Dave Van Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 I live in the most rural county East of the Mississippi. I have older hobby cars and I am building a 1923 Ford T C Cab. I have to order almost 100% of parts I need for my vehicles, add the model kit stuff I order and that's a number of packages. I had a vital part on order from Speedway. It was to be delivered today and would enable me to install all the front suspension on my 23 T over this 3 day weekend. I look up tracking number this morning and my package that yesterday was miles from my house and on time was re-routed to Six Mile SC.......pretty far from my house in WV. Looking back over my orders the past year about 40% of them are routed out of Charleston WV to other states rather than the few miles to me. HOW on earth can these packages with automated addresses get routed to wrong states 40% of the time. It has to be some sick person intentionally throwing boxes into the wrong places......not even the USPS can mis-route this many on accident. My job as a bank analyst had a ZERO tolerance for errors. I wish USPS had something like that......or find these people that do this for sport. OK ...old man rant over/ thx 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 (edited) I depend on timely parts delivery for my business, and have constant issues with the PO here and out-of-state mis-routing just like you do. It's only going to get worse as competence becomes less and less a hiring criterion, and gross incompetence isn't a reason for termination. Speaking of which, I was behind a local PO truck yesterday on the way to the shop. I've rarely seen a vehicle under less apparent control, and if the driver wasn't drunk or otherwise impaired, he/she/they/it should be hospitalized. Edited May 26, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy TYPO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Van Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 Right.....while I do not have a business now......my son and I have talked about a car based biz. We will have to look at the delay that seems the norm as to weather we do anything or not. thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 3 minutes ago, Dave Van said: Right.....while I do not have a business now......my son and I have talked about a car based biz. We will have to look at the delay that seems the norm as to weather we do anything or not. thx Well, I almost always get my stuff eventually, but anything time-critical, forget it. Stuff I ship is the same. Two packages of parts shipped "Priority" Sat. AM, delivery at destinations estimated for Monday PM, stuff finally arrived Thursday PM, and in the meantime was completely off the "tracking" radar. So why the hello did I pay for "Priority"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 it happens to me from time to time. Our mail has to go thr Memphis now no matter if it goes across town. Mail did get sorted in Jackson 30 miles away but it was closed now Memphis. Many of the people that worked for USPS retired and was forced to retire.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miatatom Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Same issues here in southeast Tennessee. As long as DeJoy is in charge of the USPS, you'll continue to see the USPS fall apart. It's all part of the plan to privatize it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINCANBANDIT Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 imagine the same government employees at the Post Office, running government hospitals and you get a glimpse of what Socialism is like. I have been an ebay seller for more than 20 years and the last three years things have deteriorated exponentially at the post office. Close to 10% of my shipments never make it to the customers, they just disappear or get stolen. There are few things more useless than an employee who believes they cannot be fired. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 1 minute ago, TINCANBANDIT said: imagine the same government employees at the Post Office, running government hospitals and you get a glimpse of what Socialism is like. I'll just go to my socialist doctor to get my socialist meds from the socialiat pharmacist and it wont cost me my house or a lifetime of debt... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Van Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 29 minutes ago, stitchdup said: I'll just go to my socialist doctor to get my socialist meds from the socialiat pharmacist and it wont cost me my house or a lifetime of debt... Getting close to lock time here. Not sure where you live.....but friends in Canada often wait months to a year for vital care. I'd say your VOP depends on your needs. Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINCANBANDIT Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 1 hour ago, stitchdup said: I'll just go to my socialist doctor to get my socialist meds from the socialiat pharmacist and it wont cost me my house or a lifetime of debt... what you have in Canada isn't exactly Socialist.....The Doctors do not work for the state Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 The biggest problem with the post office is the management. They make a decision and are never held accountable. In their defense they are forced by elected officials to do stupid things. Now all that being said I do not understand how or why every letter I send with the same zip code as my house has to go to Detroit area (Allen Park I believe) to be sorted. Rarely have trouble with letters going over the state line to Toledo. Strangely Toledo's mail is also sorted in Detroit area. Around here many of the rural delivery personal are not regular employees any longer, and they want you to supply the car. The best part is the management cannot figure out why their employees give a darn is busted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, TINCANBANDIT said: imagine the same government employees at the Post Office, running government hospitals and you get a glimpse of what Socialism is like. Yo, Casey, this has*NOTHING* to do with socialism. Look up the definition. You are just using buzzwords which seem to be convenient for you at the moment. Even the entire U.S. government itself is nowhere close to being socialist. I could expand on who runs our government, but that would get me banned from the forum. Also, the USPS is not actually run by U.S. government. What you seeing here could be related to badly designed routing algorithms (since everything is done by computers), and of course by the incompetence of the employees (which is rampant in today's world, all around us, regardless of the political association, not just at the post office). Incompetent people are everywhere, all over the world, regardless of which country or political regime they reside in. Edited May 26, 2023 by peteski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972coronet Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Even worse - at least around here - is FedEx : 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 47 minutes ago, 1930fordpickup said: The biggest problem with the post office is the management. They make a decision and are never held accountable. In their defense they are forced by elected officials to do stupid things. Now all that being said I do not understand how or why every letter I send with the same zip code as my house has to go to Detroit area (Allen Park I believe) to be sorted. Rarely have trouble with letters going over the state line to Toledo. Strangely Toledo's mail is also sorted in Detroit area. Around here many of the rural delivery personal are not regular employees any longer, and they want you to supply the car. The best part is the management cannot figure out why their employees give a darn is busted. This is a major part of the problem. Bad management that mandate cost savings that end up costing more in the long run. