USPS- Incredible service match that fedex and UPS

[wilt the stilt]

I bought an item off of ebay and had it accidentally shipped to the wrong address. I freaked out and called USPS. They guided me to "intercept a package". This was a priority mail item and had tracking. I followed the package to Denver where i actually called the post office. The women at the post office answered the phone BEFORE business hours. She asked me where the package was going and my name.

She then went down to th driver and the package had not come upstairs yet. When it did the route person walked it upstairs and gave it to the supervisor whom then CALLED me took my address and the rerouted the package to me. Instead of getting it in 2 days i will get it in 4 days.

I probably could have let the system reroute it to me but i called and look what they did.

UPS and Fedex ground who have taken 5 days to get the package to me originally. God knows how long it woulld have taken it to finally get it to me and how much they would have charged.

You are right republicans Government can never do anything right. sarcasm

BRAVO USPS.

[merrily]

1. Fedex uses USPS for a lot of deliveries.

However, attempts to drive the post office out of business have found bipartisan favor.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5838847

[joshdawg]

4. Only USPS delivers to out-of-the-way locations.

That's why FedEx, UPS, and others hand some mail off to the Post Office. Apparently, they cannot be bothered trying to locate these out-of-the-way places. No money in it.

[merrily]

13. Not only out of the way locations, by any means. Outfits like Amazon send via fedex,

then fedex subs out to the USPS! I'm in the heart of Boston and I get packages that way.

[ashling]

23. That's also why Rural Electric Coops were formed

Private Electric Industry wouldn't do it - not enough money in it
Cost too much to run lines in the country.

Its how the country got electrified. The farm my dad grew up on didn't get electricity until 1941.

Same principle here.

I need to remind my electric coop about that.
I went to there website the other day and they have a message on the first page to call/write congresspeople to stop EPA regulations.

[csziggy]

29. No - I just got a package shipped by UPS but given to the USPS to bring to my mailbox

This time it was to the box on the street - not an "out-of-the-way location" at all - but it has also happened when I've had things sent to my PO Box or to my husband's place of work.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

34. we are not 'out of the way' here at my home...

yet we get USPS doing 'last mile' delivery all the time.

sP

[ThingsGottaChange]

50. It's called FedEx Smart Post

An online company I regularly order from always used FedEx and I got packages in 2-3 days. Right to my door. Now this company is using Smart Post on my last few orders and it is taking an extra 3-4 days to get delivered. Must be saving them money to do it this way. But, it sure is a lot slower! I'm in a tiny rural town and FedEx and UPS always deliver here. Got nothing against USPS. Just need my orders quicker because I can't get out to a store. This Smart Post thing is really slowing things down.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Can you share the Package Intercept information?

One of my teams is the freight control group - which includes shipments that leave DCs that the Fraud Organization missed. Fed Ex we can call the drivers and get the package sent back. USPS has been a problem because we haven't had that ability. And truthfully - I'd rather give my shipments to USPS. Fed Ex drivers have sticky fingers and have been involved in too many mass fraud thefts.

[wilt the stilt]

8. it is under the tab manage my mail

I called the 1-800-275-8777 and they instructed me how to use it.

[JustAnotherGen]

27. Cool thanks!

[planetc]

3. USPS is reliable, often cheaper

USPS is the public, not private, delivery service, and recently started recovering my wandering package before I realized it was late. I use USPS to try to keep them in some income in this era of electronic messaging, and because they're cheaper for two-day shipping. I tracked my package on their site and found it had acquired the wrong zip code at some point, and called USPS. My local office assured me that I didn't need to do anything more about it, as the package would be delivered soon. It was, by a cheerful postman who apologized for the inconvenience.

Our local post offices seem to be staffed by overworked, very competent people who really do deliver through rain, sleet, and snow.

We should be glad we have the USPS, and give them as much business as we can.

[PADemD]

5. USPS means faster service

I have been receiving packages from Oregon in Pennsylvania in 1-2 business days with USPS. Previously, with Fed-Ex, packages took 5-10 business days.

I made sure to call the business and thank them for the faster service by using USPS.

