The hard part of getting packages is not paying for them; it isn’t sneaking them in past Vince, it’s trying to get them to me through the USPS.
I’m sharing this because I’m at the point where I can laugh about it. If there’s a time when I want to order a LOT, I will divide it up into several pages because it’s less to lose if the package doesn’t arrive. I would rather Fed Ex bring my packages but most shippers of the things I order want to use USPS.
I think they do a great job . . when they get it right. I cannot even imagine how they do it all but when they don’t do it right, WOW!
I watch Informed Delivery like a hawk. The other day there was a package that was supposed to be delivered. It wasn’t. Another package or two did arrive. I called the post office. They know my address without even asking. I’m always nice but I’m sure they do not like me! I told them “The package wasn’t delivered so I’m guessing he forgot and you may want to call him before he gets too far away.” The postmaster called me back and said he missed delivering that package. He would run it back to me. A while later, I checked and it said delivered. I went outside to get it. Nope, not here. I called the post office and apparently they can see where the package got delivered. He said “He’ll go back and get it and bring it to you.” The same thing . . wrong house . . not once but two more times. The last time was at a neighbor’s so I texted her and told her I was coming over to retrieve my package. The postmaster said “He’ll come get it and bring it to you!” I said “NO! It’s close enough I can walk over and get it.
This package cracked me up too. I forgot where it started but my packages go through Kansas City, then Springfield, then usually to Webb City. This one went to Carthage, which is about 15 miles east of me. I guess they realized it wasn’t there’s and maybe had more than one but they sent it to Carl Junction, which is about 15 miles west of me. Then . . it went back to Springfield and finally, a day or so later, it got to me.
I don’t have a clue where this package is or what it is. It started in Atlanta, went to another spot in Georgia, then went to Texas. Wait . . Why didn’t it go to Kansas City? It departed Texas on February 5 and 6 p.m. and that’s the last time we head from it.
Again, I don’t even know how they do what they do; my packages pretty much always get here. I can’t think of the last time one didn’t get here. I can laugh about it . . the third time the package got misdelivered, I may have been close to not being happy with them. If this is the worst thing that happens to me, I’m a lucky girl, right?
montanaclarks says
We don’t have mail delivery in Arizona and have to go to the post office to get our mail from our post office box. In Montana we live in such a remote, unpopulated area our mail is delivered only three days per week. In AZ, Amazon has started dropping the majority/almost all our packages at the post office to be delivered or in my case for me to go to the post office and get the packages.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Amazon did that a lot here around Christmas but Amazon seem to be back to delivering most of their own packages now.
Susan says
I’m amazed at how awful the USPS service is. No wonder mailing is so high as our packages often take long vacations. I find it hard to believe how often packages are delivered to the wrong address when that’s their business. Maybe it should be privatized.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
And, the numbers are clearly on the packages. We live on 214 and a good percentage of my packages get delivered to the same house number but on 213. That’s just not paying attention to what you’re doing.
Jean in PA says
I also find it interesting to watch the route some of my packages take no matter which service is delivering. I have had two FedEx packages delivered to the wrong place and a couple of UPS. Usually its a neighbor and I can just go get it. Also, the local UPS shipping location is a little over a mile away from my home. They will often take a package 6 miles to my PO to have them deliver it to me. So the package takes at least a day longer when they do that. And the UPS truck is in my condo complex at least once a day. Makes no sense to me.
DebMac says
We all have our stories about the sad state of delivery. Mine is as follows; I live in Illinois midway between Chicago and Des Moines, IA. For some reason, all of our mail goes to Des Moines before it is delivered no matter where it originates. I had a package caught in a loop between Flint, MI, Chicago, and Des Moines that made the complete circuit 4 times before being delivered on the 5th loop. Sad thing is, I live less than a mile from the interstate that the package traveled on 8 tunes before it was delivered. Today’s delivery issue; a package stuck in Des Moines since January 20th. Package came from Indiana. It took Walmart 2 weeks AFTER the “scheduled” delivery date to notify me that my package was delayed. And don’t get me started on the package from Missouri Star (in Hamilton, MO) that literally toured the entire southeast USA for 2 months before it made it 200 miles to me in Illinois. And that was pre Covid. No wonder the USPO has to raise rates when it sends cardboard boxes on luxury tours.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
That’s what I always say – the interstate is probably less than 10 miles from my house and my packages keep going back and forth. Just stop and meet me at the truck stop if you can’t get it here by conventional delivery.
Pat Anderson says
How very frustrating! We don’t have terrible problems, but it is common for the tracking to show a package delivered when it is not…usually we get it the next day. I think the driver gets tired and wants to go home. Sadly, I don’t see any improvement in delivery no matter how much we pay! People don’t seem to care to do a good job any more…
Dottie Newkirk says
USPS “used” to be my favorite, but, in our area, the postmaster retired, they have a new one + multiple “new” people. We have to go to the post office to get our mail and for whatever reason, they can’t process it in a timely fashion like the old crew could. We use on-line bill pay and for some of our “local” bills, the bank has to physically mail a check. 2 checks were to be received by the 9th of the month for bills that were due the 15th. Check 1, delivered to a town 35 miles away cleared the bank on the 11th, check 2, which was delivered to a post office box in our town, was NOT received until the 16th and we incurred a late charge on that bill. The only difference is check 1’s is another small town and it was processed in a timely fashion, 2nd check most likely “sat” because they couldn’t get everything processed so it “sat”. Aggravating to say the least.
UPS delivered a package to us (3 miles away – it was “left” on a dirt road and someone driving on that road, saw it, picked it up and brought it to us). We never had problems with UPS until the past year. Not sure what has happened. So far, FED EX hasn’t been a problem, but, who knows if that will change.