USPS making changes starting Oct. 1st

Don M.

Don M.

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The USPS has announced some changes and price increases starting this coming Friday.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/usp...ge-starting-230625494.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

It appears that moving mail by Air is causing some issues, so they are going to start moving more mail via ground transportation. I suspect that there are also other reasons. I buy, and sometimes sell items online, and I always track the packages....and I'm sometimes amazed at the "circuitous" route that these packages take. Awhile back, I bought an item from a seller in Indiana....about 500 miles away. That small package went through 7 different distribution centers...probably a distance of over 2000 miles...before it was delivered 11 days later. That "inefficient" delivery probably cost the USPS far more than the postage.

It's things like this that are sending more business to UPS and FedEx.
 

I’ve started noticing that online purchasing and home delivery are starting to be more inconvenient than shopping at a brick and mortar store.

I made a small purchase recently that was shipped by FedEx and it took 12 days to arrive. When it did arrive it was tossed on the stoop with no delivery confirmation to alert me. I was lucky to find it before the porch pirates did.

It seems like we are heading into a survival of the fittest battle as the various delivery companies adjust to the increased volume of packages and the customers desire for instant gratification.
 
Yes, I'm feeling the brunt of those price changes. Last year my P.O. Box was $118, this year it will be $146 ! I believe that's about $38 more than it was two years ago. My bill is due this month. I thought about closing the box but having it is a convenience. I can have boxes delivered there using their "street address" feature and they'll hold packages for up to a month. This way if I have appointments or are away, I don't have to worry about missing deliveries. I have all my meds delivered there. Sometimes deliveries to our apartment complex are sketchy and some downright bizarre...like I'll get a message that "package couldn't be delivered because the address is invalid". WTH?!

I have enough regular and Forever stamps to last me..well...forever. I hardly mail anything these days. I read that we can expect slower deliveries. So what else is new. Before Oct 1st, someone sent a domestic priority mail and it took the recipient 7 days to get it. Someone told me during the early stages of the pandemic that the postal sorting centers were backed up, which of course backed up the local branches. I guess this will be more of the same and even worse.
 
Back when I was with United, we would sometimes carry mail across the country. It wasn’t unusual to fly mail from the west coast to the east coast non stop and then have the mail handed off to a flight going back west to Cleveland or Chicago. I never tried to figure out why they didn’t just put it on a plane going to those destinations.
 
I want Amazon to stop using USPS, I order from them a lot and have found UPS and Amazon delivery to be much superior to the Post Office.

Our house sits about 100 yards off the street with a box at the street. If a package doesn't fit in the box USPS often does not deliver and infrequently leaves a note telling us we have to go to the post office to pick the package up. Often no note. Sometimes USPS will bring the package and leave it on the porch, but one bark from our dog runs them off. UPS or Amazon on the other hand always deliver to the house, no problem. And the drivers have made friends with the dog, only problem is she likes to jump into their trucks in hopes of a ride...
 
I suspect it's your location Rob. We really like our USPS carrier. Had a clunker a couple years back but, after a few months and a number of complaints from the neighborhood, he disappeared.

Our primary driver brings our 100+ pound dog treats ... he hears her truck coming from a quarter mile away. 😄
 
Tommy said:
I suspect it's your location Rob...
Our primary driver brings our 100+ pound dog treats ...
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Maybe, we tried hard with our USPS people (we get different ones on different days), but not much luck. When we saw our UPS driver with treats we started giving him large boxes so he wouldn't have to spend his own money on them. Tried that with some of the USPS people also, but were refused, they said its not allowed...

We also leave treats out on the porch for delivery drivers, small bags of chips and the like. Some times bottles of water when its hot. Most seem to appreciate it, except for the USPS people who rarely, if ever, make it to our porch.
 
Alligatorob said:
I want Amazon to stop using USPS, I order from them a lot and have found UPS and Amazon delivery to be much superior to the Post Office.
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The shipper of the product may be the one using USPS..Amazon uses their Prime when shipping from their distribution enters.
 
I've never even seen an Amazon delivery vehicle ... ever. We order a lot from them, most of it directly from Amazon, and it always comes via USPS or UPS.
 
Don M. said:
The USPS has announced some changes and price increases starting this coming Friday.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/usp...ge-starting-230625494.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

It appears that moving mail by Air is causing some issues, so they are going to start moving more mail via ground transportation. I suspect that there are also other reasons. I buy, and sometimes sell items online, and I always track the packages....and I'm sometimes amazed at the "circuitous" route that these packages take. Awhile back, I bought an item from a seller in Indiana....about 500 miles away. That small package went through 7 different distribution centers...probably a distance of over 2000 miles...before it was delivered 11 days later. That "inefficient" delivery probably cost the USPS far more than the postage.

It's things like this that are sending more business to UPS and FedEx.
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I've done that on an Amazon package shipped through UPS. I have a distribution center 45 miles from me that carries 90% of the things I order. I tracked one package that went from Whitestown In. (45 miles from me.) To Indianapolis, put on an airplane went to Kansas City, to another D.C. Then to Atlanta another DC. Finally back to Indianapolis then put on a truck to Kokomo where it said it was out for delivery 7 days later.

I just ordered some things my one 9-year-old G.S. wants for Christmas from Amazon. Ordered them Sunday & part of them was here yesterday Monday. Rest "might" get here by Dec. 22nd they are saying. Crazy shipping nowadays.
 
I've not had any problems with deliveries.....I've set up a table in garage and most all use it....a few times I've been gone and they'll put packages on front porch and in the deliver message I get they'll send a picture of the package, showing the location.
 
@Alligatorob "I want Amazon to stop using USPS, I order from them a lot and have found UPS and Amazon delivery to be much superior to the Post Office." There's one problem with that system. Often Amazon uses UPS but then UPS passes it off to the P.O. When that happens, neither agency has each other's tracking numbers. I became painfully aware of this more than once when the P.O. couldn't find my packages. While waiting in line at the pick up window I overheard that a few other people suffered the same fate. I had to return to the post office two more times before I got my packages! That was the case more than once.

The P.O. and a UPS store are both within walking distance. The postal worker couldn't use the original tracking number I got from Amazon because it was for UPS. Went straight to the UPS store and UPS clerk could not pull up the tracking number for the transfer from UPS to P.O. It was all very frustrating. Also within walking distance is an Amazon Locker, so I've used that a few times when the weather is good. But since it's a little farther than the P.O., I don't want to use it when it gets too cold or precipitation is expected. Packages have to be picked up within 3 days.

@Tommy I've had the Amazon trucks deliver packages to my home a few times. I found out that if I order just one or two small items, they'll use their trucks and so far I've had no problems in those instances.
 
I have bad luck with online liquid purchases. One, the plastic bottle leaked and again a second bottle leaked in the box and a third box one of the two glass bottles was shattered.
 
Tommy said:
I've never even seen an Amazon delivery vehicle ... ever. We order a lot from them, most of it directly from Amazon, and it always comes via USPS or UPS.
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USPS will not deliver to me because I am to far back in the woods. So when A package is sent to me via USPS I have to go about four miles to pick it up. Does not sound far unless you do not drive. FedEx and UPS will deliver to my door. I have had good luck with UPS but FedEx loses most of the packages sent to me through them. I have found them all over the place . Everywhere but on my porch. I have even found them hanging in the trees up at the end of my road about a mile from my house.....:ROFLMAO:
 

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