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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nilsen on May 12, 2011, 07:00:21 AM
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Are they known for beeing fast and on time?
They have spent almost a week getting a parcel from Brooklyn to Jamaica. No not Jamaica in the Caribbean... Jamaica NY
:bhead
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They are good when they want to be, but sometimes slow as a snail on some items.
Was it shipped priority, parcel, media mail, 1st class?
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Umm... not sure how its sent but i must say it was a cheap way lol. 2 dollars from Brooklyn aaaaaaaaaaaalllllllll the way to Norway for 150gram parcel
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Im just hoping the parcel is trying to make its way to JFK and not to a waiting canoe on the east coast. Im this >< close to shooting myself with a slingshot.
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Im just hoping the parcel is trying to make its way to JFK and not to a waiting canoe on the east coast. Im this >< close to shooting myself with a slingshot.
Easy bud, a sling shot in the right hands can be very dangerous!
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As a retired Mailman, Can tell you I used to get all sorts of missent letter, parcels, etc. A lot has to do with the ability to read the address,
especially Zip Codes. Machines do a lot of sorting at the plants. And barcoding.
I worked in NJ, I would get letters from 1 part of Houston to the other,
via NJ. Due to stupid, so called "More efficient" machines.
<S> Oz
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"First class international" is what the company i ordered the stuff from sais they sent it with. Doesnt mean a thing to me but maybe yall know.
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Funny, because I recently bought something from amazon on monday, it is getting shipped from Anaheim CA, I am in roseville...6 hours from Anaheim...and I STILL haven't gotten it.
-BigBOBCH
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Are they known for beeing fast and on time?
They have spent almost a week getting a parcel from Brooklyn to Jamaica. No not Jamaica in the Caribbean... Jamaica NY
:bhead
Someone in the Caribbean just got a package :lol
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Someone in the Caribbean just got a package :lol
I hope so cause it would be faster to call that dude and get him to walk it over the pond to me (if he has jesus feet)
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They should start by stopping Saturday delivery. Then they need to do a surcharge for those who want deliver to their box. Instead, they need to get Americans to go to the post office and rent a box. The reason for this you ask? It is the 21st Century.
A vast majority of mail is advertisements. Basically, we are subsidizing the marketing campaigns of private companies. Throw in the internet, how many people conduct serious aspects of their lives via snailmail? A large number of people, a diminishing percentage of America. They need to get with technology and phase into a new reality. They are operationally acting like it is 1911, not 2011.
Boo
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Our city is currently discussing the postal service wanting to close one of our post offices after opening a new complex and the fliers advertising the public hearing of said closure were CONVENIENTLY DELAYED until 2 WEEKS after the hearing. :headscratch: :banana: :banana:
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They should start by stopping Saturday delivery. Then they need to do a surcharge for those who want deliver to their box. Instead, they need to get Americans to go to the post office and rent a box. The reason for this you ask? It is the 21st Century.
A vast majority of mail is advertisements. Basically, we are subsidizing the marketing campaigns of private companies. Throw in the internet, how many people conduct serious aspects of their lives via snailmail? A large number of people, a diminishing percentage of America. They need to get with technology and phase into a new reality. They are operationally acting like it is 1911, not 2011.
Boo
What they need to do (if nothing else) is to stop giving bulk discounts to the repeat junkmail offenders... actually quit giving discounts period. Have a set rate for Postcards, and a set rate "per ounce" for normal and priority mail, and I also like how they do their packages now. I also like the idea for charging for mailbox service. I can't even begin to imagine the maintenance and fuel costs for their delivery vehicles!! It wouldn't need to be a large charge - just enough to cover the costs of the delivery vehicles, maintenance, fuel, and the salaries of the delivery drivers. Removing Saturday deliveries would cut a lot of costs (especially in overtime) and I like having the option to pick my mail up at the post office. Maybe after a month or two you get a notice that says "pick up your mail in three days, or pay us $10 to deliver it or it's going into the furnace".
They've gotten themselves into a pickle with all of this junk mail. It reminds me of an auto repair shop I used to work for. When times got touch and we got slow, they enticed in more customers by offering very cheap oil changes. Yes it brought business into the door but mostly the cheapskates who want a cheap oil change and nothing else. It got to the point that the only way we could sell repair work/maintenance is to offer steep discounts which makes it simply not worth it. Our reputation shifted from the place to go for professional service to the place to go for CHEAP service and we ended up having to close the doors as a result.
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did you get a tracking number? Ive always received one anytime Ive either shipped or had something shipped to me through the post office, just type in the tracking number on there website
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Yup its the tracking number that has made me follow the parcels amazing speed all the way from BROOKLYN, NY 11256 on the 6th of may to JAMAICA, NY 11430 today.. SIX days later :lol
Google tells me that its an 10 minute drive :aok
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I'm always nervous sending a package through USPS, if I do, I usually do Priority. That is only if it's significantly cheaper than UPS, UPS has always impressed me with their efficiency and up-to-date tracking.
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Didnt get to pick UPS. Bought from a company via ebay and they didnt list any options.
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And get this, Amazon says my package got to roseville at 2am, yet USPS tracker says 9:30? Lol If the USPS is right, im guessing im not getting it today...
-BigBOBCH
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Things were alot better before we could spend stupid time tracking things that are not even there but somewere else in space/time lol
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In 17 years in business, I live by one rule of thumb when it comes to time sensitive documents and the USPS.... Never trust them, not even priority service. The chances of the package being lost, late, or damaged increases directly with the importance of the package.
