1. You live in West Covina and you have anything shipped that does not require your signature?
2. Good to know that with the large amount of mail that USPS handles its not always their fault
3. I have the worst luck of anyone on the planet as, on a weekly basis, I re deliver misrouted mail to my neighbors.
4. Based on my un scientific sample of me, a smidge under 72% of mailed items, with an indication of a firearm related item in the contents, is delayed or mis delivered. As an example, the nice elderly neighbor lady up the road from us left a note saying "You have 5 really heavy parcels to pick up at the Post Office. Thank you. (smiley face)". This was after I had contacted the post master and spoken with the local post office about bullets that had gone missing. Their answer was 'if it was sent then we would deliver it.'. Turns out that really nice elderly neighbor had contacted the post office for 3 weeks trying to get them to pick them up while I was trying to find them. When I took the note and the nice elderly neighbor ladies name and address to the post office the clerk and the manager agreed to pick them up. Not saying they need to be perfect but what sort of paste eating, mouth breathing window licker are you when you do something like that. You might even have a hard on for anything gun related but that does not excuse you from performing your job.
So maybe your right...."USPS not always at fault." This time. This decade. Since they only strive to be right once a decade and they have filled that quota they can go back to basking in the warm glow of being marginally effective.
Ok.....sorry just reread my post. Sort of came across negative and if you(or a loved one) works for the USPS my apologies. To be fair there is some positive things to talk about in terms of USPS performance. At least no one died due to poor performance and lack if intellectual integrity like the VA.
Maybe a good reason to ship expensive items as adult sig required.
Yep. I have a buddy who is in internet sales of electronic gear. He lost nearly 10K at Xmas alone due to this crap.There is a several page thread on another board concerning signature required packages. Many were offended someone would require them to sign and refuse to buy from such sellers. That would raise a big flag if I were a seller.
I have to take issue with this. As a vendor and buyer on Ebay I have shipped and received literally hundreds of packages and have never had one lost, and only a couple delayed. In fact a friend shipped me some stuff priority mail from the Bay area and I had it in Virginia in 2 (that's TWO) days for a $5.95 box. Lets see FedEx or Un Professional Shipping(UPS) do that. Maybe its area dependent. I have noticed that the closer you get to the border with Mexico, the service suffers. If you think the USPS is bad, go to another country. In fact that's pretty true of most things.
Maggot,
I too ship extensively so its odd that our experiences are so different. And I wont discount your experiences......despite what Frank says. :^)
I would also agree with Killswitch's comment.
While I dont like many of the Fed Ex/UPS policies and business practices they are pretty consistant and I can work around that.
USPS does not have consistant practices which is intrinsically problematic. If the practices are not common it is impossible to measure key performance indicators and compare with any level of accuracy. As shooters everyone knows if you cant measure it you cant fix it. I would also like to address your example of getting an item in a flat rate box in two days. I completely believe that occured however that is not a time frame that they commit to replicate. For the sake of discussion I would suggest that the price of that flat rate box is not a sustainable offering if they were not subsidized.
If I am sending something I can afford to resend or lose then USPS is fine and the flat rate boxes are great. Anything else goes UPS.
Lastly, my comments about being a mouth breathing, paste eating window licker was not a general indictment of all postal workers. Didn't mean to offend the other two.
I wouldn't trust the USPS to be able to competently pour piss out of a boot
Fedex all the way.