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I checked the order status @ 3:15PM and the USPS link said it was delivered to my front porch at 12:19PM today.


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I went to a postal workers union meeting in New Braunfels in the early 1980's as a guest of the husband of a friend of my wife. ( He didn't realize I was in management at a union refineryLabRat wrote:Apparently when time doesn't matter - any time will do.
Their stated purpose is to deliver the mail. But "when" it gets delivered is another horse altogether.
So, just fudge the time and do what you want. Sorry to rant, but the USPS is not my favorite organization.
My wife and I bowled with a couple that worked for the USPS. Most of their efforts were on how to get out of work like their co-workers were doing and still get their full pay. It was sickening to say the least.
Edit to add: Hope the scope is good for you and it arrived in good shape.![]()
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There's a time stamp for "out for delivery" at just after 9am. My regular carrier who delivers most of the time rings my door bell when she delivers a package and the time stamp is right on.curryman wrote:I've been told by my postal carrier that sometimes they scan it as delivered at the post office before they leave. The hand scanner has a huge time delay that they don't want to wait on.
K5GU wrote:After lots of trouble getting mail and packages delivered by the USPS, unresolved by filing formal complaints, personal visits with the "postmaster" at two offices, I swore off using USPS when ordering online.
But guess what? Unless you order a bulky or heavy item, there's a very good chance that even though you request FedEx or UPS, it will be coming to you from, guess who? The USPS!
There's a thing called SmartPost. An agreement between FedEx and USPS whereby FedEx will send the package through the USPS. I think UPS has similar agreements, not sure, but I've observed Big Brown bringing pallets of packages into my USPS for shipping out. I received an email from FedEx last Friday saying my package from Char-Broil was delivered to my address. Not! No package. It finally showed up two days later, delivered by guess who? USPS. Even had a USPS shipping label on it. So my attempts at avoiding a bad carrier didn't work. When I called FedEx about it, they said there's nothing they can do, it's the merchant that determines who the carrier will be. She said merchants save money that way. I don't understand the logic of 'two' carriers handling the package..how that saves money?
Texas_Blaze wrote:USPS quality has decreased substantially. The North Houston sort facility is a black hole. I've had packages reside in the facility for weeks. I have decided that I will avoid USPS as much as I can. I will pay more to use UPS.
It's funny that when I order on Amazon Prime and packages are sent via USPS there seems to be no issues. They must have some contract with them to take priority over other packages. Heck, I received packages on Sunday from USPS when using Prime.
You reminded me that the North Houston Station is terrible. I got two hickeys from Ebay and a case from a buyer because items I shipped sat there for days and the delivery time wasn't met. Same thing on items I'd purchased sitting there. I complained to the USPS which went nowhere and thankfully the buyer retracted his case against me after the item arrived and apologized for some nasty emails. The thing that irks me is EBay's shipping function knows the postage was paid with assigned tracking numbers and they can see what's going on but they don't consider that when the system is alerted the itme didn't arrive by the date automatically set up when you purchase shipping by USPS through the Ebay system.Texas_Blaze wrote:USPS quality has decreased substantially. The North Houston sort facility is a black hole. I've had packages reside in the facility for weeks. I have decided that I will avoid USPS as much as I can. I will pay more to use UPS.
It's funny that when I order on Amazon Prime and packages are sent via USPS there seems to be no issues. They must have some contract with them to take priority over other packages. Heck, I received packages on Sunday from USPS when using Prime.