The USPS SUCKS

[Aggie87]

1 hour ago, jlhoots said:

What really sucks is UPS Mail Innovations. UPS is supposed to take packages to the post office for final delivery. Cheap is why vendors use it.

I've had 3 packages from different vendors disappear forever.  Never got to the post office.You then have to go to the original vendor to have them reshipped.

Look it up.

That is frustrating for me as well, for a different reason.  In my town, the USPS does not deliver door to door.  So everyone gets a PO Box for free (and the post office is only about 2 miles from my house, so mostly no big deal).

However, every other service (Amazon, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc), delivers to my door.  So if something ships by UPS, I generally use my street address for delivery.  But if they swap it out (like UPS Mail Innovations does) and give it to the Post Office for final delivery, it sometimes gets returned to the sender because it has a street address on it, and not a PO Box.  

Usually I can figure this out in advance and it's not a big deal, but occasionally it messes up.  A package from Amazon UK did this - started with Amazon in England, used some other service for transport to the Royal Mail, transported to the US, picked up by UPS Mail Innovations in California, and then brought by UPS to my USPS box in Arizona.  So 98% of that trip worked fine with my street address, but then needed a PO Box number for final delivery.  

Luckily I was able to intercept it at the Post Office and convince them to let me have it before they returned it to the UK. 

[Dan Gould]

You would think that if the post office gives you a PO box for free they'd know the street addresses of the owners and automatically put it into your box.

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

You would think that if the post office gives you a PO box for free they'd know the street addresses of the owners and automatically put it into your box.

But that would make sense. 😜

[Tom 1960]

I had 2 small parcels/cds expected to be delivered on Thursday. Only 1 was in the mailbox Thursday night. That parcel was scanned about 610 pm. The other parcel was scanned delivered but nearly an hour earlier. That makes no sense.  Went to post office Friday and carrier admitted package was misdelivered. I'm hoping the CD will arrive still but not holding my breathe. Nothing in mailbox Friday night.

[Ken Dryden]

In our first house, one day I received a bundle of CDs in padded envelope, along with one that had a book. It was not addressed to me, anyone on our short street, or even anyone in our subdivision, but it had a delivery confirmation sticker.

I stuck it in my maiblox the next day and hoped they would get it to the right addressee.

[JSngry]

I had a human head misdelivered to me.