USPS Slowing Down UPDATED - Price Hike Coming 10/18

[zoesam]

Oct 15, 2020 20:00:32 GMT chapeaunoir said:

I actually don't think the Pac NW registers much on the national political campaign scene save to get yelled at - we get almost no fliers up here. Our local representatives doorbell and send periodic bulletins and some fliers, but nationally - we hear from Biden/Harris and nobody else. Before the primaries we got stuff from Bloomberg. It's kind of like the retail industry - Amazon may be crapping all over our poor city, but we're still at the tail end of the distribution channel.

OTOH the Pac NW has historically been seen as unruly and annoying, and not infrequently insurrectionist - "we don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

But Chap, is your Informed Delivery working?  

I've only had maybe 2 pieces of real mail scanned in the last 2-3 weeks & yet I've been getting real mail every day.  

[chapeaunoir]

I don't use informed delivery but our regular mail has been fine. It's just not the usual pile of campaign fliers. I haven't seen them in anyone else's mail, either (we have our boxes in a row and frequently are out there at the same time getting stuff out). I didn't even think about it until it was mentioned here.

[jandsknight]

I haven't seen a picture of any First Class Mail in my Informed Delivery for a week or more.

[zoesam]

Oct 16, 2020 3:59:00 GMT jandsknight said:

I haven't seen a picture of any First Class Mail in my Informed Delivery for a week or more.

TY.  It's not just me then.  Which is what I figured. 

[jandsknight]

My Informed Delivery notices have been coming late in the day, instead of early in the morning. There were even a few days recently when I never received the notice.

This morning it came in early & there was a picture of a first class letter! I did read that De Joy had agreed to reinstate all the services he'd canceled.

Concerning the pictures of mail; I've never received pics of packages, advertising or political flyers.

[Pantlandia]

I haven't had any issues with informed delivery. I don't get pics of packages, but I get a notice with tracking that one is arriving.

[denise15601]

Mine is fine too. Always comes at 9 am, and all bills and FC are shown. But none of the political stuff.

[zoesam]

Oct 16, 2020 19:19:10 GMT jandsknight said:

My Informed Delivery notices have been coming late in the day, instead of early in the morning. There were even a few days recently when I never received the notice.

This morning it came in early & there was a picture of a first class letter! I did read that De Joy had agreed to reinstate all the services he'd canceled.

Concerning the pictures of mail; I've never received pics of packages, advertising or political flyers.

I don't get pics of any of those either, I'm just talking about FC mail, which I used to get daily pics of & they were very accurate.   

I had a couple that came late in the day too.  But for the last several weeks, I don't know the point of even sending it, since out of maybe 30 pieces of FC mail, I had scans of maybe 4 total. 

[zoesam]

Interesting that it's been fine for some, maybe it's a sort center issue. The Denver sort center got hit hard with COVID, to the point that the county tried to shut them down & they had at least 1 death. Though, through all that, my Informed D was working fine LOL.

[pyrexandpearls]

I don't use informed delivery but my mail of packages is still super slow. The holidays are going to be a cluster if this continues. I ordered some pajama pants from an Ebay seller - they shipped priority- and it took well over a week to arrive. A first class package took about 10 days.

Perhaps all the political ads are slowing down the mail? LOL My mailbox is literally stuffed to the brim daily it seems with the flyers.

[labbypaws]

I am still waiting for a Priority Mail package from Hawaii. It was shipped Tuesday. Was supposed to be here yesterday. Just arrived at the Philly sort facility overnight. Might get it today.

[kat]

I have had things take forever to NJ and ordered some Flower Beauty makeup from NJ and it took forever, like 6 weeks for first class.
I just had a record. A top sold 10/10 and I shipped that day. It went from CA to NJ and was delivered on 10/13. I couldn’t believe it.

[denise15601]

My best was a FC package going from PA to HI in only 4 days.

[Pantlandia]

I once had Media Mail from OR to WI take one day. I thought for sure it was a mistake, but the buyer left feedback stating it came within 1 day. It was probably stuck to a Priority package or something LOL

[zoesam]

Before COVID, I regularly had pkgs take 2 days, all the time. I've even had the occasional 1 day. But I am in the center of the US (more or less), so that helps. Most of my HI pkgs get there in 2 days.

[labbypaws]

My bag arrived yesterday.

[Pantlandia]

I ordered envelopes and labels from the supplier I normally order from about a month ago. On Oct 1, I got the envelopes but not the labels. The envelopes had (PKG #1 of 2) on it, so I figured the labels would arrive shortly after. I got them today, 4 weeks after ordering. I had already ordered them again and those ones are seemingly lost when I look at tracking.

I'm battling a customer on Mercari right now because he's claiming I haven't shipped because my label wasn't scanned. It hasn't been, but I know it's shipped (it's a box of 35 DVDs). I drop my stuff down the chute at the post office and RARELY have something not scanned. He's being a total .... anyway. If they don't update today, I get to refund and he'll get the DVDs and his money.

The postal service is a mess, but still seemingly better than the alternative, at least for me.

[Pantlandia]

My postage updated today, showing it was Leaving Seattle, so it never got a scan in Portland. Suddenly my buyer is not saying much...