USPS is finally failing

I have a tracking number that shows a package to France shipped USPS Global Priority on May 1 at a cost of almost $45. It then bounced back and forth from Miami to Birmingham, Ala. five times before being returned to the recipient who shipped it for me, saying the customs form contained "INSUFFICIENT DATA." Took it back to the post office today, got the same guy who helped them ship it and he said "sorry, you're SOL, fuck off or pay us another $45."

I lost $45 and the customer did a chargeback a week ago. In all, this is going to cost me about $200 and a customer.
 
haven't had any issues yet...everything I have ordered has come pretty quickly, which is really nice
 
Wild Turkey said:
A lot better than FedEx.

Those guys are getting hit left and right with bad press.
Click to expand...
Yeah
They tell you the package is 'Out for Delivery' just to find out it was in the wrong town or some shit.

It's happened a lot with FedEx.
Post Office and UPS seem to be doing just fine.
 
outofyourmind said:
Yeah
They tell you the package is 'Out for Delivery' just to find out it was in the wrong town or some shit.

It's happened a lot with FedEx.
Post Office and UPS seem to be doing just fine.
Click to expand...
If it's left the facility, it technically is out for delivery, right?
 
outofyourmind said:
All I know is that "out for delivery" means that day
Click to expand...
shrug

I ordered all my stuff well ahead of time, so no issues there

I don't think I will be cutting it close with anything
 
Wild Turkey said:
A lot better than FedEx.

Those guys are getting hit left and right with bad press.
Click to expand...
My packages from Fedex have been fine. UPS has been great,

Got a package sitting at USPS a mile away since Monday.
 
outofyourmind said:
Yeah
They tell you the package is 'Out for Delivery' just to find out it was in the wrong town or some shit.

It's happened a lot with FedEx.
Post Office and UPS seem to be doing just fine.
Click to expand...
Your first mistake was not getting packages held for pickup at a Fedex location.
 
ill said:
shrug

I ordered all my stuff well ahead of time, so no issues there

I don't think I will be cutting it close with anything
Click to expand...
Yeah
I've been done for a week now.
No real problems
 
outofyourmind said:
Yeah
I've been done for a week now.
No real problems
Click to expand...
last year I had some issues and only one was on the shipping service...it was showing up as lost at a distribution center.

so I called the company I ordered from and they told me they would send me another one and I got that one pretty quickly.

then the first one showed up...

so I gots 2 of dem
 
Wild Turkey said:
A lot better than FedEx.

Those guys are getting hit left and right with bad press.
Click to expand...
rightly so. Anything that I get an alert as being delivered by FedEx has been at least a day late. Happened three of three times the last week. UPS, USPS, and even freaking Amazon are either on time or early. Freaking UPS delivered 3 days early.

So either FedEx needs to adjust their alerts to "under promise and over deliver" like UPS does or they are going to keep getting hit.
 
outofyourmind said:
Yeah
They tell you the package is 'Out for Delivery' just to find out it was in the wrong town or some shit.

It's happened a lot with FedEx.
Post Office and UPS seem to be doing just fine.
Click to expand...
That was me this week. I had an "out for deliver" and the latest update was 4pm that day it was in Seatac, WA. Two days later it actually arrived.
 
fordman84 said:
rightly so. Anything that I get an alert as being delivered by FedEx has been at least a day late. Happened three of three times the last week. UPS, USPS, and even freaking Amazon are either on time or early. Freaking UPS delivered 3 days early.

So either FedEx needs to adjust their alerts to "under promise and over deliver" like UPS does or they are going to keep getting hit.
Click to expand...
I've only purchased one thing in Amazon in the last year and they had USPS do the final leg of it. Surprisingly it went well.

I see those fucking unmarked vans on our street like 5 times a day though. They're buzzin.
 
so are we concluding that USPS is not "failing" anymore?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top