Postal Glitch Means What?

[mso489]

Luckily for me, we are talking about a tobacco order of less than fourteen bucks, but it is still odd. Of course, the least of our/my problems at the present. Still, no one rang my doorbell and no one left a notice, but the tracking said the delivery had failed and they are holding the package at the post office, without specifying which one. I'll check at the hub where I usually mail packages, and take a printout of the tracking with me. I have not had to sign for tobacco before. Is this the new regime? I was home all day, so this seems more off kilter. Any funny stuff with your mail delivery to add to our misgivings?

 

[sablebrush52]

Maybe the laws have changed, requiring a signature of a person 21 or older. That's what happened in California.

 

[jaytex1969]

Just waltz into the post office coughing and sneezing profusely. I'm sure your needs will be met rapidly... ?

The time that this has happened to me, it was a case of the delivery guy finding it in the truck at the end of the day and reporting it as not deliverable. I took to the website immediately and asserted that I had been there all day and that no attempt had been made. The package arrived the next day.


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[Old School 3319]

I had a delivery Wednesday did not have sign

 

[mso489]

jay, that was my first thought, a delivery person's ploy when they found the package rattling around the truck at the end of the shift. Why they couldn't just put it in the bin for the next day, I don't know, and if it turns up today or Monday, maybe they did that. I used their online page to request a second delivery effort, but I'm dubious, since the selection of re-delivery day didn't function. I worked around it, but I'm the Typhoid Mary of technology. I can make a quartz watch run backwards. jay, a correction on the symptoms of our much-loved virus -- no sniffles and sneezes, but a dry cough, body aches, and difficulty breathing. Let's avoid all of that if at all possible. I have a medical run to take my wife to two appointments on Wednesday, so I will need to wear my hazmat moon walk suit ... or don't I wish. More like blue gloves and a sanitizer bottle and wipes. My tax prep office has gone to dropping off the paperwork at the desk and coming back to pay and pick it up. I don't want to wait until July and have the next tax year come around so soon. sable', I don't think N.C. is up with California on the tobacco delivery signature, but it could be national. Hard to tell, these times.

 

[saintpeter]

Luckily for me, we are talking about a tobacco order of less than fourteen bucks, but it is still odd. Of course, the least of our/my problems at the present. Still, no one rang my doorbell and no one left a notice, but the tracking said the delivery had failed and they are holding the package at the post office, without specifying which one. I'll check at the hub where I usually mail packages, and take a printout of the tracking with me. I have not had to sign for tobacco before. Is this the new regime? I was home all day, so this seems more off kilter. Any funny stuff with your mail delivery to add to our misgivings?

May I suggest Informed Delivery available at USPS? It gives you photos of what mail you have and the status and location of packages.

 

[jaytex1969]

so I will need to wear my hazmat moon walk suit ...

I found this footage of you online...

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[rmpeeps]

USPS can get funky, and will likely be rather strange in the current world.
A couple of weeks ago I was out of town for funerals across the state.
I logged in and set a 4 day Hold of my mail. On day 3 two packages were shown as delivered’. One at mailbox, and one at door. I was livid!
We got home on day 4, the mailman came and had both packages. He said one required a 21 signature (tobacco), so he just signed for it and kept it for me.
He’s a great guy, just working in a system with weird practices.
Keep the faith.

 

[docrameous]

The time that this has happened to me, it was a case of the delivery guy finding it in the truck at the end of the day and reporting it as not deliverable. I took to the website immediately and asserted that I had been there all day and that no attempt had been made. The package arrived the next day.

When were in East Texas last year about every 6th delivery this would happen with USPS. We complained but nothing changed. We also had other problems which I won’t bore the forum with.

USPS is a complete mess at least in that part of the world!

 

[hawky454]

When were in East Texas last year about every 6th delivery this would happen with USPS. We complained but nothing changed. We also had other problems which I won’t bore the forum with.

USPS is a complete mess at least in that part of the world!

I 100% agree with you! I was a mail man for close to a decade! One of the most ridiculous places I’ve ever worked. Other businesses use the post office as a model of how not to do business... and the management is a complete joke! Glad I got out.