[marble falls]

6. If the USPS is soooo bad, why do both UPSand FedEx use it ??????? "They didn't build that!"

[merrily]

14. Exactly. An indirect example of tax money used to generate private profits.

Then again, since the USPS is fighting for its life right now, anything that helps them (within reason) is okay with me.

[marble falls]

30. I just don't get why certain public services like the Post Office needs to be "profit making".

[merrily]

54. Not only profit making, but fund pensions for 70 or so years.

What other federal agency has to do that?

It's total bs.

[madokie]

7. I buy from eBay all the time

and lately most items I purchase comes through USPS and I love it. Most times faster than ups of fedx and the lady who delivers it to my home does it with a smile and will take a moment and talk with me if I happen to see her pull up. UPS or Fedex drivers can't get away fast enough to suit them. well I know what the deal is there and thats who this is directed at, the upper echelon of business people in their organizations.
Navy postal clerk here while I was in Vietnam. Even the captain wants his mail

[TxVietVet]

9. Call your Congressman/person before the conservanuts destroy USPS.

The Dems haven't done anything, that I know of, to stop the looting of the USPS by the rules the conservanuts made up to destroy it. If we're not careful, the Goopers will start to dismantle the USPS because their bribers want to loot the government and also to destroy the Postal Workers Union.

[wilt the stilt]

10. My congress idiot

is some nut bag conservative.

[Scuba]

11. One of my US Senators is hell-bent to ruin the USPS ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025842567

[merrily]

15. Haven't done anything to stop it is an understatement.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5838847

[maindawg]

12. I read somewhere .......

That the USPS has to be voted on for funding or something very soon. We know the tea baggers want to destroy everything in America just for the fun of destroying so this congress will not act.
Expect the president to have to act alone again very soon to save the USPS.

[merrily]

16. I'm not sure that he wants to save it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5838847

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5841993

In addition, Obama spoke disparagingly of it during his first term, when he said something like, you wouldn't want government in charge of health care because it might be like the post office--and he laughed.

Of course, having government provide health care (as opposed to health insurance) was never at issue and Medicare would have been a much more apt analogy for government health insurance than the Post Office, but that's all beside the point.

Point is, I don't have any evidence that he is strongly motivated to save the Post Office, do you?

[handmade34]

17. mailed a package yesterday

at USPS and the clerk was chatty... said something about USPS picking up shipping for Amazon?

[madfloridian]

28. They deliver for Amazon on Sundays.

I am getting a package tomorrow. I notice more and more deliveries from Amazon Prime come on Sundays now.

[VanillaRhapsody]

18. This is WHY we have to vote EVERY election

No excuses....sorry Left Leaning Independents....sitting out is not an option .EVER

[Raul Hernandez]

41. My vote is still not going to Hillary.

[VanillaRhapsody]

45. and you are still not a Democrat....you are a left Leaning Independent and NOT in charge of the

Democratic party....and we vote for whom WE want! Its OUR Primary....and we elect whom we want....

[Raul Hernandez]

48. Oh, is that what you think I am?

I may not be charge of the Democratic Party. However, I am a registered voter in the Denver County for the Democratic Party since 1994.

But, my voice and my vote still counts, and I have experienced Ms. Clinton and read, studied about her, and formed my opinion based on her history of voting, opinions, alliances, and everything else.

Ms. Clinton will not be the only Democratic primary candidate, as there will be many throwing in their hats. I will also study their politics, beliefs, records, and alliances. y

Bernie Sanders is a fascinating person, and if he does change his alliance to the Democratic Party and run for President, I plan to do everything in my effort to see that he is made his platform heard and challenged from everywhere. The 2016 platform for the Democratic Party has not been built, but one thing for sure - it will not be from any input from the New Democrats/Third Way/DLC people who have ruined the Party for the last 20 years.

Because I am a Democratic Socialist, just like Senator Sanders, and I support the DSA's policies, ideals, and principles.

Good luck Ms. VanillaRhapsody on trying to convince anyone that Secretary Clinton will be President in 2016.

I, for sure, am not convinced that she should be president. At best, she should just focus on her health and family, and that is my honest opinion. You are free to disagree, of course, but there is nothing that can convince me that says otherwise. She simply isn't it.

