Postal Service..or lack off..ahhah

[coorslight115]

This is more for a laugh than a rant..

I had an overseas customer that wanted 15,000 tokens and I had to order them from a supplier. The supplier sent them to me in a few packages to save on shipping. I received all but two of the packages on time.. the two missing ones were lost in the system with no tracking at all accept the label created message. I thought the supplier did not send them because he ran short on supply. Not the case....I received a call from the Postal Drug Enforcement division that they were holding a package of mine that had a foul odor . They examined it and considered it safe and not illegal and asked what I wanted them to do with it..(also it weighed 50 lbs) I told them to deliver it and leave it on the porch and I would deal with the stink..
I arrived home to find a postal container wrapped in plastic with two medium flat rate boxes full of tokens (75 lbs or so) after un-wrapping the box I smelled the stink that would knock you over!!!! I removed the two boxes of tokens (75 pounds) to find a third box smashed on the bottom of the postal create. It was not my package but my neighbors. It was a medium flat rate box marked " FRAGILE..LIVE FISH IN WATER" Needless to say after a week with 75 pounds of tokens on them and sitting in a postal facility...I now know why they stunk...Flat Rate is what he got...dead flat fish.....

[jay]

If you want to complain about postal service come to Canada.

1. Most homes do not have to-the-door delivery. We have super mailboxes that service 20 or so homes. You walk from your house to the corner to pickup your mail. If your package is too big to fit in the cubby you sometimes get a key to a larger cubby (1 or 2 per super mailbox) more than likely your package is held at a postal station and you get a card in your cubby telling you to come and pick it up.
2. Our stamps are $0.69c
3. We have no flat rate boxes
4. We have no mail pickup, you drop it off at a postal station. No one drops off "free" mailing supplies.
5. No weekend delivery
6. Average time to deliver across town is 7-10 days. Not next day.
7. Most of the system has been privatized so you get untrained $8/hr kids working a drug store based postal station.
8. The 49th parallel (US/Canadian Border) might as well be called the $49 parallel as that is what you are likely to pay (at a minimum) for cross boarder shipping. 

[slotsteve]

worst part is they just raised the rates on jan 26th   cost me 11 bucks o ship 11 lbs to md  and 6+ bucks  1 lb to philly area  both shipped same way

[stayouttadabunker]

Something smells fishy! 

[CVslots]

worst part is they just raised the rates on jan 26th   cost me 11 bucks o ship 11 lbs to md  and 6+ bucks  1 lb to philly area  both shipped same way

You need to be shipping flat rate or nothing with USPS. I find them to be cheaper than anyone when I'm going within state. (shipped a full game kit Priority in state for $10.62, arrived next day. Rate was cheaper than ground/Parcel Post). Anything under 4-5 lbs., going anywhere, Priority is many times cheaper than Parcel Post. When things are 10+ lbs and going out of area, Flat Rate is the way to go. If it doesn't fit in a Medium Flat Rate, I'll go FedEx, as the large flat rate boxes, well, SUCK, as they only make a few sizes and none are real useable (at least for me).

[lizzo54]

Last year November of 2012 I sent a USPS flat rate box of EPROMs to China for a refund.  I had bought them in bulk and had about 50 that were bad.  The dealer agreed to exchange considering that they were around $5 each.  After a couple weeks I emailed the dealer who said he hadn't received them.  Long long story short, they were lost.  The postmaster told me the tracking that I had on the box showed it leaving the US thru Oregon and that was the last it was seen.  I also couldn't file for insurance because of some stupid reason that I don't recall about the way it left the country.  5 months later in may of 2013 the box showed up at my door with all kinds of Chinese stamps and USPS stamps with a note about undeliverable.
No idea where it went or came from. 

Lenny

[mvco]

Our business get's a ton of mail every day.  I remember a time a few years ago that it was evident that some invoices, and other mail did not reach our mailbox. 
1 1/2 years later, in the month of July, there were about 10 extra envelopes in the days mail.  All the envelopes felt damp.  Not wet, but very damp.  All had a post mark of December 11th, a year and a half earlier.  I took all these to the post office, and asked what could have happened.   really had them stumped, as they had all been postmarked the same day, and went somewhere for over a year.  Will never figure out WTF happened there.