Re: RE: Re: The US Postal Service

On 2/16/2025 3:50 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Thu Feb 13 16:34:16 2025 AMuzi  wrote:

On 2/13/2025 3:06 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:

I believe at one time the US Postal Service sponsored
cycling. Well they sure have been on my bad list as of late.
Seems things are much slower than they ever were and shoddy.
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I order a set of different guitar strings from a place in
Traverse City Michigan. That is about 8 hour drive from
here. Priority mailed out 02/05/25. I got the package today
and yes the weather was bad they said it would be delay. It
sat in at the post office in my town for 5 days. It showed
up with a plastic bag around the mailing envelop and note of
package damage. There was nothing in the package and only
one set of the 4 string sets I ordered in the plastic bag
sealing it all with apology.
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The place is going to send out the remaining strings but I
wonder if they file a claim with the post office. Frankly
probably not worth the effort. To top that off it took 21
days in December for a letter of mine to get to Philadelphia
Pennsylvania.
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Maybe Trump will look into that too they need something
done. Frankly quite allowing junk mail and get the act
together.

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Yes that's right:
http://www.cyclismas.com/biscuits/us-postal-tour-de-france-squads-1999-2006/
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USPS won a lawsuit against Mr Armstrong following his fall
from grace:
https://natlawreview.com/article/lance-armstrong-pays-5-million-to-settle-100-million-us-government-law-suit
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Yes prices are up, way up, and no end of that in sight.
There are a lot of reasons and a lot of players- plenty
enough blame to go around. This is not solely on Mr DeJOy
who has deep logistics experience but is stymied by the
nature of a not private not public structure.  All that on
top of freight being fuel+labor plus a markup. These are not
good times for the Post Office.
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Yes, the vaunted "2 Day" service is now four to ten days and
more than double rates ten years ago.
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But no, in fairness, loss/damage rates remain steady (I ship
a LOT of packages) although always higher than FedEx or UPS.
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   A loss/damage claim takes 30 to 90 days, and they do pay
when they are at fault, but the process is tedious.
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Oh, and there is little a President can do.  It's on
Congress to act, which they have not and will not.

    Like Mark, the cost isn't nearly as bad as the piss poor service. I ordered a parts kit to put the hydraulics together on the 9th. The last it was heard from was the 10th. They claim that I will receive it on the 20th but the tracking doesn't show that USPS ever got it. This stuff fits in a 6 x 6 envelope!
 Shipments from Texas or Colorado take 8 days and EVEN from Las Vegas (how the hell did it get there? I ordered from Sparks near Reno.) is so far running at 10 days when I could drive round trip in one day.

You ask why? Because Regional Sort Centers.
Anything I ship USPS (to you, for example) goes to Oak Creek Center near Milwaukee first. Yes that's the wrong direction.   Export packets go to Oak Creek first and then to ORD Ohare where the nearest USPS export terminal is located, even though MKE is an international port.
But hey, if you want the job of Postmaster General, apply! The job's much like playing 3D chess for high stakes, while herding 550,000 cats who are high on meth, while being shot at.
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