USPS Delivery of the Day

I have all my computer/electronic stuff delivered to the shop here. That way I know that someone is here to sign for the stuff and the delivery guy pretty much has no choice but to drag his ass in to deliver it. We are on great terms with both the UPS and FedEx delivery guys. Certainly people you don't want to piss off. Like your IT person... :p
 
NickJames said:
USPS is an independent entity of the US Government, they don't operate on tax payer dollars. They do receive a lot of subsidies on the other hand.
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They are essentially ran by a government body through whom sets price and devices on what markets it can operate in. Which courier sucks for you just depends on where you live. Had both good and shitty drivers for the rainbow of companies.
 
Holy crap, last delivery of the day, and REALLY need a beer or something? Shit! I'd be rather pissed off, especially if it was something sensitive. My delivery guy is awesome! But... I've personally known him for probably 25 years.
 
Today, I have a package that says item delivered to mailbox, according to tacking, and it ain't nowhere to be found.
 
our USPS lady used to pretty much drive almost onto the front porch and just toss the boxes out the window, she also damaged the rock thing in front of the porch by driving on it. I ended up putting big planter boxes on the edge of the decorative rock thing and now she is forced to get out and put the box on the porch. Least she no longer throws them.

when I used to work in the office, I had almost everything delivered there since the place I lived at the time had tons of little shits and shit head drug dealer living down the street. boxes disappeared or ended up in the street and run over because the kids would toss them there on the way home from school.
 
That guy is a lazy bastard and needs to be fired. Mail and packages are important to people and that so called delivery was bullshit.
 
OEM said:
Considering my packages from Amazon are always at least 1 day late, usually two, and the lotion my wife ordered and got this weekend was crushed and exploded, fuck USPS, they fucking suck, and are more worthless than tits on me.

Fuck USPS, and I hope they go broke and fail.
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You want the second largest employer in the US to go broke and fail because one asshole can't deliver your package? What a douchebag. I'd rather you go broke and fail than over 600,000 other people.
 
I am so happy that I have solid delivery guys/gals. I order everything. I few times I've had watches that cost a couple thousand or a high end electronics that were supposed to be signed for left out front, but I live in a nice neighborhood and not that worried about it.

Here's my 2 cents. I give all of them a holiday card with a tip. Thank them when I see them. Walk out to them to grab a package if I do have the opportunity and don't bitch if something gets delayed - logistics aren't perfect and usually not the drivers fault. UPS has gone so far to put notes on my door apologizing for the condition of a box with proper support numbers to call if the item was damaged. What goes around comes around. Probably why OEM is having problems...
 
haste. said:
I am so happy that I have solid delivery guys/gals. I order everything. I few times I've had watches that cost a couple thousand or a high end electronics that were supposed to be signed for left out front, but I live in a nice neighborhood and not that worried about it.

Here's my 2 cents. I give all of them a holiday card with a tip. Thank them when I see them. Walk out to them to grab a package if I do have the opportunity and don't bitch if something gets delayed - logistics aren't perfect and usually not the drivers fault. UPS has gone so far to put notes on my door apologizing for the condition of a box with proper support numbers to call if the item was damaged. What goes around comes around. Probably why OEM is having problems...
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Sorry, but you shouldn't have to bribe someone to do their damn job.
 
lucidrenegade said:
Sorry, but you shouldn't have to bribe someone to do their damn job.
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Yeah, thats crap, but then something like this might happen:



When I lived in Cali my carrier was so bad, she used to scan that my apartment was undeliverable because she didn't want to walk in, after several times I started going down to see the postmaster in person every time I collected my packages and she was gone pretty quick, replaced by one that did her job well. My carrier now is really good too, young kid but hes always on the ball.
 
haste. said:
I am so happy that I have solid delivery guys/gals. I order everything. I few times I've had watches that cost a couple thousand or a high end electronics that were supposed to be signed for left out front, but I live in a nice neighborhood and not that worried about it.

Here's my 2 cents. I give all of them a holiday card with a tip. Thank them when I see them. Walk out to them to grab a package if I do have the opportunity and don't bitch if something gets delayed - logistics aren't perfect and usually not the drivers fault. UPS has gone so far to put notes on my door apologizing for the condition of a box with proper support numbers to call if the item was damaged. What goes around comes around. Probably why OEM is having problems...
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There is a huge difference between giving a competent person a tip, like a driver who makes sure to leave packages out of site from the street, doesn't complain when you ordered something heavy, etc... and tipping some jackass that can barely do their job without losing or destroying my stuff in the process. The delivery guy who walks up to the door with the "sorry we missed you" card already filled out and I happened to catch because I heard the truck out front and was standing at the door already? Hell no they aren't getting a tip. The guy that throws my packages out into the middle of the lawn? No. The delivery guy I saw throw a speaker set over a fence(I was behind the fence when he did it) onto a concrete surface? No. The driver who frequently left stuff sitting on top of the car resulting in stolen packages because anyone could see it from a quarter mile away and not have to even walk up to my door? No.

