A Book I Purchased is Currently on a North American Post Office Tour Courtesy of the USPS.
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The new Penguin Publishing Maigret paperbacks sell for about $10-15 on Amazon. So, $7.00 is cheap.
To be fair, the post office has been hammered by the volume of packages over the last couple of years. Likely due to the sniffles phenomenon & people doing lots of online shopping now. - That said, UPS delivers packages to me on the US West Coast from Europe & they arrive in 3days. I don’t recall them losing a package over the last 10 years. I did notice their usual brown truck may be replaced by a U Haul van or a rental SUV however. Shipping volumes have been so heavy- especially during the Christmas season- that they didn’t have enough brown trucks to cover it I was told by a driver.
If you read my first post, I'm not complaining...it's actually funny.
The problem wasn't with the USPS. As stated in the update, the seller didn't remove old shipping label. The package had to different addresses.
My last order from SPC arrived in two days. I think the USPS does a good job 90% of the time.
5star,
I want to apologize for my response to your post this morning. I thought you were referring to my original post. I jumped the gun and for that, I'm sorry.
No need to apologize. I’m thick skinned & know the interwebs don’t convey intent like face-to-face conversations.
It’s all good
Yup
SOME of the decline in USPS efficiency is illusory.
1) Social Media inflames every incident, in turn creating confirmation bias in the collective mind of the public when interpreting disruptions
2) The pressure to re-use and recycle packaging materials has resulted in shoddier parcels in durability terms, and more address errors from old bar codes/labels/etc.
In short, it's not actually as bad as we THINK it is, and not all of the legit problems are their fault.
SOME of the decline in USPS efficiency is illusory.
1) Social Media inflames every incident, in turn creating confirmation bias in the collective mind of the public when interpreting disruptions
2) The pressure to re-use and recycle packaging materials has resulted in shoddier parcels in durability terms, and more address errors from old bar codes/labels/etc.
In short, it's not actually as bad as we THINK it is, and not all of the legit problems are their fault.
Exactly. I've received packages in the past with more than half of the old label still attached.
Had a similar incident recently. I mailed, via USPS priority mail, required information for a PA license to Tennessee. Instead of 3 days it took 7 days to arrive at the post office in the city in Tennessee where it was to be delivered to the recipient. I figured no big deal but from there it was forwarded to Nashville, then to Nebraska, on to 2 cities in Oklahoma, back to Nashville, then to Lexington Kentucky, back to Nashville and on to its destination in Brentwood Tenn. This epic journey took fourteen days. I've Learned my lesson, from now on I will use Fedex or UPS or better yet I'll drive to Tennessee because I could have been there in about eighteen hours driving time..
I made the mistake of ordering a new armchair online. Not since the days of Barnum & Bailey has anyone seen such a tour of this great land.