to be delivered to my home was signed for by the driver himself. He was caught, the supervisor got be my package and would deal with it accordingly. When I called the following week there was no supervisor with that name. A previous time I had to argue with a carrier who swore up and down she got the signature on a delivery confirmation only after I came downstairs to sign for it. She couldn't understand I live in the basement, I would have to come up the stairs and the USPS will not admit to any wrong doing.

 

When I called yesterday they said it would be delivered today, so far there is no updated information. It frustrates me more in their lack of knowledge. I get different answers from different people. Now time to call them again. To Doc Joe and Udidar, thank you for your posts.

 

Tnerb

[kaholo1256]

Tnerb,

 

I do have to say that I understand and empathize with you. For a long time I had amazing luck or ease with the USPS. I had an older gentleman Mr. Andrews who always ensures my mail got to me and if I have ever had an issue always kept me informed going so far as to come by and leave a note of progress in my mailbox. He's by far the coolest mailman I have ever dealt with.

 

Now that I'm overseas though I believe they hire anyone willing to come over here. I have had numerous packages of TPB's and or family care packages disappear after hitting the port in New York on my tracking which is as far as USPS is willing to track for APO shipments. For us we basicly go with the 1 in 5 rule will not make it here to us and sadly will become someone elses entertainment or enjoyment.

 

I sincerely hope your package gets to you soon as I have learned the insurance never truly makes up for the loss.

 

K

[Stguchi]

TNERB...

 

Registered Mail and regular mail are handled differently. I just went through this with the USPS. Registered Mail is not handled with the every day letters and packages. They are sent locked in a steel cage. They USPS has to the take different shipping measures with registered packages. When the Mail carrier went out for the day your package could of been at a sorting facility. Once it got to your post office they might have sent a carrier out just for that package. Mine send a carrier after my regular mail was delivered for the day. I asked why this came differently and she said it came in late morning and they are obligated to make a try to deliver. The carrier also said with registered mail each person to handle it is on the hook if anything were to happen. Say it was misplaced the last person to handle it could be fired.

 

 

hope this helps.

[Lee K]

I still don't use USPS more than 1 package out of 10.

 

They probably just stopped to have your books pressed, so they'll be late - but prettier.

 

Lee

[MatterEaterLad]

My only complaint is with Priority Mail which is supposed to take 2-3 days and always takes 7-10 because I don't live in a big city. They should say that somewhere.