 

[cortezattic]

A couple of years ago we had a substitute mail carrier who filled-in for our regular guy one day a week. She never delivered packages! Her "act" was to complete Attempt To Deliver notices for all packages prior to embarking on the route -- sticking our regular carrier with the extra load the next day.

 

[mso489]

This isn't the best time to send people chasing around retrieving their packages, though perhaps I can send off a package and get some stamps in the process ... wearing gloves and spraying disinfectant as I go. I'm sure the delivery person didn't ring the bell, and they sure didn't leave a form. The tobacco didn't show up today, and I didn't get an email response to my inquiry, and I don't have a specific recommendation on which post office will have it, so there I go. I'm glad I didn't go on a TAD fiesta and was trying to chase down my two hundred dollar array of premium blends.

 

[mingc]

Try calling your nearest post office. The last time I did, someone actually picked up the phone. It sounds ike you have a tracking number so they'll have something to work with. I had a misdelivery last Christmas but in general, I think the USPS has been doing a stellar job for quite a few years now, especially given the price it charges and the constraints that Congress puts on it.

 

[docrameous]

Last Christmas a relative sent us a perishable gift from one of the well known online suppliers. It was sent with with three day priority delivery. According to the tracking, it got to our local depot in two days, where it then sat for another 10 before being delivered.

Of course by the time it got to us, it was ready for the garbage can. As it was a surprise gift, we didn't know about it, so we didn’t raise the alarm When it got stuck. Our relative didn’t think to keep an eye on it because in this day and age of quality management systems, you shouldn’t have to monitor every gift to insure that it was delivered.

It may be a localized issue, but I have a whole bunch more stories like this one from the time period of about two years. Something was majorly broke and sadly we could not fully trust it anymore. Sometimes it worked brilliantly and then more frequently than anyone should accept, it was a colossal fail.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

Has the USPS perchance been ordered to hold off on new hires? I've heard our town's P.O. is down to one contract letter-carrier, and there are days the delivery here arrives very late or not 'til the next day (and still late in the day).

 

[dcon]

I had a similar incident this week of a P&C package (no fault of the seller). Tracking had the package out for a St. Patrick’s Day delivery. I was siting out on my front porch enjoying the weather and a few pipes between noon and 4pm. When I did not receive the package by 4, I checked the tracking which, stated that the package was left on my front porch at 2:56pm. The previous statement shows that this was BS. The next day I approached the regular mail carrier and he said that he does not even deliver that late and would check on it. The next day my wife approached the mail carrier. I had a package from another vendor and they were both thinking that was my missing parcel. When the package did not show on the third day, I went to the local post office. After about a 10 minute search, they determined that the package did still exist and that it was on another truck, on the wrong route. Apparently, they have some sort of electronic ’manifests’ and my supposition is in order to account for missing parcels or to explain extra parcels, stating “left on the porch“gave the carrier cover. In my ‘hood’ it would be easy to say it was just stolen (though I get plenty of packages and this has never occurred). Long story short, the carrier that had the package delivered it several hours later on her way back to the post office.

 

[mso489]

Here's a happy ending at a time when we all need some of those, however small. My padded envelope from Laudisi arrived today with my three samples of C&D Tuggle Hall, Bayou Night, and Stratfordshire. When tracking indicated there was an attempted delivery, I tried to phone the hub P.O., and it did not answer. Then I contemplated leaving a printout of the tracking in the post box, with a handwritten request that they try again with delivery. I certainly considered a trip to the P.O., but since we are trying to ration contacts, that seemed risky for such a small order. But today I went to the mailbox, and under a fat stack of catalogs to recycle, there it was, a plump padded envelop of sweet smelling blends. Kudos to the P.O. for following through on their own, and not fiddling with signatures at the door. Sometimes things actually work out well. Our garbage picking raccoon didn't get the memo and jiggered his way into the weighted lid of a pot of slow-cooked pork bones (for lard), so farewell to that. Gratitude for anything that goes right.

 

[mingc]

i'm glad to hear you got you package!