I've lived at my current address right at 9 years now and I cannot count the number of times I have gotten my neighbors' mail. Heck, that's how I met most of them, hand delivering what was delivered mistakenly to me.
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I've lived at my current address right at 9 years now and I cannot count the number of times I have gotten my neighbors' mail. Heck, that's how I met most of them, hand delivering what was delivered mistakenly to me.
Same thing. Out entire street has gotten at least one of each others mail every few weeks.
-BigBOBCH
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now you are just trying to scare me half to death :lol
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Anyone familiar with JFK? Could it be that JAMAICA, NY 11430 is JFK's post office and the last stop before getting on a plane or the airports goods facilities? Maybe they have handed it over to someone else at JFK and tracking that number at Stamps.com is useless until it arrives here?
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Anyone familiar with JFK? Could it be that JAMAICA, NY 11430 is JFK's post office and the last stop before getting on a plane or the airports goods facilities? Maybe they have handed it over to someone else at JFK and tracking that number at Stamps.com is useless until it arrives here?
I find USPS tracking numbers to be worthless, it usually says something like "sender information received" even after the package is delivered.
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USPS vs UPS is basically Communism vs Capitalism. UPS guys wear shorts and run from trucks that have no doors. Ever seen a USPS worker run?
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USPS vs UPS is basically Communism vs Capitalism. UPS guys wear shorts and run from trucks that have no doors. Ever seen a USPS worker run?
I've seen many waddle.
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Ever seen a USPS worker run?
only with two dogs hot on his heels :rofl :rofl
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Rough guess by looking at transit times it could take 2 weeks to get to Norway. That is unless its tied up in customs or some odd thing JFK or the postal service does
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UPS updates the status of your mail more often than USPS. I wouldn't be surprised if you get your USPS parcel before it's updated as on arrival to you.
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Or like Meatwad said. Customs thought it was a bomb, so they dunked it in water and then blew it up.
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I wouldn't be surprised if you get your USPS parcel, before it's updated as on arrival to you.
Haha, actually that happened today. The scope I ordered got here, then 7 hours later I got the email that its OTW lol.
-BigBOBCH
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lol Redman :D
Ill just try to be patient and not look at the stupid tracking page. Not easy when i have several nikkor lenses waiting for the lens adapter for my camera :eek:
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Wait a second. What are you doing in Queens?
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Nothing :) Ordered something from business in brooklyn and im guessing queens is somewere between brooklyn and my cave in norway
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It also depends on where the mail gets sorted at. For example, West Virginia's sorting center is about 2 miles from my house. If you mail a letter from Charleston, WV (2.5 hours) away to another address in Charleston, it comes to Clarksburg to get sorted and THEN it goes back to Charleston to be delivered. So a 10 mile delivery actually travels almost 300 miles. Yes I know it's a stupid system.
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It also depends on where the mail gets sorted at. For example, West Virginia's sorting center is about 2 miles from my house. If you mail a letter from Charleston, WV (2.5 hours) away to another address in Charleston, it comes to Clarksburg to get sorted and THEN it goes back to Charleston to be delivered. So a 10 mile delivery actually travels almost 300 miles. Yes I know it's a stupid system.
you should see how many miles fedex sends it's packages before it gets across town.
semp
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I carried mail for 20 years.I knew every person,business etc,that were on my route.I cased...sorted my mail not address,but by name.When I was having day off,there was a carrier called a T-6 that carried my route,and normally they knew my route very well,but if he had questions on names,he would ask me when I came back the next day.Then there were days when people called "Subs"carried my route,and now the problems started.They would make mistakes and some were worse than others.I would come back to work and pick up miss delivered mail all day long.The Post Office stresses carriers to meet standards that drawn up by number crunchers that wouldn't know a mail bag from a suitcase!Speed is pushed and pushed hard.Speed causes mistakes,and injuries.The union kept the management under control,but they were always pushing and trying to write people up.The Postal service cannot survive under the present system.They are very top heavy with management people that get big bonuses for pushing the employees hard.
I handled Express,and Priority mail like this.If I knew I could make it to the addressee before 3:P.M. I would handle it like just plain mail.If I knew I couldn't make it to their address by 3:P.M.,I would immediately go to that address and attempt to deliver that piece of mail at the beginning of my route.
A couple of years before I retired,the post office had came up with a machine that sorted the letter mail for your route called D.P.S.It didn't sort all of your mail,but a good portion of it.So that was saving time for management,which they loved.The problem was it made mistakes,and plenty of them.I would be sorting through for the next house and I seeing a letter addressed to another state!!!That scenario went on all day long.Then came D.O.I.S.,a system where a computer gave the supervisors the time the carrier should be leaving to start his route,and when he should be back to the office.I was constantly in trouble with that one as I refused to commit to any of the times,saying you got it on your clip board.They couldn't write you up,as that issue had been settled by the union.Wisconsin wants to get rid of the unions!You bet so they can hose the employees all day long.It was good to have the N.A.L.C. as are union,but with these hard economic times they haven't got a leg to stand on with the on going negotiations.
I to have noticed the weird routes Fed Ex,UPS and even the USPS use for parcels.Louisville seems to be a hub,but why fly away from where you will eventually be delivered.Seems like a waste of fuel,and money.Speaking of money I have to worry about the negotiations go,as they will go after the benefits package,to offset any meager raises the Union can get for us.
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Could be worse... You could have this guy for a mail carrier...
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/04/18/Mail-carrier-defecates-in-yard/UPI-63601303154098/
:rofl
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Lens adapter arrived today. After waiting so long they managed to send me the WRONG adapter :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead