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Stogie1020 Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Aug 8 2022, 11:13 AM EST
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I wish online sellers would disclose who they use for shipping carriers at the time of the transaction. I would pay a buck or two more for certain carriers.

I really hate when they don't tell you they are using the USPS... Even the UPS to USPS handoff service is terrible.

Here is how USPS delivered a package to the house yesterday:

https://ibb.co/MSHfPS8


Truck drove up to the house, carrier leanded out the window and tossed the box into a Lantana bush. Granted, the bush is not the most vibrant life form, but it's not like it deserved to have a box tossed into it.

I hate the USPS. A lot.
Gene363 Online
#2 Posted: Mon, Aug 8 2022, 11:21 AM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
I wish online sellers would disclose who they use for shipping carriers at the time of the transaction. I would pay a buck or two more for certain carriers.

I really hate when they don't tell you they are using the USPS... Even the UPS to USPS handoff service is terrible.

Here is how USPS delivered a package to the house yesterday:

https://ibb.co/MSHfPS8


Truck drove up to the house, carrier leanded out the window and tossed the box into a Lantana bush. Granted, the bush is not the most vibrant life form, but it's not like it deserved to have a box tossed into it.

I hate the USPS. A lot.


You are not alone, and the UPS to USPS is bad, unless UPS is going to be in my neighborhood, they will deliver instead of doing a handoff to the USPS. We have some good mail carriers, but the new hires suck.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Aug 8 2022, 11:45 AM EST
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When I was shipping/receiving at the lab, I learned all carriers have the capacity for chittiness. Tends to be down to individual drivers and whether they have any pride in their work
MACS Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, Aug 8 2022, 11:51 AM EST
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I think the best delivery drivers are with Amazon right now. Just my experience. Always left on the porch and you get an email with a picture of where they put it.
Stogie1020 Offline
#5 Posted: Mon, Aug 8 2022, 12:07 PM EST
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I am with you on this MACS. I also have faith in FedEX.

SOB, you are right, though. This was not my normal mail carier, it was a Sunday fill-in person.
Stogie1020 Offline
#6 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 12:08 PM EST
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FFS, Anothe USPS Sunday delivery debacle.

I ordered a few boxes of cigars as gifts to some clients. UPS Surepost (so USPS does the final delivery) was the delivery service.

This delivery was to a large office building in a busy shopping center area.

On Sunday, USPS dropped the box off outside one of the main (locked) doors to the building. Just left it there on the sidewalk. Not Joking.

One of the building maintenance workers found it this morning and had it, had no idea what it was or what to do with it until I called the building services to see if anyone had seen it.
plinytheelder Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 12:15 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
I also have faith in FedEX.


Not me. No doorbell, no pic of package, nothing.
FedEx is having labor issues and if I could pick which company is available to deliver a package, it certainly wouldn't be them right now.
Stogie1020 Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 12:50 PM EST
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plinytheelder wrote:
Not me. No doorbell, no pic of package, nothing.
FedEx is having labor issues and if I could pick which company is available to deliver a package, it certainly wouldn't be them right now.

I hear the same from others, although I can honestly say I don't think I have ever had an actual delivery problem with FedEX.

Amazon seems to be top notch, but they only deliver Amazon stuff...
MACS Offline
#9 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 12:51 PM EST
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Could have been worse, Stogie... some criminal dbags could be smoking your stash right now.

Porch pirates are a nuisance. A few days ago I came across an Amazon box on the sidewalk. Had some sort of plastic toy in it... not sure what else was in the box, but it was ripped open and the plastic toy was still in the box... so the criminal dbags didn't want the toy.

Some kid is wondering where the hell his toy is, though. smdh
Stogie1020 Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 12:55 PM EST
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Definitely could have been worse, these are first world problems... No one should get my Gurkahs and Mark Twains.

I just wonder what the d-bag USPS employee was thinking when he/she just left the box on the sidewalk... "Gee. this seems like the BEST idea."

As much as I hate the USPS, I spent 15 minutes on the phone with them filing a complaint. They are going to "get back to me". Lol.
deadeyedick Offline
#11 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 5:35 PM EST
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Guess I'm the exception as I have had better luck with USPS. I know the mail lady and she has saved my bacon a few times in the hot weather by stopping by the house instead of leaving the box in the 140 degree lock box.

One exception: had a two box delivery that got caught in a loop going from Scottsdale to Gilbert (11 year old address) Az over and over for about 10 days. I finally tracked it down and had it held for pick up. That sucker was marked "out for delivery" daily but they just kept sending it back and forth.

Ravi got an earful from me after he assured me it was addressed correctly and I sent him a pic of the wrong address after I finally got my hands on it.
Stogie1020 Offline
#12 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 5:48 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Guess I'm the exception as I have had better luck with USPS. I know the mail lady and she has saved my bacon a few times in the hot weather by stopping by the house instead of leaving the box in the 140 degree lock box.

One exception: had a two box delivery that got caught in a loop going from Scottsdale to Gilbert (11 year old address) Az over and over for about 10 days. I finally tracked it down and had it held for pick up. That sucker was marked "out for delivery" daily but they just kept sending it back and forth.

Ravi got an earful from me after he assured me it was addressed correctly and I sent him a pic of the wrong address after I finally got my hands on it.

My M-F residential carrier is the same, takes care of us and makes an effort.

This is something with the Sunday delivery service, I think. Now that it has happened both residentially and at work, both on Sundays, I am sure they have the "B" team doing deliveries on Sundays.
frankj1 Offline
#13 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 6:47 PM EST
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USPS seems more reliable and willing to treat delivery items with more care where I live
Sunoverbeach Offline
#14 Posted: Mon, Aug 15 2022, 6:48 PM EST
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USPS is good to me with shipments. I'm still bitter about that bastid running over my mailbox a couple winters back and not reporting it to me though
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