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Cliffg37 Inner circle Long Beach, CA 2491 Posts 
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You may not want to hear this, but I think it is true. If you take the number of USPS errors, damages and losses, and compare that to their number of successes... I think you will find they have a pretty good batting average. I also think that where you live has something to do with the score. A big city has many people working in it. The USPS in a large city has many points of quality control. Smaller towns, not so much.
Fact is the post office takes a lot of heat, and more so since Fed Ex came on the scene and e-mail which drastically cut their business. My guess is that the USPS is likely on the way out and I hope that does not happen. The USPS must do what ever they have to do in order to deliver any piece of mail or package anywhere you need to send it. A private shipping company may take your package to an out of the way place, but they can either charge you through the nose for it, or they may simply refuse. Does the post office have issues? Of course they do, and sometimes those issues suck for the buyer or seller or both, but again. Most of the time they come through. (When I was in college, several of us had a night shift job working at UPS. Don't get me started on the stuff that happened there, mostly deliberate too.)
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lynnef Inner circle 1407 Posts
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When the US needs to reinstate the draft for military, they'll need to know every address, ie the USPS. My draft board was in LA, but they tracked me via the post office to Boston where I got my 1-A. An all volunteer army is working now, but wait til they need 500,000 soldiers overnight. Lynn
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts
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On Feb 28, 2016, lynnef wrote: Desert Storm has shown us that all future wars will be primarily fought in the air and space. If we ever come to a point where we need 500,000 troops overnight, then it is already too late. USPS does fine for me over here. Sometimes things go to another country first, but that is because of the way the sender wrote down the zip code.
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motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6136 Posts
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Quote: That's why I still prefer to drop stuff off right at the postoffice.On Feb 20, 2016, Michael Baker wrote:
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
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On Feb 29, 2016, motown wrote: You know, and that's what I typically do. But a couple factors made the decision for me. First, I was very busy for that whole week, so taking time to go run that errand for a small package seemed a waste of time better spent. Second, It costs me a fair amount in gas to drive to the post office from my home. Considering the relatively small amount of this order, it also seemed economically better to have them pick it up. They tout this in their advertising, so I figured why not take advantage of it. I'm sure the cost is already built in to what is spent on postage, or they couldn't afford to do it. BTW - for all I can tell, the package did arrive at its destination. Whether human error, or computer glitch, it caused unwanted stress that particular day.
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