The fine folks at Atlanta-Peachtree USPS sorting facility can go F themselves

[BarkingGhostar]

Ordered a couple custom t-shirts from a company I've had good experience before. They informed me Monday last week the items were in the mail and provided the tracking number. I checked on Wednesday to setup SMS notifications on the tracking number and from Wednesday through Saturday evenings around 6:30-6:40PM the USPS tells me the "item(s) arriving late.". Okay, then nothing yesterday and still nothing today. A week has passed and it takes longer to go from one side of Atlanta to the other side of Atlanta. But UPS can send me electronics out of NJ in two days for the same price and I can get toilet seats from KY in even less time.

Every time I have to deal with this particular sorting facility things take longer than if the items were shipped from out of state, or even out of the country. I know it is the holidays and all but seriously, a week to go 40 miles locally?

 

[Motostu]

I'm sure this is in part due to DeJoy mucking with things over the summer, and the extra volume due to COVID and the holidays. I've had similar (though not quite as bad) happen here. I had a package stuck at the Birmingham hub for over a week. Once I had the shipper put a tracer (not sure if that's the right term) on it, the package magically started moving again.

 

[MtnMan]

DeJoy has spread a lot of Joy throughout the USPS. I can sense it in our local carrier, for someone clearly licked the red off his candy cane when DeJoy started is sabotaging the post office.

 

[HomerJS]

DeJoy to the World?

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Ten days the item sat in the very same processing center. Only last night did it move from that processing center to the next one, where it spent four or five hours before moving onto the annex near me and got deliver this afternoon.

How is it that it can pass through two processing centers in <24 hours and get delivered, but it takes 10 days at the Atlanta-Peachtree facility? Still, thankfully it came because one was a gift for the wife and the other for our favorite waiter at our favorite restaurant.

 

[sdifox]

Let me find my quantum violin

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Hey, at least yours was legitimately in motion. BTW, wife loves the shirt I had made for her. Themed on Only Lovers Left Alive movie.

 

[sdifox]

Hey, at least yours was legitimately in motion. BTW, wife loves the shirt I had made for her. Themed on Only Lovers Left Alive movie.

lol bouncing back and forth between two locations, and sometimes not even leaving the truck, doesn't count as progress. The actual distance they were supposed to cover was like 150mi. The meat grinder probably travelled 1000mi...

btw, that is not the full trace, didn't get delivered til the 24th.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

You know those poop-packages that went off when someone lifted the package off someone's front step? We should shit a poop package with a timer and see what kind of stink-carnage can result. Just joking, but I am sure someone will run with the idea.

 

[GrumpyMan]

You would of gotten your shipment faster but they were still looking for ballots to count.

 

[CZroe]

Something's definitely wrong in Atlanta. I ordered a bunch of parts from Console5 for making custom cables for old game consoles and it ended up taking nearly a month. The first shipment was delayed too but there was a holiday (Thanksgiving):
*SNIP*
I even noticed them retroactively adding one of those entries two days later.

It was missing a few things (extra top-halves of some connectors with not enough bottom halves) so they shipped out a follow-up order with all the rest. Somehow, the second shipment took even longer even though there was no holiday like there was during the first shipment:
*SNIP*

Once again, they retroactively added a back-dated entry after a period where there had been days of inactivity. I'm not pleased since the project has been on-hold a month now.

You would of gotten your shipment faster but they were still looking for ballots to count.

Does your Google password still work? Better check.

Edit: Removed the tracking pics due to an oversight.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

You would of gotten your shipment faster but they were still looking for ballots to count.

Actually this is probably a good thing in that one should expect deliveries on time during Trumpian-like election years.

 

[KB]

The gift I mailed to my parents is now 18 days late and no info. USPS is definately dropping the ball, but I knew it would with DeJoy running the show.

 

[brianmanahan]

the routing algorithm must be getting stuck in these cases

they really should add some logic to prevent situations like this

like if # of scans so far > 10, require some manual review/decision on what route to follow

 

[allisolm]

You guys' tales are nothing. Even sdifox's ping pong pkg in PA was only bouncing around for 2 weeks.

Mine was mailed Nov 25 from MO. It traveled to Forest Park, GA (which, if you are unfamiliar with the area, is a suberb of Atlanta). It hung around there for several days before moving 10 miles to Atlanta proper. It schmoozed with its buddies there for several more days then departed for "the next destination." After 3, count 'em, three, weeks , it arrived! Not in Tallahassee, which is about 5 hrs from Atlanta, but in Phoenix, AZ. After a long weekend vacation there it departed for the "next destination." And it arrived! Again, not in Tallahassee but in Seattle, Washington. The only way it could get farther away is if it then went to Alaska. It left Seattle and I waited with bated breath to see where it would go from there. Turns out it went to Tennessee. Closer! Then more travel - travel until today it said "OUT FOR DELIVERY!" And it was! And it was here. In Tallahassee. At my house. Nov 25, 2020 - Jan 6, 2021.

And what was in this package, you might ask. Nothing much. Just necessary prescription medication. Go USPS!

 

[Motostu]

I had some dog meds show up yesterday that were mailed on 20 Nov. I need to check the tracking to see how much it might have bounced around.

 

[allisolm]

I had some dog meds show up yesterday that were mailed on 20 Nov. I need to check the tracking to see how much it might have bounced around.

You win!

 

[UsandThem]

I'm so done with USPS after today.

I can't do anything about the delivering the mail to my house (with about a 70% accuracy rate), but I will never walk into a Charlotte area USPS location ever again to mail anything. I was there around 2:30 today, and I still feel like my blood pressure is elevated.

With my health insurance, I had to receive some prescriptions from the insurance's online pharmacy, and they sent them through USPS. After having my prescription (90 days worth at a time) get delivered to someone else's house 4 different times over 2 years, I now just get them filled at a local pharmacy without using my insurance. It costs me about 30% more, but the savings in having less stress is worth well it.

It's a good thing that it's near impossible to get fired with USPS, because there have to be a number of them at my local USPS location who should be thankful for that aspect.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, my USPS package delivery has been pretty decent still. It was spectacular ("upper-middle class suburb about an hour from Boston"), but after DeJoy got in, delivery times slowed a bit, and the lines got longer at the Post Office. Still acceptable to me, at least, barely. (Doesn't always reach my apt. on the same day the Post Office gets the package in the morning, sometimes it takes 2-3 days, but at least thus far, nothing has been "lost".)

 

[MrSquished]

My local post office people are all very nice and the lines move fast, and things were working quite well around here, but since Dejoy some things took forever to get anywhere late last year.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Just wondering how long before Dejoy gets usurped.

 

[Starbuck1975]

I don’t blame the post office for struggling to keep up with demand during a global pandemic. I am appreciative of those postal workers trying their best to maintain a functional system.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

We were not complaining about the entire system, but those component impacted by the a-hole Dejoy.

 

[Captante]

Aside from regular mail apparently being delivered 2-3 times a week maximum the local USPS here is okay. I've stopped using them for most other shipping unfortunately since service has gone so far downhill.

 

[CZroe]

I literally got a campaign flyer reminding me to vote two days after the January 5th runoff election. Whoever paid for that didn't get what they paid for.