My vote is mine, and it's not going to go to Secretary Clinton if she decides to run in the primary. She'll get thumped in the debates very easily, and is not going to convince anybody that she will go left of what her true beliefs are.

[VanillaRhapsody]

53. I just told you...if YOU cannot support whomever WE elect in the Primary...YOU are not a Dem

You are a left leaning Independent who happens to vote Democrat.


Sorry to inform you of this but:

Independent = not dependable.

[Raul Hernandez]

55. You didn't read any of my words?

I said I will vote for whoever is the best in the primary.

Ms. Clinton is *NOT* the only one that is running. You have to remember that.

You do not have that right to define what my status is. I'm a Democrat through and through.

Ms. Clinton is not the answer. I await others.

[VanillaRhapsody]

56. Okay...who do you recommend that polls ahead of ALL Republicans....

I won't hold my breath until you find someone!


Ohio: Christie vs. Clinton FOX News Clinton 46, Christie 39 Clinton +7
Ohio: Paul vs. Clinton FOX News Clinton 49, Paul 40 Clinton +9
Ohio: Bush vs. Clinton FOX News Clinton 48, Bush 38 Clinton +10
Ohio: Perry vs. Clinton FOX News Clinton 49, Perry 39 Clinton +10
Ohio: Kasich vs. Clinton FOX News Clinton 47, Kasich 43 Clinton +4


Good LUCK!

[Raul Hernandez]

58. Ok. You've gone too far.

You're still right up the rear end of Ms. Clinton and refusing to remove yourself from it,

It tells me that you dismiss everyone who is not for Ms. Clinton (which most of DU'ers are)

You are into a very tiny minority, and the fact that Ms. Clinton hasn't announced yet....

If Ms Clinton wanted to be President, she should have announced the day after the elections.

But instead, she's holding an annoucement in January.

Suppose she announces that she is NOT running for President and will not accept any drafts to enter her name on that hat.

Then what?

[BlueJazz]

19. I can't think of one store, business or even a person that is/has been consistently...

...capable, day after day, as the US Postal Service.

[jeffrey_pdx]

20. The USPS is in the Constitution

All these "representatives" don't care what it would cost, if privatization happened, to mail a letter or a bill from Nowhere, Nebraska to Nowhere, Alaska. They all think that that everyone lives a short drive from a UPS or FedEx location. Both of them use the postal service to reach the towns that they don't cover.

[oldandhappy]

21. USPS is an excellent service.

And, the volume of mail they handle is amazing. USPS is valuable to all of us. I do not understand Congress wanting to kill it. FedEx and UPS cannot pick up the amount of work that USPS does.

[wilt the stilt]

22. Just delivered

rang my doorbell and handed it to me. Sennheiser headphones listening to Carly Simon "Coming around Again" on vinyl. Some of the best headphones around and some of the best service around.

[rickford66]

24. UPS and FedEx just drop packages at the door.

My USPS rural lady driver comes to the door and hands them to us. Lot's of times it's a UPS or FedEx package. She also has to drive by 6 days a week to see if we have outgoing mail. She also gets paid a pittance because she's a contract driver.

[U4ikLefty]

32. Which model? I'm looking into buying some quality headphones and

Sennheiser has a good reputation.

[wilt the stilt]

39. sennheiser 518

entry level audiophile. any of the 5 series are very good and known as the most comfortable.

[U4ikLefty]

43. Thank you. I've been wanting to get a good pair for a long time.

I'm going to pull the trigger & buy some as a Christmas present to myself.

Those Sennheiser 518 phones are looking pretty good per my initial research.

Thanks again.

[OregonBlue]

25. FedEx and UPS are so bad and so slow to rural Oregon that I try to avoid them at all costs. I try to

buy online only from retailers who will ship USPS. They are so fast and so efficient. FedEx is horrible. They have provided many business with their own software for entering addresses and it has automatic defaults for the zip code fields. I don't have home delivery, I have a p.o. box. Their software won't take a p.o. box. So I say, okay, I'll add my p.o. box as my 4 digit supplement (0006) to my zip code. When the post office gets my package they know it's for box 6. But no, the software defaults to the actual physical road zip assigned to that p.o. box.

