United States Postal Service

fsstnotch · #1 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 01:01 PM

Is there really any question as to why nobody uses USPS anymore?

I sold my truck On March 23rd to a young Navy guy and his fiance. Well, they didn't want to have their bank deal with my bank because we had a little side deal going on and surely the banks wouldn't have approved. Anyways, because of this, i had to deposit the check into my bank and payoff the loan, get the titel released, and mail it to him. Well here's where it gets difficult. Due to the fact that i was coming over here, and PA is a state that you have to sign the title at notary, I had to create a POA for him to sign the title in Virginia rather than make a trip all the way back up to NW PA to do it at a notary. Well, title gets released and I get it in th email. GREAT! We're moving and it's only been a week since I mailed the check to my bank in TX. So now I put the title and POA in the mail. TWO WEEKS pass and he still didn't get the title. Well, now he has to go out to sea for a month. A couple days after he is out, title comes! Awesome, took half a month to travel from NW PA to Virginia Beach... must have sent it via bicycle messenger. Well, his fiance goes to DMV to register truck and they tell her to sign it. Right after she's done, they look over the paperwork and see that the POA was for him and not for her so now the title is JUNK. Need a new one. So I file for another title. It takes 3 weeks to finally come in the mail. My wife put it in the mail on June 24th. We are now working on the 14th day and still no title. This is not an east coast to west coast package!!! This is 1 state away!!! What pisses me off is that until they are able to register the truck in their name, I can't remove the insurance from it because if something happens to it, even though they have insurance on it, the DMV in PA says it would go on mine. I think my insurance will backdate it to March 23rd when I call to cancel it but this whole USPS thing is a JOKE!!!!! even if they only worked 1 day per week you would think it woul dhave made it there by now! It's a damn envelope not anything huge!!!

Ok... there's my USPS rant.....

And i miss the Ol girl

FWB · #2 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 01:19 PM

not trying to salt your wound but when there are titles and official documents involved pay the damn extra money and send stuff fed ex....it gets there in a day and you can prove delivery. i had to learn the hard way, lost titles, lost bank documents, it pays in the end.

Ron61 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 01:25 PM

Some time ago my doctor who has his office about 3/4ths of a mile from my hose mailed me a bill. Now in our post office my box is exactly 4 steps from the mail slot and on the same level. The bill was post marked 3 days before they managed to walk those 4 steps and put it into my box. Since then I have just gone by the bank and got the cash to pay him.

Ron

fsstnotch · #4 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 01:31 PM

ya, unfortunately I wasn't home to mail it and we live in a small town with no fedex. She could have dropped it off there on her way to work or something but women don't think like that!

See, the first time it took that long, I thought it was a fluke... but the 2nd??? And i also had a hotwheel car shipped from AZ via USPS. It arrived yesterday, also took 2 weeks. I usually use fedex for everything. Very rarely will I use UPS or USPS.

SP01715 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 01:50 PM

I sent a couple things to Lake Havasu City in Arizona this year which is only 265 miles from my home in So.Cal., and they both took over two weeks to get there. When I was in the middle east in 90-91 it was only taking two weeks from the U.S. I don't know what is going on, but the USPS seems to be having problems.

joe g · #6 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 03:13 PM

IF you love the crappy service from the usps Which is like watching molasses's drip in winter, JUST WAIT FOR GOVERNMENT medical. I have never seen an overall group work so slow. If they se a line forming they just move slower. Only because its a quassa government business does it survive. If it was private it would be gone by now.
joeg

Dan40 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 03:51 PM

Our little burg of a county has 5 zip codes. 2 of those are just p.o. boxes. Mail sent from any of our zip codes to any other of our zip codes is routed to and through the main USPS center in Orlando first. 4 days.

4RE KLR · #8 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 05:01 PM

Yep, USPS is snail mail for sure.

You get what you pay for and what.... $ .44 (?) don't go very far these days.

Cobrabill · #9 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 05:59 PM

My brother is a letter carrier in the Northeast.He says they are working themselves right to privatization.

If i mail a letter to my neighbor across the street,it will go to Phoenix first and then come back.240 mile trip to make it across the street.

Ron61 · #10 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 06:19 AM

Bill,

I once received a phone bill here that I didn't recognize and when I looked at it, the thing had been sent by a person in some town in Georgia to their headquarters in Atlanta. Not a single thing in the pre printed address was even close to getting it out here to California, and to top that off the stamp hadn't even been cancelled. At that time I knew our post mistress well and I called her and asked her to explain to me how that got into my box. She looked at it with a funny look and asked it I had any other mail it could have been stuck to. I told her no, it was the only thing in the box. Now all of our incoming mail is routed through Redding main and then they send it out to the various branch towns. No one could come up with any explanation of how that bill got from Georgia to here and was determined it belonged in my box. And it had the correct zip code. I very seldom use the USPS any more and haven't for several years. If I owe a bill in Redding or around here is is much easier and faster to just go in and pay it. Plus I know that it will get there and not wind up in some other state or the dead letter depository.

Ron

Dan40 · #11 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 10:41 AM

The "Hub System" used by the airlines, USPS, and many many others is 30, 40 years old now. Maybe its outlived its benefits.
Millions, perhaps Billions available to whomever comes up with a better way.
There must be at least one!

elmariachi · #12 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cobrabill

He says they are working themselves right to privatization.If i mail a letter to my neighbor across the street,it will go to Phoenix first and then come back.240 mile trip to make it across the street.

Then they will be out of business because no private company can successfully run a mail operation profitably charging only 50 cents to deliver a letter. Only our government is stupid enough to keep trying that.

clayfoushee · #13 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan40

The "Hub System" used by the airlines, USPS, and many many others is 30, 40 years old now. Maybe its outlived its benefits.
Millions, perhaps Billions available to whomever comes up with a better way.
There must be at least one!

Fed Ex and UPS use the hub system very effectively because it is the most efficient and accurate way to connect the most dots in a network. It's the modern tracking and routing technology they use to make it work effectively.

USPO doesn't have, and can't afford, this technology. They're also forced by law to move a lot of no-profit (first-class letters) and junk stuff. Fed Ex and UPS charge "an arm and a leg" to move the same letter, but it gets there via their hubs very quickly.

Another lesson in you get what you pay for . . .

Jamo · #14 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 12:02 PM

Hello my friend.

clayfoushee · #15 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 12:21 PM

Hey Buddy . . . nice video!!!

Jamo · #16 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 01:31 PM

Thanks...a work of love.

bomelia · #17 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 02:26 PM

Well, I have to agree... I would not put such a document in the plain mail. Use Priority Mail, registered, or Fedex. But by now, I am sure that thought has already crossed your mind (before any postings here!)

Mike

JeepSnake · #18 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 05:48 PM

Mike,

Priority mail can't be trusted either. Several years ago when I sent in my manila envelope completely full of forms, recommendations, references, etc. for taking the engineering licensure exam, I thought I'd be smart and send it via priority mail. I'd have been better off just sending it via regular mail. It took over 3 weeks for it to make the 90 mile trek from here to Montgomery!

Adding insult to injury, when I called the USPS trying to confirm delivery after 2 weeks, they told me "No, it hasn't been delivered."

So I ask, "Do you know where it is, or is it lost?"

"Yes, I can see the tracking information. It is not lost."

"Well, where is it?"

"I'm sorry sir, I can't tell you that because you didn't pay for the tracking service."

I came very, very close to going POSTAL that day!!!

(That having been said, though, we have had some of the nicest and most helpful postal employees in our local PO and running our rural route over the years.)