I hate USPS
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Laughing Gas
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From: Rock Valley, IA
I hate USPS
Well, a package that I was expecting was dropped off in Sioux Falls, SD on December 30th and I still have yet to receive it. If you look on the map Sioux Falls is only 45-50 miles away from me. Why is it taking so long for it to be delivered? Of course the people at the Post Office can't tell me because their tracking is a joke. Just that a 50 mile trip can take 8-14 shipping days... I can call back after the 14th day and put in a case like that will do any good at all. So, for those of you who send out parts I would strongly suggest that you either pay for or spend the extra money and go UPS or FedEx. At least they have a state of the art tracking procedure and can tell you exactly where that package is at any given time. 
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From: Acworth, GA
I try to go through UPS at work as much as I can. I also try to have most everything delivered to work also. When we have something delivered to the house, they usually leave it by the front door (which we never use). If you come down the driveway (350' from the road) you are at the back door, then you have to walk around the house (in the grass) to the front door. By the time we find it, it has already rained.
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From: Martinsburg, WV
I've had that before, usually with the Fedex or UPS Postal shipping, much like the old DHL@Home service. The stuff gets dropped off at the USPS sorting facility by the commercial carrier on a 53' trailer and can sit there up to a couple weeks before it gets touched or sorted. The arrival scan is actually just a bill of lading scan.
+1 on getting stuff shipped to work, first business to business is cheaper, no residential surcharge. Plus, we get so much crap everyday our UPS guy is here by 9am to get us out of the way.
+1 on getting stuff shipped to work, first business to business is cheaper, no residential surcharge. Plus, we get so much crap everyday our UPS guy is here by 9am to get us out of the way.
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Laughing Gas
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From: Rock Valley, IA
Matt, that's the problem I'm having. Went through UPS to get to the USPS location, now I'm waiting for it to get to me. USPS is no help. In fact just getting a person on the phone with them was a trick. Don't know when UPS starting working with USPS but it seems to be a bigger headache than help.
More Turbo
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From: Alberta, Canada
Try living in Canada and dealing with that PLUS duty delay and charges. And I don't get a consistent courier on the Canadian side even though my order will be from the same place like Summit or Jegs on a regular basis and shipped from them to the border the same.
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Well, I guess I'm gonna be the only dissenter, but I try to support the Post Office as much as I can as I've rarely had any real problems with them (that weren't my own fault).
As for Duties & Customs, talk to your government officials about that.
As for Duties & Customs, talk to your government officials about that.
Laughing Gas
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From: Wausau, WI
I'm going to have to agree with ctubutis, I've shipped and have had many things shipped with USPS and have only had one problem and that was my fault. It was a package going to Hawaii and I accidentally shipped parcel post. I actually just got a package from Michigan today (to central WI), two days, I was surprised.
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Laughing Gas
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From: Rock Valley, IA
Maybe I should qualify my statement. My main beef with the post office is that their tracking methods suck. If you want to know where a package is they just give a big shrug and say somewhere between there and you. We guarantee noting. Honestly the post office is obsolete. I get all my bills via email and I email my friends and family. The only thing the post office brings me is junk mail I don't even want. I could see the post office getting smaller and smaller over the next 10 years until it closes altogether. This is all just my opinion of course.
Laughing Gas
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From: Wausau, WI
Does the place you purchase from send you an e-mail with a tracking number? The places I buy through do and I can check it. Yeah, it still isn't as good as ups or fed-up, but it gives you an idea of where it is.
Around here, they are closing some of the postal buildings and distribution centers, it's only a matter of time. Wouldn't it be nice to just hit the "block" button for all the junk mail that you find in your mailbox?
I'll have to agree that it's bs that it's taking so long for a 50 mile trip. Must of gotten shipped to the wrong distribution center or something.
Around here, they are closing some of the postal buildings and distribution centers, it's only a matter of time. Wouldn't it be nice to just hit the "block" button for all the junk mail that you find in your mailbox?
I'll have to agree that it's bs that it's taking so long for a 50 mile trip. Must of gotten shipped to the wrong distribution center or something.
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Laughing Gas
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From: Rock Valley, IA
According to the website it was delivered to Sioux falls but that's the last I was able to find out. The thing with ups and FedEx is they scan every time it's off loaded and put onto a new truck and it's readily available to anyone with the number.
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I would have kept working on my truck instead of everyone else's. Now I have a half finished project with a bunch of pricey outdated parts and no energy to finish it. Good news is that I now have the money to pay someone else to do the work... just can't bring myself to do it.