What Annoyed You Today? (2 Viewers)

[Bucksnort101]

The U.S. Postal Service annoyed me today. Package being send from one state to the left of Minnesota has taken nearly 4 days to get here with just one update. Last time this happened it was just sitting in limbo on a shelf at the local main Post Office...

 

[special ed]

My postal service time record was, decades ago, eleven days from Shreveport Louisiana to New Orleans. They have improved slightly.

 

[Greg Boeser]

I've noticed that delivery times have really slowed since Covid. It's like everybody went on lockdown and never came back to work. There are certain jobs that you just can't do from home.

 

[Greg Boeser]

One of my kids had a package just disappear. He had several updates up to the day of delivery, then got a status unknown message. Four weeks later, it turned up.

 

[Viking1066]

It's like the decals from Serbia. They arrived from Serbia in 10 days at JFK. Then vanished. For a month and ten days they were MIA. The seller (Aleks) went to the USPS to complain and they were here the next day. Otherwise I don't think they would ever have made it to my house. It's worker storage and budget cuts.

 

[cammerjeff]

The worst shipping issue I ever had with USPS was way before covid. I got a great deal on a manual transmission center console for my old 67 GTO. The seller just wanted it gone and I paid $100 plus shipping for it. From the pictures it looked perfect I would just have to color match the plastic parts. Shipped from Harrisburg PA to Belleville MI. Tracking had it in Toledo Ohio in 2 days, no problem. Then the next update was 5 days later in Oklahoma? What it was only 60 miles from my house in Toledo! A trace turned up nothing. They reimbursed me the aprox $150, but the going rate for a good usable part was closer to $500, plus shipping!
In the end it ended up costing me $400+ for a replacement. I was and I am still not happy about it. Even though I sold that car years ago!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

One of my kids had a package just disappear. He had several updates up to the day of delivery, then got a status unknown message. Four weeks later, it turned up.

We renewed my youngest kid's passport, and we received the new one 2 weeks later. You have to send in their original birth certificate (not a copy) and their old passport as supporting documents. Well its been 12 weeks now since they were sent and they have not arrived. Lost.

Now I have to request a new birth certificate from the state he was born in, and even more annoying is its his original one (which is important to mom and dad), and his first passport he got as a baby with all the stamps from our travels is missing (the memories are important for mom and dad).

Needless to say, I'm pissed at the postal service, and even more pissed at the passport agency since they won't even answer my requests for information on reimbursement.

 

[special ed]

Within the past two weeks I received my American Rifleman magazines for February, March, and April.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Within the past two weeks I received my American Rifleman magazines for February, March, and April.

Sounds like a win to me.

 

[Snautzer01]

Within the past two weeks I received my American Rifleman magazines for February, March, and April.

Yeah.. all for the guns..

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Youngest has Strep Throat again. Still at the doc with his mom. Damn. Can't go to school again until Thursday. Good think I work from home mostly, don't need to PTO.

Oldest is passed out on the couch. I assume he is next.

On a positive note, screw it. I'm taking advantage of the peace and quiet, pouring a Bourbon, and taking a hot bath. lol

 

[Snautzer01]

Youngest has Strep Throat again. Still at the doc with his mom. Damn. Can't go to school again until Thursday. Good think I work from home mostly, don't need to PTO.

Oldest is passed out on the couch. I assume he is next.

On a positive note, screw it. I'm taking advantage of the peace and quiet, pouring a Bourbon, and taking a hot bath. lol

Better now then when in Germany. Would spoil a lot to have a sick kid then. Now the will be well protected from that as they heal.
So kinda lucky and cheers.

 

[Bucksnort101]

The U.S. Postal Service annoyed me today. Package being send from one state to the left of Minnesota has taken nearly 4 days to get here with just one update. Last time this happened it was just sitting in limbo on a shelf at the local main Post Office...

Finally USPS update status last night, but still in limbo as to when it will arrive. Package sat in Fargo, ND since 4:30 am Sunday morning (April 21st), finally got a message at 6:30 last night (April 23rd that it is in transit to next destination, but will be late and no indication when it will arrive. Cripes I could have walked from Minneapolis to Fargo and back in that amount of time and saved the mailing costs.

 

[SaparotRob]

Finally USPS update status last night, but still in limbo as to when it will arrive. Package sat in Fargo, ND since 4:30 am Sunday morning (April 21st), finally got a message at 6:30 last night (April 23rd that it is in transit to next destination, but will be late and no indication when it will arrive. Cripes I could have walked from Minneapolis to Fargo and back in that amount of time and saved the mailing costs.

I just imagined your package arriving inside a steamer trunk that is festooned with stickers like Siam, Tanganyika, London, Paris and Borneo.

 

[Bucksnort101]

I just imagined your package arriving inside a steamer trunk that is festooned with stickers like Siam, Tanganyika, London, Paris and Borneo.

Ya, you forgot the exotic location sticker for Fargo, ND dontcha know. You betcha.

 

[Bucksnort101]

I think the US Post Office should change their slogan to "When it absolutely, positively, has to be there, please use some other service"....

 

[N4521U]

Finally USPS update status last night, but still in limbo as to when it will arrive. Package sat in Fargo, ND since 4:30 am Sunday morning (April 21st), finally got a message at 6:30 last night (April 23rd that it is in transit to next destination, but will be late and no indication when it will arrive. Cripes I could have walked from Minneapolis to Fargo and back in that amount of time and saved the mailing costs.

So do you think just for fun they put it on the Last Train to Fargo?

 

[SaparotRob]

You betcha'!

 

[cammerjeff]

Go Bears!

 

[MiTasol]

Finally USPS update status last night, but still in limbo as to when it will arrive. Package sat in Fargo, ND since 4:30 am Sunday morning (April 21st), finally got a message at 6:30 last night (April 23rd that it is in transit to next destination, but will be late and no indication when it will arrive. Cripes I could have walked from Minneapolis to Fargo and back in that amount of time and saved the mailing costs.

Obviously the USPS subcontracted the package to AusPost.

I recently had an international priority paid package sit for 18 days in Melbourne. Packages from Sydney (1296 km, or 700+ them other things, away) routinely take 14 days. Letters are only delivered three days a week so can take much longer. International tracking stops the moment the item passes into AusPost hands.

Almost all international mail comes through Sydney and from my experience 99% passes through customs within 48 hours.