USPS Fiascos

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And remember, k doesn't collect cinderellas. He's too busy drinking .

The USPS assaulted and annihilated my Embassy,
I'd call that misadventure and then some

That's not the point. USPS has a mileage program for packages. Travel 1000 miles, get an additional 500 miles free. That's a recent program to attract more packages and hold onto loyal packages. It worked for the airlines, right?

Smart, very smart.

Here’s the latest USPS delivery fiasco. I ordered some stamps from a guy in Port Orange, FL and he sent them to me via Priority Mail. From Port Orange, it went north to Knoxville and, then, on to London, KY, which services my local post office. So far, so good. Then, though, everything went haywire. Instead of sending it to my local post office to be delivered, London sent it to Greeneville, TN. Now, I lived in Greeneville for many years and spent my adult working life there, but I came back here to retire quite awhile ago. Who knows, maybe they thought I still lived there! Anyway, Greeneville sent it back to London, via Knoxville, and what does London do? They turn around send it right back to Knoxville!  If this is Priority Mail service, I’m certainly glad that he didn’t send it via regular mail!

The USPS should try to capitalize on incidents like this by advertising its investment potential. You can order some sort of collectable (stamp, coin, whatever) today for $1, but, by the time that it finally arrives, it’ll be worth $10!

After three attempts, the post office in London has finally sent my Priority Mail package to the correct post office and it is marked as “Out For Delivery.” At least they didn’t loose it entirely. Not yet anyway, as it’s still not in my mailbox!

I had a mailing that showed up twice in the same Informed Delivery notification email. They may have rescanned it for some reason.

USPS defines straight line different. It's the new USPS math. You ever see the clerks try to add up postage without a calculator? Now the machines have a calculator function, the old registers didn't.

I learned early on to write the total amount on the envelope franked with multiple stamps, sometimes along with the math. It's amazing how many of the clerks decided that my math was right after spending 5 minutes unable to add up 4-5 stamps. Now they have the calculator function on the registers -- but they have to type in the numbers correctly... they've gotten used to scanning. They used to insist that people buy a full pane, until USPS changed the coding so they could scan and type quantity if you only wanted 9 stamps.