USPS delaying packages

[NateTheGreat]

It's not just COVID, they recently implemented austerity measures. Idk if the stories of throwing out mail sorting machines are exaggerated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/USPS/comments/hpdhr5/dejoy_so_it_begins/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/postal-service-trump-dejoy-delay-mail/

"The first memo says the agency will prohibit overtime and strictly curtail the use of other measures local postmasters use to ameliorate staffing shortages.

Even a common method for mail delivery — “park points,” in which letter carriers park their mail trucks at the end of a street, deliver mail items by foot for several blocks, then return to the trucks and drive on — is under scrutiny. The document bans carriers from taking more than four “park points” on their routes and claims “park points are abused, not cost effective and taken advantage of.”
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The second memo says the Postal Service will first look to cut its transportation costs, and estimates that late and extra trips cost the agency $200 million annually in “added expenses,” or about the same amount the agency lost in May. The memo warns postal workers that it may be “difficult” to “see mail left behind or mail on the workroom floor,” but that the agency “will address root causes of these delays and adjust the very next day.”"

[spaugh]

“The U.S. Postal Service reported Thursday a fiscal 2019 net loss that more than doubled $8.81 billion, from $3.91 billion a year ago.”

Pretty sure USPS competitors are not losing money like this and USPS has been losing money for 13 straight years.

If you're worried about the USPS's financial losses wait until you hear about the military.

Heck we just borrowed like 5 Trillion already this year.  Just give the money so the post office can run instead of bailing out CEOs who were running their businesses with no money reserves.  These companies were doing stock buybacks with borrowed money for a decade.  Spending like drunken sailors then tax payers get to pay for their mismanagement.  Our government spends like theres no tomorrow, why not give some of the funny money to usps.

Dont even get me started on the military.  Holy cow, 100 bases around the world playing world police is pure insanity!

[CherimoyaDude]

Are things still arriving late? Wanted to buy some seeds but wondering if I should wait

[fruitlovers]

Are things still arriving late? Wanted to buy some seeds but wondering if I should wait

If the seeds are perishable then wait, or have them shipped express mail or private courier. If the seeds are not perishable a few extra days won't matter.

[kalan]

“The U.S. Postal Service reported Thursday a fiscal 2019 net loss that more than doubled $8.81 billion, from $3.91 billion a year ago.”

Pretty sure USPS competitors are not losing money like this and USPS has been losing money for 13 straight years.

If you're worried about the USPS's financial losses wait until you hear about the military.

Heck we just borrowed like 5 Trillion already this year.  Just give the money so the post office can run instead of bailing out CEOs who were running their businesses with no money reserves.  These companies were doing stock buybacks with borrowed money for a decade.  Spending like drunken sailors then tax payers get to pay for their mismanagement.  Our government spends like theres no tomorrow, why not give some of the funny money to usps.

Right? The CEO mantra under a corporatist: privatize the profits and socialise the losses.

[CherimoyaDude]

Are things still arriving late? Wanted to buy some seeds but wondering if I should wait

If the seeds are perishable then wait, or have them shipped express mail or private courier. If the seeds are not perishable a few extra days won't matter.

If they ship in vermiculite, even if they are perishable would they be ok? Or should I worry about them germinating and then dying before I could plant

[Giant Gecko]

Well Obama administration was wanting to get rid of Saturday delivery to save money at one time. They removed 12,000 mail collection boxes and that was fine then. The delay right now may very well be a combination of COVID, overtime cuts which during this pandemic is untimely and sounds like is being reversed, and maybe some rogue employees and managers that are slowing it down even more for political reasons to make Trump look bad.

My grandpa retired from the USPS so I have much respect for postal workers but I will take USPS reform over defund the police any day the of week.

[gardenfreak]

Well I got my package on Wednesday. Was shipped Saturday. So not that big delay. 1 day.  And I live out east.
Fruits looked great. I enjoyed some of them yesterday. I guess it depends on what you ship. If I look at the passion fruits that they sell here in the grocery stores they look like they came from another planet .
And people still buy them.

[vall]

What's even more fragile than plants and fruit?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/20/usps-turmoil-thousands-chicks-arrive-dead-farmers-maine/5614777002/

[spaugh]

I sent 3 boxes of dragonfruit on Monday to CA customers.  2 arrived on time.  1 still has not arrived, maybe today.

I noticed they seem to only be delaying the larger parcels.  The bigger the box the longer it takes.  The medium size flat rate boxes have been more close to on time.  May be a coincidence who knows?

[TomekK]

I’ve shipped 4 priority boxes this Monday. The largest one arrived on time in Florida yesterday. Still nothing from the others. The other Florida box is, based on tracking, somewhere in Florida, so it might get delivered tomorrow (hopefully). The other two are going to Puerto Rico, and tracking said one of them left Queens NY distribution center yesterday. I don’t think they’ll make it before next Monday, though I still hope.

Hit and miss. I just pray my plants aren’t hit, and only miss a little.

Tomek

[zephian]

I sent 3 boxes of dragonfruit on Monday to CA customers.  2 arrived on time.  1 still has not arrived, maybe today.

I noticed they seem to only be delaying the larger parcels.  The bigger the box the longer it takes.  The medium size flat rate boxes have been more close to on time.  May be a coincidence who knows?

what can I say? I like to feel special.

[Chandramohan]

I have a seed packet from Raul arrive in North Houston on 26 th July and still sitting there!

[fruitlovers]

Are things still arriving late? Wanted to buy some seeds but wondering if I should wait

If the seeds are perishable then wait, or have them shipped express mail or private courier. If the seeds are not perishable a few extra days won't matter.

If they ship in vermiculite, even if they are perishable would they be ok? Or should I worry about them germinating and then dying before I could plant

Depends on the types of seeds? Why don't you say what types of seeds you are talking about ordering?