Day 5 with no mail

[Rorey]

Feels eerie.

[Horse with no Name]

1. I ordered a rug on Amazon Prime 3 weeks ago

Was supposed to be here in 2 days.
No idea when it will get here.

[Lancero]

7. And pray tell, who does Amazon ship through? Hmm?

[maxsolomon]

9. They have their own delivery system IIRC

Yep, there goes a van with Amazon written on it, right past my house.

If they contracted they delivery to USPS, there is a tracking number.

[LisaL]

13. Amazon uses several delivery methods, one of which is USPS.

[NutmegYankee]

17. Most of it is USPS.

Their own delivery service is limited to major urban areas.

[Midnight Writer]

31. (limited to major urban areas)? Not anymore. I live in the sticks and they deliver around here.

[NutmegYankee]

32. I live in semi-sticks, and doesn't exist here.

USPS, followed by UPS occasionally.

[cwydro]

24. I get 99% of my amazon orders through USPS.

No delays as yet.

[Horse with no Name]

27. This one is going through UPS

Never have I had an amazon delivery come UPS.
Not only that, but they have added a signature required.
That will be tough.

[NutmegYankee]

18. I've had packages go by USPS and take three weeks lately.

This is from Florida to Connecticut, normally a 2-3 trip.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Probably not USPS. Amazon does a lot of their own deliveries

and they also use UPS and FedEx - USPS doesn't handle most of it. Check with Amazon, could be hangups elsewhere.

[LisaL]

14. Amazon uses various delivery methods, including USPS.

That said, if the package shipped, the buyer should know which method is being used and provided with a tracking number.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. That's what I said - USPS is one of several, but most deliveries

are by other services. You should be able to find out which one.

[LisaL]

16. Yes, amazon tells you that once the package ships.

[Horse with no Name]

28. It's shipped. It says on Amazon that it is expected today

The tracking number on UPS says that they will update shipping info when they receive it.
I’ve never had this experience before.

[nuxvomica]

20. It depends on where you live

I've gotten 33 deliveries in the past three months, 32 were USPS and one UPS, which probably had USPS somewhere in the chain.

[Betty88]

23. USPS delivers at least

half of my Amazon shipments,


i'm in the country but not totally the middle of nowhere.

[cwydro]

25. I get almost all of my Amazon deliveries through USPS.

Can’t think of any that haven’t come that way actually.

[iscooterliberally]

2. I used to complain about all the junk mail I got.

Joking around I said that I wanted to put a big brick in my mailbox so I wouldn't get anymore junk mail. I knew Trump would be horrible, but I never imagined this.

[Buckeyeblue]

6. Part of the lack of junk mail is that companies aren't marketing as much due to covid

[Music Man]

4. We've had similar problems.

Went about four days without any mail. We've gotten a few things the past couple days, but there are other items that we know were mailed weeks ago that haven't shown up. Rather important things like checks and the deed to our new house.

It's unnerving because we have no way of knowing what we're supposed to have now and what we're not. For all we know, important notices are just piling up somewhere.

[Rorey]

11. I use "Informed Delivery" with the USPS

I can go online and see what's coming.

I guess I'm on a sub-route or something, and we don't always have the same delivery person.

I got a couple of refund checks from one of my insurance companies last week, so I guess I should be relieved that they were sent then instead of now. I don't usually get a lot of mail, but I don't think I've ever gone this many days with none at all.

[brooklynite]

5. No problems in Brooklyn

[Baclava]

8. All i get from the USPS is junk mail, my Amazon deliveries are always on time

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. All I get from USPS is junk mail because that's all anyone sends me.

[Baclava]

26. Email killed the letter writing star

[demmiblue]

33. Lol... to both of you:

[cwydro]

19. I'm not having any mail problems.

Three tax bills arrived yesterday, magazines today, a gift from my cousin in Wales came also.

I can’t remember ever having a day without mail.

[tavernier]

21. Yes, same here.

I have no doubt that there are areas in the country where the mail is being delayed. I think we’re lucky that we are not in one of those areas… As yet. When you have United States generals screaming that they aren’t getting their medication and that something better be done about it ASAP, then you know there is a problem.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. You might want to go to the appropriate station and see if for some

reason your mail is being held there. Or leave a note for your carrier in your mailbox.

I happen to have a singularly incompetent carrier who invariably screws up my vacation holds. Last week she crammed a package into my box so that the lock couldn't turn. I left a note for her in the outgoing mail box and the next day I could open my box and the package was in one of the larger package boxes. About three weeks ago I hadn't gotten any mail for about three days, and then a pile of mail showed up st my front door. Apparently she'd put it into someone else's box. I frequently get mail for someone else.

The vast majority of carriers are good at their job, but when you get a bad one, it's awful. Oh, and some years back when I lived in Boulder, the cheerful carrier on my route stopped delivering third class mail and stored it in his back yard. That had been going on for a couple of years, and he was finally caught when someone complained about not getting a flyer from a store.

I'm suggesting that five days with no mail could have any number of explanations.

[Rorey]

29. It's not the carrier

I have Informed Delivery, so I can check on the USPS site if I'm supposed to get mail.

I know what you're talking about when it comes to incompetency. At my previous house, we had a carrier who made mistakes on a regular basis. I'd see him reading postcards while walking the route.

I guess the absolute worst carrier was the one who delivered to a rental house I own. The tenant died in mid-July last year, and wasn't discovered for about 10 days. The neighbors had called authorities because of the odor. I found out the next day and rushed over to find the doors and windows all wide open. Mail was overflowing the mailbox. The smell was so bad I had to move my van across the street while I called my insurance agent.

There's just no way in hell that the carrier could walk up to the door and cram mail in the box without realizing that something awful had happened. After the biohazard cleaning company finished their work, I started my work and was there all day every day for two months. I'd see the mail carrier walking around and she'd always avoid eye contact with me.

Later I was chatting with my own carrier and told him about it. He knew who I was talking about. He wasn't surprised.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

30. So you know there's mail you should be getting

but it's not arriving? Any chance you can intercept the carrier and ask what's going on?

[Rorey]

34. Actually, no

I sometimes go a day or two without mail, but have never gone this long. I'm assuming that it's not even getting sorted. If it was, it'd show up on the Informed Delivery thing.

I'm not really concerned for my own self. I go paperless whenever I can. I'm concerned about people who depend on it for important business correspondence and for medication.

This is just one more ugly game that OrangeAss is playing. He doesn't care who he hurts.