I believe in giving credit where credit is due and if I’m going to complain about bad service, I need to comment positively about good service. I’ve always said that I can’t even comprehend how the post office does what it does (in a good way) but, when things go crazy and we’re not used to it, it is frustrating.
I understand Covid and worker shortages due to illness. I understand that people are doing mail order these days. It’s still had to wait on a priority mail package that was scanned and then not scanned again for six days. It’s had to see a package that, among other things, has one skein of Licorice Red floss in it .. and I’m waiting on that floss . . and it’s sitting at the KC distribution center for days and days.
But this week, the post office seems to be doing everything right.
This is the kind of thing that baffles me – left KC at 7:46 p.m. yesterday. Arrived this morning at 1:19 a.m. in Springfield, MO. Departed 26 minutes later and I’ll get it today or . . someone in my neigborhood will get it. 🙂
When you think of all the packages that do get delivered, I almost feel bad that I complained about not getting packages til way later than they should have arrive. I did eventually get them and even with the cost of shipping steadily increasing it’s still a pretty good bargain.
I’m still having problems with packages getting delivered to other locations but I can’t even complain about that because Travis at our local post office is so darned nice when I call and every single time I’ve called, and it’s been at least six times over the last few months, he’s made a few calls and within minutes, either the carrier or someone else has retrieved my package and brought it to me.
Sharon McCurdy says
It truly has been a mess everywhere. I had a check mailed November 25, 2020 and they got it yesterday. (1/29/2021). I had already stopped payment and issued a new check though. Some of my customers packages have taken much longer than normal also. At least they understood and didn’t get upset with me.
TuNa Quilts says
I’ve been wondering if you ever received the package that was delivered to another town some distance away and she opened it by mistake? I’ve been wanting to do some ordering but after your experiences am a bit hesitant.
Judy Laquidara says
Yes. She met me in a bank parking lot later that week and gave it to me. I gave her two jars of homemade jam for her trouble.
TuNa Quilts says
You are very generous.
Becky Louise Rhodes says
It’s just a crap shoot! I mailed a package to my sister in Ohio before Christmas and used Priority Mail box/service. It took over 2 weeks to get there. I had to file for missing package to light a fire. Then after Jan 1st I mailed a manual to her and used the cheap service and although they said it would take 5 days or longer to get there it actually got there as fast as if I had used priority mail. Never seen such horrible service. I feel they are using Covid as an excuse to just mess with us!
Judy Laquidara says
Vince sent me a priority mail package the other day. I think he mailed it on a Monday and they said it probably wouldn’t get here til Friday. It got here Wednesday!
Arrowhead Gramma says
I live in So Cal mountains and placed an order with Missour Star. It took just short of one month to get here after it traveled the US. Once it got very close to my area and was then sent 80 miles further away where it sat for several days. Finally it was received. A check sent to my long arm quilter 100 miles away took over 3 weeks to arrive, meanwhile I sent another check Priority and she got that in 5 days. Very frustrating.
Judy Laquidara says
In a youtube I was watching the other day, a shop had sent a package 100 miles away and it took about three weeks to get there. They sent a different package to Indonesia and it got there in one week.
Kim Webb says
I got a Christmas card in the mail today. It was postmarked December 11th. And it was from someone right here in town so where has it been? Then I had to wait 35 minutes in line today at the post office to mail something to my Mom in Florida. Hope she gets it quicker than I got my Christmas card.
I watched the same Floss tube when they were talking about the packages overseas and right down the road. Just crazy. I think it was the Attic needlework shop. One of the ladies said something and I had to write it down. She said “My eyes are more ambitious than my fingers”.
Pandy says
When we were having problems with mail be delivered to the wrong address – us getting other people’s mail – I wrote our last name and address on a note card and attached it inside the mailbox so the carrier might see it when he opened the mailbox. It did seem to help.
Rosalie says
Sounds like Travis is a gem! Having his number is great!
Sandi B says
We have a new mortgage company. Our payment was sent to them January 4th. It still hasn’t arrived. We did a stop payment and sent a new payment for January and February. Had to do a stop payment on it and pay it over the phone. According to the lender, payments are taking 4-6 weeks to arrive. This is just insane.
Judy Laquidara says
That is crazy. Now you’ll have to keep checking with every one you send.
Sandi B says
Yes. The difficulty is, our bank showed the status as “complete”, as they’d mailed the checks. It’s so frustrating.
Susan Nixon says
As long as Travis is nice and gets things done in a timely manner, you’re pretty fortunate. I don’t have problems here, but Knoxville is pretty big, and the people at my two local post offices seem very efficient, sending or receiving. In fact, the only real problem I’ve had this year I think had more to do with the sender than the post office! One package at Christmas did take 3 weeks to get from small town, Texas, to small town, Arizona, but it got there and before Christmas! Our postal workers were out every night way after dark delivering pre-Christmas packages, just like UPS. When I think about mail in the early to mid-1800s – say when an immigrant would write home to England or Italy or Norway – the round trip could take 6 months to a year to send and get an answer. I’ll take 3 weeks. LOL
Linda in NE says
When mail started going astray more often than usual (real estate tax payment just vanished, never got a life insurance premium bill) I set most bills up to pay online with a credit card or bank payment. A few are autopay. I haven’t had extra charges for late arrivals since….and don’t use very many postage stamps.
Judy Laquidara says
We do the same thing. I can’t tell you the last time we wrote a check and probably have outgoing mail less than half a dozen times a year.
brenda says
still waiting for product i ordered on 11/11/20. utility company admitted data input behind due to cutbacks and even though cancelled checks show up on bank statement a delinquent notice will be generated via computer setting that is automatic until payment is recorded. how about that one ?
Judy Laquidara says
Commonsense seems to have left the entire country!