PO master general announces more mail will go by surface transportation. first class delivery metric will now be 5 days. Mags also slower. Maybe some to Freight RRs ? Amtrak ? Not is a heartbeat.
Postal Service to slow certain mail deliveries starting in October (msn.com)
DeJoy has been slowing the mail since before the 2020 election. As long as he is in office the mail will move slower and slower. With any luck we will be having Pony Express riders by 2024.
Same reason airlines are flying at lower speeds now, saves money and to be honest on most commercial flights most passengers do not notice 30-45 min added to the flight time. With the postal service, itâs been so bad that I think most people will not even notice and extra day or two.
I do! I mailed a birthday card to my granddaughter on Monday to go 55 miles to her house for her Bâday on Thursday. It didnât make it.
Earlier in the year I had one bill payment take 38 days from the day it was mailed until it was posted on the account.
PO has had to consolidate sorting centers. Change. At one time the PO delivered mail twice a day to residences. Today we have instantaneous email et al.
Yeah so just some advice, you should make all your bills auto-pay. The reason is we are probably going to see more issues with pandemics and National Emergencies in the future that disrupt the mail services.
Plan on a government shutdown in Sept over the debt limit. I can tell you that is the next crisis if there is nothing in between. They have hinted at it on the news so far and the public has not really picked up on it yet.
In defense of the Post Office, slow mail seems to be a problem with certain northeastern cities and west coast cities.
Out here, itâs very seldom that something is not delivered within three days of mailing.
There is no defense for slowing mail anywhere.
Okay.
I think I could live with slower service if the tracking feature was honest and consistent. It isnât either. Items I track sometimes vanish into a no-scan black hole for days, or all I will get for days is âYour item will be delivered late, but is in transit to its destination.â Just tell me whatâs going on. On the other hand, my experience is that UPS or FedEx hardly ever miss a forecast, and when they do, they tell you why.
NO WAY! I donât want some companyâs âcomputer errorâ to wipe me out.
Fully concur!
Where possible - I do have some bills get charged against one of my credit cards. The only people getting âbanking informationâ from me are those organizations that depost money in my account - not ANYONE that can withdraw funds from my account.
I doubt if there will be a debt limit crisis soon.
USPS has not usually been impacted by such crises in past.
OCM, the Office of Crisis Management will fix everything. Donât worry, be happy!
Post office was reliable up until DeJoy took over. It used to be a service, now he wants to make it a business. In a nutshell, âthis truck will leave at precisely 3PM whether it is loaded or not.â And so huge piles of mail build up on the loading docks.
The problems of mailing a birthday card to my granddaughter.
Original was mailed about a week ahead of her Aug. 5 birthday. When I got word that it has not been delivered, I mailed a 2nd card on Sept. 1. That one never showed up and I got and hand delivered a thrid card!
Today December 26, my daughter advised me that the card mailed on Sept. 1 had arrived. The card that was mailed in advance of her birth date is still lost out there somewhere.
My brother mailed me a pack3from Toledo priority mail before Thanksgiving it finally showed up December 15th after spending 2 weeks in St Louis. I literally called my local postmaster 3 separate times with the tracking number and said if thereâs anything pershiable in this thing its going to be rotten when it gets here.
From my 51 years of RR experience - you canât expect On Time arrivals if you donât enforce On Time departures from origin.
The problem is when the terminal doesnât get the departure loaded with the scheduled traffic.
I donât know about USPS, when I was working, CSX had a metric called âRight Car, Right Trainâ which measured terminals making the proper connections with traffic. In the CSX merchandise network all cars were âscheduledâ from the origin industry or interchange, across the network to the destination industry or interchange. Division and local managements had their performance bonus linked to both of those metrics as well as a number of other metrics.
I have no idea how USPS measures itself.
USPS is a âquasi-independentâ government agency. The way itâs set up, it would not be directly affected by a federal government shut-down.
Seeing mail return to trains would be great, but I suspect would require a lot of new infrastructure. Used to be a big cityâs main post office would be next to the union depot, to facilitate mail arriving and departing by rail. In many cases now, the old depot and post office buildings are either gone, or repurposed as something else.
I canât speak for the rest of the country, but out here on the plains, the problem with the post office boils down to two issues.
Labor. It used to be that people out here wanted to work for the Post Office. They had good pay and a great retirement system. While they still have that going for them, they are competing with everyone else for labor. While our state hasnât lost population, we havenât gained, either. And all of our little towns are losing people.
The Post Office now works with Amazon, Walmart, and other shippers. When we order something from those companies, they ship it to us using the mail. They canât operate trying to deliver a small package to a ranch thirty miles from the nearest highway. The Post Office does deliver to all the far-flung houses. My local post master said he didnât have enough people to deliver the regular mail, and now with the added packages, his local office is against the wall.