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 43 minutes ago, bobthehobbyguy said: ...Bad management that mandate cost savings that end up costing more in the long run. But wait...don't you know that in today's much more gooder world anyone with a shiny new degree in the History of Competitive Tiddlywinks or something equally useful can perform well as a manager in ANY field, just as long as they're the right gender or ethnicity to fill the quotas? Wake up, man. The world has changed. Time to get on board. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, TINCANBANDIT said: what you have in Canada isn't exactly Socialist.....The Doctors do not work for the state Mr. Budge, I believe, is in Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Scotland Edited May 26, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyK Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 To help explain the sorting problem being sent to another city and back again....... Several years ago they closed a sorting station in a major city here so that all mail goes about 50 miles up the freeway to Portland, gets sorted and then ships out. Doesn't matter if you're sending a letter across town, it takes the scenic route and then back again. I'm sure they will tell you it's more efficient that way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Van Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 43 minutes ago, TonyK said: To help explain the sorting problem being sent to another city and back again....... Several years ago they closed a sorting station in a major city here so that all mail goes about 50 miles up the freeway to Portland, gets sorted and then ships out. Doesn't matter if you're sending a letter across town, it takes the scenic route and then back again. I'm sure they will tell you it's more efficient that way. Yep.....when I'd send Dad a B'day card , he lived on the same road as I do 11 miles away, the card would be postmarked in a city next state over......LOGISTICS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miatatom Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 I don't believe some folks on this forum know who DeJoy is or who appointed him to his position as head of the USPS. Look it up. The entire organization is headed for the dumpster due to the changes he has implemented. He certainly doesn't have a socialist agenda. Quite the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 9 minutes ago, Miatatom said: I don't believe some folks on this forum know who DeJoy is or who appointed him to his position as head of the USPS. Look it up. The entire organization is headed for the dumpster due to the changes he has implemented. He certainly doesn't have a socialist agenda. Quite the opposite. Ya know...idiocy isn't limited to just one side of the political aisle, and there's no shortage of it on either side, To imply otherwise... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 13 hours ago, TINCANBANDIT said: what you have in Canada isn't exactly Socialist.....The Doctors do not work for the state i'm in scotland, my doctor is paid by the state Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 10 hours ago, Miatatom said: I don't believe some folks on this forum know who DeJoy is or who appointed him to his position as head of the USPS. Look it up. The entire organization is headed for the dumpster due to the changes he has implemented. He certainly doesn't have a socialist agenda. Quite the opposite. This direction has been decided for a decade or three. Nothing new at all. What I find funny is the hours they keep and they have been claiming they want more business. I am the last house on the left on a dead-end street. My drive is the turnaround for all of the delivery companies. If the powers that be really wanted to stay in business they would have better hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Van Posted May 28, 2023 Author Share Posted May 28, 2023 (edited) So lets follow the bouncing package as it navigates the USPS Logistics horror show. Remember I am in West Virginia (WV) Arrived at USPS Facility SIX MILE, SC 29682 May 26, 2023, 9:13 am SIX MILE, SC 29682 May 26, 2023, 6:45 am GREENVILLE SC DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 26, 2023, 2:47 am GREENVILLE, SC 29611 May 25, 2023, 9:51 pm CHARLESTON WV PROCESSING CENTER May 25, 2023, 3:04 pm HARRISBURG, PA 17112 May 25, 2023, 7:35 am HARRISBURG, PA 17112 May 25, 2023, 7:20 am HARRISBURG PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 25, 2023, 6:53 am HARRISBURG PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 25, 2023, 3:38 am LANCASTER PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 25, 2023, 2:44 am LANCASTER PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 24, 2023, 10:09 pm KEARNEYSVILLE, WV 25430 May 24, 2023, 8:54 pm KEARNEYSVILLE, WV 25430 May 23, 2023, 1:38 pm Day one. GREAT my item ships from my home state!!! Should be a short trip! Lancaster PA.....so we have to go from WV to PA to get to WV....OK OK...it's in PA...kinda makes sense with all the DIST center USPS closed. Charleston WV!!! Next stop my house!!! Greenville SC.....Wait that's THREE states away from me!!! I'm sure USPS will route it back to Charleston as a mis-route!! Six Mile SC.....rural SC further away from my house??? WHAT??? Still sitting in Six Mile on the 28th and will until TUE I am sure. Working as designed??? That's what I got from USPS........ Yes...it ain't life saving meds......UPS gets those to me from OHIO in 12 hours!!! It\s car parts......But sure would have been nice to have them on a 3 day weekend. Edited May 28, 2023 by Dave Van 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Like everyone else I have had issues with FEDEX. I thought someone here might enjoy what I saw while shopping the other day. This guy was pushing his cart in the other direction at COSTCO and I noticed the shirt he was wearing. His shirt looked much like the ones you would see some of the FEDEX drivers wearing, except on the front instead of saying FEDEX it said FEDUP. I thought it was sort of funny anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTrucker Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 I now live in a small farm town that still has a "local mail" slot. They were told to remove it yars ago but the Post Master here refused to do it. Where we did live before if I mailed a letter across the street it had to go 70 miles south get sorted and sent back because in the 1990's someone decided that we didn't need a mail sort in our central post office so now instead it goes to a private owned sort center. Every holiday season they hire a bunch of people to sort and load trucks. My son applied and went there and only stayed a week because it was a bunch of people that had no real incentive to work and werfe openly stealing cards and opening packages! When he brought it to the attention of management he was told mind his own business! I did ask the guy that drops mail here every day (contract hauler) about packages being mis-routed and all he said is "they call it logistics" and laughed! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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