I was once given a tour of a USPS facility and told to not make eye contact with the workers, as this was considered a threatening move by management. I don't know if it's gotten any better, but it was definitely a weird experience. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Skoglund (lokal användare)" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 3:47:48 AM Subject: Re: USPS: Shipping mån 2016-02-01 klockan 22:22 -0600 skrev Tothwolf: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ken Seefried <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Tothwolf wrote: > >>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote: > >>> > >>>> Spend the extra few dollars (or what your currency is) and pack it in > >>>> very strong box. I've actually had EPROMs show up cracked in half > >>> > >>> Seconded. The machines the USPS uses for automated sorting of mail are > >>> not gentle on parcels. > >> > >> I'd rather strongly suggest you not us the USPS period. In the last 6 > >> months or so they've flat out lost 4 items either destined to or > >> shipped by me, and one item apparently (according to the tracking web > >> site) sat in a sorting facility in Utah for nearly a month before > >> magically showing up. Glad it wasn't perishable. > > > > I’ve had failures with *all* of the major shippers. > > > > UPS tracking is a *joke*. It tells you not where the package is but > > where it’s supposed to be. I was tracking an IBM 3278 terminal and it > > wasn’t until the tracking said it was “on the truck for delivery” that > > they realized there was a problem. There was not one “physical” scan of > > the package and they had no idea where it was. > > I recently bought a vacuum tube tester and whatever USPS carrier happened > to be on duty scanned it as delivered but it was nowhere to be found. > After calling the USPS and getting the branch manager involved, it > magically appeared the next day. Someone at the USPS had also marked out > the tracking barcode on the label. HOW BAD is the relationship between the guys/gals on the floor at USPS and management/congress ? If people is sabotaging like this.
