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USPS, FEDEX & UPS

Cowpuncher

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I didn't want to divert the thread where this first appeared. You would have to stay up a lot of nights
to figure something this dumb.

UPS and FEDEX drive by our driveway several times a day on their way to DirecTV which is half a mile away.
All of a sudden, instead of dropping off our packages, we get a notice that USPS will do the last leg since they have
to deliver mail anyway.

So. UPS gives the package to USPS. USPS won't leave packages by our mailbox so they leave a note that we have
a package at the postoffice. That means we have to drive 10 miles to town, stand in a line for about 30 minutes
to claim our package.

So UPS has to pay USPS to deliver our package which arrives about 2 days late. I wonder if UPS doesn't have to pay
more for USPS to deliver the package than they get for the shipment.

It must not have worked since we got a package delivered to our door by UPS just today.

The collective brain trust idea must have failed!!

CP
 

Faster horses

Well-known member
Yep, that's how it works.

With Fed Ex, some drivers make you sign while others do not. Just about the time you aren't going to be
home they will call to make sure you are going to be there to sign for the package. I tell them we have never, ever had to sign
before, but, nope "Fed Ex requirements are that you must ALWAYS sign when you receive a package." Then the next time, no call,
no signing, no nothing.....but sometimes they leave the package at the neighbors place......gets interesting, for sure.
 

Martin Jr.

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Ordered something that came from Wisconsin last month. Went by FedEx USPS scenic route. First went to Omaha, then to Henderson, Colorado where it sat in a USPS location for 4 days, then to St. Paul, MN, where FedEx picked it up and took it to Pierre, SD and then to Valentine, NE to the post office. The Post office delivered it the next day. Total time: 12 days.
 

Steve

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it is getting a bit crazy,... all of our local letter carriers that were at our post offices have been consolidated to a few larger offices..

so if the mail man/lady misses us.. we get a note... and then you have to wait until after 10:30 the next day for them to bring it from the centralized office to the local one so we can wait in line to get it.

our fedex and UPS aren't to bad around here,.. but that is just local..

in my opinion shared services often work after awhile ,.. but this thing is only getting worse..

way back in my time at the post office... fed ex would drop off the parcels they couldn't deliver and we would make an attempt the next day. or you could just come get it at the local post office..
 

mrj

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I do wonder if turning it all over to private enterprise and retiring the postal 'service' to more densely populated areas would improve service. Of course, all the plush offices of the upper level bureaucrats would need to be abolished or 'de-decorated' to a simple basic efficiency plan to make that affordable.

We choose not to use delivery because we would have to drive two miles to where our driveway comes off the hiway. That point is only five miles from 'town'/postoffice, AND the road is all paved. Our driveway has a bit of gravel, and about 2.6 miles is uphill from the house, so getting to the mailbox, we have driven the worst of the road. When we made the decision not to be on the route, we had kids in school and went to town most days anyway.

There are three homes at the end of our driveway, each about one fourth mile apart. We often get deliveries intended for one another. No real problem, but it does bother me when it is medicine or veterinary products, as sometimes they are just dropped at the door and I may not see the delivery truck. The people working in the local post office are diligent and very good at their jobs under difficult conditions due to fewer post masters in the rural areas, so I blame the distant bureaucrats running the system for the problems.

mrj
 

Faster horses

Well-known member
Our daughter was a rural mail carrier for awhile. Here is something I don't understand. We live 10 miles from town and have no rural delivery. I have to drive to town and pay for a PO Box. There are others who get rural delivery that pay nothing. She and some of her co-workers figured up that if everyone on her route paid $50/year for the service, the PO would stand to make quite a bit of revenue.
Maybe that's too simple for the bureaucracy to figure out.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Up here people are crying about losing their home delivery and we live 20 miles from the post office and never had delivery,heck they even keep cutting the hours the wicket is open. Lucky the post mistress work in the store and will leave parcels for us there as we go to town on Thursday's for fresh fruits and veggies and the mail. :cowboy:
 

TexasBred

Well-known member
Cowpuncher said:
I didn't want to divert the thread where this first appeared. You would have to stay up a lot of nights
to figure something this dumb.

UPS and FEDEX drive by our driveway several times a day on their way to DirecTV which is half a mile away.
All of a sudden, instead of dropping off our packages, we get a notice that USPS will do the last leg since they have
to deliver mail anyway.

So. UPS gives the package to USPS. USPS won't leave packages by our mailbox so they leave a note that we have
a package at the postoffice. That means we have to drive 10 miles to town, stand in a line for about 30 minutes
to claim our package.

So UPS has to pay USPS to deliver our package which arrives about 2 days late. I wonder if UPS doesn't have to pay
more for USPS to deliver the package than they get for the shipment.

It must not have worked since we got a package delivered to our door by UPS just today.

The collective brain trust idea must have failed!!

CP


USPS has been delivering pkgs for UPS and FedX for years. Might not have worked out in your area but around here they still do it. UPS always comes to the post office in an "unmarked" truck thinking noone will notice.
 

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