I just want to say I am not positive this will apply in all cities, towns and
states but I got crazy news yesterday at my local post office. I dropped off
a package for a customer at 12:45 on Saturday afternoon and I actually went out
of my way to do so because I wanted to get it moving through the system and it
was going from Massachusetts to California. I went on the USPS tracking site
on Sunday and it was still showing as accepted by my post office and nothing
else. I thought, OK, maybe just didn't get scanned when the mail left
or was supposed to leave at 2:00? Checked again Monday morning, same status.
I'm like, WTH? I decided time to pay a visit, I need to go that way anyways.
I showed the employees my tracking and they said the following which is mind
blowing. We only have ONE pickup a day now and it is at 8:45 in the morning.
That means anything you ship on Monday, leaves Tuesday, Saturday leaves on Monday
unless its a holiday then Tuesday. So, if all the post offices are doing this
just add on another day to what is already slow service. Even the employees
were disgusted with it. If you are going to do this, why not at least make the
pick up at the end of the day not right before the post office opens? I usually
avoid my local post office anyways and try to ship from my job because the guy
working there is excellent to deal with and I will be curious to see what he
says. I am on a few days off but will be there Thursday. Anyways, sorry for
the bad news.
I think it may be Post Office/location specific. I just went to look at all the
outgoing packages I have sent in the past couple weeks and 90% of them leave
the Post Office within a few hours of me dropping it off. Sometimes around 10am,
sometimes around 2pm and sometimes around 8pm. I even had one package be delivered
a couple states away only 41 hours after I dropped it off (that doesn't happen
often anymore)!
I live in a large city, so maybe that is just something smaller/less busy Post
Offices are doing?
My post office only does one a day, they are in the back room sorting and such
all day and just send one shipment. Scan at 8am or 5pm, still goes on the same
truck. I dont think this is uncommon for most post offices.
I just want to say I am not positive this will apply in all cities, towns and
states but I got crazy news yesterday at my local post office. I dropped off
a package for a customer at 12:45 on Saturday afternoon and I actually went out
of my way to do so because I wanted to get it moving through the system and it
was going from Massachusetts to California. I went on the USPS tracking site
on Sunday and it was still showing as accepted by my post office and nothing
else. I thought, OK, maybe just didn't get scanned when the mail left
or was supposed to leave at 2:00? Checked again Monday morning, same status.
I'm like, WTH? I decided time to pay a visit, I need to go that way anyways.
I showed the employees my tracking and they said the following which is mind
blowing. We only have ONE pickup a day now and it is at 8:45 in the morning.
That means anything you ship on Monday, leaves Tuesday, Saturday leaves on Monday
unless its a holiday then Tuesday. So, if all the post offices are doing this
just add on another day to what is already slow service. Even the employees
were disgusted with it. If you are going to do this, why not at least make the
pick up at the end of the day not right before the post office opens? I usually
avoid my local post office anyways and try to ship from my job because the guy
working there is excellent to deal with and I will be curious to see what he
says. I am on a few days off but will be there Thursday. Anyways, sorry for
the bad news.
It's not a coincidence, it's on purpose. There have been ongoing efforts
to devalue, defund, and ultimately defunct the USPS over the last several years.
Only expect it to get worse for the next several years...
I just want to say I am not positive this will apply in all cities, towns and
states but I got crazy news yesterday at my local post office. I dropped off
a package for a customer at 12:45 on Saturday afternoon and I actually went out
of my way to do so because I wanted to get it moving through the system and it
was going from Massachusetts to California. I went on the USPS tracking site
on Sunday and it was still showing as accepted by my post office and nothing
else. I thought, OK, maybe just didn't get scanned when the mail left
or was supposed to leave at 2:00? Checked again Monday morning, same status.
I'm like, WTH? I decided time to pay a visit, I need to go that way anyways.
I showed the employees my tracking and they said the following which is mind
blowing. We only have ONE pickup a day now and it is at 8:45 in the morning.
That means anything you ship on Monday, leaves Tuesday, Saturday leaves on Monday
unless its a holiday then Tuesday. So, if all the post offices are doing this
just add on another day to what is already slow service. Even the employees
were disgusted with it. If you are going to do this, why not at least make the
pick up at the end of the day not right before the post office opens? I usually
avoid my local post office anyways and try to ship from my job because the guy
working there is excellent to deal with and I will be curious to see what he
says. I am on a few days off but will be there Thursday. Anyways, sorry for
the bad news.
It's not a coincidence, it's on purpose. There have been ongoing efforts
to devalue, defund, and ultimately defunct the USPS over the last several years.
Only expect it to get worse for the next several years...
Hopefully you guys get some good low cost carriers like we have in Canada to
help with that
USA, Massachusetts
Canada, Ontario