Also, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, aka reality, but living in a nice neighborhood doesn't mean your packages will not get stolen. Bad people leave crappy areas to go steal stuff from nice areas.
 
rezerekted said:
Years ago I had a replacement HDD delivered and wasn't home so the fucker just left it outside my *apartment* door for anyone to take. Luckily I found it first.
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To be fair, when I lived in an Apart both UPS and FEDEX did the same thing. In some cases they gave it to my neighbors in the apartment next too me. I wasn't thrilled with this, as this wasn't a nice apartment complex
 
Every carrier is the worst because that's the one I had a bad experience with. Raaaaaaaaage! :inpain:
 
lucidrenegade said:
Sorry, but you shouldn't have to bribe someone to do their damn job.
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Bribe? LOL. I'm thanking them for doing a good job. What's wrong with a 20 spot and a nice note that took me 3 minutes to help make someone's day better during the busiest part of the work year? Shitty assumptions like this is why these guys/gals hate their jobs and you get shit service.
 
haste. said:
Bribe? LOL. I'm thanking them for doing a good job. What's wrong with a 20 spot and a nice note that took me 3 minutes to help make someone's day better during the busiest part of the work year? Shitty assumptions like this is why these guys/gals hate their jobs and you get shit service.
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I'd tip if I thought it would do any good but I don't think I have regular drivers on my routes from any carrier. To be fair I haven't had any issues except with UPS, that was nothing major.
 
I guess it depends on where you live.

USPS gives excellent service where I live. Actually, UPS and FedEx do as well.

I live in a rural area. Just outside of a town of about 3600 people. When I lived in suburbia, the service of all three was worse, especially USPS.
 
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Merc1138 said:
Also, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, aka reality, but living in a nice neighborhood doesn't mean your packages will not get stolen. Bad people leave crappy areas to go steal stuff from nice areas.
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Brother, you need to be less paranoid. My neighborhood may also be a very nice area that if a '94 Durango was creeping around the police would politely ask them what they were doing immediately. Another reason I love my delivery persons - there was a warning in the neighborhood that these types were casing over the holidays a couple years ago and USPS left a note telling me what was going on and why they didn't deliver my package. Stopped at the post office for 2 minutes on lunch and picked up the damn cookies my wife's grandmother sent us. Again what goes around...
 
haste. said:
Brother, you need to be less paranoid. My neighborhood may also be a very nice area that if a '94 Durango was creeping around the police would politely ask them what they were doing immediately. Another reason I love my delivery persons - there was a warning in the neighborhood that these types were casing over the holidays a couple years ago and USPS left a note telling me what was going on and why they didn't deliver my package. Stopped at the post office for 2 minutes on lunch and picked up the damn cookies my wife's grandmother sent us. Again what goes around...
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Ok, so you have competent delivery people, and you haven't had packages stolen yet. It's not just the holidays that people steal packages, nor is it always going to be noticed, nor are the people casing the area going to be in an out of place vehicle. It's not a matter of being paranoid, it's living in a nice area and still having your stuff stolen that clues you in on these things. Yes, criminals commute out of the ghetto.
 
Hmm, so the UPS not ringing the doorbell or knocking really softly isn't just a thing in my neighborhood lately. Its really weird when it is after 5pm too. I'm in my kitchen and can hear the truck pull up and them on my porch but no knock or ring.
 
Is the point of the vid about the fact that the delivery man threw the box onto the pavement outside the house, or the fact that the delivery guy left the side door open and drove off after the said delivery?

(Both are equally facepalm worthy)
 
only problem i've had is with UPS. purolator, fedex, canada post have all been fine.

ordered a bunch of parts for a new build for the wife. i live somewhere between toronto and ottawa. package arrives in toronto, they just forget to drop it off and send it on to ottawa. that wouldn't be so bad if they didn't insist on sending it all the way back to toronto and try again. got it this time, but showed up with a huge hole punched in the side of the box. came within millimeters of destroying the video card.

i've also had them dump about $500 worth of car parts in my driveway and take off....their customer support thought this was just fine, no problem here. leave an expensive package in plain sight for anyone to steal.
 
After having 3 UPS guys disappear in my neighborhood, I always get a ring on the doorbell AND a knock at the door. Sometimes he gives me other peoples packages when they have cool names on the box like Pioneer, Sony and ASUS.
 
Krixon said:
Newegg Delivery left my new Strix 1080 sitting right outside my apartment door about a week ago. The kicker? I was right inside - douchebag didn't even knock or update the tracking info. I went to take out the garbage and the box was sitting right there.

I'm in Cali and I usually get better service/delivery from USPS than anyone else, especially Ontrac, Amazon Delivery, Newegg Delivery, and UPS. It really comes down to the person that delivers your packages.
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No difference between them and UPS. If they don't need a Signature, they never knock (at least not on those days when I'm home). I haven't gotten Fed Ex in a while, so I don't know if they knock or not.
 