If the p.o. receives a package for me without my p.o. box or 0006 in the zip, they are supposed to charge me $5 to look up the correct box. Since it's a very small town, they usually just put it in my box but they remind me to get the company to get my address right or they will have to charge me. Some companies can go in and physically change the zip code in their address field and then I use my street address with my 0006. Some cannot. It is set up by the shipper and cannot be changed.

Not only that but FedEx uses hubs so everything goes through hubs. So a package may go from Ohio to somewhere in the South to somewhere in the Nebraska or Kansas to Kent, Washington and gets sent to the post office and delivered by the post office. Instead of 2-3 days, it can be 10-14 days.

So now, I contact companies and voice my displeasure with FedEx and sometimes, if they are snippy, I just stop buying from them and find another company that uses the post office.

I can't believe Congress wants to destroy a really good service in favor of a horrible one.

[RKP5637]

26. USPS keeps getting better and better IMO. n/t

[geomon666]

31. Have never had a problem with USPS.

Every single problem I've had with a package has been through either UPS or FedEx. FedEx is the worst. Packages with holes in them, like someone kicked it as hard as they could. Packages barely holding together, I had one arrive with cardboard taped around it (it was from Best Buy so I know it didn't ship like that). Sometimes I'll even get an empty box. To hell with FedEx.

[pnwmom]

33. They don't match FedEx and UPS.

They surpass them.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

35. we love our postman, Scott...

he delivers reliably and is always friendly. if my girls hear him coming, they will run out to meet him and hug him if he's out of the truck for any reason. we give him a gift card every year (we were giving tins of sweets but we realized he had to haul that around all day)... he seems to be an all-around good guy.

sP

[mnhtnbb]

36. I LOVE the USPS in our town.

I cannot tell you how many times FedEx and UPS left packages at a different address--similar to ours--
before the town changed the number on our address when we rebuilt after the fire. The postal carrier
knows our name and address, and has frequently delivered mail to us that had the wrong address
due to our many relocations after the fire.

Not only that, but when the NC county Board of Elections sent our son's absentee ballot to
a misspelled street address out of state, the local PO out of state figured it out and delivered it to him.

[Wella]

37. Fedex et al. NEEDS the Congress to break the post office because they can't compete with it

We need to save the post office. It's one of our truly democratic institutions.

[awoke_in_2003]

38. I buy my pipe tobacco online...

plenty of brick and mortar cigar shops, no so many things out there for pipe smokers. I have gotten to the point where I won't buy from people who ship UPS- USPS is quicker and cheaper.

[CBGLuthier]

40. generally good service but our latest mailman is incompetent

Puts the mail into the wrong boxes. One time he left two packages at our door that belonged two houses down, good thing we are honest. Netflix envelopes at the wrong house and often he would walk right by mail we had left to be picked up.

But otherwise fairly good service for a good price.

[littlewolf]

42. I always have the PO deliever anything I order. nt

[jtuck004]

46. Absolutely! n/t

[Curmudgeoness]

44. The government can't do anything the way private companies do it.

They do it better.

That customer service you got was excellent. I wouldn't be surprised if you would still be in an automated musical chairs with FedEx or UPS. Press 1 if...., Press 2 if...., Press 3 if you just want to shoot yourself.

[adigal]

47. I always ship USPS from my shop on etsy

I am always very very happy with their service.

When I order and things are shipped UPS and FedEx, they take forever to get to me.

[freshwest]

49. Love my Post Office

[RandySF]

51. I hate UPS.

[IronLionZion]

52. Republicans have done screwy things with the funding and accounting for USPS

they are actually in much better shape than the antigovernment forces would have you believe.

http://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/postal-reform-myths-vs-facts

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/03/04/how-the-postal-service-is-being-gutted.aspx

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/postal-service-financial-problems_n_1833211.html

Congressional conservatives are deliberately trying to kill the post office out of spite because they enjoy this sort of thing.

[mshasta]

57. To me US mail is the best!

I have ebay store and we only offer free shipping by priority mail, is fast price is perfect, I get free shipping boxes ...my clients love the service.

where ?....here Sacramento cali.

seccion6.com ...check the reviews...from all over the US.