USPS strikes again..

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You can add Amazon to the list, I just had to chat with someone in India about a delivery they botched. I don't recognize the door they delivered to, all I know is it isn't mine. They can't get the driver to go fix the problem apparently, it would make sense to have the person who screwed it up and knows where they delivered it, to go pick it up and fix it. I have to wait until tomorrow to get another order.
 
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Yeah. You're right. It was $10.45. I don't feel nearly as bad now as I did. Even though it still hasn't been updated since it left OKC. That 50 cents makes it all better.

I mean, if the USPS can't find Florida I'd be happy to donate a map...or send them a link to Google maps...if it'll help.
Accuracy is important. Sucks that you are in the Tulsa sphere of the USPS but that's what you get when the PMG decides to fix what ain't broke. The good news for the rest of OK is that the OKC P&DC is one of the most efficient for processing mail and packages. For the rest of you I'll just sit back and eat popcorn while you whine. Really. Go to UPS and FedEx and pay them 2x-3x what the USPS charges and see if your stuff gets there any sooner.
 

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I mailed two money orders and an FFL to a guy in FL for a rifle. A very expensive rifle. I paid $10.95 to send it via Priority Mail instead of 70 cents (or whatever a letter costs these days) so it could be tracked. I dropped it in the mail at the Ada PO on Mon Dec 9th at 11:14am.

It got scanned in Ada and OKC the next day, then *POOF*... No further tracking, no movement, no delivery, no nothing.

And that MF'r from the video covers his ears and tells me there's nothing wrong with the USPS.
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I’ve had that happen before also. Most things that are Priority Mail scan, or any tracking from the USPS seems to go missing an awful lot. Several years ago when I still went into the local PO, before they closed our neighborhood station, I asked the guy who worked for the PO for 30 ish years why I couldn’t track the two mo that I sent a few weeks before for a Valmet M76. The counter guy said two things happen, 1) employees were to lazy to scan and 2) the machines and programs that were being implemented wasn’t scanning. Now mind you that this was 15 or so years ago so I’m not sure if the PO is still this way or if they have moved on to newer SOP. I asked what to do so I had to send off the mo’s again and wait for the PO to reimburse me for the lost mo’s about 3 months later after their “investigation” concluded there wasn’t any foul intentions or cashed mo’s I’d sent. What a pain in the arse that was.

So my question is if we pay for something from the PO, and they don’t deliver on their end, why shouldn’t we expect compensation back? Think about how many “services” they offer that don’t pan out on a daily basis…that’s a lot of money gained for not doing their job. If the people and businesses who have a grievance with the PO would challenge them on a continuous basis be it for a stamp, several thousand dollars worth of MO’s, presents or parcels, all the way to tracking then maybe the PO would do what they are paid for. It’s obvious the
Gov’t ran PO model doesn’t work any longer, not sure if it really ever did, so maybe it’s time to take the PO away from Big G and let a private entity try to right the capsizing ship. Hopefully President Elect Trump will get sometime on it-Elon😉
 

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Accuracy is important. Sucks that you are in the Tulsa sphere of the USPS but that's what you get when the PMG decides to fix what ain't broke. The good news for the rest of OK is that the OKC P&DC is one of the most efficient for processing mail and packages. For the rest of you I'll just sit back and eat popcorn while you whine. Really. Go to UPS and FedEx and pay them 2x-3x what the USPS charges and see if your stuff gets there any sooner.
Not sooner on an avg but their tracking has always worked for me.
 
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Accuracy is important. Sucks that you are in the Tulsa sphere of the USPS but that's what you get when the PMG decides to fix what ain't broke. The good news for the rest of OK is that the OKC P&DC is one of the most efficient for processing mail and packages. For the rest of you I'll just sit back and eat popcorn while you whine. Really. Go to UPS and FedEx and pay them 2x-3x what the USPS charges and see if your stuff gets there any sooner.

I'm assuming you must work for the post office and I'll agree leadership is obviously lacking...at almost every level as far as I can tell.

I don't know what you mean about being in the "Tulsa sphere" but all my mail appears to go thru OKC. The stuff I can track, anyway.

And no one is whining. I paid the USPS to perform a specific task in a fairly specific time frame...their time frame as a matter of fact. They failed miserably and it isn't the first time. It happens frequently. And when they do fail, there never seems to be any accountability and the failures continue. Dealing with sub-par mail service has been an issue for the 3+ years I've lived here.

If you do work for the post office, here's a hint: Commenting to someone who has made a complaint about poor mail service by saying they're whining and the other guys do it, too, reflects the attitude that's responsible for the very issue I'm complaining about. You're doing exactly what the losing side of the recent election has been doing for the past 5 or 6 weeks...blaming your (your = USPS) failure on someone else instead of being accountable and offering real solutions to fix the problem.

The USPS service in this area sucks and the USPS in general is failing the American people. Chew on that while you chew on your popcorn.
 

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