I don't know for sure, but I suspect this was a contractor (or what ever the guys are that don't get benefits). Due to them being forced to fund healthcare for employees that don't work for them yet, they've had to make a lot of cuts and that's one of them. I gotta say that I rarely have any issues with USPS. I ship via them or Fed Ex and the deciding factor is time vs cost. Sometimes it's significantly less to go USPS and the delivery delta vs Fed Ex ground is minimal, but other times it's about the same and I'll just go with Fed Ex...also go with them if I have to ship a package 2nd day or overnight (I'll ship documents via USPS Overnight).
 
That guy deserves to be fired... and... I work for the USPS. I don't understand why their respective union always tries to cover for such slackers. The official line is they have to represent them, and fight for them. Shiiiiet! How about fighting for the guys who do their jobs like they're supposed to.
That crap about filling out pick up slips is wrong unless the situation warrants it, i.e. sig delivery, insured item over >$500, express mail without sig waiver, registered. YOU ALWAYS go to the door/ring bell. Parcels should not be left in apartment buildings or in the rain; you leave a pick up slip.
If your house has no porch, and nowhere safe/dry to leave parcels and aren't home, or if you have a dog loose in your yard, you leave a notice, upon which you can request re-delivery on another day when you're home.
Failure to do so, is a failure to do your job properly.

And, as a customer, I can also tell when some sub on this area's route does a crappy job. I've had some merchandise go missing at the hands of the USPS. And trust me, there are people you'd prefer didn't run your route.

We get lots 'reminders', service talks, on how to professionally deliver the mail/parcels. And some supervisors wished they could do more but they can't. It is true though it takes a lot for somebody to be removed from the USPS workforce.
But the bottom line is, if screw-ups are constant, complain to the supervisors, if the supervisors don't do anything, ask to talk to the postmaster, and if the postmaster doesn't care, ask to talk to somebody in charge of the district your PO is in.

I wouldn't put up with it any of this crap.
 
rezerekted said:
Delivery drivers are paid a lot more than waitpeople, we only tip them because they get shit wages. I'm not a fucking charity.
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You DON'T have to tip your mail carrier. USPS policy in fact does not allow people to be given tips/money, while gift cards are allowed. Usually, anything of less value than $20 is allowed.
 
OEM said:
Considering my packages from Amazon are always at least 1 day late, usually two, and the lotion my wife ordered and got this weekend was crushed and exploded, fuck USPS, they fucking suck, and are more worthless than tits on me.

Fuck USPS, and I hope they go broke and fail.
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Lol, guess I've been lucky. Haven't had an issue with either of the three. My guess is your postman hates you.
 
Silentbob343 said:
Lol, guess I've been lucky. Haven't had an issue with either of the three. My guess is your postman hates you.
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Yeah, either that or one of the Amazon warehouses are dropping the ball on this one.
For about 2 years now, Amazon has been working directly with the USPS for the delivery of their parcels. Some post offices get a Amazon parcels from Amazon warehouses for delivery that day. If a parcel is misrouted to the wrong office, that parcel will be re-sent to the right one.
If you look at your Amazon label, you will see 2 barcodes; one UPS and one USPS. You will also see, in a small square in the upper right corner something like R - for rural delivery - or C - for city delivery - and a 3 digit number which usually determines the route it needs to go to.
Today, I received a parcel with my route ID, but looking at the address it clearly was not on my route. I work out of SC, and the parcel was meant for a route with the same route ID as mine, but in AL. Needless to say, the 2 day shipping delivery thing, is out the window with this shipment!

Yeah, the USPS either hates him, or his shitty attitude bring him bad karma!
 
5150Joker said:
I really hope they make an updated version of that game in 3D.
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When I had my Amiga 500, it was one of the games to get, but I've never played it. But the simple fact that I read about it some Amiga mag, brings back sweet memories.
 
If I caught my USPS man doing that there would be quite the complaint being delivered to the post master...
 
THRESHIN said:
only problem i've had is with UPS. purolator, fedex, canada post have all been fine.

ordered a bunch of parts for a new build for the wife. i live somewhere between toronto and ottawa. package arrives in toronto, they just forget to drop it off and send it on to ottawa. that wouldn't be so bad if they didn't insist on sending it all the way back to toronto and try again. got it this time, but showed up with a huge hole punched in the side of the box. came within millimeters of destroying the video card.

i've also had them dump about $500 worth of car parts in my driveway and take off....their customer support thought this was just fine, no problem here. leave an expensive package in plain sight for anyone to steal.
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Call the supervisor, and ask them where they dropped it off.
The driveway per se is not a valid drop off point, if it's not delivered close to your garage door - and it's not raining or your side or back door.
Official, valid drop off points are the front door/porch, the garage, the customers themselves, a parcel locker, a designated individual like you're neighbor if you so choose, or your mailbox if it's big enough. If your driveway happens to be 20 yards long and they leave it by the sidewalk, they failed to do their job. Also, leaving a parcel by a customer's mailbox is a failure do do their job.
 
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