I'm less than 4 hr from Morrow, GA. Why does it take a package 7 days to get here from there ?

[eppur_se_muova]

And why has USPS Informed Delivery become next to useless ? Unexpected downtimes, most packages don't show, everything listed as "in transit" with no ETA, doesn't display info from USPS "partners".

I had one package that spent a full month sitting at one place in GA. I thought it was lost, then it *finally* moved.

Somehow, I'm sure this is all DeJoy's doing, directly or indirectly. One more reason to hate Anus Orange.

ETA: I've had several packages arrive from Europe in good time, only to take a considerably longer time to reach me from the port of arrival. Even shipping from China is getting to be faster than transit from the next state over.

[Demovictory9]

1. that's happened to me... watching package move around Georgia for weeks..

[soryang]

2. I've had similar experiences

I sent a payment across the state by priority mail, about 120 miles, and it was shipped to Iowa, over 1000 miles away and sat there for a week before it came back to FL. I was "lucky" it came back, I've lost more than one payment in the mail. I've been forced to do everything online, which despite the claims, isn't more "efficient" than snail mail. It shifts an administrative burden from the corporations and government to consumer so they can save money on their admin costs.

[jaxexpat]

6. I've always thought something like this must be the rationale.

Regarding email and on-line payments: "It shifts an administrative burden from the corporations and government to consumer so they can save money on their admin costs." I know so many people who leave themselves open to corporate theft simply because they're too lazy to keep track of their charge receipts.

It wasn't until recently that I became aware that it's standard practice for banks to simply pay the amount that CC companies demand rather than peruse a confirmation copy of a written check. I'd written a check for $1500 and my bank gave them $15000 because that's what the CC asked for. It was human error on the CC end but it was NOT going tom be caught by the bank as they had an agreement with the CC that they didn't need to forward the check back to the bank for confirmation. There was no plan in place to even deal with such a situation. It took me 90 days of griping and reminding to get the charges reversed on the fees for insufficient funds transferred from savings.

In a war of GI=GO, accuracy and then trust are the first casualties.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I placed an order that took a month to reach me, previously it used to take about a week

I finally looked up when I had placed the order, I thought I'd made a mistake, but it had been a month to the day - and it finally arrived the very next day.

[dchill]

4. Louis Dejoy wants to privatize the USPS - and run it.

[usaf-vet]

5. And i would guess merge it with his current package delivery business.

That POS needs to go in December as promised.

One way or the other fire his ass and fight it out in court.

He has to go before he does any more damage.

There is a legitimate concern that his slowing of the mail will affect absentee ballots coming and going in the Virginia election.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. +1

I just don't understand why there is more outrage against De Joy.

[Sherman A1]

7. I don't know but my experience with the USPS is stellar.

I would however ask, why does it take FedEx 4 days to get a package loaded on the truck for delivery to my house in St. Louis from their local distribution center?

[lindysalsagal]

8. It's happened to me, too. This is an attempt to kill off usps, entirely.

They're unionized. No shareholders, no way for an individual to make a personal profit in it. Just like public schools: charter schools aren't doing well, but the persist as a way for individuals to grab taxpayer money.

[ret5hd]

11. You mention the ONE thing I disagree with in this whole meta-discussion:

USPS prices "out of the water"?

I dunno 'bout that...in fact I whole heartedly disagree...under a dollar to post a letter anywhere in the 50 states, several sizes of "if fit fits it ships" boxes that are VERY affordable...have you tried shipping anything via FedEx/UPS/DHL recently?

[ret5hd]

14. Used to be penny candy was a thing.

On edit: and now I’m being too broad

[brooklynite]

10. "Somehow, I'm sure this is all DeJoy's doing, directly or indirectly"

You don't say where you are, but the only reason to say DeJoy's policies are behind it is to show that the same conditions are everywhere else (or that your community is special for some reason).

I've had no mail delivery problems over the past year. Letters or packages.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Same Here

Admittedly, we live at the fringes of a major metro area.
I don't know what things are like in more remote locales, but the OP description isn't universal.
I have a recurring order for cigars with a company in the Carolinas. I click reorder and I get my order in 2-3 days every time. We're 750 miles from the Carolinas.

[Best_man23]

13. Took 43 days for a birthday card to get to us in Virginia

From Florida.

[SYFROYH]

15. Its possible it goes through Jacksonvile first as does all my GA mail.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Still waiting for an envelope mailed to me in RI

on September 21 from Illinois. Sometimes patience is an overrated virtue!

[sarcasmo]

18. Shipped my niece a couple packages UPS store to UPS store. Arrived on time.

[0rganism]

19. Before TFG installed his saboteurs, the USPS had pretty decent delivery times

Now it sucks and it's going to cost more too.