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Jago668 wrote:Where I grew up the mail ran fine. We got our mail in our box (rural route) between 10:00 and 10:15 AM. You could mail stuff to the wrong town (next closest) town and we would still get it. Not because the USPS is amazing, but because the people working at the stations were. I've repeatedly had mail disappear here in Dallas. Why, not because the USPS is horrible, but because the people working the stations up here are.

I try to only use UPS if I can. FedEx will only deliver to the apartment office, and better hope you check your tracking number regularly because their automated system to send you notifications doesn't work (at least not for me). Still at least stuff gets delivered and not just poof vanish and claim it was delivered correctly.

Jusme wrote:

G26ster wrote:

Jusme wrote: You ever wonder why they have so many financial problems? If we conducted business like that we wouldn't be in business very long. It sometimes amazes me how many things could be corrected through common sense, but when you get the government involved in business, common sense goes out the window.

It's not the USPO at fault, it is us as a society. We have become so accustomed to shoddy work, or service, that it has become the norm. I run across it every day wherever I shop, and every time I need service. It's daily!

For example: Wednesday. Wife wanted a small cheeseburger and fries from McDonalds. Told me to make sure they put more than one pickle slice on it. I told them at the ordering mic, I told them at the window I paid for it, and sure enough when they handed me the bag, it had ONE pickle slice. Thursday, ordered two personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut. Went to pick it up at the scheduled pick up time. Young lady at the counter said it will be a few minutes more. I waited. After about 5 minutes another worker asked if I had been helped. I said yes, but I saw two personal pan pizza boxes sitting in the warming area. I asked him to check to see if they were mine. They were! They were ready when I got there, but nobody bothered to check. And these are the people that believe they deserve $15/hr minimum wage.

I remodeled two bathrooms last month. We used fiberglass tub and shower surrounds. It took many trips to Home Depot returning the cracked items, due to poor packing/shipping. The toilet for the front bathroom, already has a problem, but I sure am not un-installing it to return it. The 40v hedge trimmer I bought last month at Lowe's already has a battery issue after 2 uses. The foot massage bath I got for my wife last month has been returned because it did nothing but sit there - not working. I could go on and on, and you folks probably can too.

These are small inconveniences/examples, I realize, but they illustrate the daily frustration with businesses as a whole. They are not gov't run businesses, and they perform shoddy service, yet they thrive. Why, because we accept it. The whole point is that WE, as consumers, have allowed this to happen, and it will only get worse, as the work ethic in this country doesn't exist anymore.

I understand your frustrations, and I too have had more than my fair share of issues with items/services purchased in the private sector. However, I don't "just put up with it" I complain, I write company executives, I contact the BBB. Does it always result in satisfaction? No, but at least with the private sector, with very few exceptions, I have alternatives, and I take my consumer dollars to those who consistently provide quality products along with good customer service. I don't have that option with the USPS. And when I have to pay shipping costs for a product I have have ordered from a company that I enjoy doing business with, and have to put up with shoddy service from the carrier, no matter how much I complain, or report the issues, nothing is done. But they haven't had a rate decrease on their services yet. I understand that no matter how conscientious a business is run, error/mistakes are made, but if they don't do anything to rectify it, then I will not do business with them, but USPS doesn't give me that option.

flintknapper wrote:

Ordered a couple of parts recently to be delivered to my P.O.Box

One part....was something I need pretty quickly, the other one not.

Both parts shipped USPS priority mail.

Of course, as luck would have it.... the part I am in no hurry for arrived on time.

The other (although correctly addressed) was 'mis-shipped' to another Post Office....20 miles down the road from mine. Once that facility recognized the mistake they sent the package BACK to Houston (160 miles from me) to be 're-shipped'.

No doubt...there is some regulation or policy they must follow to have the package go back through normal channels, but a simple 'call' to my post office (just 20 miles away) would have alerted me to the problem and I could just have gone and picked it up.

Now....I won't have the package (if ever) for about another week. Somehow....this seems less than expedient.

thatguyoverthere wrote:Our USPS service is fairly good, just slow. Plus, I live on a rural route, so that adds one extra day to the delivery time. ?