Anyone else having issues with mail and UPS?

I'm fed up with my mail not getting delivered within a reasonable time, this includes bows and clothing I've sold on the classifieds.  It's been taking over THREE weeks for checks to arrive from Tradgangers. 

Now get this.... sent a package Next Day Air to Dayton OH yesterday.  I checked the tracking this morning and the package was 'in transit' in Lexington KY....next city Cincinnati and Dayton after that, straight up I-75, real simple huh?  Kept reloading, same message.....

I just now reloaded and it said 'DELAYED'..... its now in Janesville WISCONSIN!!!!! 

Oh, and now UPS will not guarantee over night, so you can't get any refund.  Sounds like a license to steal.

Anyone else fed up with this garbage service? 

Yup.  But even if we are, what good is it to complain and  on this sight?

Makes me feel better to vent.   

 

Yep it's all messed up!

I've had no problems with US mail or UPS or FedX...

Bills and junk mail is always on time   


Deno

My postmaster told me a lot of New Yorks mail is being shuttled thru KC because of the amount of Covid in NY  has less workers showing up what with quarantine and all.  The mail is slow, and I also saw UPS is having trouble.  So far I haven't lost a package, just slow...

Well, I have a bitch too as long as we're at it.  I sold a BPE fletching jig to a fellow Gang-er from OH..  Sent it from WI,  Package only measured 10 inches square and 2 1/2 inches thick and weighed less than 2 pounds.  Shipped it the cheapest way I could and was stuck $11 to do it.  That was more than 25% of what I sold it for.   Why bother?  Bet Amazon wouldn't have had to pay that much.

Roy, get this, I was told NOT to use fed ex as they were having issues in TN causing delays, so I used UPS.  Seems all carriers are in disarray. 

In SA TX so far not having any problems, so far!

What I love is how every delay is blamed on COVID-19. 

Seems to me that if your package goes to PA or has to go thru PA there are lots of problems. Am talking about USPS now. Just shipped a longbow in a pvc tube to PA. It took only two days to get from S IL to Pittsburgh, then 4 days to get to destination city in PA. It bounced back and forth to/from Lehigh, PA 3 of those 4 days.

Had a package coming to me from the NE that was stuck in PA for 15 days with no further scans with no idea what was happening. Frankly tracking numbers are only as good as the people running the scanners. If they don't scan the package one doesn't know what it happening.

I used to work part time for PO and we could never get away with this poor of service nor would I have wanted to. I saw first hand how many employees could care less about their job responsibilities let alone their personal ones.

All shipments with priority Fed-ex goes thru Memphis, I fed-ex every day over night, and my lab said to send it Fed-ex ground since it is trucked in,,The problem with UPS and Fed-ex priority is the Airports are both in Tennessee ,As for the Postal service well they just suck, and loosing a net loss of 8.8 BILLION last year probably don't help..Find a Greyhound bus and stick your crap on it and I promise it will get there.

Kelly I hear ya there.

I've had 2 bows I built and shipped in cardboard boxes that got destroyed.

Now I use pvc pipe and put that in a rectangular box so it doesn't fall off the conveyor belts.

Yep, I've noticed at work that USPS and shipping services are often way delayed... then one package will get cross-country in two days. No rhyme or reason I can discern.

No problems at all anymore in the midwest and west, but anything going to or coming from the east is still slow.

I also just got a letter addressed to a Charles Jones in West Virginia. I'm in Illinois! The address was nowhere near mine. Just the name. I must be famous.

I had some arrows ship from Kansas to Michigan on 2/6/2021 and I still don't have them.  There were no updates for over 2 weeks.  For the last 2 days they show as processed through the Detroit processing center, 50 miles away.

D.p

Seems covid is the excuse they needed for poor customer service......

Quote from: Roy from Pa on March 02, 2021, 01:24:26 PM
Kelly I hear ya there.

I've had 2 bows I built and shipped in cardboard boxes that got destroyed.

Now I use pvc pipe and put that in a rectangular box so it doesn't fall off the conveyor belts.

I take a section of those triangle priority boxes and slip it over the pvc pipe, then tape it in place in the middle so the pipe can't roll.